From My Home to Yours: 11/6/26

From My Home to Yours

11/6/26

~ One Down, Two to Go! ~

Holidays, that is!  Halloween is behind us, Thanksgiving is yet to be, followed by Christmas.  I love this time of year!

My big thing this week, other than doctor appointments for my husband, was that I got the space where our Christmas tree will sit ready.  I have a very strong feeling that our tree will go up before Thanksgiving this year instead of after.  I think it will be uplifting as we both really enjoy having our Christmas tree as the only light in a darkened room.  There's just something about that ambience that we enjoy.  This year would be a good year to add that joy to our home a little bit earlier than usual!

Our weather remains in the mid 70's most days and we are enjoying it greatly!  Rumor has it that we're about to take a plunge temperature wise towards the end of the week, I suppose it's time, but we sure are enjoying these mild, less humid days!

In the kitchen this week I did foundational type stuff ... 

made more kefir milk

kept my sourdough starter fed

froze over ripe bananas for use in smoothies ... and such

In the garden the plants enjoyed a good rain.  We are so dry and the plants just soaked up the moisture from the soil as the rain fell.  You could almost hear them thanking God for the rain ... I know I was!

For the pantry I'm still on 'turkey' sale watch.  Nothing near the $.29/lb I'm hoping to find yet, I'll keep watching!  I did find some marked down meats and I'll share more about that in our pantry challenge post tomorrow.

We attended our church's fall festival this week.  It was the first outing hubby has made since his fall that wasn't work or doctor related.  We only stayed a couple of hours and hubby wasn't able to participate in any of the activities, but he was able to go.  We're counting that as a blessing!  We had a really good time!

The joy is in the journey!

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My Christmas preps were in full swing this week!  I worked on getting the idea for our Christmas cards, that we hand-deliver, from my brain to actually.  I finished one from start to finish and am well pleased with the way it turned out.  Now, I'm all set to work on the rest of this group of cards.  

If you'd like a detailed tutorial of how I put these cards together let me know in the comments.

My sister and I finished our drawstring bag holiday sewing project this week.  We both commented that we had mixed feelings about the project coming to an end.  We were happy to be ahead in our Christmas preps, but sad that the project was over.  We really do enjoy doing our annual sewing project together!

~ my sister's drawstring bags ~

  Aren't they so cute ... look at that Santa one, she said that was made from a towel!

~ my drawstring bags ~

Bonus for me ... I had everything on hand needed to make these bags, I didn't have to purchase anything!  My food pantry is not the only thing I keep well-stocked!

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 7 of our Bible study on Anna has been posted HERE!  

Week #2 of our pantry challenge for November will be posted tomorrow, so be sure and check back.

Before closing out this week, I have a question.  In years past I have done what I call 'blogmas' where I share daily our journey to Christmas, the things we do and how we enjoy the season as two empty-nesters.  It typically starts the day after Thanksgiving and runs through Christmas eve.  I haven't done it for the past two years, but have heard from a few of you that you would like me to bring it back.  That's my question, is there enough interest for me to take on this venture this year.  Let me know in the comments if you'd like me to do 'blogmas' this year.  No comment says no interest, so if you're interested, let it me known!  I won't be offended if you're not!

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!)

She looketh well to the ways of her household … Proverbs 31:27 

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