Our New Blog...

The only thing interesting in our life right now is getting ready for our garden. So I'm breaking up with this blog and going with a younger, more relevant one. Check it out!


www.ourtenthofanacre.blogspot.com

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Thanks!

$10 Date Night: Halloween

Since we are not yet independently wealthy, we tend to just not go out. But being the bargainista that I am, I thought we could still have a lot of fun for little money and knew that I could come up with $10 every two weeks or so. There begins $10 Date Nights. If we get creative enough, we'll see if it warrants its own blog. We'd love ideas!

This week, our first, I said I would plan (I'm guessing we'll take turns). Since it's Halloween weekend, I thought a themed date was in order.

Here was the plan:

• Carve a pumpkin
• Roast said pumpkin's seeds (see recipe below)
  
• Eat cookies
• Watch a scary movie

Here's what it cost:

• Cookies, $2.96
• Pumpkin, $4.18
• TOTAL... $7.14 (what can I say, I like a bargain!)

It's no Marta Crass creation, but works for our front steps!

Roasting the pumpkin seeds was pretty easy too. Here are the instructions:

• Wash the seeds thoroughly. Lay on a paper towel to dry most of the way.
• Lay them on a cookie sheet (we greased the sheet, but I'm not sure you need to do it)
• Brush on melted butter and Worchestershire sauce, then sprinkle on some garlic salt
• Bake at 275 degrees for 10-20 minutes, stirring them every 5-10 minutes. It took us about 30-35 minutes to get ours completely toasted and crunchy. So just keep an eye on them.

Jeff picked the movie. We watched "The Strangers". Nothing gross and bloody (okay, there was a little blood), just suspenseful. It was on TV the other day and Jeff recorded it so we didn't have to rent a movie!

Visit to Birmingham

A couple weekends ago (two? I've lost track), we went to Birmingham to visit with all the Taylors again. We hadn't seen any of them since early summer I think. We typically do a September or October visit, which consists of watching football and playing with Abby. She's getting so old! Normally it takes a couple minutes for her to warm up to us, but this time not so much. As soon as we got there (at 9:30pm!) she ran around a corner and yelled, "Jeff, come scare me!"... which means "come chase me around the house while I squeal at the top of my lungs for thirty minutes". They picked up right where they left off!


And in a little less than two months, we'll have a nephew to play with, too! Max is due the week before Christmas! This year we'll be in Maryland for Christmas, but hopefully we'll go down shortly after to meet him.

Conan!

While there are other things in life I look forward to, I'm REALLY looking forward to November 8th. Can't wait to see what TBS does with the show!

I'm Back

Sorry... keeping up with two blogs is tough! So, I opt for the one that's hopefully making us money!

Most of you know that last month I became a Tupperware consultant... yes, they are still around! I love their products and wanted to earn a little extra money. So if you are ever interested in taking a look at the Tupperware products, check out my web page where you can shop directly. And if you are interested in hosting a party, traditional or virtual, just let me know.

Hopefully as we get to do some fun things with the holidays coming up, I'll post more!

One good thing about a lot of rain...

The garden loved it!

It's Raining...

We've had a little rain in the last 24 hours... anywhere from 8-12 inches. In the ten years I've lived here, I've never seen anything like it. In fact, I'm not sure I've seen anything like this in my life. More storms are moving in, but so far no rain at the house this morning. Lots of our friends have had leaking roofs and some flooding. We were worried to go upstairs last night in fear we'd find a leak, but we've had none.

This was our street for most of the day. They are still building in our subdivision, so some of those lots higher up washed out. In the 20 minutes we were at the grocery store yesterday the road on one side of it had flooded. Later on we saw on the news where they were doing water rescues from that same Publix.


And the video below was taken on I-24 less than four miles from our house. A little scary. The building you see float down the interstate is a portable from a church.



Church was canceled this morning because more storms are moving through. I'm guessing schools will be closed tomorrow as the creeks and rivers continue to rise. I know two buildings down from us at work had some flooding, but I don't know about ours yet. Jeff walked out and checked on the garden this morning. Everything held up well and should really take off this week with so much watering!!

Jeff wants to go explore, but I think we'll hold off on that and enjoy another day inside.