What I have been eating lately... and what's on the menu
Here's my first pasta sauce that I have made from fresh tomatoes and my first canning project. Yummy.. it didn't last long.

Halloween Weekend!!!
The photos are all wonky tonight... but it was one of those weekends... here's the carved pumpkin. Loverly isn't it!?

Get Off The Couch!!!
Meet Comet, He really isn't a couch potato, however I sure laugh every time I see him sitting like this, which these days is often. I think he learned it from me some years ago before I realized how much I enjoy exercising. Here we were renting a camper in the Finger Lakes of NY while traveling on PCS orders, fun NOT.

It's that time of Year again... Filling the Lunchbox
It seems that every year when the kids go back to school that the old dilemma comes back up. What in the world can I give my kids to eat for lunch. These days, the school lunch line is not always a healthy or tasty place to be. Schools have cut back and frozen and overly processed foods that are just being heated up in the lunchroom, nothing is cooked from scratch anymore. So here's some ideas that you can try to beat the boring thoughts of spreading peanut butter and jelly everyday. Not to mention my youngest decided that the day school started that he 'hated' peanut butter, so I myself have had to get creative with his lunch. First and easiest thing to do for lunch is serve left

First Few Days of School and the sunflowers
The sunflowers are growing but with the cold weather I don't know they will get much bigger. Nikolas is excite to see these red ones.