Hello and HAPPY SATURDAY!
On the to-do list for today:
- Get dressed by 9 am {in real clothes, fresh jammies don’t count}
- Pick up fresh apple cider from the local farmstand
- Supervise as the HH puts my new rolling racks together
- Work on new chicken pillow
- Meatballs for dinner?
How about YOU? What’s on YOUR list for today?
Have a great day everyone.
♥ Mavis & Lucy
Stories, Recipes and General Nonsense From this Past Week
- My 14 Goals for 2020 Week 43 of 52
- Monthly Meal Planning and Grocery Shopping Trips – Week 43 of 52
- Seriously… What Are the Odds?
- Buying Furniture on a Budget
- Teriyaki Salmon Recipe
- Gardening in Maine – The Fall Clean Up Continues
Small Business Saturday – 3 Things I Found on Etsy I Think Are Pretty Cool
- JennysWreathBoutique – Season and Year Round Wreaths
- CarvedWoodenSpoons – Cheese & Cracker Tray With Handle
- DesertAccents – Handmade Hair Clips
8 Can Chicken Taco Soup – Dinner in Less than 15 Minutes! Now that’s my kind of dinner. Get the recipe HERE.
Educational Fun
- Match a Track: Match 25 Animals to Their Paw Prints
- Match a Pair of Birds: A Memory Game {You match the male and females of each species}
- Match a Leaf: A Tree Memory Game
A Few Movie Suggestions for the Weekend
- Fisherman’s Friend {It’s on Netflix!} LOVED IT!
- The Paradise {It’s included with Prime!}
- Dolly Parton Here I Am {It’s on Netflix!}
Mangia! Mangia!
- Nestle Hot Chocolate Packets, Hot Cocoa Mix, 50 Count $5.03 shipped with Amazon subscribe and save
- Campbell’s Condensed Homestyle Chicken Noodle Soup, 10.5 Ounce (Pack of 12) $10.20 shipped with Amazon subscribe and save
- Campbell’s Condensed Healthy Request Tomato Soup, 10.75 oz. Can (Pack of 12) $10.20 shipped with Amazon subscribe and save
- Planters Salted Cocktail Peanuts, 35 ounce Resealable Jar $4.05 shipped with Amazon subscribe and save
Looking for something delicious to make for dessert? How about this Old Fashioned Hot Milk Cake. It’s crazy good and tastes like home. 🙂 Get the recipe HERE.
Have a Wonderful Weekend!
♥ Mavis
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Jennifer says
Today will be day 1 of staying at home since I am now in quarantine after being exposed to someone with Covid. I plan to rake leaves, do yoga, sweep the downstairs and make a very detailed list for my dh to go grocery shopping. He does not veer from the list so I have to really plan this out. I had wanted to do a large stock up trip this weekend to avoid the stores over the next few weeks. Now I am really going to be avoiding the stores.
Mel says
I’m sorry to hear that, Jennifer!
And I hear you about the groceries. We just did two big stock-up trips and should be set for a few months except for things like milk, but it’s definitely hard to give the list to someone else. When I send my husband, I’ve been known to tell him the aisle and shelf for where to find things and send pictures of what each item looks like. I don’t know if this helps, but one thing I always forget for stocking up is storage produce. Cabbage, carrots, and apples last forever in the fridge, and potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, garlic, and winter squash last forever on the counter. I also love to have pre-chopped frozen onions on hand.
Jennifer says
Great ideas on the produce! Thanks!
Mel says
1. Finish cleaning and decorating the porch for trick or treaters. (We only have the two toddlers from next door.)
2. Clean off the 20 butternuts I picked yesterday. (It’s been muddy.)
3. Try not to eat all the candy.
4. Start sewing our Thanksgiving and ugly Christmas sweater face masks.
5. Mop up some muddy pawprints in our entryway.
6. Make pretzel mummy hot dogs for dinner and cinnamon sugar pretzels for dessert.
Brianna says
I love your list Mel! I would love to see the ugly Christmas sweater face masks. I bet they would make an awesome white elephant gift too!
My kids are not doing any trick or treating and everything we normally do this time of year has been canceled. I have been making it a day of Halloween movies like Addams Family and Hocus Pocus and themed foods….spiderweb, ghost, and witch hat shaped pancakes for breakfast, eyeball and spider pizza and apples with marshmallow teeth for lunch, dinner will be Feet shaped (meat) loaf, cauliflower brain, and either roasted potato mummies or parsnip fingers with ketchup to add the bloody details. So far the kids have been happy.
Mel says
What an amazing Halloween for your kids! I have a friend who is making his son a pinata in place of trick or treating.
The ugly Christmas sweater mask is just my usual mask pattern but with Christmas sweater print quilting cotton. There are actually many fabrics that resemble Christmas sweaters, but this is the one I used:
https://www.fabric.com/buy/0687647/kanvas-camp-joy-holiday-sweater-stripe-green
It’s not exactly ugly, but each mask takes me 1.5 hours to make, so I have to make things we can wear routinely in December instead of just for fun.
Annette says
What are rolling racks?
Mavis Butterfield says
For my wool bins. 🙂
Elle says
1. Load and quilt a finished top that was sent to me for a donation quilt.
2. Pot of CHILI! I got dried red beans in my CSA this week. I’ll use my garden ratatouille for the tomato/veg base.
3. Help the hubster build/place a new raised garden box. (We are 59 now so as our old wood boxes crumble we’re using Trex so this won’t happen when we’re 80yo 😉 This box is remake #2.
4. Make and put binding on #1 above. I’ll need some handwork while watching our college football game that starts at 4pm!
Happy Saturday ya’ll 🙂
Mavis Butterfield says
Cracking up at #3. That’s thinking ahead! 🙂
Elle says
Like you, we’re in our final home! Any change needs to last till we’re 100 🙂
Stephanie in Utah says
Do the last edging and mowing of the season. Usually my husband takes care of the lawn, but his ankle is hurting pretty bad.
Prune the bushes along the front walkway before trick or treaters come.
Set up candy chute.
Carve pumpkins. I meant to do it with the kids on Monday, but forgot. I was hoping the kids would forget too, but my daughter asked me about it this morning!
Melissa says
1. Have husband cut my hair.
2. Bathe the dog and trim paws and nails.
3. Pick veggies from fall garden.
4. See grandkids in Halloween costumes.
Bobbi says
We have never had a trick or treater in 64 years, lol. Our driveway is a 1/4 mile long and surrounded by scary, dark woods. So don’t have to buy candy. Yay. Get to see the grandkids via pictures though.
Dawn says
The hot milk cake looks wonderful! Do you have a preferred bundt pan? We almost treat them as disposable because everything sticks after a few uses no matter how we prep the pan.
Mavis Butterfield says
I don’t have a particular brand but nonstick Bundt pans are the best and I just always make sure to butter the pan like crazy.