The Rabb's Farm Life Adventures

Well, it happened.  The worms tried to escape, in the living room!  Yep, we all knew that this day might come, some of us feared it more than others.  Some of you warned me.  You were right! The worms have been doing very well.  They have been working hard to make dirt for us and doing a very good job of it.  We save all of our food scraps and to be honest, the worms are just not keeping up!  We have even resorted to freezing some of our scraps to save for a later date.  Today, however, John used the scraps we had left sitting on the counter all week, in an ice cream container, covered.  Let's just say they were a little putrid.  I prefer not to smell putrid first thing in the morning so, I left the room when he pulled out the Ninja to chop up the food for our worms.  I was getting ready for the day and when I came back into the living room I found him, on the floor, leaned over the worm bed,  apologizing and warning me that ...

We finally have walls going up!  We knew it would happen, we have just had to be patient.  We have so much going on around here, but the framing of the walls for the new laundry room is finished.  We need a doorway closed in on the left side of the room that goes to the old living room and we need a wall between the kitchen and the laundry room, this will extend the hallway through the house a bit more.  We will end up closing off the front door in the living room and that room is going to become a bedroom.  We will then have three bedrooms and the former master bedroom will become the dining room in the future.  Right now it is a catch all/storage room.  We plan to move some of the cabinets from the kitchen into the laundry room to give added storage space and then the new cabinets will arrive on the 20th of September.  We are so excited.  I have lots of memories of the dining room, the room that is becoming the laundry room.  It isn...

When John brought home all the muscadines and scuppernongs the other day he also had a few small jalapeno pepper in the bucket too.  He said he wanted to make some pepper jelly.  I have never eaten pepper jelly so I wasn't sure what it tastes like, but hey, I'm game when it comes to canning.   John likes hot stuff.  He loves peppers, of all sorts, any kind of pepper or hot sauce.  There have been times when we had a collection of different varieties available in our pantry.  There was a period of time when we went grocery shopping he would tell me we were out of hot sauce and we would discuss it a bit and I would give in, knowing that we had some at home, but not wanting my husband to have to do without his precious hot sauce, inevitably I was right and we would end up with 3 or 4 jars at home when we got there.  It has become a running joke when we go shopping now.   Some of the places we have lived have had plenty of room for extra stock...