Prep Genrl Weekly Prep Thread: August 28 ~ September 3, 2022

[John Deere Girl]

I have felt panicky all day today, because I have another dentist appt tomorrow. I know it's just for a filling, but after what I just went through, I'm not looking forward to having anything else done right now. Plus, we had storms all night that kept us awake most of the night. Had a flood warning, too. Power went off and on, so we turned off the ac, and it got sweltering hot in the house with the humidity so high. So, I haven't done much of anything today, except sit here and read the forum. That hasn't helped my panickyness (Is that even a word?) any, LOL! Makes me just want to roll up our driveway and hide for the duration........

Praying for you!

 

[Cag3db1rd]

You know what's fun? Waiting till Hubby goes to sleep to sneak in my latest prep run.
3 flavors of canned luncheon meat - chicken, pork, and bacon 2 cans each
1 bag powdered milk.
5 4-packs individual tuna in water
4 big cans tuna in water
4 26.7oz boxes instant potatoes
1 big container cinnamon
1 big container steak seasoning
2 jars Herbox- 1 beef 1 chicken.
2 more under-bed boxes to store food in to keep mice from peeing and pooping on them.

Good news. Haven't caught anymore mice. Started spraying the living room today. You know what kind of endeavor that is, being a prepper in a really small house and all.

 

[hd5574]

We went Costco tonight..to get gas...it is $ .50 a gallon cheaper there than out here where we live...huge difference. We got some things there and lean some lean meat to can...on the way back home stopped at Giant Food....they still have 16 oz frozen veggies. .Walmart and a lot of name brands are only 12 oz...in a package now...so I grabbed 4 pounds of mixed veggies to dehydrate.....we walked up the canned veggie isle and the name brand veggies were nearly $2.00 a can..I can remember 4 or 5 cans for a dollar at this time of as they were get ready for the new crop to be canned and come in and stocking up for winter with the sales

DH noticed a small package of beef marrow bones....no meat on them...thin sliced about 1/2 an inch thick... about 6 or 8 in the package ..they were $6.50... The prices are unreal..they are going up every week. ...the store was well stocked ...goya dry beans were 3.19 a pound....I can't ’t imagine that price for dry beans...I didn’t think to check their price for rice but better it was through the roof too.
I have counter full of tomatoes to can tomorrow and it rained about a half and tonight so I can hear the green beans growing as I type..and calling my name...lol

 

[briches]

The high point of my week will be a doctor appointment this morning to get the results from the biopsy I had last week. Hoping for the best.

Praying for you and hoping it went well.

 

[briches]

I continue here slow and steady …. Grocery store this past Monday simply to replace things we had used up.

When I go to any store, I add a pasta / sauce and five “extra” things for the pantry in addition to my regular grocery list. It’s amazing how fast it can build up this way. I’m also “shopping the sales” even if it’s not on my list to buy and put away if it’s something we use.

 

[anna43]

Blast from the past August 30, 1962 grocery ad: 10# potatoes 75¢, 2# green grapes 29¢, 1/2 gallon ice cream 69¢, 2# ground beef 95¢ and 6 cans of corn or peas $1. BTW that was 2# ground beef 95¢ not 95¢ per pound same with the grapes.

Of course, in 1962 I was SAHM with baby and dh made around $300 a month so after rent, utilities, car payment and formula I would not have been able to afford ice cream, grapes and maybe not ground beef. That was the year we ate mostly commodity beans given to us by a friend. That friend cleaned apartments after renters moved out as was allowed to keep whatever was left behind and she'd found a closet full of dried beans. Mary and I had a daily phone conversation about what we were going to have with our beans for supper.

BTW that car payment that dh brought into our marriage gave me a lifelong hatred for debt which has served me well.

 

[nomifyle]

Last night a friend called me and told me that the sheriff's dept for my parish was giving out cases of water and a $100 food card. I got there early and after they had loaded my water I asked about the food card. They had to call three people over to answer me, I did get one, she asked my age and I told her 75, she said they only had a few cards to give out and she did not know why people were told about the food card, they were giving it out randomly.

 

[paxsim2]

I planted sunflowers that were supposed to be 5 to 6 feet tall. What I got were 6 inch sunflowers with 1 inch flowers. I have pictures but can't post them cause they're too big. So weird.
No grocery run planned this week except for meat.
Sunday I'm going to pull out dead plants and clean garden beds so I can fall plant.
Need to do laundry and dishes. All I want to do is sit outside and watch the wild life. I did that this morning and it was wonderful, butterflies, hummers, a baby rabbit and the bumblebees. Plus the breeze was blowing the wind chimes and the clouds were drifting along slowly.
Sorry. It was a respite from everything going on.

