What's on your Wednesday Menu?

I'm with you on this! Do you ever see the yards where they have turned a spare commode into a planter? I always wonder who was the first person who decided that was a thing!

My mother turned every old pot or basin into a planter in the yard. Fortunately she did not think to use an old toilet.

I think this is a regional thing, but I don't know. There are a great many of the old claw foot bathtubs that people have put in their yards, stood on end, and buried partway. They put a statue, usually of Mary, into the enclosed space. I call them "Mary on the half shell."

Funny. On the back way home from town there's a property that's built a little gravel hill and parked what looks like a 1920's rustbucket car on top of it. Yard statement, I guess?

We had that one too. My Mom was not a great cook. Both of my sisters are, though.

My mother is a horrible cook, I learned to cook out of self-defense...maybe your sisters did too, lol.

My kids are the same. When they explain in details how they cooked something I pat myself on the back that I was such a bad example to them that they went completely the other way.
I wasn't a horrible cook, but I have a very small repertoire.

Small repertoire. That's funny.

Everything is relative, I guess.

My most treasured cook books are ones family owned. Even the one my great aunt accidentally caught on fire briefly. All the notes and handwritten recipes they've added. We have two of those from the 40's or 50's. Some others from the 30's. Some of the recipes I'll never make...we'll most of them but they are treasures that look into the past!

So interesting! I don't remember anyone in my family having cookbooks. My grandmother taught me her recipe for baking powder biscuits that I still remember. I guess we're the recipe card type. Or the...clip it out from whatever box/paper/container it was on and stuff it in the box. If it "deserved" to stay, my mom would transfer it to an index card with the proper star rating.