Happy Homemaker Monday

I'm joining up with Sandra at blogspot, Diary of a Stay at Home Mom.  Today, on Happy Homemaker Monday, I am very happy to find out our frost date has moved to the end of October, not the beginning.  Whew!  I don't have to high-tail it out to the garden like I thought I would.  Although garden work is very far behind now (that we have spent two entire days on barn rubble removal).

On the breakfast plate. . . 

I wish I could say it was this (above).  We made breakfast burritos all last week.  Mmm, so good - black beans cooked up from dry beans with cumin, onion and garlic, topped with homemade sausage, farm fresh eggs, garden peppers, and a dabble of cheese.  Every day we made different ones. 

As for today's breakfast?  eggs over easy and toast with home canned peach jam



The weather. . . 

 Cooler at night, but some what warm in the day.  A nice day to get laundry out.


Right now I am . . .
 Getting this posted late due to catching up with garden work and indoor tasks.


Thinking. . . 
 I need to make a plan to get the entire garden pulled before the end of the month so that job can be checked off until spring.  I had plans to gift the habanero peppers to a fellow biker, but since we worked all weekend vs. took a ride, I plan to put them all in the freezer. I found out that habanero peppers have more anti-oxidents than jalapeno peppers.  I'll be getting them into the freezer for healthy winter meals.


On my reading pile . . .
 A few magazines, current books continue (no time to read really).


On my TV . . .
 not much, I'm too tired at the end of the day


On the menu this week. . .

 Today's lunch ~ tuna salad made with home canned yellow squash relish, leftover homemade potato salad, and a banana, homemade green tea with spearmint

 Red lentil burgers, salad
 Pinto beans for more meals
 . . .salmon, possibly PB & J depending on my work load
 


On my to-do list. . .in no particular order, and most likely my continued list for the entire week. . .
-pull more popcorn 
 pick pumpkins
-possible dig some carrots
-pick habanero peppers, slice and freeze them
-pull more old garden plants out 
-laundry
-chickens, let them out to free range today, fill water etc.
-check on finances
-write
-put jars in pantry 
-vacuum
-start pulling nails from a pile of barn wood, stacking on the porch
-get mail in the mail box 
-exercise
-dinner prep
-copy down a recipe
-check library return dates
-fold last weeks towels (yikes)
-whatever else my brain remembers needs done


What I am sewing, crocheting, knitting or creating. . .
 Baby blanket




Looking around the house. . .
 I have more pie pumpkins sitting on the table.  I need to get them roasted soon.


From the camera. . .

 Sunrise this morning.

Bible verse, quote, devotional. . .