Until next time...
~Rebecca
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Wednesday, September 2, 2020
Monday, August 31, 2020
Master List and Menu Monday - August 31, 2020
Greetings, Dear One! 💗
Can you believe it??? The last Monday of August and...just like that...in a few hours we fall into September! 🍁🍂🍁 (And I'm so excited!!!) 🤭 How was your week and weekend?
Our week was good here...slower...more relaxed, I think, than the rest of the month has been.
A huge storm moved through on Saturday morning, bringing heavy rains and straight-line winds with it. A lot of damage was done locally and we were without electricity at the park for several hours; our son and daughter-in-law in Lamar were without until late in the day on Sunday.
The Storm Front Approaching From The West
The Approaching Storm
When the storm hit, the wind was so strong that we, physically, could not open the front door of the nature center against it and it was driving rain in around the front windows. I, personally, had never seen anything like it. It must have been what they call a derecho (an inland hurricane), but, whatever they end up labeling it as, it got pretty wild there for a while and left a lot of damage in it's path.
Sunday was quiet. John and I logged a couple of new geocaches in the afternoon, which is always fun, and now...here it is...Monday again and time to go to work! 😊
Let's take a look at this week's master to-do list and menu plan, shall we?
This Week's Master To-Do List...
- my weekly "home blessing" 🏡
- complete a data-entry job that I've been working on at work
- figure September budget and bills 💲
- go to the bank 💰
- pay bills 💵
- do laundry 👚
- continue to work on the Van Gogh room (have made progress, but am still at it) 🎨
- walk daily 👟
- do some planning (low-spend September, fall cleaning schedule) 📔
- check a few things off my summer bucket list 🏊
- think about things I want to add to my autumn bucket list 🍁
- prepare for an upcoming giveaway on this blog 🎁
- read 📖
- write a few blog posts 💻
- do a little geocaching 🧭
This Week's Menus...
Monday - Breakfast for supper 🥓
Tuesday - Broiled salmon, oven-roasted potatoes and carrots, fresh tomatoes, and scalloped onions 🐟
Wednesday - Grilled burgers with lettuce and tomatoes and no-fry onion rings 🧅
Thursday - Stuffed pepper casserole, sauteed zucchini, and fresh tomatoes
Thursday - Stuffed pepper casserole, sauteed zucchini, and fresh tomatoes
Friday - Oven-roasted chicken breasts with sauteed peppers, tomatoes, and onions, black beans, and rice
Saturday - Pasta, sauce, sauteed zucchini, and homemade bread 🍝
Sunday - Leftovers
Well, Ladies, that's it for this time! I pray that all is well with you and yours and that you have a blessed week ahead!
Until next time...
~Rebecca
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Saturday - Pasta, sauce, sauteed zucchini, and homemade bread 🍝
Sunday - Leftovers
Well, Ladies, that's it for this time! I pray that all is well with you and yours and that you have a blessed week ahead!
Until next time...
~Rebecca
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Friday, August 28, 2020
Upcoming Autumn Posts - Family-Fun Ideas or Recipes To Share?
I'm hoping to do some special posts this fall and would like to include family fun ideas and special recipes from you...my dear Hearth and Home readers.
I am specifically looking for ideas that feature fall family-fun and recipes that feature apples and pumpkins.
Years ago one of our daughters-in-law hosted a fall tea
and fun day for the grandlittles. Activities that they enjoyed
included making and eating caramel apples! 🍎
If you have ideas or recipes to share, please, send them to in a private message on Facebook (Rebecca Brown Knox) or email them to me at proverbs31heart@yahoo.com. Be sure and put HEARTH AND HOME on the subject line so I don't accidentally overlook your email!
Fall Pumpkins and Mums
I hope to hear from you soon!
Until next time...
~Rebecca
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Teleidoscope Thursday - August 27, 2020
Master List and Menu Monday - August 24, 2020
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Teleidoscope Thursday - August 27, 2020
It's been a busy week, a busy day, and now it's late, but I'm determined to get this post out before midnight. It's more or less just a hodge-podge of what's been going on this week.
- I worked on Monday and it was great! The bison herd came down down to the nature center and hung around for quite some time THAT hasn't happened in a long time! At least not when I've been on duty! 💗
- On Tuesday I made a double batch of French bread, put sixteen half-cup portions of diced onion in the freezer, and four two-cup portions of zucchini. 🥖
- On Wednesday I took a family member grocery shopping and my cousin and I did a little geocaching. 🧭
- Then, this morning, I did the unthinkable! I unplugged the phone, shut down the computer, and went to work on a list of odd jobs that have needed doing for a long time. Without interruption I was able to move from thing to thing and accomplished quite a bit.
Throughout the day I ...
... cut my hair
... cleaned my silver rings and Celtic cross necklace
... ordered a fall supply of pumpkin spice tea and coffee creamer
... worked in the Van Gogh room
... finally got the roll-away bed and bedding put away from when our youngest daughter visited more than two weeks ago
... finally got a chance to look at, and put away, some of the gifts that I received for my birthday on the 13th
... pulled out the tote of autumn stuff and started going through it
... made taco salad for lunch and used up the last of the avocados
... put together a couple of gift baskets
... had a cup of tea with dd
... started planning an out of town trip for this fall and made reservations
This evening I...
