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(,(")("). . .We have baby rabbits now. 🐰🐇🐇 I've not been able to get to see them, but soon I hope, before they're too big to look like babies. lol Photo soon! 🙏🏼

Sewing Tips

 Re-covering an old potholder to look like new. (2009)

MaryJane's Ideabook, Cookbook, Lifebook: For the Farmgirl in All of Us, MaryJane Butters 
I think I found this idea in MaryJane Butters book or website. If not, it still has some cute projects, tips and ideas on lots of things. Come to think of it I learned how to do the blanket stitch in her book, it has directions for SEVERAL different stitches

daily motivation video

We all need a little motivation to do the things we need to do! Take it one day at a time, baby steps, make a list, take breaks, reward yourself, make it fun, you'll not only get there. . . but enjoy it!

 

Keepers at Home

Titus 2:3-5 (KJV) The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

The passage before us shows how much the honor of Christianity is bound up with the faithful discharge by Christians of the simple domestic duties of life. In truth, the family is the chief seat, and often the main test, of Christian virtue, as it is the distinctive feature of humanity as ordained by God. Source: Pulpit Commentary

Seasonal Pleasures

Seasonal Simple Pleasures

 We've probably all heard of eating seasonally for our health, for our pocketbook, and for environmental reasons. . .but why not just for the simple pleasure in it?

Marshmallow Cheese Toast

I recently bought a book call Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales. It is a wonderful book! Of course I'm a little prejudice, since I've loved her writings since I was child. Actually, I've grown to love her even more as an adult, because of her attention to details about the home, cooking, and gardening. She truly had a green thumb, and a most wonderful sense of artistic abilities. You can see it in her books of course but even in her yard, farms, decorating and clothing.

 

Realities - Lots of things on my mind

Spring. . .

It's one of my favorite seasons. If you can even call it that in this age we're in. Winters are usually not really cold here, spring is beautiful but short-lived, summer is exasperating with the heat, and fall can't be enjoyed for all the misery of the bugs, heat, and rain it brings. (I actually use to be an optimist.) I've honestly been thinking lately that the next season was summer. Ha! 

Sidenote...So, I’ve actually had this post saved as a draft since 2018 for some reason. So as of today, Dec. 31, 2023, I’m posting way ahead of spring, and maybe I’ll get a headstart on it this year... I mean next year! 😁

Back to the original post (Mar. 14, 2018)

So, I bought lots of seeds to start, plant, and apparently save this year. I've been so excited to plant these seeds and actually started thinking it might be too late to plant some of the flower seeds I bought. I know the Zinnias, marigolds and such will eventually bloom - but I'm pretty sure bulbs and perennials should have already been planted back in the fall. Here I am clutching the seeds, dreaming of beautiful flower gardens, and reality struck a few days ago that it might be too late to plant them. I have seeds for the most gorgeous snapdragon called Apple Blossom. . .

I think I'll plant just a few of the seed and see how it goes, and save the rest until fall. You have to have a back-up plan. 🌷🌸🌹🌼🌺

Collards Greens & Turkey Wings w/Rutabagas

Add abt. 2 qts water, cleaned chopped greens, smoked turkey wings and diced rutabagas to dutch oven, season with salt, add a Tablespoon butter or oil, bring to boil, turn down and let it simmer to desired tenderness. Serving Suggestions: Serve w/cornbread and sweet iced tea.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

"It is more important to live the life one wishes to live, and to go down with it if necessary, quite contentedly, than to live more profitably but less happily. " Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Dilemma

I didn't know my new computer didn't have a slot for my camera card!! So I've been trying to figure out how to use Pinterest, Polyvore (the best, if you can find the pics you need) and other places on the web for finding pics, and posting them. There use to be a button you could download to your toolbar to "Blog this"...so you could blog a picture and article, or whatever from any webpage to blogger....Anybody know more about this?? :(

Link Hopping to Find the Perfect Blueberry Tart/Pie

http://www.cannellevanille.com

Oh the wonders of link hopping...

While looking for a recipe for blueberries, I found this gorgeous website, above! I ♥ it!

That tart looked gorgeous, as well. Following the link for the recipe, Aww, disappointed... I was out of yogurt. Which sent me looking for a substitute...

OK, kick in early morning thinking, with the brain on very little coffee helping it along...Risotta!!! So I searched......But all the pictures I found were not very appealing. 

So, I came up with the idea of a custard tart...Bingo! Well, almost...It was a pie, but it definitely looked like what I was looking for!

http://lisaiscooking.blogspot.com

Yet another gem of a website!!! It looked exactly as I had envisioned...While I have a tried and true custard recipe, I wanted one that was a bit firmer for the tart/pie---and this looked like a winner! But...no recipe, only another link to the original.

Martha Stewart

At last...ahhhh!

But wait!!!

Look what else I found!!!

This: Flatbreads with Winter Squash, Cremini, and Camembert

And this:  Tuscan Squash Pie

Oooo, ahhhh!

And curiosity got the best of me, when I kept seeing "CSA" on this website....Hmmm! Soooo, I searched and found THIS. 

Wow, now I'm really rolling....I had been searching for something about starting something like a Farmer's "Co-op" for a long time! No, not a new idea...It's one that's been around forever. But what use to be a simple way/place to buy or trade eggs, fruits, vegetables, etc. has become a modern day craft-artisan set-up. And usually big $$$...I wanted something simple, affordable, old-timey...and this looks like it could be that. May be another one of my dead-end dreams...I'm only one person!!! And it looks like it might take a lot of hands-on help to do something like this, not to mention a little moolah, and some elbow grease! But I'm going to keep investigating and see what I can come up with! 

See what treasures you can find, link hopping!!! Love it! ♥