The Blessings we receive!
Remember the last posting where I said it would an interesting week because we had so few vegetables? Well, here is what our neighbor, Juan brought to us yesterday. Click on the image to enlarge.
WOW,eh? chard, lettuce, tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers. The Lord is so generous to us!
Yesterday I made Kolache, pronounced: Ko-latch-ee (a treat from former Czechoslovakia), using the jams I have made.
These will serve as breakfasts for us and for guests when they drop in.
Here are some good ideas from an internet site:
Not Just One, but Ten Ways to Save
- Bring your own pop to work instead of using the machine. √-don’t buy soda in machines, rarely at the market unless we have guests.
- Combine several errands and save it in gas.√- do this already!
- Give up a convenience item like bag salad, cleaning wipes, or snack packs.√-don’t buy these
- Eat leftovers for lunch.√- check! We do this!
- Hang a load of wash.√- we do this… no choice, we don’t have a dryer
- Rent a movie instead of going to the theater.√- we have our own DVD’s from gifts & I have also purchased some on special. We don’t go to the theater.
- Play with the kids at the park instead of going to an attraction that charges entrance fees.√- doesn’t apply
- Repair something instead of replacing it.√- John is very handy. Our dishwasher won’t drain now… we are hoping for a cheap solution.
- Make what you need instead of buying it (cookies, home decor, birthday cards or gifts).√- probably all but making are own gifts…
- Buy a used item instead of a new one.√-not buying at all!
Do you have any that would benefit us all?
Madrid
72°
Judy Hollingsworth says:
Hi Bobbi, You are in France with Anita and the kids, but I just read through your latest posting and want to tell a story from Honduras. We were in the “outback” and did not have access to meat. The nationals would sometimes come to our door with a small deer, or sometimes the house helper would come in the a.m. and grab a pan and run because someone was butchering a cow. We ate rice and beans daily, both local. A Good Housekeeping magazine came in the mail and I learned in it that rice and beans make a complete protein, so God was caring for us all along! I was blessed.
Love and prayers, Judy (business e-mail address)