Super Fun Saturday!

 We had a really busy,

really fun Saturday!

We started at the farmers market.

It was a good day.

Pretty windy!

But we didn't put the tablecloth

on the table, so no worries.

Freeze dried stuff is pretty light,

so I kept a hand on the trays,

but nothing blew away and we

sold out of peaches!

And eggs, and almost sold

all the FD cantaloupe.

Sold a bunch of pickling cukes

and even a couple Honey Baby

butternut squash.

Then we drove back to the house,

put everything away and jumped

back into the car to run into Hays.

We had an RS activity at 2:00.

(I need to train myself to remember

"running into Hays" is now an HOUR!)

So we just rushed into town.

Needed to be there a little early

since I'm the counselor over activities 

and I wanted to be there to help set up.

We did "Bunco & Brownies".

I've never played Bunco before,

but it was easy to learn and lots of fun.

I won the "Biggest Loser" prize since

my revolving team ALWAYS lost.

We might have a great score, but the

other team beat us by a point or two.

It was still fun.

We only had 9 sisters, we play with

4 people to a table, so I left 30 minute

early and let the committee chair play

in my spot for the last round.

She brought me the prize on Sunday.

And I continued the theme and lost it.

(Left it in the RS room and somebody

picked it up.... darn it. It was a really

cute tea towel!)

Anyhow.

Left the activity and ran to WalMart to

grab some stuff we needed.

Oh yeah, Rod came with me and while

I was at the activity, he went to Home

Depot to return the window ac unit we

bought but didn't need.

They wouldn't take it back.

It says on the receipt (who reads those)

you have to return within 7 days.

It had been 9.

Sigh.

So, anyway, Walmart to get stuff.

And then dashed back to the house

by way of Jim's to get our stadium seats,

just in time to grab Kyle and run into

Hill City for the first annual

Bucking Bull rodeo thing.

It had a name, I can't remember.... lol.

Really nice arena.

WAAAY nicer than WaKeeney's.

And we had good seats!

It was all local cowboys.

Well, north Kansas and south Nebraska.

But "local".

It was a real rodeo.

So the "clowns" were there to protect

the riders, not entertain the people.

So we watched one of the pick up guys

training his new horse.

THAT was entertaining.

We had a really good time and were home

just after dark!

To bed, and then up early (by our standards)

in order to leave by 6:30.

I whipped up some quick breakfast burritos

to eat on the drive into Hays.

It was a good day of excellent meetings.

I'm really starting to feel at home in this ward.

And then on the way home we stopped

by Jim and Sabrina's to drop off a

battery charger - his truck battery died.

And then home to take a NAP!

Kyle came over and we had some

beef stroganoff with beans the way

Soni told me Rozann made them.

They were DELICIOUS!

And today......

up early to do a T-Tapp workout,

then I cut 1.5 gallons of okra and

got those in the freezer.

Then I started washing and coring

the tomatoes to put in the freezer.

Then Kyle came by and he and I took

the dogs for a short walk around the

property. Beau can only go so far.

He's getting older, and its been awhile

since he's gone on a walk.

He fell down Kyle's stairs last Thanksgiving,

and since then he hasn't really been out.

But he'll build up his stamina...

(me too... lol.)

Then he and Bear went home and

Rod and I worked on getting 8 boxes

of ice cream sandwiches all cut and

onto trays and into the freeze dryer.

Then Kyle came back over and we

made a single 1/2 pint of tomato sauce

to see if we LIKE the recipe before I

commit to doing ALL the tomatoes.

And while that was cooking down,

we cut up nearly all the rest of the peaches

and got those on trays to go into the machine

after we take out the load that's in there.

Which would be PEEPS!

The new machine has the candy setting,

and we bought a bunch of boxes of all

sorts of flavors of peeps on clearance after

Easter. Just been waiting to use the

new machine.

Got those in and figured out how to

do a candy run.

By then, the tomato sauce was ready

to come out of the water bath canner.

(I did a couple pint jars of water just

so my little jar wasn't lonely...)

Then Kyle left to get ready to go to 

FHE and then Door Dash.

And I got ready to teach.

So Rod had to pull the peeps out of 

the machine and get them in big

mylar bags for me to do something with

tomorrow.

And then he got out our zero turn mower

and mowed a bunch of the property between

the house and the road.

It looks really good!

Now, I'm done teaching,

and I'm whooooped!

I was going to make cabbage and 

sausage for dinner,

but I'm rethinking.

Might just make a box of mac & cheese

and open a jar of pickled beets.

There's a TON on tap for tomorrow.

I need to finish the peaches.

(Probably just make another 5 pints

of peach jam with them, they are

getting a little long in the tooth.)

And then I need to chop all the peppers

and get those into the freezer.

And I also need to do something with

the gazillion cucumbers Kyle keeps 

harvesting and bringing in my house.

AND there is still that huge wagon

full of onions in his shed.

I love harvest season...

but boy oh boy it's BUSY!