We don’t typically decorate for Halloween, but the weaning calves weren’t hearing of it.
They did their own rendition of ‘Spooky Hay Bale’.
Good job, kids!
~TxH~
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September 11th, 2001, a day most Americans were changed forever. I worked at an international trade association and they held a huge convention each year in September. As the Director of Administrative Services, it was part of my job to attend this convention each year along with other executives of our association. It’s a huge amount of work and it takes many hands to assure a smooth successful convention.
This year the convention was in Florida. So I packed the night before to make sure I can get to the airport the next day to make my early-morning flight. Little did I know this day would change my life and the lives of all my fellow Americans forever!
Fall is here, y’all! Now I know some folks relish in changing the décor for their homes or porch with each changing season. Although it looks great, seasonal décor changing has never appealed to me. I guess I’m just not a Pinterest-worthy decorator. LOL
But still, there’s just something about the arrival of cool temperatures after a long, blisteringly-hot summer… I started getting the hankering for some cute flannel and/or plaid accents.
So I thought it would be fun to make flannel-shirt decorative pillows for our guest bedroom. It was easy, even for my novice sewing skills. And here’s the kicker: I use those decorative pillows in my guest bedroom to store my spare sheets. It would be a great place to stash the grandchildren’s PJ’s and what not I think too. Clever, no?
Every year my aunt shares with us the abundance from her very productive apple tree. She always goes through quite a bit of effort to make sure I have all the apples I can possibly tote back home!
But in the end RancherMan & I hauled back all we could fit into our small car. I’ll not let any of them go to waste – I set out to preserve all those beautiful apples!
It was a lot of work I’m not gonna lie. But after some time in the kitchen preserving them we have plenty of apple deliciousness in the pantry. Want to see some of the things I was able to do with them?
So on this day I served thick charcoal-grilled ham slices, steamed carrots with butter & fresh rosemary and a serving of coleslaw.
The grilled ham slices were simply pulled from the freezer & the steamed carrots were remaining from yesterday’s meal and the coleslaw was in the fridge. So a delicious homemade supper was on the table in a flash.
But when I take so many shortcuts for one meal I typically try to make a dessert for that handsome man of mine to make up for the meager offerings.
It doesn’t help to make a quick supper if dessert takes lots of time. I still needed a quick dessert option.
Hey, I know, I’ll use some homemade apple pie filling & a few tortillas to make baked apple pie tortilla rolls!
Apples, apples everywhere! My aunt shared ten whopping bushels with us this year! As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, there were many delicious things we did to preserve the apples but I tried something new this year: Fruit Roll-Ups!
I made the fruit leather using nothing but homemade unsweetened applesauce. There was no need to add sweetener, the apples were sweet enough all by themselves!
And then I made another batch where I stirred in about a tablespoon of cinnamon & made apple/cinnamon roll-ups.
It couldn’t have been easier! I’ll share many of the ways I preserved these fresh apples at the bottom of the post. But for now let’s check out these fruit roll ups!
September 11th has become a somber day of remembrance. What were YOU doing on that fateful day? I’ve written before about my experience with that horrible day. September 11th, 2001. A day I’ll never forget. Do you remember where you were on that day?
But although those memories are painful, they’re still part of our history. In those days of horror there was a real, shining thing to see. We witnessed real American moxxy. We came together as a nation. We dropped our petty bickering about the trivial matters of the day and we came together to help each other. We quit being ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ and just became Americans. Strong. Proud. Americans.
My prayers continue for our beloved country, that we may always remember who we are. We’re Americans!
~TxH~
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Usually by the middle of July the searing sun has wiped out anything that struggled to remain during the hot summer months. But even though it’s been hot this year my garden has provided garden deliciousness well into the fall months. Yea!
One of the fall feast-or-famine goodies from the garden is cantaloupe. Now I didn’t plant cantaloupe this year, the vines volunteered from my compost. But I let them grow to become a living mulch for the rest of the garden.
RancherMan eats only a modest amount of fresh cantaloupe. And although I love it, how’s a girl to eat that much by herself??
I wondered if there was something I could do with all the excess cantaloupe. As it turns out, there is!
