A Day in my Life

It's August already!  Here's how the first day of the month went at our house.

I started the morning my starting some laundry.  The laundry room is downstairs and not so beautiful, but it works!

In the family room downstairs is the treadmill, and my morning walk was next on the agenda.

After my walk, I went back upstairs, got ready, ate a boiled egg for breakfast and had a little computer time.  Not too long though because this was waiting for me:

Yes - beans to be canned!

Bob came and helped me do some snipping.

Don't they look pretty?

While the canner was running, the laundry got done.

While I was in the kitchen, Bob's brother stopped to help him cut down a tree. Bob's planning to put up a storage barn in the back, but a tree was blocking the spot.

And it's down - but as you can see it took a little more cutting to get it completely down and out of the way.

Meanwhile, I was having trouble in the kitchen.  I have a pressure canner and I got an error message saying it wasn't coming to pressure. I stopped it and started all over only to have the same thing happen.  

Bob and I had to get out to bring back an Amazon return and to grab supper so I stopped the canning and thought I would try again when we got home.
We brought our return back and stopped at Panera for supper.  I forgot to take any pictures while out!

When we got home, I got ready to try again and the canner wouldn't even turn on.  So frustrating since I've only had it for a year.  I called the company and they were very helpful.  They sent out a new lid for the sealing/pressure issue and told me how to get it going again. I've already canned Salsa with the new lid and it worked without any issues!

Here's the beans that got done!

A little walk outside is good for frustration!

Do you remember all the acorns we had last fall?  Bob put them all in a pile in our back wooded area and these are some crazy mushrooms growing there.

The garden phlox are blooming.

The Black Eyed Susan's are just beautiful this year.  Lots of our flowers have suffered in this drought, but they seem to handle it ok.

Then we had a little time on the front porch before coming in and watching an episode of The Repair Shop.

It was a day with some frustrations, but still good!