Daily Roll 3.31.20

Just love the beat of  "Until the Love Runs Out" , One Republic. It's an oldie and one easily stuck in your head.

Found Quote on Mindful Christianity Today
Graphic Made with Project Life Phone App

Trying to sing my way up the mountain today.

What is for Dinner
Hamburgers
Fries
Corn

What Are My Co-Workers Doing

Making my youngest marinate more meat. This time steak strips for Carne Asada. He is working on some English homework. He has reached out to a couple of his favorite teachers to check in of them. I thought that was sweet.

limited ingredient carne asada marinade

1/3 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 Tbsp lime juice
2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 teaspoon ground cumin seed
2 Tbsp sugar

My oldest I need to work on some activities of daily living in regards to finances. He pays rent and he was employed during the last month so we need to submit paperwork to social security.

Puzzling Friends

Doing Jigsaws and Lusting after Forrest Fenn Treasure while in Quarantine

My Husband and I started a new puzzle but I told him WE ARE NOT going to finish it in one day. This is another 1,000 piece puzzle

Daily Roll 3.30.30

IS

MARCH

OVER

YET?

asking for Mom's everywhere

My Truth Today
18 count egg carton fell out of my trunk when I opened it. It was totally my fault. I kinda felt like crying. BUT here is the thing. My son also bought eggs. We have eggs. The store had eggs. It is just eggs. I did manage to save a few. 

I don't know if anyone else follows Jen Hatmaker on Instagram or Facebook. She is speaking my truth. She is a mom to teenagers and college kids. Please watch her videos. It will make you feel better. We all just trying to figure this out. 

What's for Dinner? 

Teriyaki Chicken - sauce homemade from Fix, Freeze, Feast

Rice 

Salad

Cowboy Cookies

What are my co-workers doing today

Photo by my Oldest -CMR
local gas station

Oldest needed to grocery shop so he went on our grocery store adventure. He did great. As many know my oldest has Autism. I found a good link on the stimulus check and disable people receiving SSI

My youngest did a bit of journaling. He checked in with his homeroom teacher via email. HE MADE marinade - teriyaki sauce.

Pantry Lessons Learned during the Crisis

My friend and I were talking about our pantries and things we would of done at the beginning of this. Stuff we had no idea would be hoarding or stock piling. I think I did well for my freezer and pantry. I was generally stocked up. My freezer was full. My pantry did have the general baking essentials - flour, sugar, and butter. I posted my freezer inventory. I am on version 3.0 of my inventory. 

Things I wish had stockpiled more at the beginning

Pasta

Canned Goods - canned tomatoes seemed to be sold out everywhere

Butter

Flour

Snack Food(plenty of this at store I just didn't have any)

Mayo
Mustard

Ketchup

Chicken (fresh)
Hamburger Patties

Cleaning Supplies
Toilet Paper

I went to the grocery store today and I was to get every staple I needed. I think most of food and TP issues have stabilized in our area.

Helpful Substitution List for Baking

Daily Roll 3.29.20

Oh, Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun

Please shine down on me

Oh, Mr. Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun

Yes to some sun today. The people came out of the woodwork to walk in it. There are a lot of dogs getting some exercise.

What is for Dinner?

Homemade Hamburger Helper- I used ground turkey instead of hamburger

canned vegetable

Cowboy Cookies - first time making these. This makes a huge batch good way to use oats. It does take 3 cups of flour. I have had a hard time finding flour. These are really good. I froze some of the dough

Getting Dinner Planning Fatigue? 

I know I am. I saw something via Epicurious "Cooking Through It"- 10 day flexible meal plan. I thought this was interesting and very doable for a lot of people. It also gave me a couple of ideas.

Daily Roll 3.28.20

Fell in love with Cosmos Flowers
last summer

What's For Dinner?
Does it feel like groundhog day? Asking for Mom's everywhere

Basil Balsamic Pork Chops -recipe from Fix , Freeze, Feast
Asparagus
Rice
Rice Pudding

What are my co-worker doing

My younger co-workers are doing as little as possible.