 

[nomifyle]

My friend that called me about the "free water and grocery card" did not get a grocery card. But then again she did not ask. I may have looked pitiful because my van is very dirty, its stored under a car port and I don't drive it very often. She did not ask about it, I figure the squeeky hinge gets the grease.

 

[WanderLore]

Levi and I concreted our little grill. Grandpa pulled boat out the barn. What a job. We're trying to clean it good and he is working on the mechanics. Hope to take it up the road just once to the little boat dock and go fishing.

 

[ReneeT]

Well, I'm awake. But not dealing with it very well I don't like working three 12+ hour nights in a row - used to love them but those last 4 hours are getting harder to handle. The real issue is more brain than body, though. Sadly, it looks like that is going to be my schedule at least through October - though I have 2 - 12 day vacations during that time, so I should be able to catch up on sleep at least. I'm finding I have less 'noise' tolerance than I used to.

I'm going to have a mess to deal with in the garden once I finally surface, but it won't be tomorrow as I have to stop to pick up chicken for the cats, throw it in the crock pot, crash, then crawl out of bed around 4 to take younger grandson to soccer practice. I'm probably going to end up just letting the yellow pole beans go to seed, but I'll still need to keep picking the green ones as I won't have time to deal with them after September 6th, and I doubt Hubby will want to bother with picking them, unless it's for his Mama. I'm about ready to pull out all of the tomatoes except the yellow and red cherry ones; the bigger ones just didn't do very well this year. I hit the canned tomato products sale hard a month or so ago, so we are good for at least a year on those; that includes daughter's family. I've not found home canned or store brand tomatoes to store well for over a year. Edible, yes; taste and texture are the issues.

Well, the darn coffee doesn't seem to be kicking in yet, but I'm going to have to go drag some scrubs out of the closet and start getting ready anyway. If I can drag myself out of the house fast enough, I may have time to stop at DQ for a Blizzard on the way to work...

Take care all; stay safe out there!

 

[John Deere Girl]

I planted sunflowers that were supposed to be 5 to 6 feet tall. What I got were 6 inch sunflowers with 1 inch flowers. I have pictures but can't post them cause they're too big. So weird.
No grocery run planned this week except for meat.
Sunday I'm going to pull out dead plants and clean garden beds so I can fall plant.
Need to do laundry and dishes. All I want to do is sit outside and watch the wild life. I did that this morning and it was wonderful, butterflies, hummers, a baby rabbit and the bumblebees. Plus the breeze was blowing the wind chimes and the clouds were drifting along slowly.
Sorry. It was a respite from everything going on.

My sunflowers were very short with small flowers this year. I was very disappointed in them.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

My dental appt. went well enough, yesterday. I'm still a bit droggy from all the drugs, today, though. I'll get better as the day goes. My mouth still had inflammation, and my dentist was very concerned about doing any more teeth removal because of it. He had to remove the stitches, since they still had not dissolved. Ouch! It's been 3 weeks, and they were still in there, and inflammation was still present. He doesn't even want me to try to wear my partial dentures, until my mouth is completely healed. I have an appt to go back Sept. 21, and he will see how things are going then. I'm still taking the anti-inflammatory meds. So, I don't know when, or if, I'll get any more broken teeth removed, unless it becomes an emergency. Lupus and Sjogren's Syndrome are the pits......

The weather is nice, today, so I washed a huge load of laundry, and I have them hanging on the line to dry. I browned some boneless pork chops, and put them in the crockpot along with some pork gravy for our supper, tonight. Don't know what I'll fix to go with those, yet. That's about all I plan to do, today.

Forgot to add that I'm sending off another seed order, today. I found my walking onions at Southern Exposure, so I'm also ordering them. Sam's order going out, and also a Blair order for me some new tops for this fall and winter. We're going to wait til after the long weekend about doing our grocery shopping. Probably on Tuesday.

 

[paxsim2]

I have 4 tomato starts I need to replant into bigger pots for over wintering in the greenhouse. Last year I actually got a couple of small ones and I also learned a few things.
We are cleaning up around the outside of the house this weekend in preparation for the work we're having done. We're supposed to start the last week of September.
There's something wrong with the front end of my car so it will go to the shop next week.
Our dog Bob is failing everyday, our hope is a quiet passing at home. We won't let him get painful, if that happens we will intervene.
Stay safe!

