Just feel like typing

This is one of those nights. I could go for a smoke. Now I know it isn't healthy and it smells and of course it is expensive. But it still doesn't mean that I could sure go for one right now. I have been smoke free for 2 years, 2 months and 2 days in just about an hour. I think that for the rest of my life I will still want to have a smoke. I smoked more of my life then not. But since I am doing something else with my hands, ie; typing the craving will pass.

Lets see, I got all of mouthy monsters bedding washed. Its a good thing as we are suppose to get rain tomorrow. Teenage monsters bedding is next but that will have to wait till Friday.

I got 9 pints of hamburger pressure canned. While I was babysitting the canner I started to make another cleaning cloth. This one is variegated blue for the bathroom. Got almost half done. So now I need to find something else to go in the canner so I can finish... LOL!

We went for Mexican tonight. I always eat way to much. But it is an indulgence of once a month. I did do my boxing exercising this morning so its ok.

See the craving is all gone.

Gotta Run,
Yart

Not so Wordless Wednesday

I went to K-mart yesterday to get some of the chicken that was on sale. They had 2 packages left and both were frozen solid. The ad didn't say previously frozen or completely frozen. So I didn't get any.

Bingo ended up being not so bad after all. The woman that I was to shadow all night was a lot of fun. And I did learn quite a bit. I stood with her as she did her calling set. So that was kewl! Then clean up only took like 15 minutes. So I was there for about 3 1/2 hours. Not bad. Only 2 more times to go! WooHoo!

I have hamburger cooking as I type. I'm hoping to get it into the canner today. I have a full day tomorrow. Then it is the weekend again. And I have a dinner at the Post that I have to attend. I am hoping that it will be over with quickly. As I would rather be doing something else. But this will be the last of this type of dinner as it was free and we still can't get people to show up. What a shame.

Summer will slow down at the post as there is not that much for me to do. But that doesn't mean that I will be laying around eating bon bon's all day... LOL! I should only have to be down there maybe twice a month all summer.

I found a recipe for strawberry syrup and I think that I will make it out of the berries that are in the freezer. Get that type of stuff done so then when its cold again the monsters can put it on their oatmeal. Teenage monster really likes the orange jelly. She has been eating that. Which is good cause I would hate to make stuff no one will eat.

DH hung the clothes line outside for me but the weather has just been miserable well at least on the days that I need to hang laundry... LOL! I think that I will be doing mouthy monsters bedding today. Get the small stuff done first then I feel like I've accomplished something.

Sorry my thoughts are so scrambled today. Even my morning coffee did nothing to help. Maybe it is just going to be one of those days.

Gotta Run,
Yart

Tuesday's Musings

Chores, chores, and more chores! They never seem to get done. I am doing laundry again or should I say still. This morning I went and got 4 more boxes of candy bars to sell. I know I said I was going to get 2 but we should be able to do the 4. Cleaned out the kitty litter box.... Ewwwwww! I got a new head for the mop so I can mop the basement floor.

I pulled out the 2 - 5pound chubs of hamburger that I bought a couple of weeks ago. I figure I can get it cooked tonight after bingo. Then it can sit in the fridge overnight to de-fat and I can can it in the morning. K-mart also has chicken breasts on for $1 a pound. I think I am going to get some to can up. The only meat I have canned right now is hamburger that I did and corned beef and ham that I bought canned. Need a bit more variety.

I noticed that since I have been doing this blog I am doing less and less posting each month. So I am going to try and rectify that. Even if I just do the wordless wednesday's and the like.

Gotta Run,
Yart

Monday Rambling's

I was going to get on here yesterday and say how fast the weekend flew by. Well, this week seems to be going like crazy too.

The last fish fry was good. We sold 55 dinners! And we are done now until September. I am very happy as are the other women. The post did really good with all of the dinners. After the dinner was over and the last dish was put away, we sat down and relaxed. Then DH took me to another post where we met up with some friends. They told us about a run that was planned for in the morning.

Saturday morning at 6:30 DH and I are up getting ready to meet up with everyone at the restaurant. Cause we were heading out to a Blessing of the Bikes! What that means is we went to where there were people who blessed each and every bike that was there. They were fairly quick as over 500 bikes were in attendance. We then went to an eating establishment to get hotdogs and soda's for free. All in all we put on over 100 miles that day. My face and chest where my shirt didn't cover got totally sunburned. Didn't realize that the sun was that hot or bright.

Sunday, didn't feel well cause of the sunburn. Went to look for yardsales not to many going on. Then went for a 2 hour drive. Came home and cooked BBQ Chicken on the grill. Took the kids for a walk and played with my new WII game.

Gold's Gym is a boxing game for the WII. I did really well with it. I even did it again tonight. DH likes it too. So I think that this will be a game we both will play.

Went to the dollar store today. Didn't get to much but I did buy a few extra's like razors, shampoo, mints & handy wipes.

We need to sell some more candy bars for the band camp thing. I am hoping to get 2 more cases tomorrow. I also have to work a bingo. I have to do 3 of them as that is the manditory so that I don't have to pay an additional $125. So this will be the first bingo I have worked since I was a teenager. Loads of fun!

Gotta Run,
Yart

Canning Jars and Jam

Wordless Wednesday!

Some of the canning jars I got


Banana Jam and BanBerry Jam

Knitting Adventures

I think I said before that I wanted to learn to knit. I am a visual learner so it is very hard for me to look at a book and go oh is that all I need to do. It doesn't work for me like that. So I have been searching for a way to do this on my own. Well, I was able to find a couple of really good sites to help me.

The first one is Knitting Help.com, the other is the Knit Witch both offer videos that show you just what to do.

Here is what I was able to do, I am calling it a cleaning cloth. It is all knitted. There is no purling. That will be some time down the road. I just want to get this skill down before I try and learn the next step.


I finally made bread tonight. It has been like 3 weeks since I made any. I just kept putting it off. I made granola last night and I got all the laundry done today. As well, as the bathroom. So there was nothing left to do other then work on the other cleaning cloth...LOL! Since I can work on that while watching TV tonight I figured it was time to make the bread. At least it is on its last rise so it will be done very soon. Plus, with all of the work that will be happening here over the next few days it will be nice to have it.

I think I am going to work on cleaning some more of the basement. Looking for more places to put my preps!

Gotta Run,
Yart

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