I found a new fun activity, making surgical caps for children. This will be simple and helpful.
Here is one pattern. i heard there were 2 sizes, but this one just has one.
activities
just little things blanket
This would be a wonderful project for the new year – must do it !
Here it is
I’ve enjoyed putting out 20 of these little I love you ♥s. Only 4 I gave to actual people and they were happy for them. It helps to do this for some reason.
30-Day Challenge: Move a Mile a Day
This came up somewhere, so why not do it???
In other news, I am making little ♥s for #yarnifiedlovebombs and giving them away or putting them places. So far, I’ve given out 7 and put one in each of 7 bags for houseless ladies I hope to see on Sunday. I’m putting other things in the bags also.
Life is good when we focus on others ~ fun even 🙂
I found these 2 books at a collector’s store in Leavenworth, KS last Monday ~ what a find ! ! ! My grandmother had one of these at her home and I loved reading the true accounts of life as it was in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The original was published in the mid-50s and these are reprints from the late ’70s. We enjoy the true short accounts of people’s experiences with wild animals, Indians, etc. etc.
pizza pull-apart and airplane plant
I’ll document my busy morning. Most mornings I like to read a bit of the Bible, jump a little on my mini-tramp, go to swim class at YMCA, or work around the house. Today I wanted to make the pizza pull-apart recipe I found. I also got tired of all the little airplanes coming off the airplane plant, so I potted a bunch up to give to the Mission Thrift Store – they love to get them!
I usually make sourdough bread at least 3 times a week; I decided to use part of that dough for my pull-apart pizza. Here it is rolled out into a rectangle and then covered with plastic so it won’t dry out too much. It remained there about 1 1/2 hours.
Next I cut up the cup of Brussels sprouts while making the white sauce. Spread on the white sauce and then the Brussels sprouts, cheeses and pecans. (Here you see the correct spelling and capitalization of Brussels 🙂
Next comes the messy part – separating it into 5 pieces, then cut into 5 or 6 stacks, placing stacks against each other.
Then into the oven. I also made mac & cheese, heated up corn-on-the-cob, added to yesterday’s salad and took some cookies out of the freezer – ta da – – that’s our lunch !
We liked it ! Chuck washed dishes – thanks, Chuck!
The recipe – pizza pull-apart:
1 pkg. pizza mix (or your own dough)
1 c. shredded Brussels sprouts
1/3 c. blue cheese crumbles and more for garnish
1/2 c. Mozzarella cheese, shredded
1/3 c. chopped pecans
3 T butter, melted
salt and pepper
White sauce:
3 T butter
3 T flour
3/4 c. milk
Pinch nutmeg
salt and pepper
Preheat 350 degrees. Spray loaf pan. Oil or use parchment paper.
Roll out dough to 12″X20″ rectangle. Pour on white sauce, then Brussels sprouts, blue cheese, Mozzarella cheese & pecans.
Cut rectangle into 5 strips. Put on top of each other and cut into 5 or 6 stacks. Place stacks against each other in loaf pan. Bake 30 minutes, then pour butter on top. Bake 30 minutes more. Remove and cool before serving.
White Sauce: Melt butter. Whisk in flour, add milk, whisking. Thicken 5 minutes. Add nutmeg and salt and pepper.
And here are the plant pictures ready to take to thrift store as soon as the cardboard dries out from the watering.
Our Christmas elf-it picture – the video is funny – We have here Scott, me, our 2 children who are adults now and don’t live with us and Chuck who does live with us. What a riot!
Squaw Creek
We ended up at Squaw Creek today after driving down from Ankeny, Iowa where we were at some meetings.
The nature areas seem to suit us more than hours of sitting ! ! !
some muskrat houses
on top of the hiking ridge view
quite the climb !
a little rest 🙂
Beautiful day for Missouri history!
We went to Sibley, MO for the Fort Osage Living History day.
The above says Daniel Boone was here in 1816. Found his picture in the visitors’/nature/history center.
The troops (re-enactors) were lined up ready for lunch.
I got a video of them marching to lunch, but it’s only on my instagram here. It’s private, but I could use more followers!
The visitors’ center has an unusual method of heating & cooling to read about here:
The Mighty MO. Lewis and Clark decided this area would be a good place for a trading fort.
A marker of 200 years.
Inside the center:
short 2 day trip
We went to Warrensburg and Knob Noster State park. Nice, but no more will I stay in a basement airbnb place – just not as fun as when you have the whole thing. People are on top and basements are usually not as nice. Besides, I figured out I spent about 1/3 or more of my college years in basement apartments. Also, today would have been my mother-in-law’s 94th birthday, but she passed away July 13, 2015. Bless her soul ! ! !
The Red Oak leaf is on the right, and the White Oak leaf is on the left. The Post Oak is a variation of the White Oak.
This is at a lake in Warrensburg.
our resident woodchuck is dead
We have been battling this animal for many years, at least 8. It lived under our drain pipe at the end of the driveway. It has eaten my young summer squash. Yesterday it got hit by a car and was upside down & dead on the driveway this morning. My husband had gone to buy some rain barrels and when he came home I was trying to get the heavy thing in the trash bag by wrapping it in another trash bag; I was so glad he got home to help. And then he said: “Ha. That thing was on the street since yesterday afternoon!” I said, “You coward, why didn’t you take care of it??????” Crazy. Anyway, now it is gone, since today is trash day . Hip Hip Horrah ! ! ! ! ! So glad to have that thing out of our lives!
UPDATE August 13 ~ A younger one has taken its place ~ Ugh~ ~ ~ ! !
shoal creek living history day
We loved roaming around the 1867 time period day and seeing the reenactments and visiting the shops, and having a picnic lunch here today.
Our orange Tiger Lillies are blooming and our first yellow summer squash
Jill 