.....tomorrow morning.
Pioneer Woman at Heart
One Flourishing, Frugal and Fun Family!
One family learning to live off the land, cut back on expenses, and to live a simpler and a more self-sufficient lifestyle.
Adopted Motto
"Eat it up,
Wear it out,
Make it do,
Or go without."
~A Pioneer Sampler, by Barbara Greenwood~
Thursday, March 16, 2023
...and it begins!
Coffee hour with me . . .
Grab a cup of coffee and let's have a short chat.
Not many "homesteading" things going on right now. I'm mostly doing the purge/pack/donate motions. There may be more take out dinners than home cooked for a few weeks. We have however picked up seed potatoes for the garden.
Chicken's watering units got a good scrubbing. The sun has been shining again, and a bit warmer, so they are laying pretty well right now. Rain returns this weekend.
We are a bit frustrated with the company buy out. We are in limbo with health insurance and he just had a check up. I got a nice big bill of $210.00. Hopefully the new cards will show up ASAP and I can get this mess taken care of.
I got one camper ornament completely finished. I forgot how much work goes into just one. I have the pieces already made, but have a dozen or so to actually assemble. I'd like to have them done for the craft show next month. I've been so busy with the bedroom, that my crochet time is about minuscule right now.
I finally got some garden tomatoes out of the freezer, and tried enchilada (chicken) soup for the first time. We have also enjoyed some home canned lemony-tomato basil soup (keto bread for hubby, and we put home canned cowboy candy in the grilled cheese). That's a bit of butter in the soup. Mmmm!
Tonight is the last night to clear out the remaining furniture in the master bedroom. The work begins tomorrow. I'll be so glad to get that stinky carpet removed, but it has been a whirlwind so far.
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Random Chit Chat ~ Post Office Closed ~ Finished and Unfinished and other tidbits
I went to our small town post office last weekend to mail a package to a friend. There was a hand written note on the door that they were closed "due to staffing issues." How is this happening? Anyway, we didn't get mail delivered either.
Finished! A 17th set of pot holders ha ha! I had to finish them, so that is done, but I won't be starting a new set any time soon. Hopefully I will sell them next month, and I do have to deliver a set soon.Monday, March 13, 2023
Happy Homemaker Monday
We are approaching the count down on starting the carpet removal. It's been a process for this room. It's funny how fast (or slow) a job can go, when it involves where you sleep at night.
Anyway, expect blurps in my blog posts. We plan to start this Friday. It will become crazy busy, as I try and figure out how to survive with things a hot mess again.
I am joining Sandra at Diary of a Stay at Home Mom (although all our kids have moved out)
The weather . . .
Cold, in the 30's but will warm up to the 50's this weekend.
As I look outside my window . . .
There is more snow.
Right now I am . . .
Brewing coffee. The time change has me all messed up.
Thinking and pondering . . .
We thought about it, and and pondered, and decided to sell our record player and vinyl. We used it twice since we've had it over the last 14 years.
On my TV . . .
Anything that looks interesting.
Listening to . . .
Country.
On my lunch plate. . .
Have no idea.
On my dinner plate . . .
Have no idea.
On the menu. . .
-grilled cheese, home canned tomato-basil soup
-enchilada soup
-leftovers
On my reading pile. . .
No reading as I am clearing the bedroom.
On the to-do list . . .
-plan meals
Plans for the week . . .
Take all the wall decor down in the master bedroom, box it up, remove any furniture other than the bed (still making a plan). I finally convinced my husband to work on the bedroom first, then the closet (not all at once as he wanted). I still have a lot of work to purge the closet (craft related supplies, purge shoes/boots, more clothing etc etc).
What I am creating . . .
I'm down to the last two color sections on our blanket, but need to check my yarn stash for gray. I was incorrect on how much I needed, and may need to get more.
My simple pleasure . . .
Journaling.
Looking around the house . . .
Well, it looks as it would if you emptied an entire room into another room. Again.
From the camera . . .
Bible Verse, Devotional . . .
Prayers for Hope, as she struggles daily with the loss of her husband.
Sunday, March 12, 2023
A Few of my Favorite Things . . .
By "few" in this post, I really do mean a few. There isn't much going on, as it is winter. We got more snow last night too. I managed to box up a bookshelf, dust it off and move it all out of the bedroom.
I found books to a series I donated, and books to a series I am reading. I really should just start using the library again ha ha!
I got after my husband for his willy nilly decisions/plans for the bedroom. First, the best time to paint is when the carpet is out, and before flooring goes down. He is really driving me nuts, so I just try to stick to the fact everything has to be moved out to get that stinky 14 plus year old carpet out. The one thing we have to figure out is where to sleep for a few days if we can't just slide the bed back and forth as the work is done. We'll figure it out.
Although we dropped off donations, I now have more, and it just gets easier as we do this extreme clean.
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Bedroom Purge/Pack ~ Where's the Crust Pizza ~ Einkorn Peanut Butter Cookies
I'll admit, if I was my husband, I would not want to do a thing in the mornings with his schedule. By the way, that crazy schedule has now ended as of today.
However, baking him peanut butter cookies got him motivated.We cleaned in the bedroom for almost 2 hours, purged, tossed stuff, vacuumed, dusted.....still not done. The one fall back with a large bedroom, is more "stuff." The bedroom has a tall ceiling, and is approximately 21 x 15 feet. Yeah, that large, and originally built for a person in a wheel chair.
It has really made me realize how much crafting stuff I still own. I'm on the fence with getting rid of things like macramé, as I may feel like making some hanging plant holders. Anyway, just lots of "stuff." I found an entire container filled with all sorts of sequins. I thought I gave that away, but one of the daughter's must have snuck that back into our closet. Hmpf. It's being donated.
My husband stood up and said, "there we are all ready" and I had to laugh. There are totes under the bed, a bookshelf I have to pack up and move out, and make decisions on keeping some other stuff still in there. Oh, and pack up our night stands, move them out.
Friday, March 10, 2023
Procrastination Station (aka computer)
The worst thing for me to do on a whack-a-doodle schedule, is to sit at the procrastination station (computer) too long. I tend to browse crochet patterns, and have already printed one to crochet another item for the living room (a summer project that is much smaller). My husband gets up late in the morning, due to his later work hours, so I'm totally thrown off with my own early morning routine. Plus!!! I'm not sleeping well with this schedule.
I also have about 98 draft posts I am going thru. Most are getting deleted, but I try and read a few every day to work those out of my blog.
I got a visit with one daughter, and I totally forgot to pull meat from the freezer to go with yesterday's leftover veggies.
I roasted a lot to save us time over the next few days, in hope to clear more out of the master bedroom.
What do you think of this pattern? The original pattern called for changing yarn color differently, but I am not a fan of sewing in a hundred or two hundred ends either.
I found more soft white, grey heather, and black, so I'm back to finishing it up. It is almost done. Oh speaking of this blanket, both my husband and one daughter agree that the sofa needs another blanket just like this. Sigh. Oh, I had to frog a few rows, because I left my crochet hook out and thought it was the correct size, and it was not. It was larger. Another sigh.