Productive Day

THIS DAY was a very productive one.  I suppose the TIREDS will hit me tomorrow.  Usually when I have a very busy day, the next day I f e e l the tireds.  If this be the case in the morning than I shall do my best to pace myself and have a slower day so I can rest up and forge ahead.

Early morning, we went to TOPEKA before Husband took his Thyroid meds.
He fasted before blood work.
Breakfast with coffee.
Off to JOANN's to see what upholstery fabrics they had to possibly use for FIRE RECOVERY.
We need fabric for the Upholsterer to cover cushions for our MORRIS CHAIRS.
Samples taken.
TUESDAY MORNING was on the agenda.  For the first time in 42 years of marriage we bought THANKSGIVING dishes.
  

Queen's Quintessential Game Collection 

• Queen's Dinnerware (Est 1795) Beautiful Floral border
• Made of high-quality earthenware, MADE IN ENGLAND
• Cereal Bowls are 6.5", Salad Plates are 8" and Dinner Plates are 10"
• Perfect for any holiday, fall or winter table, "Quintessentail Game Collection" pattern is brown & white british flower border with a wildlife image in the center
• Dishwasher and microwave safe

Trip HOME to meet up with SERVICE MASTERS who were to deliver our piano and a few extras.  
Unloaded our dishes.  
ICED TEA for the road and back to TOPEKALAND to buy fabric.  Success.  
Fantastic sale getting 55% off the material.
THRIFT SHOP.
OLIVE GARDEN SUPPER and HOME to rest.


We live in a very uncertain world.  One of the most stable ways to live is to use our talent and skills MAKING A HOME OUR OWN.  PUT Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ for ones salvation and have abundant life while we live in this 'ole world.  Love our families and others.

Be still my heart and know that God is God and HE is still on the throne.
Prayer changes things,
d  

Dining On The Prairie

Dining On The Prairie

Prairie Fire Chuck Wagon Chili with Oyster Crackers

Skillet Chili with Crackers

Swiss Steak with Red Gravy, Green Beans and Rice

Baked Bar.B.Q Chicken Breasts, Mashed Potatoes with Gravy and Italian Green Beans

Baked Chicken, Mashed Potatoes, Corn and Cucumber Salad

Vidalia Onion Baked Chicken, Italian Green Beans and Noodles

Hamburger Patties, Sautéed Zucchini, Yellow Squash, Onions with Garlic Bread

Completely Store Bought Chicken Pot Pie

Kemps Lemon Sherbet

McDonald's Signature Crafted Sweet Bar.B.Q Bacon Hamburger on Artisan Roll

Vegetable Combination Salad with Crutons

Pan Fried Center Cut Pork Chops with Baked Vegetable Medley

Ham Steak and Broccoli with Hollandaise Sauce

Popcorn

Cube Steak In Red Sauce and Vegetable Salad with Salad Dressing

Baked Chicken and Asparagus with Hollandaise Sauce

Baked Cinnamon Apples and Vanilla Ice Cream 

~Dining On The Prairie~

All meals prepared on a budget with LOVE 

and nobody's feelings were hurt,

d

Kansas

Jorge Landrian Menendez‎

WHEN THE HOTTEST TIME OF LATE SUMMER HAPPENS

SUNFLOWERS BURST FORTH WITH YELLOW BLOOMS

MAKING CHEERFUL FLOWERS

THAT KANSAS'S STATE FLOWER

IS STILL BRIGHT.

AS THE SUN SETS

THE FLOWERS FACE THE DIRECTION

OF EVENING.

EVENING SHADE SETTLES THE DAY

WITH TWINKLING STARS IN THE SKY.

SUMMER WILL NOT STAY FOREVER.

AUTUMN WILL SNEAK INTO EARTH TONES IN THE TREES

WITH THE CHANGING OF SEASONS THAT WILL BE WELCOMED

WITH COOLER TEMPS TO WEAR SWEATERS AND SIP HOT CHOCOLATE.

