COVID-19 Day 13 to Day 19

This blog, is mostly for  me to remember these trying times we are living. So years from now we can look back, or our grandkids can,  to see how life was.

Day 13

Wednesday 3/25

Headlines: Governor: No quick end in sight for COVID-19

356 cases

I cooked chicken and froze two containers of meat and broth. Cooked pork, froze it in broth for Pasole, and I ground pork sausage. 

Fried chicken for dinner. 

Cut more brush, gas $1.85.

Day 14

Thursday 3/26

Headlines: Missouri seeks federal disaster aid.

Cole county 9 cases.

Beautiful day, 80 degrees, we burned brush and planted garden.

Jim and Deanna Haslag came. We sat 6-8 feet apart on the deck and had  cocktails.

Fried cured shoulder for dinner, served with a salad.

Seems every quilter is sewing  masks, except me.

Local school extended their closure to April 10.

Day 15

Friday 3/27

Headlines: Jobless rate jumps.

                    Jeff City medical group lays off 38 employees. 

14 cases in Cole county.

80 degrees today.

Planted potatoes 

Made fish patties and macaroni and cheese for dinner.

Lori brought us milk.

Day 16

Saturday 3/28

Headlines: County order: Stay at home effective 5:00 PM tonight.

Cole county 17 cases.

Made banana bread. 

Fried deer steak, mashed potatoes, roasted Brussels sprouts for dinner.

Bernie made hand sanitizer. 

Blair Oaks teachers and staff parade. This was 1/2 miles from our house. We rode our Can-am.

Day 17

Sunday 3/29

Headlines: Missionary work continues ‘right here at home’.

Cole county 17 cases.

Missouri 903 cases.

Florida 4942 (6th in nation).

Panhaus for breakfast. 

Dinner was roasted  pork loin, glazed carrots, and stir fried rice.

Monday 3/30. DAY 18

Headlines: WHEN YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN, WE ARE THERE WITH YOU. #JCstrong.

Cole county 25 cases (Including Dr. Steve Huber who was our orthodontist, and his brother have the illness).

Corn cakes and bacon for breakfast.

Dinner, fried cured ham, salad, cranberry relish, banana bread.

I sewed, took a walk to the mailbox.

Bernie worked on the muzzle loading shotgun he’s building.

Lori asked me to make them masks. 

 Lizzie’s mask is reversible!

Alex and Jeremy’s mask, of course wildlife.

Lori’s mask. Shows her love for the honor flights! Brady got a Chief’s mask, I forgot to take a picture of it.

DAY 19

Tuesday 3/31 Today’s high 62

Cole county 25 cases.

Missouri 1351 cases.

Headlines: Governor Parsons expects more months of social distancing.

Lori picked up my prescriptions. Kids still don’t want us to leave our house.

Gas $1.59

Time to make masks now. I have run out of beige fabric for my quilt. Hobby Lobby is closed due to the Virus.

Made 4 masks for Travis Miles.

Dr. Steve Huber, the orthodontist is in ICU, on a respirator, with COVID 19.

Homemade biscuits and gravy for our breakfast.

Dinner was BBQ pork sandwiches (leftover pork loin), cole slaw, and chips.

Lizzie Lizzie quite contrary how does your garden grow?

This spring when Lizzie and I were buying some seeds for the blacksmith, she wanted carrots. That is something we had never planted before. 

Of course, I bought the carrot seeds for her. 

Last week she helped Grandpa dig the first ones.

I then peeled, and peeled, and peeled.

In all I canned 6 pints. Of course we also ate some cooked and some fresh. I think I will let Lizzie buy more carrot seeds next year!

Garden fresh

14 jars of our first garden bliss. There is plenty more to  come.

An evening of someone singing in the rain will make the garden happy too!

Garden . . . take two

Grandpa says season one is about over. And that is what I think of that!

Grandma says she really doesn't need anymore tomatoes. I counted 73 jars of tomato juice, tomato salsa, tomato soup, chili sauce, spagaetti sauce, even whole tomatoes in the basement cabinet. But then I really can't count past 7 or is it 9???

Grandpa planted turnips, lettuce,  white radishes and red radishes last friday. Monday evening I saw they were already peaking through the soil. He can hardly wait for fresh lettuce from the garden.

Grandma and Grandpa need a rest after all the garden work, think I will ask them to go camping with us this weekend!

The WAR is ON!

