Making Jam!!!

Okay so we are now doing the Bountiful Basket thing every other Saturday. (you can do it every Saturday, we just don't) So last week they had strawberries offered so we both bought a flat of them as visions of strawberry jam danced in our heads. So on Monday we set out to make jam. I am so proud to say... SUCCESS!!! We made both freezer jam and bottled jam. We may have ran out of bottles, but the up side of that was we just ate more jam! It turned out so good. In the words of Jalee..."Why haven't we been making jam all this time?" I dunno but I sure am glad we learned how from my momma! Thanks mom for helping me and Jalee be Betty Homemakers. (And thanks to you to dad for teaching me some redneck Magiver skills)

Fixing the Icemaker

So after a lengthy battle with home depot that we won't go into for fear of libel charges, I finally got my fridge! A month after it was ordered. When they originally told me 6 days. Anyway...

The fridge got delivered while I was at school I came home to take a look and lo and behold, NO ICEMAKER!! I immediately called and at least this time was treated properly. They ordered and icemaker and would have it installed. So we waited.

Then on Thursday the appliance repair man came to install my icemaker. After getting it all squared away in the freezer he got behind the unit to connect the line. He called me into the room to tell me that the line was bad and would leak because he couldn't get the paint off of the end. and since the line was tiled into the floor my husband would have to tear up the tile and install a new line.

I was not excited about this venture, but I knew we could do it. I called Shaunna to tell her. she said, "Well why don't we hook up the new line to the old one and feed it through the whole in the floor before we tear up tile?"

HELLO! Why didn't Mr. Appliance man think of that?!?! So that was our plan. Shaunna bought some tubing and headed over. She got here and looked at the line and asked, "Are you kidding me?!? Get me a knife! I'll clean the paint off this sucker!! Then she looked at it and said, why don't we cut this line down an inch and add a new fastener?"

I was like, seriously? Are you telling me that this is like TV cable and we can just cut it down and reattach the end piece and the Mr. Appliance guy couldn't figure that one out?!?

So Shaunna did it.

And I found the water valve in the laundry room downstairs, turned it on, and voila!

What my life would cost without Shaunna around!!!?!?!!

Gardening

We moved into a new house, WITH A YARD, and started our first garden!

We have started as beginners with only 4 rows of plants, and 1 type per row.

1-Romaine Lettuce
2-Carrots
3-Bell Peppers
4-Tomatoes

We planted March 15th.

So far we have a LOT of lettuce sprouting, one bell pepper plant, and 2 tomato plants.
I really wanted tomatoes, so in addition to filling the tomato row to the brim, I planted 4 plants inside that I could transplant if the other ones didn't make it. Two of those are sprouting. we will transplant those within the week. Tomorrow I will do some weeding and take a picture or two of our new garden.