This week I finally made bread – 20 loaves.  I have been procrastinating this for months.  I usually like to make only 10 at a time – any more than that and it seems as if the whole process drags on too long.  I decided to make the extra since I was going to give away a few loaves and our family seems to be devouring a lot of bread lately. Here is the recipe I use.  I don’t have it perfected – it’s a bit crumbly.  It’s definitely not sandwich bread worthy but it does make a delicious toast.   14 Grain Bread Use your Bosch mixer if you have one. …

This week it was all about taking something old and making it new (in a different fashion). Take this old kitchen drawer… It now has a new look.  Still a little crowded but better. This drawer was crying out for some attention too… Yes, this will do just fine. I found these inexpensive drawer organizers at Wal-M*rt.  Next up was some old shriveled grapefruits that my father-in-law gave us.  A little cut with the knife and some squeezing and we had the most delicious and refreshing grapefruit juice.  How about this?  Have you seen these lately in YOUR freezer??  I finally dug mine out and added still more from our fresh fruit basket.  (If that’s my…

I went on a decluttering spree this week of my bedroom bookcases.  I’m now less bundles of homeschooling magazines and oodles of books.  What a great tackle!  Normally it’s very difficult for me to part with books I own but not that day.  I was on a mission and very single minded about it.  Here are just a few of the books that I cleared from my shelves.  If you or someone you know would be interested, please contact me at timbuck2mom@yahoo.com.  All prices include shipping. The Philosophy of the Christian Curriculum by Rousas John Rushdoony – This book has some highlighting and underlining the first 16 pages, otherwise in very good…

I think I tackled a little bit of everything this week as I’m planning for a rehearsal dinner and guests in my home for my sister-in-law’s upcoming wedding.  Even so, there is one particular area that I cleaned that I will post for my tackle this week. My coat closet.  Oh, my!  The good news is that even though it looks quite bad it only took about 5-10 minutes to clean up.     I think Flylady would be proud of me.   To see what others tackled this week go here. Copyright 2009 Treasuring the Moments

I’ve been out of the tackle loop for awhile but I’m back for this week’s Tackle #150. This week’s tackle was all about the Kitchen where I spend an inordinate amount of time. First off was to juice these wonderful lemons a couple of friends gave me and freeze it for future batches of fresh lemonade.  I freeze the concentrate in 1 cup portions which makes 1/2 gallon when I reconstitute it. I think it is just great that they can grow all these lemons on their own tree.  I would love to do that but we haven’t had too much success with the apple and plum trees we planted around here.  Still…