A week in the country.

One thing about this time of year, it's warm enough in the morning to sit on the front porch and watch the sunrise. 

Everything is beginning to spring to life. 

We had a productive week. 

We freeze dried five pounds of cream cheese, and freeze dried peaches, and pears.

I made sourdough biscuits, and then put my starter back in the fridge to be neglected for another week, or so.

It's been fun to have new recipes to try out. 

 I have a sourdough banana bread recipe to try this week. 

I bought a 40 pound box of bananas, a while ago, and froze some to use in banana bread and muffins, and smoothies, and then I freeze dried the rest. 

The box cost me five dollars, and I knew I couldn't go wrong for that price!

Freeze dried bananas are so yummy!

Shopping bags full of MaryJane's Farm magazines.

One of my friends has been saving these magazines for years and gave them to me this past week. 
I'm going to read through them, save what I want to and then I'll take them back to her. She's over the Senior Citizen's yard sale and she'll put the magazines in the yard sale.

Fish Fillet station
This is the filleting station that the DNR set up, after gathering the fish from the nets.
At Piute State Park, the DNR checks the health of the reservoir by placing nets in the water, then seeing what type of fish survived winter and determining what type of fish to plant in the lake for summer time. 
All of the fish netted where donated and that way there wasn't any waste.
The water is used for farming, and in fact the water in our subdivision is all from Piute.
Our subdivision was farm land, and the water rights are preserved now that this land has been developed into a neighborhood.

Attitude of Gratitude:
Our Grands and DIL made it back from Brazil this week; our son is overjoyed to have them home again! The Grands called us to tell us that they missed us and they love us.
Our DIL's grandma is doing ok, and her health for now is stable.

Feeling accomplished with all of the freeze drying that we got done this week.

Grateful for sunny days that allow me to work in the yard. It's been far too nice to be in the house.
 
Grateful that me sweet husband has giant trout to smoke this week... should be delish!