Fruit Cups! It wouldn’t be harvest time without frozen fruit cups in the freezer. They’re a pantry freezer staple during the summertime and wheat harvest around here. I have tried different recipes in the past. Anymore, I don’t really follow an exact recipe. I have a basic form and just add and dump and use whatever I have […]
Cinnamon and Sparky
Cinnamon and Sparky. The two baby calves on our farm right now. So dubbed by our daughter. They are pretty cute! Our farm isn’t much of a livestock farm most of the time. We do have bottle calves fairly often that grow up to provide beef for […]
Wheatscapes
It’s starting to look a lot like harvest…. And it’s only the 26th of May… There have been a few combines cutting in our county the last couple of days… Seems so funny. We are close to a month early! Harvest. It’s busy. It’s hectic. It’s hot. It’s dusty. Yet, there is something […]
So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good-bye
Sob. Sniff. I’m somewhat of a sentimentalist. I admit it. I’m sad. Don’t laugh. I’m sad over a combine. Nuts and bolts and metal and paint. And an auger and a clean grain elevator and memories. Sob. Sniff. You see, last fall an opportunity to upgrade our combine sort of fell into our laps. It […]
Lasagna and Strawberry Jam
I added a couple more things to the freezer! I have been loosely following Money Saving Mom’s Four Weeks to Fill Your Freezer series. I’ve been enjoying reading her posts and it has helped motivate me to put food in the freezer, which I had been wanting to do anyway! I posted this recipe and linked up on […]
Kansas Day Trip
I took a Kansas day trip yesterday with my husband. We needed to go to eastern Kansas to pick up our four-wheeler and an irrigation motor. My husband’s very youngest brother is an awesome mechanic and he had been working on/fixing both of these things for us. We didn’t take the most direct route since we had […]
This and That Around This Farm
WARNING: Many Pictures of various variety ahead!! I snapped a variety of pictures over the weekend and wanted to post some of them. There are a few around the house that I had been wanting to take and finally managed to snap them. Amazing the way I can procrastinate on some little things. Simply […]
My Dearie Had A Little Lamb, Little Lamb, Little Lamb
We have a little lamb on our farm. Just for a couple weeks. We are baby-sitting or lamb-sitting. Whichever way you want to refer to it. Both terms really do apply, because Frisky is a baby and he is a lamb! My dearie daughter is pretty much in love. She has been getting out of […]
Marinated Chicken Breasts
I’m always glad to be inspired by a recipe suggestion from a friend or family or a magazine or well, anywhere! One of my friends recently mentioned this recipe as one they really liked when we were discussing the chicken breasts that our local Dillon’s had had on sale. So when I requested the recipe […]
I Am Ecstatic!
My kitchen is cleaned up and I am ecstatic. I really am. I didn’t feel very well last week and I didn’t do much. I didn’t feel well, so I really didn’t feel like doing anything and yet, I had a list of things I really was wanting to get done. And when I don’t feel well […]
Habakkuk 3:17-18
Habbukkuk 3:17-18 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in […]
Cinnamon Rolls and My Butter Dish
This was the vignette on my kitchen table this morning. My daughter commented on it looking like a picture, so I picked up my camera and took some pictures. And then edited out the jar-of-peanut-butter-with-the-red-lid that was in the edge of the picture! Photo editing is so handily handy. I wished my table had some […]
The Heavens Declare The Glory Of God
One thing that I think Kansas is very good at, is the ability to produce quite a thunderstorm! We had one pass through the other evening. These pictures don’t do justice to God’s handiwork at all, but I still enjoyed taking a few. And we enjoyed standing on our new porch as we watched part […]
Stepping Out of My Box:(in)RL Meetup
So, I did something way out of my comfort zone this past weekend. And I had so much fun! I went to one of the (in)RL meetups that were the brain child of the women at (in)Courage. There were meetups that happened all across the world. How cool is that! Crystal and Amy, from Money […]
Lessons From The Blue Castle
I’m linking up at “The Modern Mrs. Darcy” today. She is hosting a blog carnival with the theme, “The Book That Changed My Life“. I’ve always liked to read. I used to read a lot of fun fiction books, but my favorite books now tend to lean towards nonfiction. I rarely read fiction at this […]
The Influence of Marriage
We will-very soon-have been married for fifteen years. Fifteen years. Just the idea that WE have almost been married that long, makes me laugh. Loud. And Long. Not because it hasn’t been fun. Not because it’s always been easy. Just because fifteen years sounds like a long time. And I don’t know […]