We finally got rain, after 20 plus days of 90 degree plus weather.  Despite watering the garden, it was looking fried by the heat, humidit...

  While shopping in Amish country, we walked thru a few antique stores, and I found a butter dish to match my salt and pepper shakers.  By t...

  My hot peppers are rolling in like crazy.  I'm thankful for that. I canned some hot pepper mustard sauce with the hot banana peppers. ...

Yesterday I had to get some hot peppers taken care of.  I canned 5 1/2 pints hot pepper mustard sauce and 7 jars of hot pepper jelly.  I als...

My garden visitor the other day, and oddly, orange and blue.  Those are the favorite colors of daughter's deceased boyfriend. M...

(before sauce reduced to half) It's been a canner-ganza week.  I'm thankful for that too, and we haven't checked our p...

I can't tell if we are making progress indoors, but I am making progress outdoors.  I spent the entire morning watering every single t...

My restocking mode is really kicking into full drive here.  I got one kiddo to cut up my hot peppers, so I could zip up to the "big cit...

I froze more zucchini and squash for winter soups, sauces and casseroles.  Yesterday was a race against the clock.  Trying to put up the ...

(all the old roofing loaded up by my son and Hubby's brother-in-law) . . . it took two days, but the leftover roofing was remove...