Cleaning

Winter in my heart.... LOL! I wish winter would leave. The snow is almost finally gone. We have had rain all day. But the cold temps and snow are suppose to return starting tomorrow. With the last 2 days of warmth. I know that spring is just around the corner.
I am just popping in to say that I have been cleaning like crazy. My bedroom is first. With the warmth of the past couple of days I got the bug to start spring cleaning. I got about 85% of it done. I will finish it up tonight. I have the old bedding washing as we speak.
Had a meeting down at the legion this morning. That is why I am behind on everything. But that is all I have to do with them other then the fish fry's on friday's until next month. Woo Hoo! Just getting a little run down from all this stuff. I don't know if I want to be president next year or not? I guess that is the million dollar question.
Yesterday ran to the butcher to pickup something for dinner. I got 3 bone in pork roasts at $1.18 a pound. Cooked on last night and put the other 2 in the freezer. That way I have stuff to put into jars once my pressure canner gets here. Which should be tomorrow or friday. Can't wait. Then I have to get the gauge tested. Hopefully, I can get that done this week. I want to start PCing this weekend. My jars are all waiting.
I got on the treadmill last night. Did another mile. I am hopeing to get back into the wii and the other game tonight. Keeping fingers crossed that I will have the energy. Teenage monster and I watched biggest loser last night. That helps to motivate me.
Well, that is about it for now. The laundry is calling!
Yart

Monday Bread's

So I got most of what I wanted to do done today. 4 loaves of bread and pita's for dinner. I think I am really getting the hang of making the bread. It didn't need a lot of kneading this time. I left it in the mixer for a longer time. This seemed to be the key. The pitas turned out really well. Almost all of them pocketed. So everyone was happy. Yeah!
Got laundry sorted, dishes and more crocheting done. Only 6 more skeins to go. I hope that I can get it done before the weather changes. I don't want to be in the house when it finally warms up. I have to go and get potting soil. It is on sale for like .87 cents for a 5 pound bag. I only need a couple so it won't be to expensive. Then I can get my pea seeds started for the challenge. I am also hoping to do some winter sowing outside. If the weather holds for the rest of the week I should be able to get them started as well.
Started to exercise again. Did 1 mile on the treadmill and my legs felt like they were going to fall off. It's funny, I did work out a couple of times last week. But it didn't feel like it today. I still am hoping to get on the Wii tonight. Keeping fingers crossed. I have a head ache. Wondering if I exercise if it will go away. I went to My Virtual Model. Here is what I look like:


Soon I will have a new picture up here with the way I look after all of the exercise.

Well, that about does it for tonight,
Yart

Sunday Night

Ok, I wasn't going to post tonight as I am just plain tired out. I worked at the Legion all day. I left here at 10 am to get home at 6 pm. Long day that wasn't that forfilling. We didn't get the crowd we were hoping for. So that really sucked the energy right out of me. But I was smart enough to put a roast in the crock pot before I left this morning. So when I got home dinner was already to go on the table.
After dinner I figured that I would just veg on the computer and read my mail and bugger off. Well, the laundry started nagging me. So off I went to get that done as I don't know if I will have time to do it tomorrow. I got 3 loads done and hung. Woo Hoo!
Then back to the computer I came. Looking at some of the survival sites and homesteading sites there was a common theme. The end of life as we know it is just around the corner. And I suddenly feel like the grasshopper and not the ant. I want to be the ant. I know that sounds funny I have been working towards this goal but when I read things like that I get all paniky and want to jump into high gear even though I can't.... for a number of reasons..... which all will seem really stupid when the SHTF. So I sat here and found some really good informational web sites. I will make another post later with those. To help me regain some type of footing. My family will be fine I know this deep down. It's just with all of the talk and happenings with the economy it bothers me. But that is what keeps me motivated to become the ant.
One of the things I have to do tomorrow is get a gift card so that I can finally order my pressure canner. I have only been trying to get one for 8 months. I know should have had one years ago. But I digress. I have already made a list of what I want to make to put up on the shelves.

Chicken barley soup
Chicken soup (carrots, onion, celery)
Beef soup (carrots, onion, celery)
Beef and Veg soup
Beed and barley soup
Bean and Ham soup
Turkey soup (carrots, onion, celery)
Beef broth
Chicken broth
Turkey broth
BBQ Pork
BBQ Chicken
Chili
Spaghetti sauce
Beans plain
Pork and Beans
Bush's type of beans
Meat

I can't wait.... I don't even know what I will make first.... LOL! Maybe the turkey broth and soup. I have the bones in the freezer from the Christmas bird. I want to try and get most of my large freezer canned. That way if we were to have a power outage or something else happen I won't loose all of that food.
Well, I think I have rambled enough for tonight. I have to get up early in the morning.
Huggles
Yart

Weekend Ramblings

I was so sick yesterday. I spent most of the day in bed. When I got up it was time to start driving the monsters to their appropriate destinations. So after they were all dropped off then we had to kill some time. We went to Target. I picked up some clearance items. I got some fireplace matches, window cleaner, long handle green onion and pea seeds to plant, I got a couple of other things but I can't remember what. Old age is such a pain. LOL! I need to get some potting soil so that I can get started on the winter sowing of the seeds.
Went and got the pork chops for the dinner at the legion tomorrow. They are very nice looking chops. I hope that we get a lot of people come in for dinner. We need to get someone to walk around and do the 50/50. It is going to be a long day, I have to be up there at 10 and not get home until after 6. I am going to throw an english roast into the crockpot for dinner. That way it will be ready when I get home.
I'll post more later.
Yart

Nightly Ramblings

Went up to the legion today, then had to go and do shopping for the pork chop dinner Sunday. I am sure glad that is all done. I have my meeting tonight. That I am hoping will be over in less then an hour. Keeping fingers crossed. I don't feel well today.

