Our third President, Thomas Jefferson, had some good advice:
"If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as a sorry state as the souls who live under tyranny."
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
One of my very favorite presidents is Thomas Jefferson. He was a very interesting person and I would have loved to have met him along with Benjamin Franklin and George Washington. I'm going to be reading Benjamin Franklin's autobiography. I understand he like to take air baths in later years. Sitting nude in front of an open window...Hmmm I wonder if that was on the first floor or second of his home LOL. Gave those faint of heart ladies something to see I'm sure :)
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Free books
I don't think I have shared this before but I have a kindle and love to read so I signed up for emails from ereaderiq.com. They send out a daily email with free Amazon books. You tell them what categories of books you like to read and they send you a list. It is convenient. If I don't feel like checking the email I just delete it and catch it another day. I now have 11 pages of books. Oh don't look at me like that! Some of them are short stories. Anyway, if you like to read and have a kindle or other reader check out their site. eReaderIQ.com. Can't beat free!
Oh and be sure when you click on the title that it is actually free, some of them you have to be a Prime member which I'm not.
Oh and be sure when you click on the title that it is actually free, some of them you have to be a Prime member which I'm not.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Little update
GARDEN/HOUSE:
We finally got rain. I could hear the plants and trees sighing, no actually I could, really. The seeds we planted while waiting for rain all came up so looks like we might be having some cukes and beans after all. DH has off this week and we are going to do some work around the house. We want to finish the floors in the living room and two small bedrooms. And we are going to tear out the carpeting in our bedroom and put down laminate in that room as well. We also have to do all the closet floors. Then DH is going to till the garden again and we are going to plant some more seeds for our fall garden. We have never planted a fall garden so this is all new to us. With the drought, there was one nice thing. Not very many bugs. But then there weren't very many plants either LOL.
I have been getting a lot of little peppers and tomatoes off the garden. I have been freezing them until I have enough to can up some sketti sauce. I found a recipe for hot sauce I want to try since the peppers that survived are all hot ones.
KITCHEN:
I actually canned some plum preserves the other day. DH saw them and decided to buy them. We brought them home, he tasted one and said they are sour and hard as a rock. Yep he was right they are sour and hard as rocks. After spending a couple of hours pitting and chopping them up, I told him do not EVER get these again. My fingers were sore until the next day. But and here's the thing, they made wonderful preserves. I had to taste test them before they were canned LOL. I put them in the slow cooker and let them go on high for about four hours. That softened them up. I still didn't use all of them either so I was thinking maybe I could put them with another fruit (blueberries or boysenberries since I have lots in the freezer) and make some jam. Has anyone done this before? I think they are Damson plums but I'm not sure.
I got some green peppers from the Amish last week and cut those up and put them in the freezer so I can make my grandma's pepper relish since we are on the last jar of that. When I make up a batch it usually lasts a couple of years. At this rate I won't have to make up any relish or jellies/jams/preserves for at least 2-3 years.
I also have all those potatoes I got from the garden. I'm thinking of canning most of those up. I had canned some store bought potatoes in the fall and those were real handy to make some hashbrowns for breakfast. I also have a bunch of hamburger I want to can up too. I don't want to wait until we loose electricity and then say I should have canned it up.
CHICKENS:
The girls are doing fine. We had been giving them watermelon and had a fan on them during the heatwave. Maybe we were giving them a little too much watermelon cause they kind of got the squirts, poor things. We have two that we are going to have to clean their butts up. This is something that we always look forward to...next flock we get will be handled more cause chasing chickens is not a lot of fun.
CATS:
The cats are doing great except Roxy who seems to be feeling his age lately. Penny is loving the outdoors and in all that heat she wanted to go out but she wouldn't come in when you called. Crazy girl! And she crawls under the door to the chickens fenced in area and stays with them. I don't know maybe they have a girl get together :) Tikki has been his lazy self but has been jumping up on the bed after DH leaves in the morning so I can make a fuss over him.
QUILTING:
I worked on a small quilt and got most of the quilting done on it. I just have to bind it and it will be done. I also started quilting on another one and almost have that done except the binding. I knitted up a little pair of footies for me. I only had one little ball of yarn in this particular colorway and thought I would try to make a pair. I even had a little bit left over. The ball only had about 200 yards in it which isn't quite enough to make a decent pair of socks. I have a couple of more 200 yard balls in my stash so I think I will be making some more.
READING:
Right now I'm reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. It's not bad and really interesting that it was written before the Civil War. If you haven't read it, it's about slavery. Some parts kind of slow down the narrative but when you think that the author actually lived during this time and saw these things going on it really makes you think. I have a lot more to read after I get done with this one. I checked my Kindle and I have 7 pages of books on there. Each page is 10 books so that's 70 I have to read. Like I don't have other things that have to get done...
