What's everybody doing today?

[tiffanysgallery]

Rain and thunderstorms here today.

RIP Aretha Franklin, the 'Queen of Soul'.
Pancreatic cancer at age 76.

Sunday, August 19, 2018
Alaska Bush People
Season 8
Discovery network

 

[timmie]

finally got all those onions peeled. daughter is chopping the last of them and in the freezer they go. tomorrow we are going to pick pears. then we are going back by neighbors and get more taters for us and watermelons for the animals. but i do have a question for you guys and gals. the lady has more onions than she or i know what to do with. i thought i would take some to center for handicapped people and some to the senior citizens center. i have more than i need but i was thinking of getting some more for dehydrating. i just hate to see anything ruin,but a lot of them are. any more ideas?

 

[Swing]

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.

Already that's sounding good. But I like onions.

 

[Swing]

finally got all those onions peeled. daughter is chopping the last of them and in the freezer they go. tomorrow we are going to pick pears. then we are going back by neighbors and get more taters for us and watermelons for the animals. but i do have a question for you guys and gals. the lady has more onions than she or i know what to do with. i thought i would take some to center for handicapped people and some to the senior citizens center. i have more than i need but i was thinking of getting some more for dehydrating. i just hate to see anything ruin,but a lot of them are. any more ideas?

Nursing homes? Schools, private schools, day cares, teen detention centers. Ah!!!! Soup Kitchens, and pantries done by churches for those without.

Seems you have you for pretty well covered.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Been cleaning things out.
Monday defrosted the small chest freezer.
Put everything I could in the refrig. freezer it's full.
Made my new updated master list for small chest freezer.
Will be ordering meat bundle this month.
Tuesday cleaned the kitchen pantry.
Took everything out, got rid of cabinet that was in there.
Now all that is in there is vacuum, carpet cleaning machine, steam clean mop, trash can.
Feels good getting stamina back after surgery.
Today cleaned hallway linen closet.
Got rid of torn worn towels, washcloths, rugs,sheets.
Closet looks so much better.
And have exactly what I need.
Toilet paper,kleenex,extra baby supplies, diapers,baby crib sheets etc.
Put together Estelle's high chair, no more of her walking around eating.
Drives me nuts, some days it;s a short trip.
Might start on the file cabinet in the bottom of my closet after Physical Therapy tomorrow.
Get the external stitches out Tuesday morning at 0830 hours.
The compression hose go in trash Friday of next week.
Finally finished all the antibiotics for the infection.
Things are looking up, still not sleeping well, oh well.
If you suffer from Chronic Fatigue and Insomia they do not cancel each other.
Yes, I stop and take a nap, not pushing the exercises on the left knee.

 

[Swing]

@MoBookworm1957 Just reading that makes me tired. You must be an energizer bunny.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

@MoBookworm1957 Just reading that makes me tired. You must be an energizer bunny.

Not the energizer bunny, but it has been a long 6 weeks since 5 July 2018.
When I had total knee replacement, bacterial infection,in and out of hospital.
I do Physical Therapy MWF for 12 weeks.
Then will have to decide if I will watch grand daughter full time.
I want to enjoy her, not for her to become a chore.
She may be my only grand child, I want to teach her so many things.

 

[Grimm]

Just wanted to check in and let my 'family' here now I am alive. Just dealing with the back to school craziness.

Roo started school this week. They were suppose to start last week but the teachers were on strike. I'd rather it be at the start of the year then in the middle.

All Roo's friends are having their birthdays so I have been dragged to a bunch of birthday parties. We have another one on Saturday so that will be 'fun'. K seems to always work overtime on party days so I get stuck with party duty. What fun...!

I have been working slowly to rebuild our pantry stores. With the change in my diet (and by proxy the family's) a lot of our normal stores had to go. Plus Juju is almost 2 yrs old and her diet has changed a lot. I and also stocking our freezer with fast healthy homemade foods I can grab for the girls when time is tight. I spent the summer and spring testing tons of pancake, muffin and quiche recipes. So far everyone loves the Starbucks copycat pumpkin bread and the Betty Crocker banana bread. Monthly Costco trip planned for Sunday when K will be home to help.

We finally booked a family vacation. It is a big trip to Disneyland for Christmas 2019. We took Roo for her first big trip when she was 3 and got annual passes for the following 2 years. Then Juju came along. We decided to go bigger for Juju's first trip at 3 so both Roo and Juju can have big memories. Just like when Roo went I plan to make a bunch of character dresses for them to wear and get fawned over because of. Roo is excited about that bit because I was thinking of making them Elsa and Anna (the sisters from Frozen) dresses. Not the standard dresses everyone has for their girls from the store but the toddler dresses from the beginning of the movie, the birthday dresses from the short Frozen Fever and the Christmas outfits from Olaf's Frozen Adventure. Big plans for this trip and plenty of time to get it done and saved for.