I had to relent to the pleas of the family. I have stopped making dried onions and moved on to making fruit leather. One tray has strawberry and the other has applesauce. Hoping that the house starts to smell better. I still have onions to do. But I will try and get more of them done next week. Maybe by then I can open a window or something.... LOL!

Yart

Happy Anniversary!

Today is my 15th wedding anniversary! It hasn't always been easy or fun but it always has been an adventure. My darling Dh and I have been together for 20 years.... Wow! Where does the time go. I remember making plans for the future, when we would get a house, have kids, places we would travel to and things we would see. That was yesterday right? 3 kids later, a house in suburbia, a few animals and still looking to the future dreams, I think we have done really good with what our lot in life.

I am on my second day of onions. The whole house smells like onions. When I ran out to get some thing earlier I smelled like a line-backer that hadn't showered in weeks. Pewwww! So tomorrow I am going to take a break from the onions and do some garlic that I found that fell out of sight. I already cleaned it. Just cut it up and put into the dehydrator. Well, maybe I will add a tray or two of onions... LOL! I still have a ton to do and just found out my mom still has most of her bag also. So gotta get crackin'!

Tomorrow I have to make cherry nut bread. I have the recipe written down. So I have to find it before I can post it on here. The monsters opened up a big jar of marachino cherries now I have to use it up. But that is ok, I can freeze the loaves we won't use right away. I think I am going to finally make that applesauce bread also. I am hoping to get away with not having to make sandwich bread till the weekend. I only have Saturday to get it done. As Sunday I have a pork chop dinner at the Legion to attend. We the auxiliary are hosting so I can't miss. That is ok, as I won't be there for the fish fry this week. To many other responsibilities, this week.

Got all of my laundry caught up. Now I have turned my attention to the monsters room. Boy, oh boy! What a mess it is. We are going to go through all of the clothes, toys and garbage. I hope to be done with thier room by Wednesday of next week. I have to wash the walls, wash the carpet, move funiture.... all the fun stuff. Mouthy monster's room isn't to bad. Will get that done by next weekend. Plus I have to get all of the bedding washed. I love having the extra clothes line. It make washing the linens so much easier.

Talk to you all later
Yart

February

It has just been hectic here over the past couple of days. Where to start.... Cardinals lost... But that is ok. I really didn't care. I was just rooting for the underdog. So Yeah Steelers... LOL! The super bowl party we went to was fun. Lots of friends were there. Lots to drink.... That is why I didn't post yesterday... LOL! I was too hung over to want to sit in the cold and type.

Ok, I got out the dehydrator and cut up onions. I have a 50lb bag that I put up for winter well, they need to be used up now before the weather changes and they all go bad. So this is the first item. I cut up enough for all 4 trays. I plug it in, then say to Dh this is the quitest one I have ever seen. We went out cause it says 6 - 12 hours. So I figured I had plenty of time. We get home and I check them as it was like 3 hours later....hmmmmm! Something doesn't look right. I flip the thing over and the fan thing isn't moving. I move it to a different plug... Nothing. Now I realize that it isn't working. I call the 800 number. They say all I should have to do is plug it in. So now I have to take off all of the onions and pack the thing back up to take back to the store. I take it back and explain how I know it doesn't work and why it smells like onions. They give me a store credit just in case they don't have anymore on the shelve. Sweet I know. But luckily there was one for me. So got back home and replaced all of the onions and it is really quite but this time Dh checked to make sure it worked. LOL! Once I get this batch done I will take pictures cause I still have the rest of the bag and some potatoes to do also. But I think that I will be working on the onions for the next month.

One of my friends over the weekend bought some knit hats with patches on them. The patches were just stuck on so he is coming over so I can sew them for him. LOL! That is ok, cause this falls into the whole I need to learn how to sew better skill learning. I think he has 4 of them so I should be able to get it done in just a couple of minutes.

I have been very bad this weekend. I only exercise on Friday. I haven't done anything since. I had to work on the laundry today and I am already sore from hanging it. So I know I am going to pay for having missed 3 days. My Wii is going to yell at me. LOL!

I can't wait for Monsters -vs- Aliens. It is a pixarmovie... Also is of the child type movie. It looks really cute. I like the kids movies and comedies, some horror. I use to watch every horror movie that ever came out. Now not so much. Not sure what changed now I guess I'm not that in to them.

Fringe is on tonight so I have so much to do before that comes on. I better go.....
Yart