Welcome March ~ This and That

 Not much to talk about with winter lingering.  Other than the weather, which is back and forth and all over the map lately.  We may actually leave the cold weather this week, and venture into the lower 70's.  However, the spring rains and thunderstorms come with it.  We have had a lot of foggy days lately too.

I have been doing the boring refreshing spring cleaning.  We took a large load to donate (mostly clothing).  We are not even close to being done, but chipping away at getting it done before garden planting season.

In the mix of this cleaning/purging and re-organizing, I now have two photo type projects to complete (but frees up space it was taking, and will put it all to a good use).

On the zero purchasing this year list:

-books (unless it's non-fiction, and absolutely needed), concentration will be on reading what we have (both of us).  I love, love love browsing used book sales, and stores, but no more this year until we have read through our current book stash.

-yarn (this last large load of gifted yarn was overwhelming, and is taking up a LOT of space)

Kitchen work never seems to end, nor give me a break.  Cooking from scratch can do that.  I once told a friend, that I don't even know how people can keep their houses clean, if they work full time too.  I don't regret it, but there are some days where washing all those dishes can really get to me.

It seems that all homemade dry mixes run out at the same time here.  It's been a month of refilling them, like homemade dry taco mix, fajita mix and the like. 

Speaking of "kitchen" chores, we were out running errands and I picked up a free brochure.  It contained a free recipe for soup that we tried, as we had one last butternut squash to cook up.

The soup is very simple, yet delicious.  Great way to use up that small "junk" jar of leftover pastas, or what some people call their "orphan" past a jar (a mix of bits of leftover uncooked pasta from other cooking days).   The only problem was, our freezer was out of spicy Italian sausage, and we could not find it at two stores we went to.  Either way, we used a "hot" sausage and it turned out good. We will keep the recipe, as it's very simple and can be adjusted to a crockpot recipe very easily.

We have gotten some appointments off the calendar and have already set more for later in the year.  The book in the above photo is a "tea" brewing/informational book.  I love to learn new things, but so far there is a lot of information I already know.  I do plan to finish the book to see if there are any "nuggets" to learn.

One fun "bit" so far, is that the teabag itself was invented by accident.  A man sent "samples" of tea in silk bags and the teabag convenience was born.  

I finished another baby blanket, which used up two more skeins of the Aran colorway yarn, and some leftover pink that was also in the mix of gifted yarn.  Basic blanket, but yarn put to good use (donations for a pregnancy center).

We are very behind in spring garden preparation.  Many of the home repairs we started to collect supplies for, have been delayed.  The word "delayed" is such an annoying word (more like frustrating, ha ha!).

I have also "delayed" a writing project, that has a deadline this month.  I really had the ambition, but trying to keep all my "ducks" in a row this spring has been a huge challenge.

Wise words from my current devotional . . .

"Find time to rest and set yourself apart from the busy, busy, busy of this world."  (Just Breathe, Devotions and Prayers for the Overwhelmed Heart, Barbour Publishing, 2024).

Welcome March ~ This and That   ©  March 2026 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart