Weekend Vlog: Garden Fixes, Homemade Tomato Sauce, & Fall Hauls! 🌿🍅🛍️

Join me for a cozy weekend vlog filled with everyday moments! 🌞 We tackled the garden with some much-needed tomato staking, made fresh tomato sauce in the Vitamix, and had a fun little haul from Bath & Body Works and Walmart with Alice. I also share a bit about how I’m adjusting to my new Mounjaro dosage, and we wind down the weekend with some family time and painting. Thanks for hanging out!

🛒 Bath & Body Works Halloween Scent Haul
🍅 Fresh Tomato Sauce in the Vitamix
🎨 Alice’s Gouache Painting & Fall Finds
🎉 Real life moments — the good, the messy, and the delicious.

📌 Timestamps
00:00 – Sunday Morning + Garden Plans
01:05 – Anniversary Dinner & Revolving Sushi
02:55 – Mounjaro Update + Friday Recap
04:30 – Dollar Tree + Billy Con Collectibles
05:25 – Hornet Nest Drama & Backyard Garden Tour
06:45 – Fixing the Tomato Plants
08:00 – Making Fresh Tomato Sauce in the Vitamix
09:45 – Pasta Lunch & Cheesy Add-Ins
10:45 – Bath & Body Works Halloween Haul
12:30 – Alice’s Art + Gouache Paints Chat
14:10 – Walmart Fall Shirt + Halloween Socks
15:10 – Light Dinner + House Chores
16:00 – Alice’s Moth Painting & Weekend Wrap-Up
17:20 – Upcoming Bible Study + Goodnight!

