It's Friday!

Wow this week went fast! My daughter was on Easter Recess from school and we were busy almost every day and the week just flew by! We have some nice plans for the weekend and then its back to school on Monday. I hope everyone is enjoying this nice weather (though it's raining here today) and had great holidays. We celebrated with big meals on both Good Friday and Easter, both with friends and relatives and it was very nice. I made clams on the half shelf, linguini with clam sauce, asparagus and sweet potatoes and more. It was really good. Easter we enjoyed prime rib and all the fixings. My favorite meal of all.
Here's Jinx in a basket...he thinks he fits in....

The chicks have moved into the big coop with the big chickens! They are doing great! Thriving!

Caitlin's room has been completed with her new rug being installed and it looks amazing., I'll have to get her permission to post some photos. It feels good to accomplish a lot of things around here!Projects getting done on the indoors so that we can turn our attention to the outdoors and enjoy Summer.

I just added this new Amish table to my parlor! How does it look? I have to decorate it now! I've always been in love with Amish painted/made furniture. I have quite a bit of it and I never tire of it though some may feel it has a 90's country look to it.  I love it.

So my attempts at knitting are successful! I had never knitted before and I wanted to learn and I did! From a great you tube video featuring a man! He had the best tutorial by far! Its amazing what you can learn from you tube.

So now that Easter is over, what do you decorate for? I just add to my year round Americana! I love Americana. Christmas Tree Shop will start to have a lot of it now. They get some cute things. Oh! Speaking of cute things! I bought this adorable mouse from By Grace Primitives! ADORABLE! It came in the mail last week!

She's holding a rolling pin and there is also one where she is holding a strawberry and I think I need that one too! :)

Have you ever tasted flan? Its so delicious. I got a great recipe that is so simple its ridiculous and its my new favorite thing! its a delicious custard style dessert if you don't know what it is. Sweet!

Well, time for me to get moving here! I hope you have a great weekend! Comment or follow if you like so I know you are out there! I appreciate the messages I have received and humbled that you enjoy reading about my simple blog!

Celebration Weekend

Monday morning sure got here quickly! I hope you all had a great weekend. Ours was a busy one filled with projects around our house and celebrating Caitlin, who turned 14 on March 28th!

Work is almost completed with renovations on the chicken coop. My new Polish chickens are doing well and their feathers are growing in! A little patchy still but growing in nonetheless! While my husband was working on the coop, we let them free range, which I don't normally do for fear of hawks, but I kept a close eye on them, and they enjoyed themselves. What was funny though was that they only enjoyed their freedom for a short time and kept retreating to their home even as my husband was working with power tools on their run! No fear! They love their home and feel safe and secure. And trust my husband 100%! Here are a few photos of them but not all of them!

I also started purchasing my vegetable plants. We are extending our raised beds which I will fill with kale, butter lettuce, red and green romaine, broccoli and cucumbers. My shelves along the rear yard will have container planters of tomatoes, parsley, rosemary, basil and a few others that I still have to purchase but I did get a nice haul of veggies to start. All those I named, I bought and will plant this week. I love this time of year for the new plants both vegetable and floral. I love going to nurseries and just walking through the rows of flowers! I would love to hear about what you plant!

Caitlin's room continued with a makeover. She changed from "butterflies and fairies"from when she was four to a new "beach" theme at fourteen! Can't believe my baby is fourteen. Billy painted her room in the color of her choice and her new carpet comes this week. I will show you photos in a reveal next week! Very excited for this change for her. Here's the color and her new comforter:

We celebrated her birthday at the restaurant of her choice which was Japanese Hibachi! What a great night!

She had a few friends over afterwards and was surprised that we had a special birthday cake for her! Her favorite band is Panic at the Disco so that was her birthday cake!

So all in all it was nice weekend! I hope you had a great one and have a wonderful week!

Busy Weekend Around the Homestead

Good Monday morning! I hope everyone had a great weekend. I'm taking it easy early but not for too long as I have a lot to do. It was a busy week and weekend but all filled with good things. I'm thankful we accomplished so much in the time we had. New living room furniture and for my daughter's room new carpet and paint. Plus some shopping and some great meals too! In between that, I still had time to care for Mom and get my usual chores done so all in all a lot of productivity.

Painting began early and was completed! Two shades of ocean colors for Caitlin's beach themed room! We brought her to Christmas Tree Shop too to get all the goodies she wanted to decorate her room as they have tons of beach items for the Summer. She turned 14 this past week on March 28th! We can't believe it. We'll be celebrating her birthday out this weekend at her favorite Japanese Hibachi restaurant with some of her friends. High School in September for my baby! The years are passing so quickly. So many weddings coming up, showers, engagements of relatives and friend's children. I feel like I lost about five years some where along the line.

Have you decorated for Easter? I need to get that done! I have had the boxes out for a week but haven't gotten to it. We got our new living room furniture on Saturday and I was getting that room all set up, plus helping with Caitlin's room. Mom had several doctor's appointments last week and I thought I would get to decorate in between them but that didn't happen. I love Easter! I'm excited for Spring and our chicks are getting sooo big! They jump into my hand as soon as I open their cage! It won't be long till they can go into the coop but that won't be till it gets warm out.

It's pretty chilly today! I had bought a few vegetable plants when I saw them because as soon as it gets warm out, everyone shops and I can't find what I'm looking for so I have plants waiting by windows to go in the vegetable garden. We are changing up our planting this year and keeping a section of container plants (tomatoes, parsley, basil, peppers, etc) and in the raised bed I have I am filling with cabbage, two different lettuces, kale, green beans.

So I mentioned we had some great meals this last week too. Well, I had two events to go to. One was at one of our favorite Italian restaurants and the other was at a restaurant in Cold Spring Harbor called Harbor Mist. I had the most awesome stuffed flounder EVER. If it wasn't a political event, I would have asked for a doggy bag! LOL  Have a great Monday!