See this you Deer, no more snacking for YOU!

4 cedar fence posts and a little wire

The barriers going up

3 Wires installed

The big GUN!




Bring them on.

Not so DEAR



Pole green beans

Deer eaten green beans

Patty pan squash blooms

Baby cucumbers

The end of the raspberries

The beginning of the blackberries

A busy day

Our Garden May 10th 2011

Before starting my morning chores I sneaked outside and took this picture of our gardens. By tonight when I typed this post, I wished I had taken a later photo. Some things really shot up today in the almost 90 degree temperatures and a little sun. The blacksmith played gardener today. He planted more green beans, put papers down under all 37 tomato plants and then added wire cages around them all.

Mother Day's flower

The kids gave me a gift certificate to a local nursery on mother's day. On my way home from work Monday I stopped and spent it all, plus $3.40 more! Pretty good estimating on my part I thought.  I got all these planted today.  Tonight as I type this post I wished I had taken an after picture.

Last fall's Pansies

These were planted last fall and they just keep getting prettier. Today I did work up the dirt around them.  I then planted zinnias. I just don't have the heart to take them out yet, the heat will kill them soon enough.

TJ Maxx hen and chick planter

My hen and chicks are thriving in their new home. I just pray my BIL doesn't push this planter over with his snow plow next winter.

Besides planting all the flowers today, I made two pies, one peach, and one blackberry. I stripped the bed, put away the winter blankets and washed the sheets. I trimmed about a half a dozen cedar trees that I mow under.  I  mowed the front and back yard and helped the blacksmith with the gardens.

About 6 PM, we were having a drink or two on the deck, when company arrived. My mother in law came with Grace and Dan to pick up some garden lettuce. After we looked at the gardens, we had pie and coffee on the deck. It was a beautiful evening.

Are you tired yet?  Well I am, so tired, that we didn't even eat dinner. But the pie and coffee sure were good. Tomorrow I will try to take some after pictures.

Bringing home the bacon and Child labor AGAIN

Now that's the blacksmith is retired he continues to bring home the bacon.

Or in today's case. . . about 4 gallons of the most beautiful blackberries.

Ya gotta love this guy!

Once again we put the grandsons to use.

This time digging potatoes.

We harvested about 2 bushels of potatoes.

In the rest of the garden, the cucumbers are just setting on.


The cucumbers will look so beautiful hanging from their woven wire trellises.



The patty pan squashes have been blooming.
I love these squash and you never see them for sale in the stores around here.
Thinly sliced, dipped in beaten egg and flour and fried until golden brown.
Oh so good!



I captured this Hummingbird moth while walking through the garden.

Heirloom black cherry tomatoes from Flat Creek Farm.

10:00 PM 81 degrees

More beans

When it's 94.5 outside, this is what you do. You cook in the garage. This keeps all that steamy heat out of my kitchen. And heck, a little more steam outside, who knows the difference?

There's more where those came from.

The roma tomatoes are loaded. Thanks Nancy for telling me about this type.

Did I mention we also have this row of beans?

I just pulled out fabric to make an apron for my Australian quilter friend. She has a birthday in July. In all my stash did I have two packages of bias tape the same color? No. Shoot I hate going to town. Maybe I will do multi-colors!

Have a good week!

Reap what you sow

Let me tell you how lucky I am.

First of all, the blacksmith does most all of the gardening.

When I came home from work Monday night,

he had all the beans picked, stemmed, cleaned and cut up.

All I did was wash the jars.

He loaded the canner, 3 times.

He cooked them outside to keep the heat out of the kitchen.

Did I tell you it was 90 degrees in the shade at 6PM?

What guy he is.

He's a keeper!

18 pints!

And here is Miss E playing with styrofoam peanuts while we were working in the kitchen.

What a cheap toy!

10 PM 91 degrees

Gardening yesterday

I see that the lilac bush that Tammy from Flat Creek gave me last year is surviving. Now if I can just watch for the little white rod when mowing. I can't wait to smell it's lilac blooms. I will be able to see them out my window when I sew.








We got the first of the garden put in yesterday. Here is row one of the potatoes. The ground worked nice for being a first time garden spot.











Thanks to this new guy that came home with us Tuesday night, the soil became more workable.







After we finished gardening, we cleared off some more woods.





Today is girls day. I am meeting some blogger peeps for lunch. More on that tonight.



Rain, 46 degrees.