My Husband has officially out puzzled me.

His progress in 2 days

My progress in 2 weeks

Project of the Day

I started some seedlings - Zinna's and Cosmos. I really fell in love with cosmos flowers last summer. I got my cosmos from the high school plant sale. That isn't going to happen this year.

The seeds were old so I was pleasantly surprised that any sprouted. I moved most of them to bigger pots. I also re-potted an African violet

How to Start Flowers from Seed
Crazy for Cosmos

Daily Roll 3.27.20

HELLO COOL CATS AND KITTENS

totally couldn't help the "Tiger King" Reference

I desperately need to discuss this show with someone

other than my family

What is for Dinner?

prior to putting into the oven
one of the smaller pans went to the freezer

Cream Chicken Stuffed Shells from Good Cheap Eats - Good Make Ahead Meal - Quite a bit of prep
Green Beans
Store Bought Sour Dough

What are my Co-Workers doing?

School behind my house and now the playground is cordoned off.
Not much of a deterrent  but something

Crisis Schooling for my youngest. It isn't homeschooling. I had him journal. I will post sometime as it was quite entertaining.

Oldest son is busy writing fan fiction. (Don't ask me about what) He has two computer screens going. He has been doing his laundry as well

My husband is trying to out puzzle me. I started this 1000 piece puzzle two weeks ago and the picture below is how far I have gotten on it. My husband is the puzzle king so having this not completed is driving him crazy.

My Effort

Project of the Day

Working on putting away all my husband's stuff. I thought my office was bad. Well it looks like it exploded now. Got some put away but more to go.

The Daily Roll 3.26.20

MAY

YOUR

TP 

BE

STRONG

What is For Dinner ?  

Always the most asked question at my house.

Pot Roast, Potatoes, Carrots

Vinegar Cake - sounds like a horrible cake but delicious chocolate cake. Developed during the depression when butter, eggs and milk were scarce. I think most people have the pantry ingredients to make this. My recipe is from parade magazine.

Vinegar Cake is good enough for Bon Appetit - Nana's Chocolate Vinegar Cake

What are my co-workers doing?

Its a brave new world out there for at home learning for my Junior.  English -"The Crucible" and another accuplacer math practice test. 

My oldest helped with the cake.

Project of The Day

I forgot to show you my new desk situation. It isn't pretty. My husband will be home today so most of our preparations in anticipation of his homecoming.

I think he appreciated our Welcome Home Sign!

The Daily Roll 3.25.20

This made me smile so I thought I would share. It seemed like something appropriate for the Daily Roll

Graphic by the Practical Scrapper

What are my co-workers doing?
Finally saw the school plan for school work for my Junior in High School.  I had him take an accuplacer practice exam. This is same exam he will be taking to enroll in community college. He was working on the math sections. I have some other ideas as well that I will be implementing in the next couple of days

My oldest spent some time writing some fan fiction and riding his scooter.

What is for dinner? #1 Question at my house

Breakfast Burritos and canned fruit

PROJECT OF THE DAY

Bedroom Office with Playground View

I had moved my office up to my bedroom to get away from some of the chaos. BUT my husband is on his way home so now I need to relocate back to my messy desk.

Emily Henderson was showing some of her teams work at home situations and other ideas if you find yourself needed to improve your office. I was actually pretty inspired  Need A Better WFH Setup and Real Work From Home Office Designs

The Daily Roll 3.24.20

Well me and my TP are officially on lock down.

I heard this on the radio first thing this morning. It seemed appropriate.

What is For Dinner? 
Chicken patty on bun, corn, french fries and store bought cookies

Saw cooking meme referred to figuring out what to have for dinner like the show -- Chopped . On Chopped they give you all these weird ingredients and you have to make something edible with all the ingredients. Cooking kinda feels like that.

What are My Co-Workers Doing?

Unfortunately I had to venture out with my oldest for his groceries. It was a ghost town pretty much.

My youngest manned the couch. He convinced me to watch way to Much Tiger King (Netflix) My review below.