NEW PLACE:
We called around to see how much it would be to put in a water well. The two places we called it was going to be over $6000. Crazy. Of course, it was just a guesstimate because they really don't know how far down they have to drill but that price was the minimum. We have a couple more places to call. Hopefully we can find someone more reasonable. We have decided to get a little cabin. We looked at a few and really liked them. DH is saying now maybe we should have bought a piece of land with a house and well already on it. I could say I told him so but I won't ;) He thought it would be cheaper to get a piece of property and put a cabin on it...ummm NO. We went to Marvin's (a building supply store) today to look around. And we kept saying we need one of those and a few of those and....you get the picture. This cabin is just the shell. If we have extra windows we want to be put in they will put them in for $50 extra but we have to buy the windows. Marvin's has excellent prices but I told DH that we should check at Home Depot and Lowe's because they have returns and scratched and dented things that they put on sale. Now of course I know that windows and doors can't be too dented. You have to be able to open and close them but a few cosmetic scratches doesn't hurt the operation of them and I have seen some pretty good deals before in those stores. Oh and the well situation, we asked about whether they douse (you know when someone goes around with a stick or two metal rods and locates water) and the one driller just laughed. Hey if someone can find water and there is less ground to drill through I think we might try it. Jeez Louise we all aren't made of money. Anyway I remembered that one of my books in the Foxfire set had something about wells in it so I looked and yes in volume #4 there is all about dowsing and well digging. So DH and I decided that we will try to douse. We're not going to dig however. That can be dangerous. Wish us luck! I'll let you know what we find if anything.
Well I think I caught you up on everything for now. I hope to get some pics up soon.
Talk to ya later!
Denise
We finally got rain. I could hear the plants and trees sighing, no actually I could, really. The seeds we planted while waiting for rain all came up so looks like we might be having some cukes and beans after all. DH has off this week and we are going to do some work around the house. We want to finish the floors in the living room and two small bedrooms. And we are going to tear out the carpeting in our bedroom and put down laminate in that room as well. We also have to do all the closet floors. Then DH is going to till the garden again and we are going to plant some more seeds for our fall garden. We have never planted a fall garden so this is all new to us. With the drought, there was one nice thing. Not very many bugs. But then there weren't very many plants either LOL.
I have been getting a lot of little peppers and tomatoes off the garden. I have been freezing them until I have enough to can up some sketti sauce. I found a recipe for hot sauce I want to try since the peppers that survived are all hot ones.
KITCHEN:
I actually canned some plum preserves the other day. DH saw them and decided to buy them. We brought them home, he tasted one and said they are sour and hard as a rock. Yep he was right they are sour and hard as rocks. After spending a couple of hours pitting and chopping them up, I told him do not EVER get these again. My fingers were sore until the next day. But and here's the thing, they made wonderful preserves. I had to taste test them before they were canned LOL. I put them in the slow cooker and let them go on high for about four hours. That softened them up. I still didn't use all of them either so I was thinking maybe I could put them with another fruit (blueberries or boysenberries since I have lots in the freezer) and make some jam. Has anyone done this before? I think they are Damson plums but I'm not sure.
I got some green peppers from the Amish last week and cut those up and put them in the freezer so I can make my grandma's pepper relish since we are on the last jar of that. When I make up a batch it usually lasts a couple of years. At this rate I won't have to make up any relish or jellies/jams/preserves for at least 2-3 years.
I also have all those potatoes I got from the garden. I'm thinking of canning most of those up. I had canned some store bought potatoes in the fall and those were real handy to make some hashbrowns for breakfast. I also have a bunch of hamburger I want to can up too. I don't want to wait until we loose electricity and then say I should have canned it up.
CHICKENS:
The girls are doing fine. We had been giving them watermelon and had a fan on them during the heatwave. Maybe we were giving them a little too much watermelon cause they kind of got the squirts, poor things. We have two that we are going to have to clean their butts up. This is something that we always look forward to...next flock we get will be handled more cause chasing chickens is not a lot of fun.
CATS:
The cats are doing great except Roxy who seems to be feeling his age lately. Penny is loving the outdoors and in all that heat she wanted to go out but she wouldn't come in when you called. Crazy girl! And she crawls under the door to the chickens fenced in area and stays with them. I don't know maybe they have a girl get together :) Tikki has been his lazy self but has been jumping up on the bed after DH leaves in the morning so I can make a fuss over him.
QUILTING:
I worked on a small quilt and got most of the quilting done on it. I just have to bind it and it will be done. I also started quilting on another one and almost have that done except the binding. I knitted up a little pair of footies for me. I only had one little ball of yarn in this particular colorway and thought I would try to make a pair. I even had a little bit left over. The ball only had about 200 yards in it which isn't quite enough to make a decent pair of socks. I have a couple of more 200 yard balls in my stash so I think I will be making some more.
READING:
Right now I'm reading Uncle Tom's Cabin. It's not bad and really interesting that it was written before the Civil War. If you haven't read it, it's about slavery. Some parts kind of slow down the narrative but when you think that the author actually lived during this time and saw these things going on it really makes you think. I have a lot more to read after I get done with this one. I checked my Kindle and I have 7 pages of books on there. Each page is 10 books so that's 70 I have to read. Like I don't have other things that have to get done...
