Miss A’s has a double middle name as do all of our children. But how we chose her first name was how it would sound with what we knew would be her first middle name, Iris. She is named after a very special lady, our great-great aunt, Iris, my late great-grandfather’s sister. Today after church we called our very special…
Read More
Latest from the Blog
Your Favorite Pioneer Woman Recipe Linky Party
What’s your favorite recipe of The Pioneer Woman’s? Share it on your blog and link up today below because we’re having a party right here. Why? Because tomorrow is Food Network’s debut of The Pioneer Woman’s television show. If you’re like me, you might read The Pioneer Woman’s blog, have her cookbook or her Black Heels to Tractor Wheels novel…
Read More
Easy steps on how to can cherries
Does canning sound like a lot of work? But you like the idea of it? Until last summer, I had watched my grandma and mom can and freeze but I had never done it myself. I was inspired by my blog friends, Amy of a Latte’ with Ott, A and Jen of Mess Hall to Bistro. I decided having canned items…
Read More
Wordless Wednesday w/ Linky: Gardening Success
I found this empty bike with a basket full of our garden vegetables in it. The culprit of garden gathering wasn’t near but I suspected… she was somewhere near the garden, hiding. I found the garden girl watching the neighbor bale hay across the road. Despite my lack of attention to our summer vegetable garden, we are reaping the benefits now…
Read More
My love/hate coffee morning…
My alarm went off at 3:20AM today. After a quick shower and closing up my suitcase for a one night trip away, I stumbled down the stairs where thankfully I could grab a hot mug of coffee. My husband sets the timer on our favorite kitchen appliance, the Cuisinart Grind N’ Brew coffee maker every evening and grinds the coffee…
Read More