Project of the Day

Spent way to much time watching Tiger King on Netflix. I decided everyone is a criminal on the show and I really liked what the one employee said at the end, that not one animal was saved or helped in all of this. This documentary has criminals, drugs, tigers, lions, murderers, polygamy and con men.

Need to know what happened from all the people in Tiger King check out the Vanity Fair Article

The Daily Roll 3.22.20

It's another day in paradise if you know what I mean. May your TP roll stash be strong.

What's For Dinner?

Ham Steak and Hash Browns with pineapple (the people approved)

Went and did some grocery shopping yesterday. There was a bit of a ghost town feel. Couldn't get any flour. That might put a curb on some baking. There were proteins available not much chicken. There was a bit of beef. I couldn't get hamburger patties. 

What are my co-workers doing?

It really seems like they are doing the big fat nothing. I did have one help me breakdown some cardboard recycle and the youngest completed his English homework

Projects of the Day

After

I am determined to work on clearing the kitchen counters. For some reason blogger won't let me place the pictures in the order I want but you get the gist. It looks better

Before

Finished the Census - Yeah Me

The Daily Roll 3.22.20

Wrote this outside my kitchen window on the patio. Just a reminder that we can do this.

What is for Dinner? 
Brats and Peas

Last night before bed made Overnight Baked Oatmeal. You mix it up and keep in refrigerator and bake in the morning. It is really delicious.

What are my co workers doing?
My youngest worked on laundry. Sunday is his laundry day and HE WORE PANTS. Not sure what the special occasion was.

My oldest was going a bit stir crazy. So I took him to the graveyard to scooter. It was my 2nd walk of the day. It really wasn't warm enough for shorts but he is an adult - live and learn. Oh he also had on sandals his preferred footwear as well.

Project of the Day
I have decided I have too much stuff on my kitchen counters for the amount of baking/cooking I am doing. I also am disinfecting daily or even more frequently these high touch surfaces and I want to do that more quickly and efficiently. I made it halfway.  I still have the island to work on.

I walked over 17,000 steps today. I am tired and sore. I saw a snake. Snakes are really good at social distancing.

The Daily Roll 3.21.20

Graphic from Practical Scrapper

The world definitely seems topsy turvey.  May your Toilet Paper Roll be on correctly. Below is my daily journal for the day. Hopefully you can laugh at me in the new reality we live in.

#1 Question : What is For Dinner?
Turkey Meat Balls and spaghetti with garlic bread

How is your pantry and freezer looking? It is a legit question, am I right!

What Are My Co-Worker Doing?
As little as possible it appears. One spent all day pantless despite numerous protests from me.

Good news is my Hubby and number 1 back up is headed home from his job assignment.

INSPO

Sad to hear of Kenny Rogers death. My Mom and Dad are big Kenny Rogers fans so I grew up listening to that kind of music. It is the soundtrack of my early childhood. I love Dolly's and Kenny's friendship.

PROJECTS

So beautiful out I worked on some weeding. Yesterday I had some old seeds so I started those in my little tray greenhouse. If they sprout, it will be fabulous. Something I know about myself is my spring garden self is full of hope and my August garden self has usually petered out.

I heard some seeds are scarce as Toilet Paper. Homesteaders of America is going to be starting a YouTube series on Monday How to Grow food. Is this going to start a modern day Victory Garden movement? Grow A Victory Garden

The Daily Roll 3.20.20

INSPO

I heard this yesterday and you know what it is a great day to be alive. Once our fog burned off it was a beautiful day outside. Next week rain so all us Pacific Northwest people were soaking up the sun. Went for a nice long walk

Like to color - Check out Alisa Burke's Free Coloring Pages

What is for Dinner?
Not my favorite question lately. Going easy with pre packaged orange chicken.

