Split Pea Soup

I made Split Pea Soup today for the first time. It turned out great despite my "alterations"! For the most part I followed the recipe on the bag of split peas. It went something like this..
1 pork roast bone in,
1 bag of frozen soup stock from a previous soup(mine was a mix of diced veggie scraps from "Make Ahead Meal Days") or soup stock with diced carrots celery, onion,garlic etc.
Cooked in the crock pot until the meat pulls apart,approx 4-5 hours.
Pull the majority of the meat off the bone a freeze or store for future meal.
Add meaty bone and stock into large saucepan and boil.
Rinse peas and add to stock. Simmer for about 2-3 hours,stirring frequently.
Add more pork as desired.
When the bone is boiled clean,remove it.
The recipe called for milk and it just so happen I was out so I added a can of cream of mushroom soup instead and a little water. Yum!
I cooked for another hour and WA LA!
Yummy,thick Split Pea Soup!
Cheap,easy and enough to feed an army....or at least freeze and store for the winter ahead!

I know this may seem like a silly recipe to share but I also know...
#1-how difficult it can be to think of meal ideas and
#2- how nice it is to cook dinner without a trip to the store!

The Wait Is Over

So remember the pumpkins and moss I got last weekend? I finally put it to good use today decorating the yard and front porch for fall.
Drum roll please......

Please pardon my tattered old porch. It's next summer's project...

The moss turned out better than I thought-and it was FREE!

I think it will also be soo cute at night with candles glowing inside!

What do you think?

Is the moss adorable or horrible?

But the moss doesn't stop there....

I also did another project while I was out enjoying the sunshine!

Remember this post they installed for THE REMODEL that happen here last summer?

Well, it ended up looking a little better than this but...not much. It is waiting patiently for the new deck to get built. In the meanwhile,it's one of the first things I see when I go in or out of the house...and it's not pretty.
So I did this...

All from things I collected around my yard and lots of help from the moss! I think the moss gives it a cool "aged" look. Bye bye ugly post!

I am happy I was able to complete some of my unfinished projects today

:)

So far this had been a beautiful fall!