Seasons

The season outside is definitely spring. For a while, it felt kind of like summer and before that, it seemed that winter would never end; now, though, it is definitely spring. While summer is my favorite season because of the warmth, I think there are things to appreciate about every season. Winter brings beautiful snow, spring shares its beauty, summer sings sunshine, and fall displays all the colors. There is a time for every season.

The word season has other meaning to me, though. It brings to mind a familiar set of verses in Ecclesiastes 3.

This past year, I have been in a season of waiting and building and embracing. I have been waiting on a teaching job, building my faith and knowledge, and embracing life and the people in it. For the past four years I have been planting seeds here in Berea. I've spent some times laughing and some times weeping. There have been times to mourn and times to dance. 

Very soon though it will be a time to uproot, gather, and let go. I will be moving into a new season of my life at Oneida as a teacher. Just like spring is not better than winter, Oneida will bring new experiences that will build upon my time in Berea. 

Cheers!

Trial & Error, & Random

The Trial & Error

We had some very ripe bananas at the house this morning so I decided to make some pancakes that I'd seen on Pinterest with only three ingredients...egg, banana and some cinnamon. The "recipe" I followed didn't come with any instruction, so I just mixed 1 banana, 1 egg, & some cinnamon together and put it in the skillet. It may have been cook-error, but I wasn't very pleased with their consistency. The flavor wasn't bad, I just kept thinking about how they reminded me of scrambled eggs with banana and cinnamon in them. I just wanted to share this recent Pinterest semi-fail to say, if I were you, I wouldn't try making pancakes without flour.

I'm really excited...I've been making a baby blanket for my beau's sister. The baby shower is next weekend so I've been working extra hard on getting it done and this morning I basically finished knitting the rows, I just haven't bound off the stitches yet. This has been somewhat of a trial-and-error project because I've never knit a baby blanket before and I wasn't sure if I was going to have enough yarn to finish. Luckily enough, I do! I'll post pictures of the finished product soon! 

Other Events

1. This weekend...I grabbed a really good deal at Meyer's. I'm putting this out there in case anyone else is interested. Meyer's in Lexington had their raspberries on sale for 2/$1 for their 6 oz. cartons...which is a steal! I'm not sure, but I think other Meyer's may be having the same sale. Needless to say, I bought several packages and next on my list of things to do today is freeze most of those berries. 

I paid $3.50 for $27 worth of raspberries

2. The beau, Captain Something Fun, Granny Eyre and I played Rook before going to the Homecoming Block Party on Friday. It's always nice to play some Rook. 

 3. The fall colors are slowly fading, but my beau got this photo of Nova and I before all the leaves were gone! 

4. We got a cute photo yesterday with the new bunny. Just wanted to share it :) 

Well that's all she wrote, folks,

The Farmer's Daughter

Country Concert & Fall

Yes..I know, it's not fall yet (7 days!) And yes, I am trying to contain my excitement and enjoy the last couple days of summer. But, I am very excited for pumpkin picking, corn maze exploring, sweater-wearing, beautiful leaves falling, bonfire sitting, caramel apple eating, flannel wearing, pumpkin spice everything...and of course-- birthday...season. I am super excited for all of these things, which has gotten me in the mood to pin countless pumpkin and apple recipes.
Last week I made pumpkin chocolate muffins/cupcakes. For the muffins I just left off the icing. They were pretty good, but I think I must have covered them too soon, which made them slightly wet. Here is where I found the recipe if anyone is interested. And if you're interested in seeing my hours of pinning about Halloween and fall and getting as pumped for the season as I am, you should just check out my fall Pinterest board.

The weekend was very exciting for me..the beau took me to the Burning It Down concert, with Jason Aldean (& Florida Georgia Line)! It had been a long while since I had been to a big concert and we both really enjoyed it. Jason Aldean and FGL both sounded very good in concert, I was impressed. Something I had forgotten about concerts was how loud they are. It's probably for the best that I don't go to many concerts, for my ears sake. (haha)

Well, that's all for my update.
Until next time,
The Farmer's Daughter