Gettin' Down & Dirty

Here lately I have been morphing into a form of Suzy Homemaker. And honestly, I don't know what to make of it. Nor does BB. I find myself sitting down every Sunday with cook books searching for different recipes so that I can create my weekly menu for supper. I have also coined Sunday as my official baking day.

So far I have made Pretzel Salad. Which I'm not really sure why it's called a pretzel salad. Having the word salad in the title would give you the indication that it was some type of salad with lettuce, carrots and stuff a normal salad has. Right? Nope, not at all. But it was really, really good. I have also made a Banana Split cake which was scrumdillicious as well as chocolate turtle ooeey gooeey brownies which were simply divine. I also attempted a chess cake. The chess cake didn't turn out as well as I had hoped. It was good but it wasn't like Grandmom's (step-mom). She makes the bomb of a chess cake. Or, as Bb & Lou would say "It's beast"

As part of my transformation I made the decision to put out a garden. That's right. A garden. A garden with real live growing food. The determined location has been plowed, disced, tilled and ready to grow some grub. Therefore, a visit to Anderson County Farm Service to buy our garden grocery list was a necessity.

I love, simply love Anderson County Farm Service. They house and sell feed to farmers and it has a distinct smell that could never be duplicated. When you walk inside the wooden-floor store you literally step back in time.

Picture this.......3 old men in their bibbed overalls accessorized with farmer caps, sitting around a permanent wood burning stove using their pocket knives to peel a slice from the centrally located block of cheese discussing the hopeful outcome of this years crops.

I couldn't help but stare and marvel over them and their surroundings. So, I'm sure I was tagged as "weirdo-of-the-day".

Once we made our selection of enough silver queen corn to produce 3 rows, enough peas for a single row, the same for the green beans, and a variety of other vegetables we then went home and placed them in the ground. Fashioned with my gardening gloves of course.

GOAL - Get everything to grow and keep everything alive until harvest season approaches. By the way, did I mention I plan on canning?

CHALLENGE - Deer and rabbits. Be forewarned Bambi and Thumper. Game on and gloves off if I catch you in my garden.

Until next time - Rose Baggs

And 253 Days Later.......

Ok....I had a few things to do and now I'm back.

In a nutshell this is what has been happening with the Boggs' bunch.

BB completed his military training and has since come home after being away just days shy of six months. I have missed him so much but I have to tell you........me and the kids had developed routines so having BB back in the mix took some getting use to.

After everything settled down and we got back to life as normal he accepted a position as Deputy Sheriff at the Anderson County Sheriff's Office. Have I ever mentioned I love me a man in uniform?? If I didn't I would like to say "I love me a man in uniform". Especially when he's my man!

Just when we thought our lives would be normal (or normal for us) he had to complete MORE training for the S.O. This training consists of four-a-half months. Really?!....Seriously?! Gone again?

Weeeelllll, at least this training is in Richmond, KY and he gets to come home on the weekends. Instead of a nine-hour (one-way might I add) commute it's only one hour.

Had you told my 17-25 year old self I would some day be married to the PoPo I would have never believed it since most of those years were spent avoiding the PoPo.

Ahhhh, life is grand and I would trade it for anything.

Until next time-
Rose Baggs