 

[philkar]

Good Morning friends! Like many of you we are starting to clean up the garden to get ready for the winter. Our winter crops are up and doing well. Still have great okra. Corn for grinding is drying and corn for the animals is also drying. Sweet potato vines are starting to die back. Peanuts and peppers look great. Running the canner is common place now and I don't even notice the noise! We still have peas to can. This morning was cool and we sooo enjoyed breakfast on the porch. I love this time of year.

 

[skwentnaflyer]

Here is my grandmother's recipe for chili sauce:

Chili Sauce

20 large ripe tomatoes
2 large red peppers
2 large onions
1 heaping tablespoon salt
2 rounded tablespoons mixed pickling spices (I tie in bag for cooking and then remove)
1 3/4 cups sugar
2 ½ cups vinegar

Cut ingredients fine, combine and boil until thickened. Put into sterile jars and process in water bath for 15 minutes This is a savory sauce not a hot sauce. I like it on fried potatoes or eggs.

I halved the recipe so if you want a larger batch, you could double it. I had the recipe checked by Extension Service home economist and she said it was a safe canning recipe. Also, I try to use primarily roma tomatoes because it takes less cooking down.

It irritates me that appliance manuals are now online. I want a printed copy of any information I need or possibly will need. I paid for the appliance, so it seems the least they could do is provide a printed manual. Printing ink is darn expensive, and I resent having to use mine for something that should have been included with the purchase. A second thing that irritates me is the print on manuals, labels, etc. is too tiny to read without a magnifying glass and sometime not easy then for old eyes.

It's sad so many of us have had drought this year and poor gardens. Ironically enough, the worst garden I had was the year of the floods (1992 or 1993 I think) where it rained inches every blessed day. The potatoes liquified in the garden and I did not get a single one nor did my neighbor. That was also the year I did not get a single green bean. Now this year is the opposite and no edible green beans (too woody) and tiny potatoes that are not going to keep. In a good or even fair year I would harvest a wheelbarrow of potatoes in a row and half. This year the entire 7 rows amounted to less than a 5-gallon bucket. Absolutely pathetic!! Us old gardeners know that every year something doesn't do good and it's extremely rare to have a year where everything does great. However, the majority of years we have a decent harvest. Next season is year 7 of a 7-year drought so maybe things will start turning around. I hope that new or first-time gardeners are not so discouraged that they give up gardening.

Husband loves it, got another double batch going in the roaster.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

I can't remember who it was or where I saw it, but someone posted a photo of some bacon wrapped boneless chicken breasts they had made not too long ago. I don't have a recipe for those, and I've been checking online, but all I can find use brown sugar in the recipe. Do any of you fine cooks have a good recipe that doesn't call for brown sugar? Bacon wrapped chicken breasts just sounds yummy!

 

[nomifyle]

Went to the VA today and finally got the ball started regarding my knee. I have to get x-rays of both knees, last ones done was in 2018. I did get a shot for pain, I can't remember what it is but will find out. I got it in my arm in a muscle and it hurt like crazy. That was about 11:30 and right now I don't really feel any particular body pain. I hope it lasts for awhile. My doc said I could have gotten this shot if I had gone to ER. Maybe eventually I'll get something else done for my knee.

The last two cases of pint jars came from wm.com, none broken. And the two boxes of 24 each of ramen noodles. If they go bad the chickens or pigs will eat them, pigs will eat almost anything. If they don't go bad anytime soon I can share with other people who might be looking for a hand out. I've got a pick up order tomorrow, just a few things.

I have my grocery card that I got free, DH wants me to buy $100 worth of bacon for the freezer. I better look up how to can it.

 

[Cag3db1rd]

I planted sunflowers that were supposed to be 5 to 6 feet tall. What I got were 6 inch sunflowers with 1 inch flowers. I have pictures but can't post them cause they're too big. So weird.
No grocery run planned this week except for meat.
Sunday I'm going to pull out dead plants and clean garden beds so I can fall plant.
Need to do laundry and dishes. All I want to do is sit outside and watch the wild life. I did that this morning and it was wonderful, butterflies, hummers, a baby rabbit and the bumblebees. Plus the breeze was blowing the wind chimes and the clouds were drifting along slowly.
Sorry. It was a respite from everything going on.

