Menu Monday June 10 to June 16

This weeks menus will be as follows:

Monday

Slow cooked pork ribs, rice, and beets. Chocolate cake for dessert.

Tuesday

Leftover pork roast made into a casserole of sorts. A one dish meal.

Wednesday

Slow cooker stew that I will get started in the morning before I work in the afternoon. The leftovers will be frozen for a meal next week.

Thursday

Hopefully nice enough that Harvey can grill some steaks. Served with baked potatoes, sour cream and chives from the garden. I think green beans will go nicely with this.

Friday

Lazy perogies.

Saturday

Leftovers from the week, I may make some potato salad to go along with the meal.

Sunday

Beef roast, roasted potatoes, and carrots.

Dessert will be chocolate cake until it is all gone and then I will pull out one of the crisps I made.

Everybody have a wonderful day.

God bless.

Sunday Ramblings

Up until about an hour ago, the weather was absolutely lovely. The sun was shining and it was nice and warm. Now clouds are building up and I heard thunder in the distance. We may be actually in for another storm. Not that we have had a thunderstorm this year yet but we have had more than enough rain to last us for awhile.

This is what the sky to the north of us looks like.

I hope it is not as bad as it looks!!!

Mass today was very long. We were confirming the grade two classes from our Catholic schools and we had 42. All of them looked so cute and so solemn as our priest anointed them and gave them each the sign of peace. It did get extremely hot in the church and I was glad to go outside in the fresh air.

I checked on my friend and she is gradually doing better. I think it does her a world of good to be able to talk to someone who has been on this journey before. I will continue to talk to her as much as she wishes and she knows I am here for her.

We had a pork roast for dinner tonight and Harvey just could not get over the cost. Prices keep rising and I keep looking for ways to cut costs, we don't have a problem as of yet and hopefully will not I just somehow wonder how those people that only have a government pension and no savings make it from month to month. Our Food Bank has been advertizing that they are extremely short on staples so I hope to pick up a few items and drop them off this week. No one should go hungry when they live in one of the richest countries in the world. As Christ said "Whatever you do for the least of these, you do for me."

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Rainy Saturday

Today started out to be like this.

Waves of rain kept coming all day. A few times we thought it was actually clearing, but that was a lie. Usually a down pour started within a few minutes of it seemingly clearing. Right now we are not getting rain, but I see dark clouds coming in again.

It was once again the perfect day to get some baking done.

First off I pulled out the bread machine and made a loaf of bread.

Then I moved on to something a bit sweeter, chocolate cake. Still have to ice one of them.

I made two of these and one is residing in our freezer right now. The other I will ice and we will have it as dessert this week. Or better yet just something to snack on.

Next I pulled out some frozen pie fillings, both apple and cherry. I moved on to baking some crisps.

First the apple.

And then the cherry.

These are all residing in our freezer and will be sweet treats throughout the summer.

By this time I was so very tired out from all the baking that I decided to spend some time knitting. Got another part of the silent auction items done.

I have now started the last of the items we are donating. Whew, soon I will be finished with that project and can mark "Silent Auction Items" off my to do list.

I will be moving on to a project that is not as happy but dear to my heart. A dear and wonderful friend of mine is losing her mother to cancer. I want to go through my yarn stash and knit a prayer shawl for her mom (the mom is a friend as well). I do hope I have something suitable.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Things Are A Growing

After the nice weather we have had the last couple of days, things are really taking off.

Our Hostas are finally showing some growth.

Some are a bit slower than others, but at least now I know they are still alive after the terribly long winter we endured. Looks like I have to weed again, a never ending chore around here.

 Day Lilies are getting nice and bushy. Should have lots of flowers this year as we thinned them down a bit last year.

The Asiatic lilies have started to spread out once again. I am hoping for an amazing show of flowers this year.

The Virginia Creeper is a bit slow this year, but it is finally filling in the area surrounding our deck and giving us a bit of privacy from the monstrosity of a duplex behind us.

And to make matters even better today, I got to enjoy the first fire in our fire pit of the season.....

Ahh, summer has finally arrived.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Thursday Tidbits

One more finished project. This is the lapghan I have been working on for our silent auction at Harvey's family reunion at the end of the month. I finally finished it today and have started on another unfinished project that needs to be done for this occasion.

It feels very good to finally get another project done and have it erased from my white board!!!

We had a bit of excitement here yesterday. I got on Facebook yesterday morning and there were a couple of posts of Kurt on there. It seems he had been having chest pains since Sunday and when he awoke in the middle of the night with extreme burning in his chest.... Well he decided perhaps he should make a trip to the hospital.

I was greeted with a picture of him hooked up to oxygen, not what a mother wants to see first thing in the morning! He underwent some tests and was told that his heart was fine, this caused his blood pressure to drop dramatically. He did not teach yesterday, instead he took the day off and rested. Today he posts he is back to normal and feels 100%.

I really do wish that our children would think before they put their dear old Mom into a full blown panic attack!!

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Unfinished Projects

I thought that today I would share with all of you some of my unfinished projects. Hopefully they will join the ranks of finished projects very soon.

First some cross stitch projects.

This is a very small dragon and castle. The picture really does not do it justice. I started this on a silent retreat and was going to give it as a gift to Kris for Christmas one year..... Perhaps it will make an extra gift for this coming Christmas.

This is a large angel. I believe it is called Angel of Winter. I started this many years ago and put it away to finish when I had more time. I have a whole series of these to do, so I think I better get started very soon on completing them.

I have one top cut out to sew. Bad me it has been sitting in my sewing room for at least 2 months.

This will make a perfect summer top. A lovely addition to my wardrobe. If I want to wear it while the weather is still nice I better get to it.

These, with the addition of some cream coloured fabric, embroidered with burgundy butterflies will be made into a new quilt for our bed. I really want to get started on this and I am using it as a bribe. You know if I get "X" amount done I can start the embroidery...... I need to get 3 more small unfinished projects done first. Slowly but surely reaching that milestone.

I also have a red tablecloth, white tablecloth and a number of cotton dishcloths to get through. Plus I have some more clothing sewing I would love to complete.

Looks like I have a busy summer ahead of me.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Menu Monday

It's that time of the week again, so here are my menus for the upcoming week June 3 to June 9.

Monday

Leftover ham made into a casserole with rice, cream of mushroom soup, broccoli and cheese. Served with crusty bread.

Tuesday

Hamburgers, leftover pasta and baked beans from the freezer.

Wednesday

Chicken a la King, using up a package of the leftover chicken in the freezer. I will serve this over warmed up leftover baking powder biscuits. Salad on the side.

Thursday

Hot Beef Sandwiches, homemade oven fries and the leftover salad.

Friday

Baked Fish, homemade oven fries again and carrots.

Saturday

Leftovers from the week, or what we lovingly call Refrigerator Smorg.

Sunday

Roast Pork, roast potatoes, and yellow or green beans.

So that is what we will be eating this week.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.