From My Home to Yours
11/13/26
~ In Less Than 2 Weeks ~
... we'll be celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday and intentionally slowing down long enough to count our blessings, celebrate with family and friends and enjoy delicious foods.
But that's in a little less than 2 weeks and we still have things to do and life to live. Here's what that looked like this week ...
In the kitchen I kept the canner busy ... more about that in our next pantry challenge post on Monday!
In the garden I harvested comfrey, rosemary and nettles. I was out in the yard running around with my shears cutting and harvesting herbs the day of the night our temps hit 27 degrees! Did I or did I not, wait until the last minute!!! Oh well, sometimes it's just that way ... I was victorious in the end!
For the pantry I'm still on 'turkey' sale watch. Not any more!!! The $.29/lb turkey's with a $30 purchase have arrived!!! As you can see I purchased 2!
I dehydrated the earlier mentioned comfrey and it is now jarred and in our pantry waiting for use over the winter months. The nettles and rosemary are drying in various places around the house. I'm not kidding when I say our entire house houses our pantry!!!
I also purchased, chopped and dehydrated turmeric for the next time I need to make cider fire. Having all the ingredients on hand makes making it so much easier and quicker too!
In my sewing nook I'm on a sewing streak! I've been very intentional for the last 12 days and managed to get in some sewing time each of those days! I'm trying for 30 consecutive days of sewing. Some days I have been able to squeeze in 10 minutes and others an hour. If I miss a day, I will start over. When I reach 30 consecutive days I'll reward myself with a gift, yet to be determined. As you can well see, this is going to take some discipline and intentionality, but I'm up for the challenge ... I think. At least I want to try!
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We're trying to decide what we want for our Thanksgiving Day meal. Since it's just the two of us, we don't do the traditional thanksgiving meal, instead we choose something that we both like and that we don't have very often ... for budgeting reasons!
We have 'family' things we like to do on Thanksgiving Day, some of which include video chatting with our children and grandchildren. We look forward to that, but make no mistake we are not two empty-nesters who depend on others for their holiday enjoyment! We made that decision a long time ago, and as a result our children don't feel the burden of having to choose between making their own family holiday memories and pleasing mom and dad. They are not responsible for making sure we have good holidays ... they are a part of them ... but our enjoyment of the holidays does not hinge on what they are or are not able to do. The fact that all our children live far away helped us make that decision.
The joy is in the journey!
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We are beginning to see people start decorating the outside of their houses for Christmas and we did our first Christmas lights drive this week!
I continued working on getting the Christmas cards that we hand-deliver ready. I tried to do at least 5 per day and have less than 10 left to do. It will be so nice to have them ready for distribution in December, rather than hurriedly trying to find a place to fit them in when an occasion arrives to share or exchange . I don't know about you, but gift exchanges, card exchanges, etc. happen throughout the month of December here and I like to be ready!
I also completed 8 more drawstring bags this week. I want to do a 12 days of Christmas countdown with and for my hubby in December and I need 12 bags for that!
I'm trying to make a Christmas movie list for us to choose from to watch this holiday season. I'd love it if you'd share your favorite Christmas movies in the comments. (There is a possibility my hubby will have to have some surgery as a result of his fall 5 weeks ago, so I'm trying to come up with things we can do at home while he recovers to celebrate and enjoy the holiday season ... if the surgery becomes a reality. Here again, I'd love it if you would share any ideas you might have.)
The joy is in the journey!
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I continued reading in book #9, of the Bregdan Chronicles, Always Forward by Ginny Dye.
Ladies, lesson 8 of our Bible study on Anna has been posted HERE!
Week #3 of our pantry challenge for November will be posted tomorrow ... don't forget to check back.
One more thing ... thank you to all who continue to comment even though I don't have a lot of time right now to respond. My hubby continues to recover, but he is still severely limited in any physical labor/work he can do ... that means I'm literally keeping the home fires going in every way ... and that takes time. Please know that I read every comment and am so very thankful that you are still hanging around and interacting. May you be blessed for the encouragement you give me through your comments.
That's it for this week, I hope you've found something in my ramblings that will help and or encourage you in the upcoming week.
Until the next time ...
mrs. patsi @ A Working Pantry
~ quietly holding the home front ~
Sharing 46 years' experience of frugal living and pantry building (if you include my frugal childhood, well that would add several more years to my experience!)
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