Pioneer Woman at Heart

  Before (after the initial before ha ha) At the end of the day.  The kids even spilled an oil lamp on this table. I am sure if you have followed my blog over the years, you will see me post about my long and forgotten and most collected/printed recipes to try.  Ha ha!  Two made it to the Christmas binder and two to the trash.  Not sure if I want to go thru the entire pile just yet. The table was worse than the above photo.  I had drawers from the breakfast bar, lots of tools, and other stuff.  It's winding down to outlet covers (will get replaced), crocheted item price tags, jar of buttons, dental papers, plant pots that had plants that died and what not. The table is 24 years old.  It needs refinished.  It has permanent paint marks from the kids, and a few holes from hammering boy scout derby cars on it.  I will clean it up and most likely put a tablecloth on it for now. My new file folder for the computer/bill paying station.  I ...

  Although I pushed all of our front porch furniture up to the house, I found it all in a pile this morning.  Thankfully, it  is all there and in good shape, but wet. We lost power, but woke up to power thankfully.  Many are still without power. We lost a few trees, and I will be checking the barns later after the rain quits (yes, more rain this morning after a night of storms). I slept thru my husband's alarms on his phone, and with the power out, I'm not sure he got his coffee this morning.  I see he also left his wallet behind.  I am praying he has enough gas to get home, or someone will let him borrow cash to fill up to get home.   Our backyard is full of branches and tree limbs, and tomato stakes are still standing, but will have to be re-pounded.   I will need to re-set the clocks on everything that lost power, especially the coffee pot.  My husband lives on that pre-set timer at 4:30am. Yesterday I could not find pickling lim...