#GRATEFULVIBES - ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE/WEEKLY THOUGHTS - 15 JAN 2024 - 21 JAN 2024

frostyamber in Veterans • 10 months ago

Good morning, Hive-ians! 😊

It’s been another busy week here on the homestead. Lots of baking, cleaning, cooking, and of course laundry, the excitement never ends here. LOL! It’s how we like it. We also like making our own brown sugar at home. 😊

Our handsome bull, Prince Lee, played in the snow while my squirrel friend and I watched. 😊

After he finished watching Prince Lee, my squirrel friend chatted with me. 😊

Pumpkin cookies, these are my new favourite. 😊

Sorry about the quality on this one…its from behind a window, but I thought all the Blue Jays grabbing a snack together was nice and wanted to share it. 😊

Our view after the snow stopped falling. 😊

A new friend gifted us some barley and we did an experiment to see if they were viable, as he wasn’t sure they would be. They are! 😊

Each tray we’ve started seems to take about three days to start sprouting. 😊

I made a double batch of my mother-in-law’s coffee cake recipe this week and they’re almost gone, so yummy. 😊

Homemade tortillas with some fresh tomatoes from our 3-year-old house tomato plant, they’re a sweet tomato and she blesses us with them year-round. 😊

My handsome husband and I were so happy to see the Snow Buntings finally arriving this week, we’ve missed these little cuties. 😊

I’m by no means a natural when it comes to baking; (maybe because I didn’t really start baking from scratch until the plan-demic hit; before that we were take-out and pre-packaged, if I’m being totally honest,) but this week I tried to adapt a recipe by changing/substituting ingredients. My experiment to adapt my banana bread to pumpkin bread turned out well and was approved for addition to our treat’s selection in the future by my handsome husband and all five of our dogs. 😊

Another experiment I tried this week was making wavy round fries and canning them. They turned out pretty good, I think…we haven’t had any yet, but I will let you know for sure, once we’ve eaten a jar. 😊

The view from our basement as chores were done for the day was beautiful. 😊

We have four trays going now; I haven’t gotten a good picture of them all yet, but I did have this picture of the first two trays. The top at day 3 and the bottom at day 2. 😊

Well, that was how things have been going for us here. I hope you have all been safe and healthy and have had an amazing week! I’m grateful to God for blessing us with another week to share with you here. 😊 God bless you all. 😊 Have an awesome week everyone! 😊

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(All photos taken by me or for me by my handsome husband on my Huawei P30 Lite or Samsung S20FE5G.) (https://frostyamber.picfair.com is the address for my Picfair site if anyone’s interested in checking it out.)

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10 months ago in Veterans by frostyamber

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ironshield 10 months ago

Wow, that barley looks really good, happy to see the sprouting!

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frostyamber 10 months ago

Welcome back my friend, thanks for visiting! 😊

Thanks, we are very happy with our experiment. The first tray we started is now above the top of the tray in spots and we expect it to all be at least to the top of tray, if not past it, by tomorrow night. It's really impressive all the beauty we can get from a simple seed. God is blessing us this year. I feel that this is our year to get things back on track and these seeds were just the start. 😊

I've got to go and reply to a few more messages, so I'll say goodbye for now and chat with you again soon. 😊

Has your lovely wife thought about making a video walking through the making of that bread she makes for the Sabbath? I'm looking forward to seeing how it's done as it always looks, great, light and fluffy. 😊

God bless you and your wonderful family. Have an awesome day my fabulous friend! 😊

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sustainablyyours 10 months ago

Are y'all as sick and tired of having snow on the ground as we are? It has been STUPID cold!

What do you make your brown sugar from?

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frostyamber 10 months ago

Welcome back my friend, thanks for visiting! 😊

Oh, my land, yes. I'm not a fan of cold as my fingers and toes are ice cold from October to March, ugh. Its been brutal, especially with the crazy winds we've been getting. I'm impatiently waiting for the Spring thaw to come. LOL! 😊

Just add molasses to your regular white sugar...the darker a brown sugar you'd like, the more molasses you'd use. I usually add three Tablespoons and mix it together, than decide if I want to go darker or not, for whatever recipe I'm making. It's super easy with a stand mixer, but takes a bit of muscle to do by hand with a wooden spoon. Buying a big jug of molasses and a big bag or two of white sugar to mix together and make my own, is cheaper than buying brown sugar in the store around here. 😊

You should give it a try, you'd stop buying it and start making it yourself, if you did. 😊

God bless you and your wonderful family. Have an awesome day my fabulous friend! 😊

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sustainablyyours 10 months ago

That's a pretty good idea! I'll have to look into it!!

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frostyamber 10 months ago

I highly recommend it. It will save you money over time, especially if you're buying the big jugs of molasses instead of the cartons of it. Let me know what you think of it when you've tried it. 😊

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goldenoakfarm 10 months ago

I m impressed you’ve kept a tomato plant alive inside for 3 years! The pumpkin cookies have an unusual but appealing shape.

Lately with the cold here most of my photos of outside are taken through the windows.

I did the same thing this year, converting zucchini bread to pumpkin bread. It came out okay.

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frostyamber 10 months ago

Welcome back lovely lady, thanks for visiting! 😊

She's a great plant, gives us many beautiful and sweet tomatoes year-round. We really like her and can't wait to see her sister plant meeting her from the other side, it will quite impressive, at least to us. 😊

Thanks, the pumpkin cookies started out as pumpkin squares, then I changed my mind about keeping together to cook and separated them, to ensure they cooked all the way through. 😊

Have you ever substituted squash for pumpkin or zucchini? How did it turn out? I've got some canned squash that I was thinking about mixing with some pumpkin puree as pie filling. 😊

Okay, its getting late. I've still got a few more replies to answer before I can head to bed, so I'll say goodbye for now and chat with you again soon. 😊

God bless you and your wonderful family. Have an awesome day my fabulous friend! 😊

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goldenoakfarm 10 months ago

In my experience squash is very interchangeable with pumpkin. Pumpkin and squash, a bit less interchangeable with zucchini.

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frostyamber 10 months ago

That's what I was thinking, too...though a nice loaf of zucchini bread is always good. 😊

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frostyamber 10 months ago

Thank you very much! 😊

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frostyamber 10 months ago

Thank you! 😊

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