My sunflowers were very short with small flowers this year. I was very disappointed in them.

I got my tall sunflowers, but the flowers are pretty small and don't seem to be getting pollinated.

I can't remember who it was or where I saw it, but someone posted a photo of some bacon wrapped boneless chicken breasts they had made not too long ago. I don't have a recipe for those, and I've been checking online, but all I can find use brown sugar in the recipe. Do any of you fine cooks have a good recipe that doesn't call for brown sugar? Bacon wrapped chicken breasts just sounds yummy!

I am not the one who posted it, but I have done this. Just wrap the breasts in a strip of bacon and bake. It's so good. So easy, too.

 

[SAPPHIRE]

Nomifyle: Congrats on that card! Aren't you glad you "asked".....sounds like the workers weren't fully instructed....perhaps they wanted to keep some for "special cars"........those unexpected blessings are from the Father above........PTL

 

[SouthernBreeze]

I am not the one who posted it, but I have done this. Just wrap the breasts in a strip of bacon and bake. It's so good. So easy, too.

I found one I'm gonna try. Sprinkle a bit of salt, garlic powder, and black pepper on the breasts, then wrap with bacon. Mix a bit of Dijon mustard and honey, then spread all over the breasts. Bake.

 

[nomifyle]

Nomifyle: Congrats on that card! Aren't you glad you "asked".....sounds like the workers weren't fully instructed....perhaps they wanted to keep some for "special cars"........those unexpected blessings are from the Father above........PTL

I think what may have happened was the give away was supposed to be for people over 65 and younger people got in line and took what was not for them. I'm sure that's way the woman asked my age, and also maybe some special people were supposed to get a card. My friend that told me about it didn't asked and said why should I have to ask, well DUH.

 

[anna43]

I have now shelled and stored green bean seeds for next year (or three!). Filled a salsa jar. There are more in the garden, but I'm not going to process the rest. I'm still picking summer squash, okra and tomatoes and hoping for peppers to ripen. My neighbors at the senior complex are enjoying the squash along with me. The tomatoes are so scrawny and ugly that I've not taken many over. They prefer the large cherry tomatoes over any others although when I have big juicy slicers, they don't say no.

Several years ago I had a jar of peanut butter go rancid and I took that to the basement and labeled the jar as "mouse trap bait". The jar isn't empty yet so I'm still using it. I should take down, clean and rebait my traps just in case I get a mouse. Knock on wood, I haven't had one for a while. When we lived in Wyoming, we had a partial basement and crawl space and lots of mice. Then a big snake moved into the crawl space and suddenly I had no more mice. Of course, I quit going into storage area!

I washed living room bow-bay 5-section window this a.m. Since it involves a ladder it exhausted me. I don't do a ladder inside or anywhere other than in front of my house. If I fell anywhere else, I'd likely lay there indefinitely, but out front someone from the senior complex would likely be watching me wash the windows and call 911 before I hit the ground.

I use canning jars that have chipped rims for storing dried bulk items. I also reuse canning lids for the jars. Of course, if you are vacuum sealing them that won't work, but otherwise it saves the good canning jars for canning. I have plenty of canning jars because I've been collecting them for 60 years. I'm guessing I have 10 dozen empty pints and 8 dozen quarts. I have approximately 500 (give or take) full jars including pints, half pints and quarts.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

We mowed and cleaned up our yard for the winter, today. I wanted some old shrubs and bushes cut down in preparation for a new flower bed next spring. Rain is coming back into our forecast for the next several days, and we wanted to get this done. I also finished off all the laundry to hang outside, before the rain starts.

The tomatoes in the volunteer garden spot are finally beginning to ripen. I was worried they weren't going to. I'm still gathering squash and bell peppers. Mustard and turnips are coming along nicely, too. Peas are going like gangbusters. I sure hope they produce. I'm waiting on my walking onion sets to arrive. We've made a special place for them to grow and multiply to their hearts content just like my garlic bed.

 

[Digger]

My Emergency Essentials order came on Tuesday just as the company said it would. The hashbrowns and onions will go into the pantry rotation.

We cut hay because from Tuesday through Friday was to be sunny and dry. We got the hay we cut Tuesday bailed Thursday before the rain that night. The hay cut on Wednesday is wet. We are now supposed to get rain each day for the every day but one in the next 6 days. 2 other farmers we know also lost hay. We will bale it when we can to get it off the field. But it will only be good for bedding.

