02 Sunday Oct 2022
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big girl pants, blessed, flowers, garden, hibiscus, moments, nature, plants, prepping, pump, stacked, weather, widow
spent time in the garden doing cleanup…
emptied soil from pots and stacked them in the shed…
repotted some pansies to bring inside, brought the butterfly bush into the basement and the hibiscus into the dining room…
after closing up the shed, I undid the bathtub pond pump and brought it inside to clean and put in the basement…
13 Sunday Oct 2019
one of the things I love about Thanksgiving is the preparation…
today is my day for prepping… I’ve been making Thanksgiving dinner for decades and I’ve got it down to a science, lol…
I do miss my beloved’s help… besides making sure the house was clean and tidy ~ particularly the front closet, lol, he often made apple pie from scratch… yesterday a Facebook reminder from ten years ago mentioned the smell of apples being peeled for pie…
used the mandolin to slice up the rather tiny turnip… next up was getting potatoes peeled and cut up… I made extra so the boys can take home leftovers to get through the week…
then on to the stuffing… used two large loaves of bread because the boys requested “extra, extra”… hand ripped the bread and the mandolin worked great for the onions;-)…
table is nearly set although I couldn’t find the box of Thanksgiving decorations, lol…
14 Wednesday Dec 2016
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just spent a lovely hour prepping for tomorrow’s staff holiday potluck…
cheated a bit and picked up a cooked chicken which I sliced up… put aside the bones for soup which I’ll make tomorrow night…
then I made my famous spinach dip… well maybe only famous in my circles, lol…
doesn’t take too long to make, but it sure is tasty…
finished with getting peapods, celery and carrots ready to go along with the dip and two types of bread…
looking forward to all the other delicious components of the lunch…
06 Tuesday Aug 2013
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big girl pants, everyone had a good time, great fun, pahty, prepping, sore feet, wonderful children, wonderful desserts, yum
well, my feet are rather tired as I sit here thinking about the great pahty…
we spent the whole day prepping… Cyndi and Ron worked like trojans this morning and I got home right after noon and we worked away getting ready… always a lot of fun to prepare for a great event…
lots of eating and drinking…
lots of people were able to make it… and everyone had a good time… people enjoyed the food, the fun and the company…
yummy food…
still thinking about the wonderful desserts that Crystal made for the event… yum…
how lucky I am to have such wonderful children…
me and my girls…
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