OK, here’s what I’m going with this week.  I’m guessing I will be adding more songs, esp since you guys keep giving me more good ideas– yay! Disciple “Dear X” Charmaine “Run, Run, Run” Laura Story “Great God Who Saves” The Afters “Light Up The Sky” Relient K “High of 75″ David Crowder “Come...
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OK, people, I need some help. I’m putting together a running playlist, and I’m hoping for some recommendations for energetic songs. I tend to listen mostly to Christian music, but I’m open to other stuff too as long as the lyrics won’t leave me embarrassed if my kids turn on my zune in the...
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Frost is coming. Yesterday it was time to get in the last of the tomatoes, green ones too. We wrap them in newspaper three or five at a time, box them up, and set them out in the cool garage. Within a couple of weeks they’ll begin to redden up, just as they would...
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12 large tomatoes, diced 2 large yellow onions, diced 4 large sweet peppers, diced 6 cloves garlic, minced Hot peppers, to taste 2 cups lemon or lime juice (or may substitute 1 cup vinegar) 1 tablespoon salt fresh basil, minced, to taste (optional) Start by chopping the tomatoes, onions, garlic, and sweet peppers.   You...
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Counters are heaped with produce: corn, tomatoes, peppers, apples, plums.  Every stove-burner has a pot:  today it is applesauce and salsa and plum jam and the ever-present canning pot.  Later in the day as jars fill and pots empty we’ll have two canning pots bubbling at once. The stereo blasts with the rowdiest music...
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The tail end of summer is roaring past me at ridiculous speed. We opted to skip the ‘big’ fair this year– it costs so much!– but had a great time going to a church carnival on Saturday. They had 50-cent hot dogs, corn dogs, burgers, ice cream, snow cones and cotton candy, if you...
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My lunch today. From the store: watermelon From the garden: tomatoes, cukes, canteloupe, and CORN! Also: this french bread - it has a secret!
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This morning we headed out the the garden to see what was going on: apparently a lot more than I realized.  We spent probably an hour picking, and then came back into the house to do something with all of our bounty. First on the agenda was sweet relish.  The kids diced about a...
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It’s begun already. Earlier it seems than most years. I’m awash in zucchini. I vowed to pick them tiny, I really did. It’s so much easier to pick/eat/give away 6-inch zucchinis than 18-inch monsters.  But then we went camping and came back to plants that had gone berserk in our absence.   John and I...
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A recent ant invasion at our house had me talking with friends and googling ideas for affordable, natural ant repellants.  Here are a few you might like to try if the ants are marching one by one into your house. Ammonia or vinegar –  pour into a squirt bottle, and spray on hard surfaces...
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