Hot Sauce

The Fall time has arrived and so has a lot of work. It's time to gather in all the harvest and do something with it. I had to take a picture from mom's deck to show the leaves changing. It took less than a week to have the leaves change colors. We haven't had the hard frost at our house that my mom has had at her house but look at the colors. Wonderful!

Peppers from Mom's garden before we cut them up to put in the hot sauce. We also cut up onions from her house and garlic that my grandmother grew. Just need some vinegar and salt added to all those yummy veggies and Ta-Da...hot sauce.

Yesterday we bottled it and canned it. Now it's in my food storage. Yum!

Service Day

Last Friday I made some puppets out of felt with my sister-in-laws. My mother-in-law organized a service project for us to make...she was unable to attend since she was at work but we had so much fun with these puppets. This is not all the puppets we made but they show the different puppets that we made. We traced them, cut the, decorated them, and sewed them. Phew! It took most of the day but we are very excited to send these to an orphanage in Uganda. Hopefully they will also enjoy them as much as we did making them.

Friends from High School

Earlier this month my friend N emailed and invited M and myself to her house for lunch. It had been many years since we'd all been able to be together and so we were very excited to get together. M brought her two daughters and N had her two youngest home with her and we had a great lunch.

I had to post a picture of this dresser. N painted this dresser herself. She has so much talent. I loved having the tour of her house and seeing her touch in every room. She is a very talented woman and amazing mother of five kiddos. I hope to see her one more time before we move out of the state.

N, thank you for such a wonderful afternoon. You are a very gracious host and I loved being able to catch up on our lives.