Orange Chicken, jasmine rice and broccoli.
Baking Sesame Bread (Bread Machine)

My son's favorite homemade bread is Braided Semolina Bread from Foodie with a Family - Can made with bread machine, stand mixer or hand. Easy to follow directions. It makes 2 braids

* I don't know about you all but my perishables inventory is getting a little low. I wish I had bought more junk food on Monday at the grocery store.With 2 basically teenagers, all the good snacks ARE gone. For junk food we are down to ritz crackers and tortilla chips. My oldest keeps offering me really gross granola bars from his own stash. I am not that desperate!!

My friend Carol has restarted her cooking blog Carol's Cookbook . She is an amazing scratch home cook. Check out her blog

What are My Co Workers Doing
I am now going to refer to my children as co-workers because it is funny.

I wish one would put on pants. He is apparently goal less today.

My more seasoned employee wants to leave the house. He rode with me to the Post Office to pick up some mail from the post office box. We took the long way home.

The Art of Noticing

So Foggy this morning. Love how the sun is up. You can find other entries in Ali Edwards week of "Art of Noticing" at the #aeartofnoticing on Instagram.

The Daily Roll 3.18.20

First Day of Spring!

PEP TALK

Do the Next Smallest Thing- Modern Mrs Darcy. Good read interesting approach.

What Are My People Doing

Oldest is doing his last final. I haven't said what he is studying - Computer Networking. I think the finals are A+ Hardware and Software. Don't quote me on that.

My youngest son worked on his English homework and figured out that his band teacher had put the parade music on canvas. He also put up our circle swing for my oldest. We take it down in the winter.

What's Dinner?
I was so hoping dinner would make itself. My people watch A LOT of food network they sure didn't learn anything from it that actually translates into actual cooking.

Hamburgers and Fries

Mix and Match Muffin Mix - Good Cheap Eats Jessica Fischer. I added frozen blueberries from my garden and Nonna's. I also added almond extract. I didn't have greek yougurt so used sour cream.I thank my 2019 self for putting this in the freezer

The Art of Noticing

Went for a walk with our dog Tigger. He is missing recess. Our house backs up on a school playground and I swear he knows the recess schedule. He loves to go out and bark at the kids. So even the virus is effecting my dog's social life. (Ha, Ha)

How I wasted my time today - (Just half way kidding)

Listened to the History Chicks Podcast on Annie Malone and C J Walker.  Tomorrow Netflix is streaming a docu series on C J Walker staring Octavia Spencer called Self Made

Watched a Face Book Live on Autism; Anxiety and Mood via Seattle Children's - fun times

Edited and posted this photo to Ancestry

Edna Berg, Carl Berg, Charlie Berg, Hilda Berg, Ben Berg
Minnesota 1945

I believe the picture was taken when Charlie came back from the war. The back has 1945 written on it.

The Daily Roll 3.18.20

I decided to start a new series Daily Roll from the Honeypot. Since we are in a self imposed lock down due to school being shutdown until April 24th. I thought I would share my journal/interesting links/and what the heck is happening here at the honeypot. I hope you will find some helpful stuff but mostly I hope you can laugh with me. 

Graphic from Practical Scrappers

PEP TALK
I feel like I need multiple pep talks! Elise Joy has a printable with some pep points.  I printed and highlighted the ones I most needed to hear

My highlighted ones - GET OUTSIDE, "MAMA, TAKE A DEEP BREATH", ENJOY THE EVERYDAY, MAKE IT WORK FOR RIGHT NOW, THINK OF WHAT YOU CAN DO, NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING, YOU'VE GOT THIS

I think I am going to start my own pep list. Anyone have suggestions?
*For the love of GOD, wash your hands
*Keep Swimming
*Eat a Carb you'll feel better

WHAT MY PEOPLE ARE UP TO

First final for my oldest today. YEAH! 90 percent on it!

My 17 year old finally put on pants and mowed the remaining half of our yard.

WHATS FOR DINNER
I don't know where to put this link but Dinner a Love Story is doing every week day - Project Pantry, and Purpose. There is a lot of great pantry meal ideas and baking projects.

