What season is it?

What season is it? I thought Thanksgiving Day was just two weeks away. However when I went to the Goodwill store today I saw this Preston & York suede coat. Price tag $20.00 and it's new! Did I say it's brand new? You never find a nice winter coat at the right time. Well until today, right time, right price, right place.

When I got home I went walking through the yard, this was the scene in the back. As you can tell it appears to be winter, no leaves.

Then I see this little geranium blooming among the dead Live Forevers or some of you call them frog bellies.


On to my knockout roses and I see this beautiful pink one just starting to bloom.

Two more steps I see the red bud swelling. Even the nasturtiums are still green.

Is it really Thanksgiving next week? If so I need to buy a turkey!

The Baby doll quilt is finished.

It's finished!

The deadline was Christmas, so I am way ahead of schedule.

The front contains 431 pieces of fabric!

It measures 21 by 13 inches.

A Wash out

Day two, deer camp.

3 inches of rain plus.

Creek is flooded, can't get to hunting stands.

Country Chili at my house.

These pictures are scenes from behind our house that the 8 year old deer hunter took with Grandpa.

Dinner at Deer camp

Let me introduce you to the two queens. Queen Lisha and Queen Larraine. You ask why were they wearing tiaras? Because they could. I don't know. It was something about a bus trip last week, to local bars, you had a theme and had to dress the theme. I don't know, too much information for me. Anyway here they are.




Appetizers . . . pickled eggs, made by Jeremy.










Vegetable . . . turnip kraut cooked with potatoes.









Main course . . . well one of two, is 17 lbs of pulled pork. The Smokin' was done by Queen Lisha's husband Dan. He's the man. He loves to smoke meats. We love to eat Dan's smoked meats. He's not a deer hunter, just the best smoker. So good in fact that he is invited back next week to smoke chickens.




Here are just part of the smoked ribs and rib tips he made. They are to die for, fall off the bone tender, and even different rubs.


Wish you all had been there, needless to say we had enough for all of you all.

First Deer Taken this season

At 9:30 AM this morning I got a call from Brady, who was still in the woods. "Grandma I got an 8 pointer."


Off I went with my camera.

Here he shows the one bullet that took it down. He is so proud!

There is a tradition that a snickers miniature brings you good luck. It worked!

Dad and Grandpa go to tackle the dirty work!

Congratulations Grandson on your second deer.

It's deer season

It's that time of year again. It's almost a legal holiday in our family. BT, Jeremy, the two grandsons, BIL, nephews, great nephews, all men in the neighborhood belong to this group.

After stepping into the cabin last night, the men folk had the changing of the hats. They go from camo to hunter orange.

A one point even 7 month old Elizabeth was sporting a hunter orange hat.


After a few warm up drinks, such as Jeremy's bloody Mary shown here, it was time for dinner. I made a double batch of Cabbage soup. Here's my recipe. Things have change since deer camp was first organized, it use to be, the men did all the cooking. Now the women prepare some ahead, as was the situation last night.





After dinner it was a little card playing. Even the kids get into it. Grandpa had to show little Elizabeth the ropes since this was her first Deer Camp.








The grandsons, pretty much can play go fish on their own. I did hear the comment last night it was time to show them how to play poker. To which Alex replied, "I don't have any money. Grandma do you?"


As I was leaving camp, the night time fire was be maintained by the boys. It's a shame there weren't two pokers, as it was a battle as to who got the first turn.



A scary situation on my way home, on a two mile drive from the cabin. There was a deer in the middle of the road as I rounded a curve, I screamed, the deer looks petrified, I honked, and the deer bolted away. As I came to a halt I was on the wrong side of the road. Thank you God for there not being an on coming car!

Stayed tuned more in the next few days . . .

Todays bargains, todays news

Today was my shopping day in town.

I had a couple of goals:

Get me a party dress for BT's Christmas party. . . cheap I hope.

Pick up a pkg of undies for BT.

Groceries for deer camp.

I stopped at Tuesday Mornings, the sign on the door said closed for 15 minutes, no electricity. Now whoever put that sign there didn't think the whole process through. When did the 15 minutes start? So I go two doors down to the Dollar store (gotta love that place). They too were closed.

I go one more door down to T J Maxx, I find the perfect little black dress for $20. Do I try it on? No, I have on a tight neck shirt (don't want to mess up my hair), jeans and lace up boots.
After I pay for it, the other two stores are open.

To the mall across the highway I go. At Penney's I find another great little black dress for $41. I do try it on? Well I sort of try it on. I take my arms out of my shirt, and keep it around my neck. I pull the jeans down to my ankles. Lord, don't let me trip in this dressing room. The dress fits!



Next stop Kohl's. I received a $10 coupon in the mail. It's burning a hole in my pocket. I found BT some new undies. (he's gonna kill me for talking about this). The original price is $16.00, on sale for $11.20 and after taking my $10 coupon off, I get them for only $1.30. Had I found my Kohl's card I could have gotten another 10% or so off.

Next it's off to grocery shop.

Now for some news. My daughter Sarah has a blog now. Sleepy Little Husky. It's a dogs life. Check it out.

Cousins Bob and Rita have started a new blog. Check it out at Reet on the road. Also look at her recipe for Hodge podge soup here. I made it this week and it is so good. Serve it with a pan of hot golden corn bread! Yummo! Just a note it makes a huge batch of soup.

Cousin Mindy in Hawaii has her Esty shop open. She makes wonderful hoomemade soap.

So check them out. Maybe you will become a follower!

I get home after all my shopping, including 2 grocery stores and a box store. After unpacking I go try on the dresses. The Penneys dress fits . . . but they forgot to take the security tag off. The cheap dress . . .the zipper won't go up. So it's back to town.

Some days you can't win for losing.