From a Homemade Cart/Island To Tic Tac Toe and In Between

A lot of my thoughts to build

and or make something comes

from Pinterest. 

I lack the thought to invent these

things myself.

I saw several of these on 

Pinterest before and 

then last week (I start things and

then it takes forever to get them done)...

I started on my version of this cart/rolling

island.

It seems like my shutters were longer

but that is cool for me

cause there is no bending at 

that rate. 

I started with making the 

boxed in area at the bottom.

2 pieces of wood cut to the lenght

I wanted. Then I added two narrow

pieces around the top outer edge.

Then came the even more narrow

pieces for the top.

I used all scrapes from the shed.

Thinking that maybe a shelve

in the center. Went to locate the rollers

I have in the shed but ....haha, I put them

in a place where I would not 

forget where I put them...

guess what?

I forgot!

After I locate those rollers

and decide how to finish 

this off I will have a rolling

cart/ island for the kitchen. Great for

more prep area. Thinking I am going

to just stain to finish it off.

Heat however has really picked

up the last couple of days.

With that comes my feet swelling

and just plain not being able to 

be out. At 94 degrees yesterday I 

closed up the deck, made the 

furbabes come in and we spent

hours in the house till it cooled down.

Moving on...I try to do simple

projects on the deck before the 

heat gets me.

With that here is what I 

came up with yesterday.

Piece of log that was used in 

Amber's wedding.

Wooden disc from Hobby Lobby.

And BAM...

my younger grandsons love playing

Tic Tac Toe

I plan on this just sitting on a table on the

deck. Due to nosey Lily however

I will put the disc in a 

cloth bag to keep them from 

going and falling between the

deck cracks. 

Protein.....or lack of...

means bad teeth and 

loss of hair. I wash my hair

with Rosemary Essential Oils

in the shampoo which helps and

I am trying to be sure I 

do PROTEINS instead

of carbs....but I am losing 

handfuls of hair dialy....so

a friend suggested this.

Gotta get some!

My sis in law sent me this pic,

she said she thought of me and

something I would do...

YEP...she is right.

Gotta find some tall flowers now!

50ish bday bash tonight.

Taking my best friend Debbie

with me but before she gets

here I have some cleaning to do...

It is just barely over 10am and even

with the fan on the heat is 

picking up so I will be moving

this party (today's life) to the 

inside and cleaning!

I mowed the yard Thursday before 9am

to beat heat so the yard looks

great for the weekend. Will need to

water plants before Deb and I leave.

With this party in mind I wanted

to pick a cool dish to take.

Thought about macaroni salad so I

went to FB and asked for recipes.

Folks kept getting that and pasta

salad messed up and combined.

My mac salad usually consist of 

elbow noodles, mayo, hint of mustard,

boiled eggs and dill pickles. Debbie 

suggested green peas. Well, that all

sounded great but I decided a making a 

great pasta salad so that is how I 

am going...

My pasta salad consist of

tri color cork screw type

noodles (I don't know what they

are called and right now I am parked

in my chair on the deck and not going in to

look at the box!!)....

mayo and a hint of Italian dressing 

for spices. Tomato, carrots, black 

olives, green peas and corn (frozen works

best cause when cooked they don't get all

mushy). Salt, pepper and parsley. 

Now with those said, how do you fix

your pasta and mac salad?

Thinking of throwing together

a garlic pull apart bread also!

YUMMY!

With food on the mind let me share 

this with you...

Don't that look good?

I am a beef person, love it, 

rather have it...

but with my surgery I don't

eat much and I sort of like

the one dish meals.

I had so ground chuck in the 

fridge that needed cooking

so in the skillet it went

along with onions, and garlic.

I also threw in some soy sauce,

basil, orageno (love these two 

taste). Salt, pepper and some 

turmeric (for inflammation)..

In other skillet with butter and water

I cooked down carrots, corn and 

broccoli (I only eat that if I can hide it

in other food).

OH MY GOSH.....it was good. 

Share your one dish meal if you like...

Update on Nika, son and daughter in 

laws dog. I got a text yesterday

evening that brought tears to 

my eyes.

"Nika passed. Thank you for 

you support"...

That was from Britney. 

I have a card going in the mail

today for them. 

I know the pain of this and 

it hurts that they have to 

go through this.

Cory has had animals put down

before but he told me that this

one was really rough. 

Check out Lily's pic at 

http://pjack214.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-framer-for-sure.html