Yummy Oatmeal

I'm super excited about this new oatmeal I found at Target. It's not really instant oatmeal. It's whole oats that you microwave with yummy blueberries in it. I like instant oatmeal but it normally turns into some kind of gruel and you're never quite sure what they used as flavoring.

Old but not forgotten

Remember this one? I started it back when Frank and I were dating. I cut it out then anyways. Right now I have so much grad school homework it isn't funny but I thought I'd work on this one in between homework. All work and no play makes Erin a very dull girl indeed.

My dilema right now is how big to make it? I have the material to make it a king. Teresa keeps asking me how many kings do I need for my bed. Can one ever have too many quilts for your bed?

Retirement Quilts

Elayne and Linda both have done so much for me at Daves Creek that I thought it was time I do something for them. These two ladies retired with many years of teaching experience. 30 plus years in education deserves a medal not a quilt but I don't know how to make medals.

Spicy!

This is the after math. Time to lean is time to clean.

$4.50. That's how much a jar of salsa is at the store. Can you believe it? When I bought some this spring to make a fiesta chicken recipe I about fell over. That's when I vowed to try making my own. After 4 hours in the kitchen I have 13 pints of the stuff. My fingers burn from the peppers and my kitchen is a mess but I have $60 worth of salsa.

My one complaint is that it is a bit runny. If I'm using it to cook with though that shouldn't be an issue.

Dead Dog

It's no perfect but it's fixed.

Last winter I finally received my string quilt back from the long arm quilter. I had waited for almost a year. After about a month at my house Benny found it and had a little snack. This snack left a good chunk gone from the quilt. After a year and a half I finally patched it.

New supplies

Better Homes and Gardens is making new canning jars. Called mom and dad to ask the specifics of canning corn in the pressure cooker. I'll try corn two ways. One canned the other frozen. Watch out Frank the house is about to be 100 degrees!

Canning 2011

Today Glenda and I took a trip to the Atlanta's Farmers' Market. We came away with a crate of corn 50lbs of onions, 25 lbs. of roma tomatoes. I got a whole bunch of peppers and cilantro for $4.00. I'll start canning in this 94 degree heat.