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Monday, October 8, 2018
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Alice:
Hello! Anyone around today?
Is everyone so busy with life we have so time to greet each other? I'm just as guilty.
I noticed that just over night it seems the tree have really begun to turn color and the leaves are dropping to the ground rather quickly! Not loving that.
I have a huge pile of tree branches, twigs, and logs that need to be burned. But I first have to re-do the burn pit. We used little red bricks to make a small campfire pit but the brick has broken. Now I will use paver bricks (since I have them) and then dig out the old ash and get it ready for a little campfire. I burn little by little more the size of a campfire because we can't have burn pits but we can have campfires during safe times. So I do little by little and enjoy the fire. It should be a nice evening for me to redo the pit.
Hubby's back has been giving him trouble so he can't help and son works 7 days per week and is on his feet all day. I won't ask him to help. I'm OK with that.
Dinner will be something but I'm not sure. We got some reduced priced tri tip beef roast that I made on Saturday and we have a small bit leftover and I also got some reduced priced meaty soup bones that I made a really good beef vegetable barley soup. Homemade buns rounded out the meal yesterday and there is a tiny bit leftover of that.
We've had quite a drizzly weekend so we weren't able to do anything outside. But we having a couple of warm days so that will be nice to do a few things outside. I already put my patio furniture away for the season.
Really nothing exciting for me.
Alice
Cheryl:
Hello Alice and everyone.
I meant to jump on here first thing this morning but I got busy, then next thing I know it’s lunchtime.
It is still miserably hot here, around 90 degrees and humid almost every day. I am ready for cooler weather, not winter though. I want cool days where I can go outside without getting all sweaty and slapping mosquitoes.
I picked a bucket of bell peppers yesterday. I cut them up this morning and put them in the dehydrator. I had about 10 red pimento peppers that I diced up to put in the freezer. My hot peppers will need picked in a day or two.
I just put a turkey breast in my instant pot. I had it on the menu for tomorrow but I already had my IP out from this morning when I did eggs in it, so I decided to go ahead and cook my turkey. I can’t leave my IP on my counter because my kitchen is too small. Sometimes it’s a pain having to drag it out of storage to use.
Well, that’s all the excitement around my house. :D. I’m battling allergies or a cold, not sure which, but I’m miserable at times with my stuffy nose.
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