I went out last week to a new Indian restaurant with my friend Kathy. It was wonderful. Such a good buffet and the company was great as well. Kathy invited me to her house for Christmas. She told me not to bring anything. Wellllll I really think I should so I got her grandkids some little things to play with. Ha, she can't say anything about that, right?
On Sunday evening I was invited to a Christmas program at the church I used to go to (I'm going to try to go occasionally there but it's 20-25 minutes away from my house). It was a very talented pianist. He teaches music at the local college and he is sooooo good. He did an hour of music and history behind the Christmas songs he played. It was very interesting and entertaining. The preacher called out Encore, Encore! He didn't have anything planned so he played an 80's song and worked up a real sweat doing it.
Today I went and took out my friend, Tammy, for her birthday. I got her a present and she got all choked up. She said most of the time everyone forgets since her birthday is so close to the holidays. We went to the Yellow Deli in Pulaski. If you have one of these restaurants in your area, you have to go. It's delicious. They serve just soup, salad and sandwiches. Reasonably priced and big portions. We even went shopping afterwards to Regenerations just down the street. It has antiques and crafts. I bought a couple of brooches. We had a good time but Tammy's foot was starting to bother her (she had it operated on last week) and I had to get back to work so we called it a day.
Have you been getting out of the house to enjoy family and friends? I hope so. It's important. Life is short, enjoy it while you can!
Denise
PS: Oh yeah I started exercising today. Let's see how long this lasts.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Sewers/sewists looking for fabric? Here you go
I thought you might be interested in a sale that is going on at CraftConn.com. They are retiring and closing their store. Almost everything has been discounted 25%. I have always been pleased with the cloth I have gotten from them. Hate to see anyone closing though but at least it's because they are retiring. They have a full selection of cloth, sewing notions, etc.
http://www.craftconn.com/
PS: I'm not being paid to tell you this, just wanted to pass on a bargain.
http://www.craftconn.com/
PS: I'm not being paid to tell you this, just wanted to pass on a bargain.
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
Sunday, June 10, 2012
What I did on my summer vacation...
We took some time off from work and went on a little mini vacation (just overnight) to Pulaski, TN. It was nice. We couldn't stay away too long from home because of the chickens and overnight was a good little getaway for us. We went to our land so DH could shoot some rounds and then went to the Bluebird Cafe for some lunch. We then went looking for the motel we had looked up on the internet. It was on the other side of Pulaski. It wasn't much just a bed and bath. Although they did have a microwave and fridge. The beds were hard as rocks but we were so tired (why is it that driving around makes you tired?) that we didn't mind. They had Dish on the TV so we got to watch some things we don't get to normally. Then we went looking for a restaurant and found a wonderful one! It is called the Rusty Spur and the food was fresh and tasted wonderful. I had the chicken salad and hubby had to get a complete dinner. The salad was HUGE! It had fresh mushrooms, black olives, cheese, onions, carrots along with mixed greens (not all iceberg lettuce like most places) and a big piece of grilled chicken. We also had fried mushroom appetizer. Those mushrooms were really big. I think you could have made a meal out of them as well but we were hungry so we ate the whole thing :)
We got a paper while we were out to look at our new town's happenings. When we were out at our land we went exploring. We found a gun store not too far and a lot of Amish with signs up selling produce and such. We also stopped and looked a these little cabins and garages in Ethridge. They were very reasonable and the guy was not pushy. I hate pushy salesmen. He even told us to look the buildings over and then check out other businesses that sell the same type of buildings. He said his were really well built and after looking them over we agree.