Chicken Bacon Subs from Jessica at Good Cheap Eats

PROJECTS OF THE DAY

Oh I had grand plans. I did a bit of weeding. I disassembled my vacuum. IT WAS AN EXCITING DAY AT HOUSE OF HONEYPOT

ART OF NOTICING

How many screwdrivers does it take to disassemble a vacuum? I am asking for a friend. I also realized we are screwdriver hoarders. I mean this on a small part of our collection. Grateful that my husband has a lot of tools.

The Daily Roll St Patty's Edition

Writing you hunkered down in the Honeypot Bunker. Aren't Honeypots the definition of social distancing?Necessary but not a place to hang out long term with anyone.

What's For Dinner?
I had already decided last week how we would be eating on St Patty's Day. I pre shopped for this stuff last week thank goodness. It was suggested that we have cabbage rolls aka bierocks. I have a Frankenstein recipe I use so I won't be sharing. I use ground turkey instead of ground hamburger.I decided it would be fun to have pistachio bundt cake. After lunch half of cake was GONE! I won't be attempting so much from scratch cooking. I bit off more than I enjoyed but at least we ate well.

Project of the Day
Earlier this year I committed to writing some genealogy stuff in the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Project.. This past weeks prompt is LUCK. I am linking to my writing here. I wrote about my husband's grandfather. LINK HERE. This coming week's writing prompt is Popular.

Pappy Holding A 4 Leaf Clover
Ferndale WA

What Are My People Up To?

I took my oldest to the grocery store. We were getting low on perishables milk, eggs, and butter. It was a quick in and out. It was pretty much a ghost town. They didn't have much meat or canned goods. We shopped local! He is reviewing for his final for tomorrow. The final is online.

My youngest worked on some English homework and helped me complete a few things. He mowed! There was even some evening piano practice.


Art of Noticing Project

The dawn of a new day. I was the first up which is unusual in my house. I often capture the sunrise but the birds silhouetted was just a happy coincidence. Other Art of Noticing Projects can be found on Instagram under #aeartofnoticing.

***FULL DISCLOSURE I don't have it all together. Today had some hard moments. I live with a autistic person whose anxiety really ramps up sometimes.  I miss my husband who is gone for work. I know I signed up for this so I can't complain but I do miss him. Single parenting isn't for sissies and under these extremes is hard.

52 Ancestors Project - Luck

As part of genealogy project I am working on this year. I am participating in 52 ancestors in 52 weeks- Amy Johnson Crow's Blog. Every week is a prompt and last week's prompt was "Luck".  I haven't shared any of these on my blog but with all this free time I am going to start.

One of my favorite photos of my husband's grandfather, Charlie Berg is the one below. We called him Pappy. Pappy is holding a 4 leaf clover. He often looked for them.

Charlie was LUCKY. He was born to Geneva and Carl Berg in 1920 near Aiken, Minnesota. At 5 months old, his mom left. She literally left him in the front of the fire and never returned. It was the middle of winter in Minnesota. His Dad found him in a cold house and ran carrying him all the way to his grandparent's house, Bonsak and Hilda Berg, who lived on the neighboring farm. He spent his early years on their farm. His grandmother raised him.

During WWII , he was in the Army Corp of Engineers. In Charlie's words, "Then they needed a CAT skinner and I got the job. When I climbed on the CAT, a guy told me I was the 7th one, the previous six had died. So I told him, seven was my lucky number! And it was, I made it without a scratch from Normandy to Munich."

Charlie was a survivor in every sense. He survived cancer, heart attack, the death of his wife. Things that have done others in he survived. He lived an amazing 98 years.

The Daily Roll 3.15.20

I decided to start a new series Daily Roll from the Honeypot. Since we are in a self imposed lock down due to school being shutdown until April 24th. I thought I would share my journal/interesting links/and what the heck is happening here at the honeypot. I hope you will find some helpful stuff but mostly I hope you can laugh with me. 

The Practical Scrapper had free Covid-19 Project Life Cards. I made this in Project Life. 

My children are unimpressed with my new series.What are my children doing? My oldest son(21) is in college and next week is FINALS. So he is studying for his online finals. My younger son(17) is trying to get over a sinus cold. So he is basically lounging around playing on his computer. I did get him to learn some piano.

