Fun Fourth

We decided to have a little fun and be unique on the Fourth.  No hot dogs or burgers for us!  Pizza on the grill, corn on the grill, and cheese cake from a pressure cooker!  Plus, yummy sides like fruit salad, lemon bars, and home grown vegetables. Of course, no Fourth would be complete without [...]

Family, Friends and Food

The past month has been filled with family, friends and food.  We’ve celebrated birthdays, hosted barbeques and fish fries for friends, attended a family reunion, and enjoyed our house guests–mother, brother, niece, daughter with grandchildren have all stayed a few nights this month.  And we visited our daughter in Lafayette and my friends Susan and [...]

Alvin’s Birthday

Alvin celebrated his 47th birthday yesterday with homemade lasagna-and when I say homemade, I mean homemade! The lasagna noodles were made from semolina and  freshly ground white whole wheat pastry flour, eggs and olive oil, which was passed through the pasta machine: I forgot to buy ricotta cheese, so I made some out of a [...]

Dear Family

The people in my life are so dear.    Here’s why: My Dear Deer:  Also known as hubby, lol.  I often call him “Deer”, due to his absolute love of the sport of deer hunting.  We seldom buy beef of any kind, because our freezer stays full from this obsession.  He has been especially “dear” recently.  [...]

A little behind

I have a lot of catching up to do on this blog!  I’ve spent the past week trying to help my daughter and her children move out of my house, and into their own, so blog time has been substantially reduced.  This weekend was a horrible time to move!  It never stopped raining, but we [...]

Where to start…

There has been so much activity here the past few days, I don’t know where to start… We live near Mena and much of the downtown area was destroyed by a tornado Thursday.  Alvin took his tractor to town to help remove trees and limbs from the roads.  He was gone all day.  The storm [...]

Great Grandma Lula

You know I’ve kind of been obsessed with chickens lately, so my mother decided to gift me with some wonderful birthday presents Saturday: A long, homemade chicken skirt and my great grandmother’s egg basket!!  My mom remembers great grandma Lula  collecting eggs in this basket.  Aren’t those great presents!  I doubt I will use the [...]

Heidi Cat

I feel so guilty because my dogs and chickens have been blogged, but our kitty Heidi has not been mentioned.  So here is Heidi Cat as we call her, front and center.  Heidi was extremely needy in her early years.  If you were on the computer, she sat on the keyboard.  If you read a [...]

Blur of Activity

Busy, busy, busy is what I have been.  On Tuesday, I made a second attempt with Farmhouse Cheddar.  It might have worked this time! On Wednesday and Thursday, I became mamaw the baby sitter because Krista started her new job.  I managed some bread machine bread,  a wild rice casserole the kids didn’t like, and [...]

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Life is filled with Gs at the moment. Let’s start with Grandchildren. Colin (almost 5 years old) and Ava (22 months) arrived with their mom Friday, and will be staying for a while.  We have had a lot fun this weekend.  It’s been cold, so the kids have stayed in the house, and Colin helped [...]