Meal plan for October 15th – 21st
I’m sitting here late late late on a Saturday waiting for my pressure canner to finish up the approximately 1 billion pints of pumpkin I’m canning. Did you know it takes freaking 55 minutes...
The Birthday Project. 31 for 31
Some time last year my friend Anne sent me a link to The Birthday Project. It was such a cool idea – you spend your birthday doing good deeds for others; one deed per...
Meal plan for October 8th – 14th
Hey guys, did you have a nice weekend? I got some time to myself on Saturday (so very rare) and cleaned up the garden a bit and got my garlic planted for the winter. ...
Meal plan for October 1st – 7th
Oy vey, it’s been an exhausting weekend! I almost feel like I need to go to work tomorrow just to get a break. Almost. I’ve been a slacker this week and didn’t track our...
Meal plan for September 24th – 30th
I’m waiting for my last batch of pears to process in the canner (20 total quarts). I’m beat, my back is sore, and I’m excited to go to sleep! I did watch quite a...
Meal plan for September 17th – 23rd
Good morning! The sunrise is gorgeous here in Seattle this morning. The haze from the wildfires in Wenatchee (over the mountains) has turned the sun in to a ball of fire. We’ve had a...
Early fall garden tour
Remember the sad garden tour I did in July? Well, right afterwards, we had a few days of 90 degree temps, and then consistent nice sunny weather. Then more 90 degree weather, and then...
Meal plan for September 10th-16th
Dudes, I am wiped out. Jack has decided that getting up between 5:30 and 6 on the weekends is what cool kids do. He woke up at 3:30 this morning telling me he was...
They call it Labor Day weekend for a reason, right?
My plan for the weekend didn’t start out so darn crazy, but it sure ended up that way. Because I was so sick last weekend, I was behind on everything around the house, and...
Meal plan for August 27th – September 2nd
Our house is in lock-down. No one in, and no one out, lest we infect the whole world. What started as colds, has morphed in to ear infections and pink eye. Goodness gracious, I...
The lazy lady’s guide to cutting a watermelon
If you are new here, you may not realize how freaking lazy I am. I do a ton of stuff around the house, and make homemade (insert random food item here), but man oh...
“Hi, my name is Sarah. Can I please pick your fruit”?
:Subtitle: Why it never hurts to ask. Last week, the lad and I were scavenging picking blackberries in the neighborhood. After filling a 10 pound bucket, we set off for home. As we turned...
