I used a couple of the spaghetti squash from my garden for this dish and I really enjoyed it. My daughter wasn’t as pleased with it as I was, but then again she isn’t much of a spaghetti squash person. …
Monday Window – Rusty truck window
I thought it would be fun to participate in some photography challenges and came across this fun one at Ludwig Keck’s Monday Window Rusty truck window. This was cropped down from a cute picture of my grandson at the …
Meet My Furbabies
I’m finding that it is getting more difficult every day to find something to post for #NaBloPoMo. I did find an idea somewhere to introduce your pets and I know I’ve mentioned them once or twice and have shared a …
Color Block Mug Rug
I made a set of blue mug rugs over the summer but never finished weaving in ends of course. I loosely based them off of my favorite placemat pattern. I figured it was about time I wrote up the pattern …
Faltering
Whew! I’m 15 days into #NaBloPoMo and I’m starting to falter. Honestly I’m amazed I’ve actually made it this far. I should accept that as a win and keep plugging along. Now I’m starting to wonder what do I write …
What’s on your Thanksgiving table this year?
Thanksgiving is fast approaching and will be here sooner than we think. Right around this time, every year, we start thinking about our Thanksgiving menu and how to parcel it out to folks. This year my middle daughter is hosting …
Trying to write down a recipe…not a snap
My daughter is hosting Thanksgiving this year and will be making the traditional roast turkey with stuffing. The problem is…I always make the stuffing and there is no written recipe, I just throw things together. I helped her make it …
Cauliflower Rice
First let me apologize for the awful pictures. I always forget to take a pretty after picture, but hey, this is real and not staged so what you see is what you get. I don’t want to slam other food …
Veterans Day – Thank you to all that served
November 11th a day to recognize and salute all those who served. Those who have served and still serve today. It can be a tough and lonely life sometimes. Many sacrifices must be made by those who serve and their …
Raspberry Peach Jam
Peaches from my brother-in-laws trees and raspberries we picked earlier in the summer. It was definitely helpful that we had crushed the berries and prepared them before freezing. It was simply a matter of thawing and then crushing a few …
The Fall of the Wall – A Soldier in Berlin Part 2
November 9, 1989 – I don’t think most Americans understand what an amazing day that truly was. Those of us stationed in Berlin could understood because we were locked in as well. There were only so many ways to leave …
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Blackberry Pear Jelly
My brother-in-law has a few fruit trees scattered around their property and one of them produces a TON of pears. So we thought we’d try making Pear Butter and Blackberry Pear Jelly with a few of them. I simply used …
Throwback Thursday – A Soldier in Berlin Part 1
I thought it would be fun to do some Throwback Thursday kind of things for NaBloPoMo. With Veterans Day fast approaching I think sharing some of my Army experiences would be apropos. Even better the Berlin wall started crumbling on …
Why and how this blog came to be
A prompt I have saved is “Tell us why you started blogging and origin behind your blog’s name”. I really like that idea. My “About” page is actually quite informative compared to many I’ve seen. Maybe too much so? But …
Banana Bread Revisited
My kids always complain that whenever they make one of my recipes it doesn’t taste like mine. They accuse me of leaving out steps or ingredients on purpose and I realized they are probably right. Well, maybe not on purpose, …
A Little of This and a Little of That 