Catching up...Up North living, Garage Sail finds, a Menu and the Garden!

We traveled up north a couple of weeks ago and had a mini vacation.  It was so nice to take it easy.  We took our fishing poles but no luck this time.  

Then we came back and that night there was a storm that knocked down two big branches out of our tree.  Just missed our van!  Thank God for grandsons!  With this wood I think we are good for the winter.

We have been garage sailing every Thursday and Friday if life doesn't get in the way.  This has to be our greatest find these last few weeks.   A radio in a toaster for $2.00.  Everything works!

Our Menu for the week we went up North:

Mornings:   We are basically on our own for breakfast.  We are three grown adults so we eat what breakfast makes us happy.  Here are mine:

Monday:  Left over low carb, no sugar chocolate Gravy

Tuesday:  low carb blueberry muffins. bacon, and coffee

Wednesday:  leftover muffins and hard boiled eggs

Saturday:   Fried eggs with tomatoes and muffins I froze

Dinner:

Monday........ Roasted chicken in the crockpot with a side of green beans and carrots

Tuesday........ Chicken Fajitas (low carb tortillas-I'm using peppers that are frozen and vadilla onions.

Wednesday .....Up north Cracker Barrel

Thursday..........Cereal for Breakfast and KFC for dinner

Friday..............Big Boy for Breakfast then home yeah!! I was glad to see my bed again!  

I looked on Flash food while we were up north and was able to get two Koegel's chili sauce for hot dogs for $1.25 (reg around $5.00).

The Garden:

We've had to plant some of our white half runner beans three times-where the seeds too old or was it too much rain?  Who knows but I ordered new bean seeds and we are good to go.    I also replanted some pumpkin seeds that didn't come up.  Everything else is growing good so far.

I cleared out a bed and I now have an abundance of green onions in the fridge.  They keep longer in a glass of water.  Today I'm thinking about making ham roll-ups with cream cheese and green onions.  That will probably use two... What to do with the others, I'm not sure!  

How's everything in your neck of the woods?

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A Great Sewing Deal and the Before and After of our Porch 10/25/24

 

We went to an estate sale ..not much there but I did buy this sewing box for $3.00.  I didn't want the box (I have too many) but it was filled with sewing goodies.

This is what I kept.  I gave the sewing box and rest of the contents to the local veterans thrift shop.  

I'll need the pattern paper this morning for the outfit that our granddaughter wants to sew for her Barbie(she is 10) .  She drew it out last night.

We had our porch (mud room) redone this past week.  This is the before picture (you can see the donations ready to go on the side).

This is the after picture:  

A much needed redo.   No we didn't do it ourselves ..we are not that talented ha ha.  but we saved for it.  After close to 30 years it was time.  The cat loves it.

Then I hauled off a trash bag full of shoes to the local free clothing site at a church.  

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Fun, Garage Sales, and Flash food Deals 9/21/24!

I won 4 tickets to Disney on Ice on a blog at the Little Caesar's Arena in Detroit.  It was a great show and we all loved it! 

I bought 2 gallons of milk from Flashfood for $2.00 a piece (someone wanted a glass before I took a picture).  We usually don't buy Country Fresh as it's a little higher than average.  Milk is running around $2.78 for Meijer milk a gallon and $3.49 for Country Fresh milk a gallon.  How much is milk in your area?  

 I went for a walk and a ground hog crossed the street in front of me.  I'm very slow so it had plenty of time.   All of sudden it saw me and ran as fast as he could under a neighbor's bush.  Kind of funny, I so hope he stays down at that end of the street...he is big.

It's been so warm here that garage sales are everywhere still.  My best find this week is this little raised bed for $15.00.  I hope to get more raised beds in the future.

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