This is from our walk this weekend. It’s our usual walk, out the door, turn left down the road and walk to the bridge and look at the water. It’s quite beautiful, and all 3 of us just soak it up. At least this weekend we could go for a walk, it’s warming up a bit. We’ve all been sunk in Feb Funk these past few weeks. Eager for spring and ready to be outside all day long. Fresh air and sun is good for Feb Funk.
We’ve been talking since October about giving Iz her Great Aunt Carol’s doll house, first for Christmas and then for her birthday. Well, we finally did it. In celebration of February. There will be more pictures later as we paint the whole thing, redecorate and start furnishing. I’m quite excited about making rugs. And did you know that Ikea has doll furniture? Of course – we’ll have to update the phone (we won’t we’ll leave it there, it’s just too cool for school). Iz is thrilled with it. The cat loves it and has slept in all 8 rooms already.
I’m almost finished with another pair of PJs for Iz. She’s going to see Friday night for a . I’ll be popping in the buttons, holes and waistband. She loves them. Fresh PJs to beat that Feb Funk.
I’ve been thinking a lot about meal planning. It’s not coming to me too quickly. Slowly but surely. Saturday we made tacos. It was perfect. Fresh veggies, ground and browned veggie protein crumbles (doesn’t that sound delish?), yummy taco shells and taco sauce. Iz loved it, but decided she’d need another since the first crumbled in her hands. I love our sushi roll nights, and taco night will certainly be added to the monthly meal planning. Any tips on the meal planning?
Then, yesterday, I heard funny noises outside the kitchen. I thought there was a large critter in the new part of the house, but couldn’t find anything. I walked outside and found one of these calling loudly. It flew away as I took a step near it. I went inside to get the camera, and when I came back, there were 2. Sitting on the pool. Looking for food? water? I thought they were turkey vultures, but everything I find says the white head means they are from Africa. Anybody recognize them?
Looks like a wild turkey to me! Lucky you.
That first photo just looks so lovely! How cute that your cat has slept in the dollhouse already
too funny!
Those are guinea fowl. They come from Africa and are often raised around here because they like to eat ticks. (I have thought about getting some myself because I HATE ticks when they come in on my pets…they creep me out more than anything else!)
I think you can eat their eggs and meat too… I don’t really know. If I had them, I’d just have them as pets. So I guess someone’s pets wandered off.
Oh, duh! I meant to put something about meal planning, but my mac crashed when I tried to post a comment earlier and I forgot.
Meal planning is my big 900 lb gorilla too. What I have been doing is recording what we eat all week (if I remember) in an Excel spreadsheet, so I have a bank of ideas saved up for later (and can avoid frequent repeats). Then my theory is I will do one crockpot meal, one pasta meal, one mexican/tex-mex meal, per week… crockpot because it’s so easy, mexican because it’s always popular in my family, pasta because it’s cheap and quick… then mix up the other ideas.