I bought more rotel and tomato sauce. Hubby wanted some Reese's cups. I bought the snack size package of 10. The candies weigh 0.6 oz each. They are tiny. Even the clerk noticed they were very small and remarked about it. They were $2.36. Definitely some shrinkflation going on.

I did get some fall stuff planted. I should plant more greens and may do more. The gardens are producing more beans and tomatoes. The peppers and cucumbers are just producing for the first time this year. It has been a crazy year. I still have not gotten my first yellow squash. I have bought some but none from my garden.

 

[WanderLore]

Besides other stuff today, I tried making homemade Resses bars and fruit/nut bars. They were pretty easy and very rich. Everyone liked them. Chocolate chips, pnut butter, little bit of milk. Little bit of powdered sugar in the pnut butter. Layer melted chocolate, sit in freezer little bit. Then layer pnut butter and then rest of chocolate over top. Freezer for an hour.
Levi and I made a fire in our camp spot grill. Then fried french fries and hamburgers. He was tickled.
He is 8. He is set up to go to library Monday to make balloon animals to sell for Labor Day. Wish him luck! He's very good. Makes 18 kinds.

 

[anna43]

I went back through my calendar to figure out when 110 days from planting sweet potatoes was and it turns out to be around the 15th of this month. That also is our first frost date so we'll see if we avoid frost that long. Due to the drought the leaves are starting to yellow so maybe I'll be digging them sooner rather than later. Usually, they are lush and green right up to when I dig them.

I made a double batch of the Fels Napha laundry soap today which should last me 18 months or so. I store it in laundry jugs from purchased laundry detergent which makes it easier to use. I'll do that after letting it cure for at least 24 hours.

I had a broken desk chair in my garage for over a year and decided to put it on the curb for today's garbage pickup. I figured it they didn't take it, I would just dismantle it and put it out in pieces, but they took it. I've lived a lot of places and have to say that our garbage collection here is the absolute best. Every time I donate, toss out or otherwise get rid of something it feels like another weight off my back. I have a TV, microwave and Dish equipment that I need to dispose of, but it costs $18 per item so I keep putting it off. It was suggested I dismantle the items and put those out bit by bit. However, I'm unsure about doing so due to not wanting to put something hazardous into the environment.

 

[Cag3db1rd]

I am excited. I have 4 potato plants up in the garden as of a few days ago. I have 2 snake bean gourds on the vine. I think one rampicante squash has a seed bulb on its end. Oh, I hope so. Beans are starting to produce about a handful at a time. Peppers are finally ripening. My sweet potatoes are getting so big that they are statting to stick up above ground. I need to mulch them, I guess. Little chicks are past ready to go out to a tractor. Tomorrow, hubby and I are putting walls on the little covered run to turn it into a coop. The old 2'x4' coop will be the nest box. Then we can have the big chicks in the coop. Yay.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

Well, I'm on a rant this morning. I came here like I do every morning, and what do I find but more and more videos and tweets filling almost every thread I click on. All these videos and tweets do nothing but bog down my computer to the point that it's useless to try to click and read anything. My computer locked up twice, yesterday, because of it all. I'm almost ready to just walk away. Is the forum turning into a mostly tweets and video forum? Geesh!

Sorry for the rant. Had to get it off my chest. Now, I'm going to do housework and play in the garden.

 

[Marseydoats]

In spite of the heat, I have managed to get a few things done this week. I had really hoped for an early fall, but I don't think it's going to happen. I gave myself permission to take 2 days a week off from hauling sand and rock for the barn, because after I do that, I can barely keep up with my regular chores. The puppy and the barn cat play in my rock pile every day, and I have to re-rake it. The puppy strows river rock all over the yard and the barn cat plays catch with big rocks that she has no business even trying to pick up. I hope she doesn't wind up braining herself. I almost have the big crater in front of the barn filled in.
Cleared 4 ft. of fence line, and that may not seem like much, but it's those razor briars that pierce right thru gauntlets.
I moved up the date on my Chewy auto ship, because I figured it would take 2 weeks to get here like it did last time. Fed Ex hauled it around on the truck for a solid week before they delivered it. This time, it came the next day.
I have decided that I am going to change the way I do my shopping. I mortally hate to go into the Big Town but had to, because that's where Aldi and the library are. Well the medium size town now has an Aldi right down the street from WM. I will still have to go to the Big Town once a month for the library and the bank, but at least, not every week. I really miss the days of only shopping once every 6 weeks, but since Covid I'm afraid not to replace what we eat every week.

