Happy Anniversary to Us!!

Today we hit 41 years. It has been an amazing roller coaster ride. Even though I don't love roller coasters because on my motion sickness, I would definitely do it all over again.

Happy Anniversary, Sweetie!

And many more.

Boy Scout Blankets

I've wanted to take this pic for a long time! All my guys and their Boy Scout blankets. All have their Eagles, but Curly's shirt and sash have not been sewn on yet because he is still using them.

So proud of them!!

Maybe soon I can work on the blankets for the girls...

Powderpuff Derby

The last couple of weeks, my sweetie has been helping Scout and Baby Doll make cars for the Aspen Service Unit Powderpuff Derby. They take car building and racing very seriously! 

And this was Scout's last opportunity to race as a girl scout. Baby Doll is #14 and Scout is #15. Scout's is a tribute to her new app, Kope With Kate, and you can install it by going to KopewithKate.com to see her other icons.

 

Baby Doll was nervous, but Scout and K jumped right in to help things run smoothly.

Both girls had the opportunity to start the race and speak into the microphone.

Both girls won 1st place in their divisions with Baby Doll having the fastest car by beating Scout by a hair.

We all had so much fun!!

Canning Day!!

And I didn’t take a single pic.

We started this morning in the garden. I picked the beans while the Dog Walker and my sweetie picked all but one row of corn.

Then we had a shucking party. We had 3 5-gallon buckets of corn!! I came up with a small colander of beans. Yeah, you guessed it. Two more pints.

The Dog Walker had to go to work, but we put Baby Doll on slicing duty as soon as she got home from school. She took the kernels partially off with the mandoline and I scooped them up and put them in quart-sized freezer bags.

By the time we were finished, we had 11 quarts all labeled for the freezer. I excused Baby Doll and I got to work on the creamed corn. I used a spoon and scraped each cob. Those remnants became 2 quarts of creamed corn.

It has been a decade or more since we had enough corn to preserve any for the winter. So proud of all my great helpers!

And I am happy for 2 more pints of bean.

Next time. I promise to take pictures.