Before you know it, March is gone . . .

And before I knew it, March was gone!  March is a big month for birthdays at our house.  I was able to celebrate with three of the five grands who had birthdays.  We were able to celebrate with all of them after Brody came home from Croatia!  

Nathan

Caleb

Emily

Speaking of Brody!

It was late when he came home but there was a crowd to meet him when he got off the plane.  Here he is with his mom, dad and sister, giving his sister a big hug.  She was so excited to see him!  We were overjoyed to see him after two years away from home! I had the cutest video, of him coming through the gate, but of course, it wouldn't upload.  Later in the week we had a big family dinner for him with all of my children and grandchildren.  It felt really good to have all of them under the same roof.  

Last week-end, we had two of the boys over to help us clean up the yard and do all of those things that I'm just too old to do now ;0)  We have such a problem with Starlings getting into the shed, so Bob helped them make a few bird houses to hopefully help with that.  We've already seen Starlings coming in and out of the birdhouses!

Of course the best part of all was being lifted up in the tractor bucket! It was such a beautiful week-end, and we accomplished almost everything we needed to get done, and had the chance to spend some quality time with our grandsons.

At the beginning of March, I went and saw, Hello Dolly with a few friends.  We have a wonderful local theater called, The Center Theater.  They have the most wonderful musicals, and this one was no exception.  The acting and singing is top notch, and the costumes are absolutely gorgeous and professionally made!  The photo is taken from their play bill, and does not do Dolly's costumes justice, they were amazing.   It was so much fun, I'm looking forward to attending the next play . . . Fiddler on the Roof.  

We also bought a freeze dryer this month!  We have been wanting one for the last year, and they had the small ones that we wanted on sale, so we bit the bullet and bought one.  We have dried chili, peppers, and marshmallows for hot chocolate.  Today I cooked a bunch of potatoes, grated them, and put them in the freezer.  Tomorrow we will stick them in the freeze dryer.  They will be wonderful to have on hand or camping,  and will be great addition in our foood storage.  This is one of the three trays that we will dry tomorrow.

I have been trying to eat and use more fermented foods.  My favorite is sourdough.  I also have a big jar of homemade sauerkraut on the counter that will be ready to eat in a few days.  

Today I decided to make a batch of sourdough muffins, and they are delicious!  For those of you who like sourdough and use it, this is the recipe I used.  It's actually for blueberry muffins but I used chocolate chips instead, I also omitted the streusel topping.  

Well, that's a few of the highlights for March.  I hope to get some blogging and commenting done soon.  Thanks to all of you who have hung in there with me.  See you in April!  Love you all!

Hugs,

Barb