Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot 09.26.2025

Hello and welcome to another great weekend! 

And what better way to enjoy it, in full, than with a visit to Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot! for September 26, 2025. 

What makes this link-up special is that we encourage you to link up not only your current posts and good ideas, but also the great stuff in your archives! Yes, let's all show some love for those great posts resting in the archives, until you share them again.

Yes, that's right! We love all your new posts. But those older posts are not only encouraged, they are welcomed and very appreciated! So don't hold back, share, share and share some more! Because great ideas don't go out of style...they just rest quietly in the archives, until you share them again, right here! 

Wait, did I hear that correctly? Yes you did!

Huh?, did you say, older posts are welcome too? Yep, we sure did. And UNLIMIED sharing as well. So let's give those older (and STILL really great, by he way!) posts some recognition and respect. Because let's be honest, last month's or even last year's creative work is still great work, simply buried in the archives...and why we encourage you bring them out and share them all right here! 

At each Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot, we look forward to seeing all your great projects, ideas, recipes, crafts and any other family friendly blog posts you wish to share.

Bring them on, all of them, because, in our opinion, the more the merrier! 

Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot is currently shared over three FOUR blogs: 

Let us introduce ourselves! We each offer a different perspective on life and hope you enjoy not only this link-up, but all that you may find, when you visit any of our personal blogs!

Melynda@ Scratch Made Food! & DIY Homemade Household - Our name says it all! Scratch cooking and baking while living on a three generation homestead in East Texas. In my spare time I garden, chase chickens, spend as much time as possible with my grandson, cook and bake bread, oh and knit. Life is good!

Marsha@ Marsha in the Middle - Marsha started blogging in 2021 as an exercise in increasing her neuroplasticity.  Oh, who are we kidding?  Marsha started blogging because she loves clothes, and she loves to talk or, in this case, write!  You can find her on her blog, Marsha in the Middle.  

Lisa@ Boondock Ramblings - Lisa shares about the fiction she writes and reads, her faith, homeschooling, photography and much much more on her blog, Boondock Ramblings. 

Sue@ Women Living Well After 50. - Sue started blogging in 2015 and writes about living an active and healthy lifestyle, fashion, book reviews and her podcast and enjoying life as a woman over 50. She invites you to join her living life in full bloom. 

I invite you to follow our hosts on their individual blogs and on any of the social media pages you visit, making it easy to keep up to date with just about every little thing going on! And there are many...little things! We tend to be a busy group.

 

It's our goal to honor all bloggers at Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot! 

And our new feature, that I am most excited about! As promised, we have rebooted the reboot! In honor of the bloggers who take the time each week to share their creative content with us. We will be featuring a different blogger each week!  We invite you to stop by the featured bloggers blog, take a look around and say hello! 

This week we are featuring... 

Michelle is the writer behind Postcards from the Third Planet. She and her family have recently moved to Albania, from the USA. You can tag along through the blog to see life in Albania and be a part of her journey. 

We would love to have additional Co-Hosts to share in the creativity and the fun! If you think this would be a good fit for you and you like having fun (come on now, who doesn't?!) while still being creative, drop one of us an email and someone will get back with you!

And now back to our regularly scheduled Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot!

So what's happening at our house?

The weather is cooling down (nice!) but often here that means higher humidity. Just yesterday our temperature was 77, our humidity was 06% and our dew point (temperature at which water is present) was 76! In other words we were practically breathing water it was so humid! 

I am putting most of the garden beds to bed for the season. I am weeding, then covering with a mulch of some kind. In the big garden I am using leaves as the mulch, hoping for composted material to be right there in place of the leaves when spring time hits, and the seeds hit the ground. 

Out in the far garden next to our Tiny House, I am using cardboard and weed cloth. Honestly I am going to be looking of large garbage bags of leaves at the edge of everyone's yards in Woodville. And when I see them, my plan is to knock on the door and ask about having them! Composted leaves are the best for the garden...

A small pine tree had died at the edge of the yard. It will be taken down and used in one of the garden beds to bolter up the side. Some of the beds are coming up on two years old, and they have done exactly what they are meant to do, break down and become a part of the bed. I have been adding pieces here and there all along to keep the sides strong. 

I finally got the pineapples repotted into larger growing pots! We are enjoying cucumbers and yellow crookneck squash right now, with sweet potatoes ready to harvest at the end of September. Then once the potato plants in the towers die back, it will be time to harvest the Yukon gold potatoes and the red spuds as well. 

So why did my husband and I put together a tiny house homestead here in East Texas? 

Our Tiny Home!

Turns out, it is a bit of an interesting story, you can read about it here if you like...and now that we are settled in, we have also made a photo tour of our 5thwheel tiny home. You really must be organized to fit it all in, cooking, gardening, homesteading and also a bit of fun from time to time!

And from time to time when inspiration strikes, I write about it all. The good, the bad, and all the other stuff from years ago, if you have an interest in creative thoughts down on paper...you could take a gander here. And From the Heart Vol II can be found here. 

And...

I try each day to get out and take a moment for myself to observe and see the daily changes taking place on our property. These moments taken out wandering have helped me find small repairs needing done as well as a rose that might have just bloomed! 

I decided to photograph these findings for enjoyment yes, but also to observe the land around me along with the changes (and hopefully improvements through the years.) You can find those photos at our Welcome to our Homestead page.  

In case you missed them, here are two of our favorite recipes that we enjoy on regular rotation from Scratch Made Food & DIY Homemade Household. 

Pumpkin Bread. Good the year round!

Whole Wheat Cottage Cheese Yeast Buns. 

And these, that caught my eye!: One from each page of posts!

Saturday Afternoon Chat, birthday celebration, supernatural and changing leaves. 

@boondockramblings

Extraordinary Women of the Silent Generation, Remembering My Mother June Tyler 1932 - 2025. @isthismutton

Tabbouleh with a Pomegranate Glaze @glutenfreea-z

Effortless Style Meets Everyday Comfort. @thisblondesshoppingbag

And this random pick!

It's Toddler Time, our Grand Ideas for fine motor fun!

And now on to the Link-up! THANK You to all that share and visit, we appreciate it very much because Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot wouldn't work or be as much fun, without you! 

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