The Art of Noticing - Photo/Scrapbooking Project starts on Monday via Ali Edwards. I am looking forward to participating. I will be sharing here and on Instagram. Ali is also offering some free word art 

Ali Edwards Design 

What's on the agenda today

Laundry- I am great at washing. I suck at putting away

Soup-Chicken Rice Soup Easy  - Boiled up my whole chicken to make broth.Using most of chicken for a dish for next week

Sunrise

What I listened to 
Bible Binge Podcast- Introduction to Esther
Shannon Martin recommended this podcast. I love their style. Think fun and more pop culture references.

***For of you not interested in religious podcast let me recommend these below which I have listened to recently

Beautiful Anonymous -
Prison Bound
Beautiful Followups - 15 months in Prison 

Reply All
The Case of the Missing Hit - Ever get a song stuck in your head and then google it because you only know three lines of the song.

Lastly, I don't know about you all but later in the day my anxiety creeps in. I get tired of my people. I am hoping the wind dies down later this week and we can get out of our house for a walk for a change of scenery.

What I Read March

After a month sabbatical I am back to reading. I am linking up with Modern Mrs Darcy's Quick Lit link up. Check out what everyone has been reading.

Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
Interesting Book about a plane crash and one lone survivor, Edward. I actually read this on a plane. I don't know if that was great idea.I thought this was an interesting read and I like how the trauma that Edward experienced was explored.

Yale Needs Women by Anne Gardiner Perkins - I started reading this on International Women's Day which seems appropriate. This book explores how Yale became an co educational institution. Told mainly through the eyes of the women who were the first women in the co educational class. One of the take-away I got from this book was how political this idea was. Yale was known way before Ivy institutions for admitting Jews and Blacks but even after admitting women it was a struggle to admit them in significant numbers. It was also very isolating being one of the first women admitted. I love that this story was told. It makes me appreciate those first ladies contributions. This is well written and researched.

The Daily Roll from the Honeypot- 3.14.20

I decided to start a new series The Daily Roll from the Honeypot. Since we are in a self imposed lock down due to school being shutdown until April 24th. I thought I would share my journal/interesting links/and what the heck is happening here at the honeypot. I hope you will find some helpful stuff but mostly I hope you can laugh with me. 

When, I turned on the radio they were playing, "Too Much Time On Your Hands". It seemed appropriate as it was announced yesterday that school would be closed from March 17 - April 24.They also played Riders in the Storm which was funny as well as we are having record winds and then they played Crazy Train.  What is the radio trying to tell me? (Ha Ha)

Yesterday to make myself feel better I took inventory of our garage freezer and house freezer. I can confidently say we won't starve.

Jessica at Good Cheap Eats has an inventory sheet for your pantry and freezer in her post on Meal Planning 101  My list isn't fancy but it will do the trick.

My older son and I had to pick up a prescription in a neighboring town. We saw an interesting car.See pic below. Not the best picture but car covered in round reflectors and had a vase on the top. ART or Crazy?

It is Pi Day today. I have frozen peaches. I enjoy baking but I don't do pies. Tried Easy Crumb Top Peach Pie from Wildflour's Cottage Kitchen. Baking pie stresses me out. I am calling it my ugly pie. It tasted good.

You know what is bumming me out the most is that the library is going to be shutdown. We will still be able to access e-books and movies. I know first world problems.

Wordy Wednesday

My letter board reflects the current times. 

Flower Linky LOVE

I am so excited for Erin at FLORET. She has inspired me so much to grow my own cut flower garden. I know she has inspired a whole lot of people. She also has a new book out. She is almost local to me. I live in the next county over. I wish her all the success in the world.

Other flower ladies local to me who are pretty darn inspiring

Deanna at Twig and Vine and her Growing Kindness Project.  She is having a dahlia tuber sale to support the Growing Kindness Project March 14 at 9 am Pacific time.

TheFarmHouseFlowerFarm - Just so inspired by Marryn's story and about following your dreams

Triple Wren Farms