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Hey friends, welcome back or welcome if you’re 
new here. My name is Tiffany. Happy Sunday. So, it is Sunday. Uh Will and I are about to head 
out the door to go to Lowe’s. I need to get some garden steaks for my tomato plants cuz they 
are getting so big that they are falling like out of the tomato cages and I’m afraid that the 
like they’re going to break off. So, we’re going to go get some garden stakes and then attempt 
to stake them up. Don’t know what we’re doing, but we’re going to figure it out together. Um, 
so that’s going on. I have not vlogged the past two days. Uh, Friday we went out to dinner 
for our anniversary. Um, we went to Toku, which is a revolving sushi bar. Wonderful 
dinner. Conveyor belt. Conveyor belt. Sorry, it says revolving sushi right on their sign. 
Yeah. Just conveys a different uh anyway, mental image to me at least. Um, so we went out 
to dinner and then we swung through and pick up picked up the kids and then went out for ice cream 
at a place called Joe Bretz which has alcohol ice cream for adults um and regular ice cream for 
those who don’t want that obviously but we did that. I tried the peach whiskey ice cream. I only 
ate a few bites of it um before I started feeling I was really full from dinner. Now, reminding you 
that I had just taken my new dosage of Mjaro the day before and I was super nauseous um after that 
cuz I went from 2.5 milligram up to 5 milligram. All that to say, I ended up getting sick Friday 
night uh after dinner. So, that wasn’t fun. Um, yeah, I’ll leave out the details, obviously. But 
I did end up vomiting, and that’s the first time I’ve gotten sick on this medication, but I think 
my body was telling me that I ate too much sushi. And I didn’t even eat that much cuz I didn’t have 
that much of an appetite, obviously. But Will just knocked the hornets’s nest down and came running. 
Anyway, I didn’t eat much in like the grand scheme of things, but it was too much for my stomach on 
these on the new dosage of medication. So anyway, so that was Friday. Yesterday we just 
had a lowkey day here at the house. Um, what did we do yesterday? Nothing, huh? Really? 
No, we didn’t do anything for a little bit. Oh, I took Alice to Where’ we go? We went to Dollar 
Tree. She got a document frame to frame some of her collectibles that she got at Billy Con. 
What? I really don’t want to spray that nest. I thought you were supposed to do it early in the 
morning. No. hornets nest on our front porch. Um, so we did leave the house yesterday, but we didn’t 
really do much and dinner was just leftovers. So, I napped a little bit through the day yesterday. 
I was really tired. But today is a new day. Uh, Will and I, like I said, are headed to Lowe’s. So, 
we’re going to go do that. And I will show you my tomato plants when I get back. And hopefully 
we can get them fixed up and keep them from toppling out of their planters. So, the neighbor’s 
mowing his lawn, so it’s loud right out here, but this plant is like tilting backwards a 
lot. This one is tilting forwards a lot. So, we got 60-in garden stakes. Ooh, it’s fogging 
up my camera. It’s humid out here. Um, so we’re going to try and fix these up. All right, 
so that’s all fixed. The cages are standing. I twined some of the longer branches up to 
the stakes and they’re no longer falling over, but we have lots more coming. So, we definitely 
needed the support. There’s lots of flowers sprout sprouting. Blooming blooming. So, they’re doing 
pretty good. I’m going to water them really well in just a second and call it a day. It’s hot out 
here. So, I am going to try a Vitamix fresh tomato sauce recipe with some of our garden tomatoes 
that we have not eaten yet that need to be used up. And maybe we’ll have some pasta for lunch. All 
right, so I’ve got in my Vitamix cherry tomatoes, uh, small onion, minced garlic, and then a few 
more tomatoes, few tablespoons of olive oil, crushed red pepper flakes, salt, and Italian 
seasoning. So, we’re going to see what this does. So, it made somewhat of an orange sauce because I 
did have um some Mr. Stripey tomatoes, which are orange and they’re supposed to be orange with like 
red stripes, but mine just turned out orange. So, I’m going to simmer this for a little bit. I’ve 
got some water coming to a boil and we’re going to make some pennet for lunch. That way, we can 
use up this sauce and it’s nice and fresh. So, I made it cheesy by adding some mozzarella and a 
little bit of cheddar cuz we had a little bit left in the bag. Um but lunch is done and it’s pretty 
tasty from what I’ve tasted. I forgot to mention Alice and I also went to Bath and Body Works 
last night cuz they were having a sale. Hand soaps were I think $3. Body sprays were $5.95 for 
the full size and little um hand sanitizers were a dollar. And the reason we went other than there 
being a sale is because they have their Halloween scents out. And Alice’s favorite body sprays are 
the ghoul friend and vampire blood. And she only has the little bottles of them from last year or 
the year before maybe now last year. Um, and she uses them sparingly because they’re seasonal. So, 
I figured we’d get her the big ones. Then we also got ice cream float, which smells super good. It’s 
fruity. So, the body sprays are for her. I use them, too. Um, and then once the weather starts 
turning fallish, I will put out hand soaps in the kitchen and bathrooms. And then she’s got the 
little hand sanitizers. There’s a glare. Um, for her backpack, not backpack. She has a messenger 
bag. It doesn’t want to focus. But we got ghoul friend and vampire blood. And speaking of little 
miss herself, she’s over here painting with her. How do you pronounce these paints? It’s not like 
gouache. Gouache or go. How do you pronounce that, babe? What? Gosh or gou paints? Go. Go. The only 
one I wasn’t saying. Gosh. They’re like a gel almost. They They dry out fairly easily. I have 
to Oh, no. add water to activate them. That’s no good. It’s fine, though. They work just fine. My 
battery’s dying. The internet tells me that it’s pronounced squash. I think that was one of the 
versions I said. Um, but I was just looking up cuz her pots have dried out a little bit and it 
says you can just reactivate them with water. So, we were just wondering the proper way to use these 
paints. They’re kind of like a watercolor acrylic sort of thing. Um, and they are reactivated with 
water. So, that’s what she’s been doing, which is fine. So anyway, gouache gouache paints. So here 
is Alice’s finished artwork. Turned out so pretty. And then we also ran to Walmart to grab a few 
things and she saw this shirt. It’s like a white and maroon striped um like baby doll tea. She said 
this will be good for fall. She’s ready for fall, y’all. Been ready for fall since last fall. 
The fall before that. It’s her favorite time of year. And she’s done with summer, friends. I hate 
summer. She hates it. Did you want to show them your kneeh high Halloween socks, too? So, they are 
orange and black striped bows with little bows on the sides of the top of them. So, she’s going to 
wear those with some of her black skirts this fall season. She’s like, I don’t even need it to be 
fall. I’ll wear them whenever. I dropped it. Oh, no. because we had such a heavier lunch and kind 
of later lunch with that pasta earlier. I didn’t make dinner tonight, but Will’s hungry, so he 
asked for two of these spicy crispy chicken sandwiches. So, I’m going to get those in 
the air fryer for 10 minutes. We got these at Walmart. They’re super yummy. Alice is mopping 
the house for us for extra money cuz as we know, she’s saving up for the Beetlejuice musical for 
merchandise and she’s eating a frozen yogurt. Make sure you do a good job. I don’t know. By 
the way, I refilled the bird feeder today cuz you didn’t. So, that’s twice this week I’ve done 
it when you should have done it. Making me sound bad. Here’s another painting that Alice did. It’s 
kind of blending in cuz the background is black, but she did a moth in front of the moon, 
which I think is very pretty. Good job. Hi, friends. It is 9:30. We’re going to close this 
out. Uh Will and I, what time is it? 9:37. It’s 9:37. Give those people back seven minutes. We 
are watching an episode of House and then two. You are full of lies and deceit today. We’re winding 
down with some TV and sarcasm apparently. Um yeah, tomorrow I have a coffee date with two of 
my friends and we’re starting a new Bible study together on the First Five app. 
Um, I forget what Bible study it is, but I’m doing it. Um, so we’re get meeting 
up to have coffee at 1:30 tomorrow afternoon, and that’s the only thing on my agenda. Will 
has to work 3:30 and then that’s all that’s on the agenda for tomorrow. So, thanks for 
coming along on another day. Drop a comment, share some love, and I will see 
you again on the next one. Bye.