I love breakfast food, just not in the morning. This household tends to eat brunch. I love brunch. It covers two meals with one, but teenage kids tend to be hungry in the mornings (all the time) and I honestly hadn’t planned a thing for breakfast. Oops.
I got Donny up and we decided donuts were in order. Only problem was, since we moved, we didn’t know where the closest donut shop was. I suggested going to Jimmy’s Donut where we used to go before we moved. Donny wanted to find something closer.
Disclaimer: Jimmy’s is roughly 2.5 miles away, but when you live in a smallish town, anything over a mile seems FAR.
Problem solved. Less than a mile away we found this.
I judge every donut shop by their eclairs. If they can’t make a good eclair, it’s a no for me. Eclairs are my all time, I should just chew them up and plaster then on my hips, pastry.
I spied some in the very back of case. Whew, we didn’t have to go anywhere else.
Another problem I have is wanting to choose a little bit of everything. Donny is MUCH better at ordering so I just stepped back and let him do it so we wouldn’t have a 50 dollar donut tab. Not kidding, it’s happened before when I went by myself.
Let the feast begin.
For the record, us hungry adults had already taken ours out when I took this.
But the best part was…
My oh so delicious, completely passed the eclair test, breakfast. Didn’t you know that weekend breakfast calories absolutely do not count.
While the kids were just hanging out and Donny and I were watching Harlen Cobin’s mini series Safe. (He’s one of my very favorite authors and if you like a good, twisty, who done it, you should definitely watch it on Netflix) I had an idea I wanted to try and that meant a trip to Hobby Lobby.
I’m hoping it’s going to work. I’m going to work on it today and if it does I’ll share it. It includes this.
900 feet of jute rope!
It doesn’t include this, but when you find your favorite candle that you thought was discontinued, and it’s 50% off, you add it to the cart. We had a 40% off coupon so it’s kind of like the candle was free. (My frugal rationalization kicking in)
It smells clean and fresh and is not over powering to where it gives you a headache.
We ended the evening picking up Taco Bell (I know it’s not real Mexican food, but it’s my guilty pleasure and I’ve loved it since childhood) chilling on the couch and finished watching Safe.
I normally skip the intro, but the theme song was SO good, I listened to it every single episode, then I even looked it up on YouTube.
You really should listen to it. You can thank me later.
Saturday morning my dog woke me up at 4:30 to go outside and when I was letting him in, my son’s cat Monkey, ran outside. I couldn’t catch her. She still hadn’t come back when we woke up. He was devastated. I asked all the neighbors and put her picture up on the Next Door app. Nothing.
With a little creative storage and a lot of purging, we have managed to make it work.
The shoebox holds the extra that doesn’t fit in the storage tote. I’m sure I could use a fancier box, but the whole point of downsizing was to save money and spending on something that hides in a closet really doesn’t make sense to me.
I still feel like there are too many products, so we are using up what we have and will only be replacing what we really love.
I’m still trying to come up with a better solution for our toothbrushes, but for now this is it.
the streets in our new neighborhood are so much wider. Longview has no sidewalks, like none, anywhere. So wide streets are important.
A great little neighborhood park. But it’s not just a park. It leads onto the hiking trail with a nifty little bridge.
I cooked it for about 30 minutes. There’s no set time, just when you feel like all the sugars are broken down.
just cook according to package directions. The ones I used you just pour boiling water over, leave for 1 minute 15 seconds, then dunk then in cold water for 1 second.
Now here is the fun part. Rice paper comes in a thin hard disk, like a flattened paper plate. But when you soak it in water
it becomes translucent and pliable. The package says to soak it in warm water for 5 seconds. That wasn’t long enough though. You don’t want any stiffness to remain.
See what I mean? You can barely see it on the cutting board.
I like to dip mine in peanut sauce.
We planned to do a little fishing. There are two really good fishing piers.
Hannah caught the first fish.
Jack caught the next one and ended up catching the most. We threw them all back, but everyone had fun.
After a few hours of fishing, we decided to do a little geocaching. If you’ve never tried it, you should. All you have to do is download the app.It will tell you how far you are from a cache, give you the coordinates and then you have to find it. The cache can be all different things. Sometimes there are little gifts, but most of the time there is just a log where you sign your name and the date you found it.
At the top of a hill we came across this structure that was built in the 1930’s.
By the time we got back down to the trailhead, we were all pretty worn out. It was getting late so we decided to head home. I had seen that there was another geocache not far from the entrance to the park so we decided to give it another shot and guess what…..
The perfect ending to a really good day.
The Funky Frugalista 