Harvest Lane Cottage

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My grandkitten Ursula who just moved out with her mommy. Lots of changes this past week.  Here's  a quick update since last time. In the Kitchen I continued feeding my sourdough starter. Cooked primarily from what we had on hand. Lots of organizing and passing things on to my daughters.  In the Home Lots of decluttering I gave many things to my daughter to set up her apartment.  In the Workbasket I'm knitting a blue and gray second sock. It's for one of the men in my family. I hope to give each of my family members something hand knitted for Christmas.  I finished knitting my daughter's Christmas socks.  I made knitting progress on a DK weight sock. I'm trying a new pattern that my friend Virginia suggested. It is her new favorite. It's called  Travel Sock by Diane Lyles . It's available on Ravelry. Books and Such I am still reading  The Songs That Could Have Been  by Amanda Wen.  Click here  to enter the giveaway. It's a free revie...

 A little late but.... Here are some things I did  this past week. In the Kitchen Cut up a few apples that were past their prime, added cinnamon, brown sugar, and a little orange juice. I simmered it down to make an oatmeal topping. I made sourdough waffles again. I kept feeding my starter "Doughy". On the way home from church, we saw a boy selling blueberries at a stand in his front yard. We bought 4 pints for $10. I didn't realize what a deal that was until I saw blueberries for $5 a pint in the store! I was out of all purpose flour, so I ground fresh wheat and fed it to Doughy. I bought 12 lbs of butter for the freezer. I paid $3 a pound. I think that's the best I will see this summer. Milk was $4.59 a gallon at the same store. Yikes! I paid it but skipped $3.49 a dozen eggs. I made a refreshing blueberry lemonade. Dinners Saturday - salmon patties Sunday - bison burgers made by my Lowell (They were a gift.) Monday - beef burgers on the grill (This meat was a gift,...

Hi y'all, I hope you're enjoying a nice long weekend if you're in the United States or just enjoying a nice weekend if you're elsewhere. We're planning to barbecue bison burgers for supper Monday night. Then we'll head out to watch fireworks at the city park.  For today, I have spent most of the afternoon in bed with a bad headache. I've had quite a few lately, but I'm hoping the chiropractor can help me. I see him again on Tuesday. Nevertheless, this has been a good week.  I always feel like I should be doing more to be thrifty, but when I write things down I find that I've been more thrifty than I think.  I think the key is changing the little things we do. Sometimes it's the little things rather than big things that really make a difference.  I realize that, although I've tried to limit the amount of negativity and news that I'm exposed to, it still trickles through. All around people are feeling more tense. Some people press into Jesu...