Muffin Tin Monday

I can't get it to rotate. I don't know why this happens sometimes. It's not saved this way.

Anyways, Happy Valentine's Day!

Connor had chicken, strawberry Jell-o, cherry cobbler yogurt, mozzarella cheese, and peanut butter toast hearts.

Wordless Wednesday

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Snowpocalypse? Not so much.

Some of you might have heard... Chicago and the surrounding areas had a blizzard on February 1st and 2nd. Some areas got over 20 inches and 4 ft drifts. Northwest IN was supposed to get lake effect snow, which means we get dumped on. Yeah... not so much. At least not at my house. We didn't get the viscious wind that other areas did. We have 8 inches in the lowest part, 13-16 in the highest. Most of the bottom rail of my horse fence is under snow. It is deep on the way to the barn, which makes it difficult to drag a sled with water buckets on it. But it's a great way to raise your heart rate! It was bitterly cold overnight. My weather station said -5 this morning when I went to feed the horses. I've been rotating buckets of warmed water for them to drink. Here are some pics from before we got the last 3 inches.

Back porch:

Pasture:

Basement walk out door:

Our Rottweiler and my water bucket draggin sled:

The horses telling me to quit taking pics and come feed them:

Muffin Tin Monday

Today's theme: Favorite Things

Connor's after-grocery-shopping-before-dinner-snack

He had grapes, cantaloupe, Ritz crackers and mozzarella cheese.



We are supposed to get anywhere from 12-20 inches of snow starting tonight. Gee, can't wait.

Muffin Tin and Wordless Wednesday

Connor and I are battling colds this week.

Monday's Muffin Tin:



Theme was "Big and Little, Short and Tall". We just did Big and Little circles. Popcorn chicken, bagel thin, bananas and grapes. Not a tin, this cute divided plate came from Target's Dollar Spot.

Wordless Wednesday:





This cutie showed up in our backyard earlier this week. She's been hanging around, eating acorns. Yes, she has three legs. No, I don't know what happened. We're calling her "Daisy" :)

Busy, busy!

We had an awesome weekend :) On Saturday, we went to Elkhart, IN to visit some of my best friends. Melissa (and boyfriend Mark), who lives in Elkhart, and Erika (and hubby Shane) drove up from Indy to meet us. We checked out Melissa's new house and then went to the Studebaker Museum in South Bend. The guys certainly had fun there :) I took lots of pictures, but I will only post my favorite. A 1934 Bendix. Isn't it pretty??





It was a long day for Connor, but all in all, he was well behaved. He had a few moments at the restaurant, but nothing major. He didn't really get a nap and wanted to go to sleep. He did sleep on the way home and was put right to bed.

Sunday was a lazy day around the house. We did figure out that the horse water tank has sunk. Which means it's not as insulated now that it's not touching the top of the box. So, I have to carry buckets of hot water out a few times a day to melt the ice. It doesn't help that we haven't had much sun this past week. The box is frozen to the ground, but the first warm day, we're going to empty the tank, put a sheet of plywood underneath it and use bricks to raise it to the top of the box.

I ordered some seeds for my garden today. I got an email from Park Seed with internet exclusives and couldn't pass up $1 seeds. I am most likely going to rope off the one corner of the horse pasture that gets the most sun and put it there. It's funny, we have 7 acres and no good place for a garden thanks to our many trees. Here's what I ordered:

Basil Dwarf Bush


Bean Mon Petite Cheri (smaller bush bean)


Hybrid Keepsake Tomato


Sun King Tomato (no pic)

Organic Rainbow Bell Peppers

Muffin Tin Monday

No theme today. Connor had wild rice with broccoli, colby cheese, grapes, butternut squash, chicken and ketchup.