 

[nomifyle]

Well, I'm on a rant this morning. I came here like I do every morning, and what do I find but more and more videos and tweets filling almost every thread I click on. All these videos and tweets do nothing but bog down my computer to the point that it's useless to try to click and read anything. My computer locked up twice, yesterday, because of it all. I'm almost ready to just walk away. Is the forum turning into a mostly tweets and video forum? Geesh!

Sorry for the rant. Had to get it off my chest. Now, I'm going to do housework and play in the garden.

I just move on past most of that.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

I just move on past most of that.

I'll just have to deal with it. I can't just move on past it, because it still locks up or bogs down my computer. I spend most of my time here waiting for tweets to load or waiting for videos to load that I can't even watch. No way to stop the problem as long as others continue to load down every other thread with tweets or videos. I've already put the main offenders on "ignore", but it doesn't stop the problem of my computer trying to load everything.

But, it's my problem, and I'll deal with it.

 

[nomifyle]

I'll just have to deal with it. I can't just move on past it, because it still locks up or bogs down my computer. I spend most of my time here waiting for tweets to load or waiting for videos to load that I can't even watch. No way to stop the problem as long as others continue to load down every other thread with tweets or videos. I've already put the main offenders on "ignore", but it doesn't stop the problem of my computer trying to load everything.

But, it's my problem, and I'll deal with it.

I don't try to down load them or click on tweets, I ignore them and move on.

 

[John Deere Girl]

Well, I'm on a rant this morning. I came here like I do every morning, and what do I find but more and more videos and tweets filling almost every thread I click on. All these videos and tweets do nothing but bog down my computer to the point that it's useless to try to click and read anything. My computer locked up twice, yesterday, because of it all. I'm almost ready to just walk away. Is the forum turning into a mostly tweets and video forum? Geesh!

Sorry for the rant. Had to get it off my chest. Now, I'm going to do housework and play in the garden.

I rarely try to watch the videos. I prefer a synopsis. It slows my phone down, and I don't have the time or patience to watch.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

I rarely try to watch the videos. I prefer a synopsis. It slows my phone down, and I don't have the time or patience to watch.

I never watch videos. Even with our new fiber optics service, it's still slow and buffers a lot. When threads are loaded down with tweets for every other comment, I have to sit here and wait for every tweet to download. Even if I scroll on past it, my computer stills downloads them. It's frustrating, especially, when I don't have time to wait. There are some threads where every other comment is a tweet! But, I have put several members on "ignore" to try and stop most of it.

 

[John Deere Girl]

I never watch videos. Even with our new fiber optics service, it's still slow and buffers a lot. When threads are loaded down with tweets for every other comment, I have to sit here and wait for every tweet to download. Even if I scroll on past it, my computer stills downloads them. It's frustrating, especially, when I don't have time to wait. There are some threads where every other comment is a tweet! But, I have put several members on "ignore" to try and stop most of it.

I don't have problems reading the tweets. I just have a hard time with the videos. However, I do know a lot of people prefer them.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

Well, after the scare we had here this morning, our DS calls telling us that 2 people in our home fellowship group now have Covid (tested). Today just hasn't been a good day. Started out with a rant, and I still haven't got my nerves back in check. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a better day. I need to chill for a while.

 

[SouthernBreeze]

I found one I'm gonna try. Sprinkle a bit of salt, garlic powder, and black pepper on the breasts, then wrap with bacon. Mix a bit of Dijon mustard and honey, then spread all over the breasts. Bake.

I made this chicken tonight, and it was delicious. Cary loved it! Green beans, boiled and buttered potatoes, cream corn, and cornbread to round out the meal.

 

[briches]

My son got married yesterday! We spent the evening last night celebrating at a wonderful restaurant. They eloped and then planned a celebratory dinner for family/friends (about 30 of us).

I am SO thankful I was able to enjoy the festivities. I came down with a migraine yesterday that evolved into a doozy. Extreme nausea. It was intense. We had to pull over on the way there because I thought I was going to be sick. I kept praying for relief, and thankfully, when I got to the restaurant, the headache faded and nausea went away. I was so thankful. I haven’t had one that badly in a few years. I’m still a little “off“ today from it.

I have put a couple bids in for an online estate sale that closes in a couple of hours. Curious to see if my high bid holds. A few decent backup prep items that would be handy to have an extra of - I’ll post if I get it.

Slow and steady -