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We went out to breakfast, came home and did some chores and work, then went to the range and shot a bunch. Just got cleaned up and we're off to a fancy dinner. Happy Anniversary to the Hashbrowns! Ours is really tomorrow (the 13th), but celebrating the 35th today. Time sure flies when you're having fun!
 
We went out to breakfast, came home and did some chores and work, then went to the range and shot a bunch. Just got cleaned up and we're off to a fancy dinner. Happy Anniversary to the Hashbrowns! Ours is really tomorrow (the 13th), but celebrating the 35th today. Time sure flies when you're having fun!

:heart/flower for you and the Hashbrowns.
 
we went and got the boys a couple pair of shoes and short sets to start off school. they have plenty of winter clothes and both asked for a pair of boots for christmas. then we got home and peeled and diced onions. got 2 batches of sweet onion jam going and a gallon of diced in the freezer. will get the jam canned in the morning and start on some french onion soup and relish . then will load up dehydrators. i actually bought one at walmart today and an onion dicer. that gives me 3 dehydrators.
 
we went and got the boys a couple pair of shoes and short sets to start off school. they have plenty of winter clothes and both asked for a pair of boots for christmas. then we got home and peeled and diced onions. got 2 batches of sweet onion jam going and a gallon of diced in the freezer. will get the jam canned in the morning and start on some french onion soup and relish . then will load up dehydrators. i actually bought one at walmart today and an onion dicer. that gives me 3 dehydrators.


Can you tell us about the recipe of sweet onion jam? It sounds good.
 
Power was off again for about 5 hours... I'm so sick of this. The power company sent an engineer to my home in April because I'd reported them to the alabama public service commission twice since January. He made me 2 promises, one was supposed to happen this summer, it didn't.

It's time to file another complaint with the APSC...
 
Finally finished the deep cleaning of the house at 10.30 pm last night with the deep cleaning of the kitchen, phew we are exhausted and sore.

Started off the morning with our rental inspection and passed with flying colours as usual. DH put on a load of washing before our inspection and hung it on the clothes line and I put on another load after stain removing some clothing. DH hung his load out and I mine and shortly DH will water the rest of the back lawn with saved grey water and head his way back towards the house again with the water as we are trying to get some grass happening in the back yard. We have a few green sprouts though :) .

Shortly I will take a photo of the 100 English lavender stems I dried for an eBay customer and list a custom order for him to purchase.
 
@Patchouli re rental inspection and cleaning we had really bad red dust storms here which covered both the inside and outside of the house in a very fine red dirt dust and we also had the fireplace going so there was a little dust from that also. The house did need a good deep clean as I suffer from allergic asthma to dust and had been on ventolin for near on a week because of it. Usually though for inspections we damp dust, clean windows and blinds, vacuum all the floors and mop and just do our usual weekly clean on the bathroom and toilet with a few swishes in between if needed.

Sorry I didn't answer before as we were busy with deep cleaning the house. On the things I make which are cushion covers, pocket wallets, journal covers, triple layer table placemat sets with drink coasters, triple layer table runners, passport covers and luggage tags and bread bags too. It keeps me busy and we also grow, dry and sell our dried herbs and lavender on the internet as well as saved dried vegetable seeds from the gardens.

We now have rather large bush fires around 50 km south of us and really strong winds fanning it and nothing but very dry drought affected bush and farm land between there and us. The smoke haze is widespread in bands across the mountains and yep you guessed it that gives me allergic asthma too although I haven't had to take medication yet today.
 
Our 35th anniversary is tomorrow and since there won't be much celebrating then (work, grandson has scouts, kids first day back to school), we are celebrating today. Off to do my chores in a minute, then to breakfast. Unfortunately I need to stop in a work for a little bit, But then we'll pack up and go to the range for a shooting day. Then tonight we'll be going out for a nice dinner.

Happy Anniversary, Amish Heart! Thirty five years is something to celebrate. I never lasted that long with someone. So I look up to those who do.
 
I’m sitting around at youngest daughter and famly’s home. 7 grandkids I’d not seen in 2 years. Ad we had birthday cake for GDaugher #2 and I today. So now just relaxing, more than I do at home and enjoying nap time near silence before everyone is up and playing again.

I am happy to know that you and your daughter are back together again. I guess I didn't remember that happening. 7 grandkids??? Wow, that is a few. That is one thing I will never be or know, but I am fine with it. Hope you have a happy birthday and glad to know you are having a special day.
 
Finally finished the deep cleaning of the house at 10.30 pm last night with the deep cleaning of the kitchen, phew we are exhausted and sore.

Started off the morning with our rental inspection and passed with flying colours as usual. DH put on a load of washing before our inspection and hung it on the clothes line and I put on another load after stain removing some clothing. DH hung his load out and I mine and shortly DH will water the rest of the back lawn with saved grey water and head his way back towards the house again with the water as we are trying to get some grass happening in the back yard. We have a few green sprouts though :) .

Shortly I will take a photo of the 100 English lavender stems I dried for an eBay customer and list a custom order for him to purchase.

Do you have an eBay store? If so what is your link to it? I buy a lot there.
 