FIRESIDE CHATS WILL BE OVERHEARD

AS WE BUNDLE UP IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING.

SEASONAL SMILES IN KANSAS,

d

JIBBER JABBERING IN AUGUST

THIS WEEK I needed rest after months of being busier than I can put into words.  Rest I did...but need more time doing nothing.  So I soaked in the tub and couldn't get out.

It wasn't my ATTITUDE that kept me there.  I really couldn't get myself out of the tub.  This claw foot slipper tub is extra long and DEEP.  I could easily sit up, but couldn't get out.  So I sat in the bathroom until my rescuer came home from work and did a great deal of thinking about life......in the tub.  I had the best soak.  Drained the water and sat to air dry.  NEW BEAUTY TECHNIQUE USED BY THE STARS.  grins.  Drip dried skin.

Husband would be home soon and I knew he could help me climb out of this mammoth.  grins.  I think my tub days are over.  A soaking bath will have to be arranged with help getting out of the tub.  Showers from now on.

He came HOME and asked me if I wanted a cup of coffee in the tub.  Yes.  It was so relaxing.  ha.  COFFEE PLEASE. 

I managed to get out of the tub clean as a whistle.   

The midweek weather cooled and it makes LIFE nice with not so HOT temps.

As I drive between the towns of where we lived and where we are for now, the BUTTERFLIES have taken over with pollinating flowers.  They were so thick fluttering above the highway that many were lying dead on the asphalt pavement as vehicles and fragile creatures collided.

A few weeks ago, I noticed so many BUTTERFLIES in my yard that I stopped in my tracks noticing their fluttering about.  The BUTTERFLIES and cooler temps makes for a very nice combination of NATURE.

On the HOME FRONT.  Indoors.  Playing decorator having a headache.  THINK we have a workable solution as we wait for our MORRIS CHAIRS to get upholstered.  The smoke got them.  The wood frames have been cleaned and they are shipped off to an Upholsterer in Kansas City.

Remember These?

We have to purchase fabric.  The shopping begins next week as we'll be looking for material.

SLOWLY our HOME is being pieced together.  I have been rearranging books and pictures on the Living room book shelves.  The Dining room is screaming at me for attention so we have a place to sit.  Boxes filled with what nots are taking up floor space.  Hope to go through the rest of these boxes by SUNDAY.  Goal is to have the boxes out of there this week-end.

Filling up garage sale boxes.  Will have to find a place to store these until the day they disappear.

Living room is looking like a LIVING room.  Dining room almost. Kitchen almost.  Master Bedroom looks like a bedroom.  Guest room half there.  Doll room....needs attention.  WELP.  It's coming together.  Better have fun doing this...it's a work in progress.  Roll up my sleeves and get after it.

May you have a pleasant week-end.  I hope we do.  It's work moving no way you look at it.  It's work.

Blessings,
d

Ethan Came To LIVE With Us

Our Living room furniture arrived!  Ethan Allen.  Couldn't be happier.  BIG SMILE ACROSS MY FACE.  Huge.
  
So pleased with the new furniture.  Went with a lighter, muted shade of blue and velour fabric.  The walls will eventually get painted a different color, but for now we will live with the patriotic red walls.  

First, we will get settled.  Boxes will disappear.  Items will be where they are suppose to be and we will call our home, HOME.  This truly has been a different kind of move, but I am ever so glad that ETHAN has come to live with us.  

We are growing quite fond of him,

d  

Fair Time On The Prairie

The cows.....bunnies and chickens 

were held captive where we could view them 

up close and personal at the Fair.

Lambs.  Goats.  Pigs.

Exhibits, photos, projects.

Concession stands, hamburgers, walking tacos, beverages to drink.

Weather was mild and spirits high. 

Lil Miss told me that this is one of her favorite things to attend throughout the year.

Glad to be there and see for myself.

