July Recipe Challenge

You know I like a good challenge. Often it's a reading challenge but Six Sisters' Stuff has been doing recipe challenges recently.

For July, it was Slow Cooker Smoky BBQ Pulled Pork.

It was easy and made plenty but didn't last long even as leftovers. My pickiest eater had several sandwiches the day I made this recipe.

Thanks again, Six Sisters' Stuff. 

Yellow Pigs Day 2026

July 17 was Yellow Pigs Day. Often for this holiday, we do pigs in a blanket with mustard. I was talking to the kids and said we could do pigs in a blanket or we could do corndog muffins with mustard. But I didn't want to heat up the house with the oven. Then we figured out something that didn't require the oven. Squid pups!

So that's what we had. Squid pups with mustard. As a side dish we had sauteed zucchini from our garden! 

Jet was a big helper making the squid pups. He's so much fun.

Watercolor Waterfall

Mom: Wow. What is that?

Nichole: Waterfall in Washington.

Mom: Oh, Snoqualmie Falls. Did you take one of my pictures? Oh wait. You were there. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha. 

Watercolor Evening

July 16 was Ginger Rogers' Birthday. I fell asleep during a movie with Ginger Rogers in it.

I also fell asleep before I remembered to tell anyone to use spinach with their lettuce for taco salad. It was Fresh Spinach Day. I didn't have any myself because I fell asleep. Luckily other family members put the leftovers away because I didn't.

I was tired because we did all this after Nichole and I got back from an evening Relief Society activity where we made watercolor cards.

I am not the artist Nichole is and don't know what I'm doing with watercolors. That's okay, though. I still enjoyed socializing and eating snacks. 

I based my watercolor picture on the rainbow we saw in Oregon last month. 

Nichole based hers on this picture she took at Cape Arago on our Shore Acres day in Oregon. 

I like that our Relief Society has been doing such a variety of skills and activities. I still wear my charm bracelet on most Sundays to church and have been keeping my sourdough starter alive for over a year.

Catch of the Day

 

Kristin: Where is everybody?

I walked into the room and started laughing. 

Hot Dogs and Gummi Worms

July 15 was National Hot Dog Day. It was also National Gummi Worm Day.

We went to a cookout where we ate hot dogs.

We ate gummi worms on the drive there and back. 

More Mac & Cheese

July 14 was Mac & Cheese Day. We made mac & cheese (Jr. did most of it, Nichole and I helped a little).

It was also Cow Appreciation Day and we used milk in the mac & cheese. I appreciate cows for milk.

It was also Bastille Day so we listened to the song, "Pompeii" by the band, Bastille.

It was also Shark Awareness Day so we joked about going around with the little shark grabber (from cleaning out my stuff in crates from my parents' garage that Jet claimed and brought back from Oregon) and making everyone was aware of it.