Attentively Attentive to all Things

I've often wondered why a particuar friend seems to always try to take advantage of my usually good nature.  She never suceeds, but she keeps on trying.  Perhaps it's just me? To further the annual can and freeze sessions, I have just bagged 4 quarts of zuchinni that needs to make the trek down to the deep freeze.  Next up (when I get up off the couch) is to shred some for freezing, and to probably make zuchinni bread before Dave decides to attempt this himself.  The food processor we borrowed looks older than me, but I am assured it still works.  With baby asleep, I'm going to wait until later...perhaps until Dave gets home. I think I thought of a new recipe to use some of this produce we have lying around.  I think if I took chicken breasts and sauted them in white wine, then took bite size pieces of zuchinni and yellow squash and sauted them with onion in white wine, then add garlic at the end, and then toss it all together, it might be pretty tasty!  I could add some to...

.....and the canner is canning away at the moment.  Dave has picked 5 plastic grocery sacks full of green beans in the last few days, and I am tired of snapping them!  We still have 3 more bags to go!  I'm looking foward to freezing them...much, much easier than canning...I hope. At the moment, hearing the "pop" of the seals on the jars is exciting enough.  It's always a bad day when nothing "pops"! A few years ago, we decided that it would be a great idea to make homemade gift baskets to give to our family at Christmas.  Included were several jams, butters, conserves and our own homemade wine (okay, it was from a kit, but whatever, WE still made it!).  Everyone loved them, well....except for the relatives that didn't drink alcohol.  They thanked us kindly for the rest as they handed the bottle of wine back. So, it's July, and as I sit here watching Dave process green beans and hearing the seals "pop", I realized now would be perfect time t...

I have ignored my brand new blog!  School, plus expecting a baby has distracted me from blogging, something I intend to rectify! So first...baby is here!  Caris was brought into the world via emergency c-section on June 1.  She was perfect- I was the problem.  But thankfully we are both healthy.  Now doc is wondering when I am to have the next! Caris is wonderful, even when she is screaming her head off and I don't know why.  Everyone falls in love with her the minute they see her, especially when she was first born.  Being only 5lbs 6oz, she was tiny and just a handful. School is done until August.  Two A's and one A-, so not bad. :)  I'm taking Poetry, Creative non-fiction and Intro to Theology next term.  Should be interesting.