Country Living With Emma

This tool is a game-changer for picking up nuts!

Nut Gatherer

This weekend, I made chicken salad. Here is my favorite recipe for Make it Monday:

Cranberry Pecan Chicken Salad

It's Friday already, with a busy weekend ahead. Tomorrow, I will be teaching session 2 of the hand quilting class. All the normal things will be happening as well.

Melissa K Norris just did an episode on how she feels the Lord is leading her to prepare. The key message is "get your house in order". To Melissa, the message led her to double-check her pantry. However, this phrase means different things to different people. To mean it says, get your house organized so that you know what you have and where to find it.

Gardening tools abound. Many are optional, but pruners are not. Can you really have too many?

This is a super quick and tasty dish. It will work with canned, instant, and leftover mashed potatoes.

Friday is usually my accountability episode listing what I hope to get done this weekend. The temperature has finally dropped below broiling so I'm going to work in my storage building and hopefully bring some order to it.

Lots of activity was occurring in the first week of October in 1940. Some locations on the planet were already at war, such as Great Britain, and since were still preparing. The uranium for the Manhattan Project had already been procured and it was still over a year until the US would enter the war. I think we can see parallels in our own fourth turning.

Do you have a household inventory? I confess that I do not, but I want to rectify that. It sounds like an overwhelming task. Hopefully, if I break it down into small, individual projects, such as one drawer, I can make some progress. There are some helpful online tools. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has a free phone app that is pretty easy to use. There is also a browser-based application, Bevelmade.com, that is also free and uses AI to analyze photos to document items in your home.

U-shaped single-piece scissors have been around since around 1500 BC. However, the Romans invented the current scissor design, consisting of 2 pieces connected by a pin or pivot around 100 AD.