Pioneer Woman at Heart

I'm betting my hens are getting coop fever, with all this rain and wind.  Most likely stir crazy at this point.  We haven't had much of a day for them to free range lately. Started my day making homemade condensed mushroom soup .  There is nothing better than homemade.  I made another for the freezer.  The first "can" went on top of pork chops in the crock pot. Thursday morning we had a  major  storm roll through.  More rain is not a good thing at this point.  It's just downright bad.  I prayed my planted tomatoes made it through and went out after the storm let up to check.   The wind was so bad, it took out power in several counties, and took down many trees, limbs, utility poles and more.  One daughter of mine is lucky it moved through our area quickly.  She had a bonfire out back with friends, and left all her stuff, plus all my furniture including seat cushions.  Nothing blew away, but my weed...

I harvested some wild g rowing cleavers this past week.  I have been pulling these from the flower beds for years, and had no idea they were a weed to keep.  Golly.  I learn something every year. These are also called "sticky weed."  You may have them too.  You know, those annoying weeds that stick to everything?  Well, my l ymph nodes were swollen and ginger and lemon wasn't kicking it's butt.