... straightened up the house
... made supper
... watched a few episodes of Bringing Up Bates
... and watched President Trump's acceptance speech.
It's been a long day and I'm going to go ahead and get this post out before midnight.
I hope that you and yours are doing well and that you've had a great week. I will talk to you again soon!
Until next time...
~Rebecca
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Master List and Menu Monday - August 24, 2020
Monday, August 24, 2020
Master List and Menu Monday - August 24, 2020
Good morning, Everyone! 💗
How was your week and weekend?
Our week was busy and full here with much of it centered on food preservation. I was able to share quite a bit of that with you along the way, so I won't waste time reiterating.
Thursday's "evening stroll" at work went great! Nineteen adventure-seeking folks joined me as, together, we discovered the changes that take place as evening turns to night on the tallgrass prairies of southwest Missouri. Even the coyotes participated by tuning up and singing for us at just the right time! 🐺
Without having anything pressing that needed to be done, Friday ended up being our down day for the week and I worked on Saturday (got to work outside all day which was awesome!).
After church on Sunday, we spent a quiet afternoon and evening at home, and now it's Monday and time to go to work again.
Let's get started on this week's master list and menu plan, shall we?
This Week's Master To-Do List...
- my weekly "home blessing" 🏡
- work
- clean out the fridge 🍗🥬🍉 (didn't get to this last week)
- have company over for supper 🍲
- do laundry 👚
- make bread 🥖
- go to the grocery store 🛒
- host a church movie night 🎥
- chop and freeze onions 🧅
- do some planning 📔
- work on cleaning and organizing the Van Gogh room (a.k.a. my office and, here lately, the catch-all room) 🎨
- read 📖
- write a few blog posts 💻
- do a little geocaching (if we get the time and opportunity) 🧭
- walk daily 👟
This Week's Menus...
We were given a large amount of yellow onions, so, in addition to preserving what I can of them (chopping and freezing), they will be the star of the show in this week's menu plans.
Monday - Breakfast for supper 🥓
Tuesday - Pasta, sauce, meatballs, salad, and homemade bread 🍝
Wednesday - Turkey burgers and no-fry onion rings
Thursday - Grilled cheese sandwiches and onion soup
Friday - Broiled salmon, oven-roasted potatoes, oven-roasted carrots, and scalloped onions
Saturday - Homemade pizza 🍕
Sunday - Leftovers
Well, Ladies, that's it for this time! I pray that all is well with you and yours and that you have a blessed week ahead!
Until next time...
~Rebecca
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Thursday - Grilled cheese sandwiches and onion soup
Friday - Broiled salmon, oven-roasted potatoes, oven-roasted carrots, and scalloped onions
Saturday - Homemade pizza 🍕
Sunday - Leftovers
Well, Ladies, that's it for this time! I pray that all is well with you and yours and that you have a blessed week ahead!
Until next time...
~Rebecca
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Thursday, August 20, 2020
Avocado Blessings
Our daughter and her family were blessed with a large amount of produce yesterday. She passed on two nice cantaloupes and two 5-count bags of large avocados to us.
The cantaloupes needed to ripen a few more days, but the avocados were at peak and needed to be used. How was I going to use up ten large avocados in a hurry?
In talking with Amber about them a little while ago, I discovered that she had frozen her avocados in halves. I didn't realize that avocados could be frozen! Wow! 😲
After talking with her, and doing a little further research on the California Avocado site, I decided to turn our avocados into guacamole and freeze it that way.
I saved back two avocados to be eaten fresh. We love them in salads, made into deviled egg filling, baked in the oven with bacon and eggs (see recipe below), and a variety of other ways.
The remaining eight avocados I turned into guacamole (avocados peeled, pitted, and mashed mixed with lemon juice, garlic powder, onion powder, and salt to taste).
Then I divided it into half-cup portions and wrapped each portion tightly in cling-wrap and flattened to about the size of a deck of cards.
Out of eight large avocados I ended up with twelve pre-made packages of guacamole.
To be used they just have to thaw in the fridge overnight.
To find out more about avocados and how to freeze them visit the California Avocado page by clicking HERE.
AVOCADO, BACON, AND EGGS
1 avocado
2 eggs
2 strips of pre-cooked, crumbled bacon
Cut the avocado in half and remove the pit. Scoop out enough avocado to make a hole that matches the size of your egg.
Stabilize avocado halves by balancing them upright, and level, on the top of a muffin tin. Crack an egg into each avocado half and top with crumbled bacon. I added a sprinkling of black pepper over ours, but you can season, or not season, as you choose.
Bake in a preheated 425 degree oven for 15 minutes or until eggs are cooked through.
1 avocado
2 eggs
2 strips of pre-cooked, crumbled bacon
Cut the avocado in half and remove the pit. Scoop out enough avocado to make a hole that matches the size of your egg.
Stabilize avocado halves by balancing them upright, and level, on the top of a muffin tin. Crack an egg into each avocado half and top with crumbled bacon. I added a sprinkling of black pepper over ours, but you can season, or not season, as you choose.
Bake in a preheated 425 degree oven for 15 minutes or until eggs are cooked through.
Until next time...
~Rebecca
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