Recycled wood fence

            

                                                             

 This is a recycled old wood fence that my parents were tearing out and throwing away. We said "we'll take it". We put it just off the patio, we park our RV right there and this is the perfect screen so we don't have to stare at the trailer from the porch. I have attached some various decor to it, including some flower pots along the top, and my husband built the flower box below it. It just add so much character to the porch. We love it! There is another one right next to it with more flower pots attached and my potting bench in front of it. Our yard is fenced with vinyl, so this allows us to have the country charm we like without going against the neighborhood Codes.

Chicken burrito filling

A couple of nights ago I wanted to make some chicken tacos, not the fried kind that are so delicious, but a healthier version. I started the chicken and realized I had no salsa, no sour cream and did not want to make a run to the store. So I tried to make salsa with what I had, it was not quite right and too spicy because of the Jalapeno, so I kept adding things until I ended up with some weird sauce like stuff. It tasted too much like onion so I threw it in the pan with everything else and whalaa!! It was so good, my family loved it. We used the whole grain tortillas, which were surprisingly good, I prefer the flavor to the regular tortillas.

It turned out so good I had to hurry and type it up before I forgot what I put in there.

Chicken Burrito Filling Cook Chicken breast in a skillet, then add 1/4 C of taco seasoning and ¾ C Water In a blender add – 4oz of Cream cheese 1 Can of tomatoes 1 Jalapeño 1 Can of black beans 1/2 Onion 2 Cloves of garlic Pinch of parsley and salt to flavor- Blend until smooth Add to the pan with chicken and simmer for 5 min. or until warm Serve with some Spanish Rice and cheese in a tortilla

The Garden

This is our garden! One day I was looking at garden plans on various web sites, Better Homes & Gardens ( BHG garden plan) has some great garden plans, that is where I found the one I wanted. I printed it out, gave it to my husband and said "I want this." In a few weeks, I had it. He is so wonderful! It turn out better than the picture. (Above is this year, just getting started; below is last year around July.) The first year I tried to plant very close to the same things as the plan. The next year I modified a bit. This year I put everything where I wanted, but I always plan  it out on paper and keep a map of what I plant so I don't forget what goes where.

Bryce Canyon

Another one of our favorite things to do is travel. We went to Bryce Canyon, Utah over Thanksgiving 2012, I just did not want to cook that year. (I get to do it every year and normally I love it, but I needed a break.) Anyway, it was a wonderful time of year to visit this area, it was not crowded and the weather was pretty nice, just needed a jacket. This place is gorgeous as you can see, we only had 2 restaurants to choose from as everything else was closed for the season, a hotel with a kitchen would have been handy. But if you are traveling with your trailer, your set. There was one restaurant right in the middle of town that was open on Thanksgiving, it was a buffet, they had everything you could want. Luckily we went early because by the time we were done there was an hour wait. It was a nice way to spend the holiday.

Rhubarb leaf stepping stones

I have a couple of projects I did last year that I want to share. We always get comments on how cute they are. I found the first one on pintrest. It is a pathway made of cement stepping stones in the shape of a leaf.

• First I laid out weed barrier in the shape of my pathway.
•  Then I cut around a rhubarb leaf for each stone and dug about 4 inches into the ground.
•  Next I filled in with about an inch of gravel and the rest with cement.
•  I pushed the leaf into the wet cement to make the print of the veins and made them a little more defined with a stick.

Cute old stove

Finally got the old stove moved and set up. It is much cuter than I thought it would be. It did not look real great sitting over by the shed all disassembled, but it is quite cute on the back porch.

Refinished broken swing

So, we bought a swing with a canvas seat on it, the first year we had it one of the kids sat on it and tore the seam, so it was useless. My husband did not want to just throw it away, so he decided to cut out some wooden slats to fix it. We just finished it this week, it turned out beautiful. Even the chickens thought so :)