That night we had a real light show. It rained, it thundered and it lightning'd. (Is that a word? LOL). They had extremely high winds and so we really didn't sleep too well. The next morning we got up and went to the Bluebird Cafe again but this time for breakfast. We had biscuits and gravy and hash browns. It was good and filling too! Then we went back towards Ethridge and stopped at several Amish places to get milk, cabbages, beets and a few odds and ends. We came home then. The next day we still had off from work so we weeded the garden. I picked blueberries (OK I have enough now you can stop producing LOL). We cleaned up the chicken yard. I did four loads of washing and hung them out and then did a load of dishes. We decided we needed to go back to work to rest up ;)
And that's how I spent my summer vacation...That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
We got a paper while we were out to look at our new town's happenings. When we were out at our land we went exploring. We found a gun store not too far and a lot of Amish with signs up selling produce and such. We also stopped and looked a these little cabins and garages in Ethridge. They were very reasonable and the guy was not pushy. I hate pushy salesmen. He even told us to look the buildings over and then check out other businesses that sell the same type of buildings. He said his were really well built and after looking them over we agree.
That night we had a real light show. It rained, it thundered and it lightning'd. (Is that a word? LOL). They had extremely high winds and so we really didn't sleep too well. The next morning we got up and went to the Bluebird Cafe again but this time for breakfast. We had biscuits and gravy and hash browns. It was good and filling too! Then we went back towards Ethridge and stopped at several Amish places to get milk, cabbages, beets and a few odds and ends. We came home then. The next day we still had off from work so we weeded the garden. I picked blueberries (OK I have enough now you can stop producing LOL). We cleaned up the chicken yard. I did four loads of washing and hung them out and then did a load of dishes. We decided we needed to go back to work to rest up ;)
And that's how I spent my summer vacation...That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
My time off
I had such a great three days off! On Monday I worked on piecing together a couple of quilt tops. I didnt get finished with them but I worked on them ;) Tuesday DH had off and we weeded the garden and went out for supper. Then on Wednesday I decided I had had enough of being at home and went shopping. I stopped at the Hobby Lobby to get some more soap fixings for DH and bought some "other things" for me. Yes DH is making soap. I got him a soap maker (it just heats up the glycerin base) and molds so he has something to do on rainy days. I told him he needed a rainy day hobby mostly because I have lots of crafts to do and some I have to concentrate on and I just cant listen to him talk about work all day...lol.
After going to Hobby Lobby I was sooooo hungry I decided to stop in at Dreamland for a salad and iced tea BY MYSELF! Yes I sat there BY MYSELF and ate my lunch. I wasnt the only one there sitting BY MYSELF though. I think if there are any single women reading this they should definitely go to Dreamland at around 1 pm. There are some older gentleman who eat there around this time. They are probably engineers from the Arsenal. Oh that salad was soooo good. I got their smaller salad half chicken and half pork. Iced tea was very good too.
Then I stopped at Kroger cause I had run out of laundry soap. Got the soap and went around to the meat department but didnt see DH. He told me later he was probably back in the cooler or unloading a truck. He hates the cooler and freezer. All in all I had a very nice day. Came home did some laundry and knitted. Who could ask for more?
Then Thursday and Friday and today I am typing, typing and typing. These docs just need to see less people or not see them everyday at least :)
Well I need to get back to typing so take care for now.
Denise
After going to Hobby Lobby I was sooooo hungry I decided to stop in at Dreamland for a salad and iced tea BY MYSELF! Yes I sat there BY MYSELF and ate my lunch. I wasnt the only one there sitting BY MYSELF though. I think if there are any single women reading this they should definitely go to Dreamland at around 1 pm. There are some older gentleman who eat there around this time. They are probably engineers from the Arsenal. Oh that salad was soooo good. I got their smaller salad half chicken and half pork. Iced tea was very good too.
Then I stopped at Kroger cause I had run out of laundry soap. Got the soap and went around to the meat department but didnt see DH. He told me later he was probably back in the cooler or unloading a truck. He hates the cooler and freezer. All in all I had a very nice day. Came home did some laundry and knitted. Who could ask for more?
Then Thursday and Friday and today I am typing, typing and typing. These docs just need to see less people or not see them everyday at least :)
Well I need to get back to typing so take care for now.
Denise
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