What are you celebrating today? Halloween? Reformation Day? You can read my thoughts about (and our family's experience with) both by clicking HERE and reading this post from 2017.
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Pecans
The first thing I saw this morning, when I stuck my head out the door, was a shower of golden leaves cascading from the pecan trees in the backyard. It was so beautiful!
Great Blue Heron
We finally got some rain. It rained all day Monday and part of the day Tuesday. We got a bit more over the weekend. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor our county has been upgraded from a D4 rating (exceptional drought) to a D3 (extreme drought). That means that we're not quite as dry this week as we were last, but we still need much more rain. I'm praying for some cool and rainy days come November.
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American Bald Eagle
Let's go ahead and take a look at the week ahead...shall we?
National Bison Day is Celebrated Annually
on the First Saturday in November
This week's master to-do list...
- clean house
- do laundry
- turn the calendar page
- figure October budget and bills
- go grocery shopping
- add to my winter stock up
- write (cards, letters, articles, posts)
- finish weatherizing (I didn't get to it last week)
- work
- make chili for National Bison Day @ work
- celebrate and help host National Bison Day @ work
- get together with family and friends
- set the clock back (Saturday night)
It's Time to Fall Back
This week's menu plan...
I stopped at Walmart yesterday afternoon to pick up fresh items and stuff that I was out of, but plan to go to Aldi's with Amber tomorrow to add a few stock-up items to my pantry...black beans, chili beans, diced tomatoes, tomato paste, tomato sauce, garlic powder, chili powder, oregano, pan spray, and tea are all on my list at this point, and I'm sure I'll add a few more items before the trip is over.
This morning for breakfast I'm having a turkey sausage patty, egg, and cheese on sprouted bread with a cup of hot tea; for lunch I plan on having leftover chicken and rice soup.
I will focus meals this week around fresh items on-hand. I have an abundance of apples and carrots, a head or two of garlic, a yellow onion, some green onions, a few Yukon Gold potatoes, and small box of mixed salad greens that all need used up before going bad.
A couple of meal ideas that immediately come to mind are a good stir-fry over rice and butter and garlic pasta served with a side salad.
The apples can be fried, turned into apple-cinnamon toast for breakfast, eaten fresh as snacks, or made into a cake that can be cut, packaged in individual portion sizes, and frozen to be eaten later.
Some of the carrots will be used in the stir-fry, of course, but the rest of them can be oven-roasted and served, along with the potatoes, as a side to chicken, turkey, or fish.
The rest of the week's lunch and supper menus will revolve around soups that are sealed and waiting in the fridge and chili.
Milkweed Pods
Well, that's it for today! I hope that your week is off to a lovely start and the week ahead is a great one!
Until next time...
~Rebecca
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Glad you got some more rain. I'm hoping we get some more on Friday (I think that's the day they predicted it). I read your post about Halloween, not sure if I missed it back in 2017 or what. We celebrate but mainly by eating too much candy. It's never been a huge holiday for us. Hope you have a wonderful week!
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