Berry Baked Oatmeal

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I like to make this ahead as a quick hearty breakfast. It only takes a minute to put together for the oven and tastes better than reheated oatmeal.

1/2 cup applesauce
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
3 cups quick oats
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1 cup milk
1 tsp. vanilla
3/4 cup frozen berries

Stir dry ingredients.
Stir in wet ingredients.
Stir in berries.
Pour into greased 9X9 pan. Cook for 40m at 350.
Serve warm.

A Day In the Life

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snow bunny

Christmas Knitting

These are some of my Christmas knitting projects:
rikke hat
christmas gifts
that little bonnet
sariahhat
tieI love how thick and big the pot holders are. They are knit holding 3 strings together. I can’t wait to replace all my old ones with these.

Here is a link to my ravelry page.

Butter Making

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Made butter with the kids using this video here. It’s simple, fast and easy. Oh and yummy.

Christmas

A lot of getting ready for Christmas is going on here. We are making all our own gifts this year. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to post about it due to lurking family members.

cold cold cold

even kitty is cold

winter is setting in,

time to wrap up things in the yard and settle in

On the Needles

I’ve been working on this Smock with Sheep and Shoes by Debbie Bliss. It is rather slow going so I’ve had to take a break a few times to work on other things.

Like these booties for little one.

And some more for my friend who delivered her baby this morning.

More Goings On

I’m currently on a canning stint, trying to get thing ready for winter. I didn’t plan on doing much canning as my garden was not very active this last season. However, what I didn’t produce myself, my dear friends have made up for.

This week I put up: 14 pints of salsa, 4 quarts of corn, 7 quarts of applesauce, and 6 pints of grape juice.

Goings On

Put up 7 pints of apple butter. And picked up 11 new hens. 2 banties and the rest are first year pullets. They were gifted to me by someone who is moving to Florida. I’m keeping them locked up for now.

Halloween