Pioneer Woman at Heart

The weekend went way too fast for us.  We finally got to a area butcher shop, and took advantage of a few "bulk" buy deals (locally raised, no antibiotics, butchered at the shop etc.).  We also took care of most of my errand list in the pouring down rain (yeah for rain). However after two days of errands, the truck is out of commission.  My husband, accidently ran over something and spent all evening working on the truck.  It is still not running.  On a good note?  The back of the truck is full of supplies for building the new chicken coop.   It threw our plans off for the evening. Daughter E was to bring her car out for some work to be done.  That didn't happen.  We were to deliver our older car to a repair man, so it could be sold soon, and that did not happen.   It's been literally one thing after another here. We found out our electric company we have, has raised the cost 110% starting last June.   We are currentl...

  I took another look at the weather yesterday.  Not liking this dip.  We had to re-till the garden, so that has been started, but the planting will wait until this chill passes. The roots we planted this year are coming up.  Just had to share how cute they look. We are still harvesting asparagus from the very first year we planted.  Some are huge! Tip:  I'm not sure you can say this is an organizing tip, but it worked great for me.  I have a few pairs of casual boots that are not stored in a box.  They were falling sideways.  For a cheap fix, buy a pool noodle and cut it to fit.  Slide that puppy right inside your boots.  Wa-la!  You are welcome.   The truck went to the the transmission guy.  Sigh.  It will cost us a pretty penny to have it rebuilt.  It almost left me stranded last week.  We both knew it was going to be bad news.  Like $4200.00 bad news. On top of that the dental insurance we...