Hi @katlupe and we live in Australia but I do sell on eBay under the seller name sewingcreations15 but don't have a paid shop on there. You can go to the title page on ebay and do an advanced search by seller and you will find me there.

I hope this helps and I also buy a lot of things off there too as we live in a small country town that is incredibly expensive for most things so it is far cheaper to buy off there than locally here.
 
Hi @katlupe and we live in Australia but I do sell on eBay under the seller name sewingcreations15 but don't have a paid shop on there. You can go to the title page on ebay and do an advanced search by seller and you will find me there.

I hope this helps and I also buy a lot of things off there too as we live in a small country town that is incredibly expensive for most things so it is far cheaper to buy off there than locally here.
I have decorated my apartment almost completely from eBay and some other things from Amazon. I love online shopping!
 
@katlupe then we have something in common most things in our home are purchased off there too and the occasional thing locally. Most of our shed garden machinery comes from there along with our kitchen appliances too. Clothing also is far cheaper on there for us to buy and we buy most of our high ankle work boots on there as they are around $150 per pair cheaper than we can buy them locally here.
 
Just freezing sweet peppers that I bought for $1 each. Couldn't pass up the price lol I got nice big red, yellow and green ones. No orange but I'm growing purple ones and that makes a nice colorful group to use for cooking
 
@katlupe then we have something in common most things in our home are purchased off there too and the occasional thing locally. Most of our shed garden machinery comes from there along with our kitchen appliances too. Clothing also is far cheaper on there for us to buy and we buy most of our high ankle work boots on there as they are around $150 per pair cheaper than we can buy them locally here.

Almost everything I buy is online, sometimes I get to a thrift store, but for the most part I am an online shopper. I can always find exactly what I need online. Today I bought a new purse on eBay and I need one badly. So I found one that is brightly colored and unique and I would have never found one like that locally. All the components of my alternative energy system were bought online also. Many on eBay and Amazon. Best prices and they always have what you are looking for. If not, they will get it. I even shop at Walmart online. I bought my air conditioner there when I moved in here and I am glad I did. I went looking for one for son locally the other day, and not one to had that was less than $400.. So I got him one on Amazon.
 
Today, I am still working in my apartment getting things organized and put away. I had some visitors earlier, my neighbors, who were dying to meet Rabbit. I saw them by the elevator and called them in because I knew he was not sleeping and would come out to see them. He did. And the woman, is in love! My little bunny boy has that affect on people.
 
sure. it calls for carmelized onions ,so right now i have 40 cups in the big roasting pan with butter. tomorrow morning i will can it up. i will also post the recipe. i know it calls for balsamic vinegar and brown sugar.

What do you use it on? Or for?
 
Been busy again,had to take the cat to the vet to get spaded,then go back to get her. Then went to town to get 4 bags of cracked corn for the ducks,a few groceries for the wife, a quick connect chain link to fix my beagle's chain,put some gas in the truck and more gas in the can for the mower. When I got home I had to go next door to let his dog out,fix the chain,dump the 4 bags of corn into the barrels and let the neighbors dog back in. I finally got a chance to check things out on here but need to get something to eat since I haven't had anything yet today and it's 3:18pm,plus I need to roll some more "cancer sticks". Needless to say,I'm not doing much the rest of the day since I only got about 4 hours of sleep last night.
 
@katlupe it is hard when you move to a different place and have a change of circumstance too but like us sometimes a change of scenery is the best thing that can happen in our lives :) . Trying to get organised and downsizing is a task in itself as you never realise how much stuff you really have. We downsized from a double storey 22 square metre house to a 10 square metre old workers cottage. It is a challenge spatially here but we have managed and it is particularly handy that the property has a 3 bay undercover closed in garage to store ride on mowers and other garden equipment too. The land size is much bigger here being 1/2 an acre verses 856 square metres in the previous property. We have much more room for growing our vegetable gardens here and are much more able to be more self sufficient with both more water storage and land available to us.

We have learnt to use every space by stacking food upwards and installing gorilla shelving for tinned food storage works well. Looking forward however to when we can buy our own home though so we have more space than we have here.
 
Part 1 of today we have warmed up after negative 4 oc brrr start to the morning and had a couple of cups of hot chocolate with water heated on the slow combustion fireplace. Then sorted some lavender stems for a customer order and packaged them in a recycled box we had here and cushioned them with saved bubble wrap from other packages we have received here. Then onto packaging some more dried thyme picked and dried from the gardens and we will post both the lavender and the dried thyme tomorrow.

About to go out and harvest the rest of the tomatoes off the dying vines and then wash the ripe ones we have in a bowl inside and put them on baking paper in the freezer to freeze and the rest we will leave in the bowl to ripen and repeat the process.
 
Part 2 of today is that we harvested 130 English lavender stems and 20 more French Lavender stems from the gardens and hung them to dry and also picked 1.1 kg of cherry tomatoes from the gardens with about half slightly under ripe which we will leave in the bowl to ripen indoors.

Out to the gardens where we dug up and separated onion seedlings growing too close together into another garden bed and still got another half to go tomorrow.

Tonight's dinner was a mince stir fry with turnips, silver beet and sweet potato picked and frozen from the gardens and dessert is the last third of our blueberry pie we made.
 

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