Our Little Cottage

Yesterday & Today...

Monday is upon us once again!

I shredded and I sliced so much yesterday!  I now have 10 bags with 2 cups of shredded zucchini in each one, and 5 bigger bags with sliced zucchini in each one up in my freezer.  Each bag with the shredded zucchini is enough to make 2 loaves with my zucchini bread recipe.  The slices will be perfect for when the kids and I would like to have some fried zucchini with lunch.

I even made some zucchini bread to have after dinner. 

After Danny got home from work yesterday evening we went out and worked in the garden for just a bit together.  We picked some more zucchini, some cucumber, and a couple peppers.  We started to pick some beans, but decided to give them just a couple more days instead.  We did some weeding.

Before we took all our freshly picked veggies into the house, we went berry picking!  We have a few blackberry bushes around our property line.  The ones on the fence between us and a neighbors yard has some really great berries!  I don't know how...they are more out in the open for the birds to get to, but they don't for some reason.  More for us, I guess!  We picked a little over 2 of my husbands handfulls.  Not a whole lot, but I will be cleaning them, bagging them, and freezing them until we get some more!

I was talking with my MIL yesterday about wanting to line about 1/2 of our chain link fence with blackberry bushes next year.  She said that we could get the thornless ones.  WHAT?  I can get blackberry bushes that I won't get all stuck with??  Learn something new everyday!  Sounds good to me, especially with little ones running around.  I would hate for them to get pricked.  I can plant the ones with thorns out around other areas that the little ones don't go as often.

We finished off a jar of pickles last night so I went ahead and cut up a cucumber, an onion, and one of our peppers to put in the pickle juice.  Those will be pretty yummy in about a week or so!

I had to send Danny up to the store last night because I had ran out of milk.  Him and Frost ran up to the store together.  Danny came home with flowers and Whoppers for me!  Oh...and a card!  We haven't got to spend as much time together as we would like with him working his overtime.  He said he just wanted to do something special to let me know that he missed me, too.  I was crying when I read his card he picked out.  It just made my heart melt!

Today will be busy again.  I will start off with my kitchen work and living room clean up.  Finish up getting Danny's work clothes done.  I'm hoping to work on cleaning up our bathroom.  It's looking pretty rough these days!!  I need to make some more baby wipes.  I would also like to go do some more work in the garden and gather some blackberry seeds.

Whew....I better get started!

I wish all of you a Marvelous Monday!

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{ 01:21 PM, Monday, July 23, 2007 } { Posted by reflectionsofgrace }

I didn't know they had thornless balckberry bushes. I remember picking them with my cousin over at my Aunt's house when we were little. We had such fun. What a sweet thing your husband did for you. Have a blessed day.