Granny d Nanny at the Fair taking in the sights.

Had a really GREEN TIME,

d

Love At First Sight

How do I love thee?

Let me count the ways,

d

Pics To Follow

Smiling to where my cheeks hurt.  Can't wipe that grin off my face.  The Living room is cleared out and rearranged as best we can do for the moment.  Now we wait for NEW living room furniture to appear from Kansas City.  Much thought has gone into where to place the sofas and chairs.

WHEN it arrives, we'll have to rearrange the room to make it like we want it.  Pieces of furniture to shuffle elsewhere.  We moved the Sideboard that was in the entryway  elsewhere so the furniture deliverers would be able to bring the pieces through the front door into the Living room.

After we see first hand the actual furniture then we will select paint that's a coordinating color with the fabrics.  

The last time I picked furniture from Ethan Allen was 17 years ago.  They gave us a computer generated drawing so we could better imagine the fabric on the sofa and chairs.  This go round no drawings.  All in our heads.

I am so hoping we like the results really really really well.  If we don't, I guess we will have to grow to like it.  gulp.

Pics to follow.
Stay tuned.
d

UPDATE:  Furniture arrived in the early morning hours on this rainy, grey Saturday.  Love it!  L O V E it.  Am so pleased with it I could twitch with excitement.  Smiling.
Pics to follow.
life on the prairie is having a very gooooood day.

Small Town America

Small Town America would not be complete without a County Fair in the heat of Summer.  
First place, a Downtown PARADE, then off to see the entries that might win a BLUE ribbon.

We witnessed colorful floats with candy flying through the air. People being people.  Horses mastered by Cowgirls and Cowboys, Cheerleaders celebrating cheers to raise spirits, children waving, music in the air.  Huge vehicles flashing their lights.  Sirens sounding off to make noise.  The Parade is a yearly event announcing the County Fair.  

By the time we got to the Fair Grounds, the line of people waiting to buy their Supper was a City Block long.  They know good food when they see it.  

Small Town once again is slow paced.  
Thankful for that,
d  

August In Flight

AUGUST will fly by before I know it and September will produce cooler nights with the leaves of trees starting to change color.  I'll have to find my artificial pumpkins and harvest garland to add a touch of FALL inside the house.  When the Trick-or-Treaters stop by, it'll seem like a time warp.  So much has transpired since last October.    

Focus on the present.  HAVING high hopes of clearing out the living room boxes this week.  I just might have one day before the new furniture arrives where the living room is completely empty, swept and dusted.

VERY SLOWLY the room is taking shape.  S L O W L Y.  
NEW Furniture is scheduled to be delivered early this month.  Preparations are being made on our end so we have an empty Living room.   Long time in the making.  We have about 12 boxes to go.  Started with about 500 boxes in the living room.  Not exaggerating.  Deep sigh.  IT HAS BEEN A GREAT DEAL OF WORK.  We have made progress.  TODAY, I felt like smiling because the boxes are disappearing.  THINGS are starting to make their way to the places they will remain.  
  

Need to take a very long coffee break sitting in the screened in porch listening to the birds sing.  I await the moment.  I need it.  Three days and one evening went into unloading a storage unit filled with things from the rock house garage.  It was HOT messy work.  Made our deadline on clearing out the unit before AUGUST 1st.

STILL...later I'll be going through the boxes that were in the garage.  Another day, another project to complete.  Truthfully it will be closer to our one year anniversary since our house fire before all of this is done. 

Huge relief,
d 

Cooking In The New Kitchen

As I dig through the many boxes, my Husband is wearing the CHEF hat as he loves cooking.  I love that he loves to cook.  He cooks very well and I enjoy the meals.  I don't hesitate when he offers to prepare a meal.  Truly am pleased that I do not have to cook.  

We're still working at making the rooms be the room it is suppose to be.  Tidying the Kitchen is on the agenda of things to do this month.

ALL IN A GREAT MEAL,
d