NEW PLACE:
We called around to see how much it would be to put in a water well. The two places we called it was going to be over $6000. Crazy. Of course, it was just a guesstimate because they really don't know how far down they have to drill but that price was the minimum. We have a couple more places to call. Hopefully we can find someone more reasonable. We have decided to get a little cabin. We looked at a few and really liked them. DH is saying now maybe we should have bought a piece of land with a house and well already on it. I could say I told him so but I won't ;) He thought it would be cheaper to get a piece of property and put a cabin on it...ummm NO. We went to Marvin's (a building supply store) today to look around. And we kept saying we need one of those and a few of those and....you get the picture. This cabin is just the shell. If we have extra windows we want to be put in they will put them in for $50 extra but we have to buy the windows. Marvin's has excellent prices but I told DH that we should check at Home Depot and Lowe's because they have returns and scratched and dented things that they put on sale. Now of course I know that windows and doors can't be too dented. You have to be able to open and close them but a few cosmetic scratches doesn't hurt the operation of them and I have seen some pretty good deals before in those stores. Oh and the well situation, we asked about whether they douse (you know when someone goes around with a stick or two metal rods and locates water) and the one driller just laughed. Hey if someone can find water and there is less ground to drill through I think we might try it. Jeez Louise we all aren't made of money. Anyway I remembered that one of my books in the Foxfire set had something about wells in it so I looked and yes in volume #4 there is all about dowsing and well digging. So DH and I decided that we will try to douse. We're not going to dig however. That can be dangerous. Wish us luck! I'll let you know what we find if anything.
Well I think I caught you up on everything for now. I hope to get some pics up soon.
Talk to ya later!
Denise
Monday, July 11, 2011
I took a break...
for a couple of days but now I'm baaaaaak! I didnt go on the computer for a whole 2 1/2 days! I went on Friday and got some peaches and cream corn and canned that (see totals on side bar)...we even had a couple of ears for supper that night. It was really good. It was grown just down the road from me. Nothing like local. None of my popcorn came up this year :( Oh well, there's always next year. Sunflowers didnt come up either...but my squash and cukes are all over the place (have a couple of squash peeking out from under the leaves) and we have tomatoes! They're still green but some of them are turning. Still picking blueberries. I ordered some more potatoes (fingerlings this time) and am waiting for DH to rototill up some rows for me. Kinda hard for him to because of the rain we've been getting on and off. Told him I had to plant them this weekend or they'll rot...got sweet potatoes growing on the windowsill and would like to plant them as well. Dont know if we'll get too many, it is kinda late but worth a shot.
It's been so hot and humid. The air is thick....really thick. Chickens have slowed down on the eggs which is a good thing really. We had so many eggs and I have pickled all we will ever need that I had to throw a couple dozen in the compost. At least it isnt wasting them but it still is upsetting. I think for a couple of people 3-4 hens is all you need. We have 8. We ordered 15 but gave some of them away. Cant imagine having all 15 laying can you?
I go out in the morning to pick berries for a half an hour and come back in and that's when the sweat is just dripping off my face. Never used to have that problem. When I was young I didnt sweat too much, my face would get really red but not much sweat. After I had my hysterectomy though something must have broke loose cause now I sweat A LOT. It's good for my pores I guess LOL.
After I canned the corn, I started sewing. I almost have two quilt tops done. Might get to work on them before the weekend and if I get the quilt tops put together I'll post some pics. I'm on the last book (I think) of the Wheel of Time by R. Jordan. He had died but made notes and another author worked on the last two books. If you have never read his books, give it a try. I really like the characters and it's getting really good in the last book. Final battle coming up...
I'm really bored with food this week. Do any of you have any good recipes? Maybe I'm just tired of my cooking.
Talk to ya later!
Denise
It's been so hot and humid. The air is thick....really thick. Chickens have slowed down on the eggs which is a good thing really. We had so many eggs and I have pickled all we will ever need that I had to throw a couple dozen in the compost. At least it isnt wasting them but it still is upsetting. I think for a couple of people 3-4 hens is all you need. We have 8. We ordered 15 but gave some of them away. Cant imagine having all 15 laying can you?
I go out in the morning to pick berries for a half an hour and come back in and that's when the sweat is just dripping off my face. Never used to have that problem. When I was young I didnt sweat too much, my face would get really red but not much sweat. After I had my hysterectomy though something must have broke loose cause now I sweat A LOT. It's good for my pores I guess LOL.
After I canned the corn, I started sewing. I almost have two quilt tops done. Might get to work on them before the weekend and if I get the quilt tops put together I'll post some pics. I'm on the last book (I think) of the Wheel of Time by R. Jordan. He had died but made notes and another author worked on the last two books. If you have never read his books, give it a try. I really like the characters and it's getting really good in the last book. Final battle coming up...
I'm really bored with food this week. Do any of you have any good recipes? Maybe I'm just tired of my cooking.
Talk to ya later!
Denise
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