I am longing for a new season to begin. Not just a change in the weather, but a new season in life. This year has been long and difficult. As the year draws to an end, I am hoping for this difficult season in our lives to end also.
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I have my pumpkin pie candle burning and a pot of cranberries simmering
on the stove for cranberry juice so the house smells amazing! |
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| I may be a bit ahead of myself. I'm ready for a new season. |
Months of injuries and illnesses and off grid power struggles I have been struggling to post for the last few months. In fact, I have only thought about posting a few times. I am sorry and I thank my readers for their continued support.
I Recently attended a women's conference over a long weekend away from home and the weekend before that I spent time with friends for an overnight girls' birthday adventure. I enjoyed every second even though I was away from home. I was refreshed and renewed.
I am looking forward to the long winter of recovery and a slowdown of sorts. It is colder now and there is snow on the highest mountains. I am hoping a new season will start a new beginning. I'm sure that there are many who feel the same as I do.
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| Homemade chicken pot pie. |
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| Number One Husband made his famous Baklava. |
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We have been enjoying the simplicity of sheet pan meals
in the air fryer. |
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There are still jobs that must be done, like making sure we
are prepared for a harsh winter. |
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I've added a little color to my devotions during
this season of life. |
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| Most of these storms that formed did not produce any rain for us. |
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| We have a new fun lamp to go with our trout etching. |
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Apparently while we were in Arkansas a tree frog found its way into
the car. I found it's petrified body while looking for my keys that I
dropped. I thought that it was a toy at first. |
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| Solar project and crutches. |
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A corn seed fell by the wayside from the chicken feed
and sprouted up. |
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| Not fun! |
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| Ouch, Number One Husband! |
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| I have no idea how this picture got taken. |
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| Perhaps necessity is the mother of all problem solving too. |
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Big Jane stayed with us all summer. She comes back every couple of weeks.
She has a new nest for her newest kits. |
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A golden eagle cooling off by opening its wings
while sitting on the fence post. |
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| Faith is napping in the grain. She is the boss! |
I thawed out about 10 quarts of different types of frozen beans, broth, leftover soups, rice and vegetables to make a large pot of freezer soup and to make room in my freezer for the last of the vegetables that I have ordered from Azure Standard. It looks like this winter is going to be a snowy and if we can't get out, we can still have healthy options as long as we have frozen vegetables.
The freezer soup turned out wonderfully. I added salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder to the mix and simmered it on low for a couple of hours. Number One Husband went back for seconds. Soup is more of my thing than his, but we both enjoyed it.
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| I have only baked bread two or three times this whole year. |
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| Smoke choked us most of the summer. |
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| Brave girl. |
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| We saw this all year instead of rainbows. |
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| Number One Husband spotted a swordfish in the clouds. |
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| Can you see it? |
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| The cranberry juice is done. |
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I made cranberry freezer jam out of the cooked berries.
I love this stuff! I would normally can it, but I had
many other things going on in the kitchen. |
That is all I have as far as an update over the last several months. When I am able, I will post more. If you haven't already, check out my older posts. Again, thanks for sticking around.
Lady Smith
