Around the House


 Good Sunday afternoon!

I thought I would take a few minutes to share what I’ve been up to here at home. For 20 years, everything I did was at home and that will always be where I feel the most comfortable, productive and capable. I just get the occasional weekend now to tackle the bigger projects and I try to make the most of that time. My Bible study group is reading through Proverbs together and last week we discussed Proverbs 6:8-11 which discusses working hard when able and preparing for the unknown future. I hate the unknown future so I really like to prepare.

Yesterday I canned beans. Today I made bread dough and a pumpkin pie.



I thought I took pictures of the beans but it appears I didn’t. So use your imagination and I’ll try to do better next time. I canned 8 pints of plain black beans. We like these for tacos and they make a nice bean salad. I also made 7 pints of “red beans and rice beans”. Just red beans canned with Cajun seasoning and Polish sausage. I’m still working on the correct amount of seasoning. Hopefully these have more zip than last time.

The bread dough is sourdough. Abby is gluten-intolerant but can handle sourdough so I try to make most of our bread products that way. The pie crust for the pumpkin pie was also sourdough, made and frozen a couple weeks ago. The bread will mostly be friend out for dressing Thursday. 

I’ve worked on some knitting orders, tried to keep the kitchen clean and did a lot of laundry in addition to my paying job yesterday and a grocery/Hobby Lobby/Goodwill run. So not bad.

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