I am trying some of those money earning/savings tricks we have all seen on blogs to pay for this trip. The goal is to save double the actual trip expenses to cover any unexpected costs. I am also using online surveys and tests to earn extra money. So far I have a fifth of the costs saved just from the surveys (yes, it is real cash in hand not digital funds). Once the trip is closer I'll share more on how much I saved/earned and what sites I used.

Still trying to get rid of junk but then we seem to find more. I swear it multiples like rabbits!

We now have 2 dryers and 2 washers hogging room in the garage. Both dryers work and one is gas and the other is electric (the woes of being a renter). One washer just took a dump and I plan to have it fixed and the other is brand new to replace it. When the old washer died we had to do some of our laundry by hand until the new one arrived. I used a wash tub and the rapid washer I got when we were living in the cabin. K laughed at me back then and even tried to get rid of it a few times. Now he is kicking himself. And yes , I made him use it!

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Started off the morning with DH watering part of one side of the house with the saved grey water from our showers and washing machine. I then stain removed some clothing and put on a load of washing and hung it on the line, brought it back inside when dried and watered some more of the lawns with saved grey water from our showers and washing machine.

Then off to post a table runner and 5 layer cotton eye mask I sold on the internet in the post box. Back home again where I deep cleaned the bathroom and toilet for another week. Then we washed the broccoli we picked the other day, soaked it in salty water and steamed it on the slow combustion fireplace and it is currently cooling in iced water. DH then banked his tax refund cheque and I paid my credit card out to $0 balance again and DH and I then purchased 6 x $240 e-vouchers for $200 each on eBay for our local grocery store saving us $240 on grocery costs.

DH is making our Friday special of homemade pizza for a few days dinners.

 

[NannyPatty]

Headed to work, again! Hopefully a slower day today! I need one!

 

[timmie]

going to pick pears today,check on parents, and then head back home to get started on pears and whatever else i find along the way.

 

[katlupe]

A surge protector is a layer of protection. It is not 100% protection.
Cheap surge protectors will allow current to pass thought when the surge protector has failed. You think you are still protected but are not. Quality surge protectors will NOT allow current to pass.

A wall light switch is rated at 300 volts. So if the switch is off, that will stop lightning? No it will not.

Also lighting can come in your phone line, Cable/satellite coaxial cable, metal chimney flue, tree and jump from one to another.

So I will keep doing what I have been doing. Unplug everything, including my air conditioner. It is a pain, but not as much trouble as replacing my equipment. Which I can not do now.

 

[Meerkat]

Been cleaning things out.
Monday defrosted the small chest freezer.
Put everything I could in the refrig. freezer it's full.
Made my new updated master list for small chest freezer.
Will be ordering meat bundle this month.
Tuesday cleaned the kitchen pantry.
Took everything out, got rid of cabinet that was in there.
Now all that is in there is vacuum, carpet cleaning machine, steam clean mop, trash can.
Feels good getting stamina back after surgery.
Today cleaned hallway linen closet.
Got rid of torn worn towels, washcloths, rugs,sheets.
Closet looks so much better.
And have exactly what I need.
Toilet paper,kleenex,extra baby supplies, diapers,baby crib sheets etc.
Put together Estelle's high chair, no more of her walking around eating.
Drives me nuts, some days it;s a short trip.
Might start on the file cabinet in the bottom of my closet after Physical Therapy tomorrow.
Get the external stitches out Tuesday morning at 0830 hours.
The compression hose go in trash Friday of next week.
Finally finished all the antibiotics for the infection.
Things are looking up, still not sleeping well, oh well.
If you suffer from Chronic Fatigue and Insomia they do not cancel each other.
Yes, I stop and take a nap, not pushing the exercises on the left knee.

Glad your doing so much better MoB. .

 

[Meerkat]

A surge protector is a layer of protection. It is not 100% protection.
Cheap surge protectors will allow current to pass thought when the surge protector has failed. You think you are still protected but are not. Quality surge protectors will NOT allow current to pass.

A wall light switch is rated at 300 volts. So if the switch is off, that will stop lightning? No it will not.

Also lighting can come in your phone line, Cable/satellite coaxial cable, metal chimney flue, tree and jump from one to another.

This helps explain it too. We still have our solar stored too much other things going on.
But if memory serves me, fuses are the best bet. But this video is the best I found for explaining it, really good one, imo. If you want skip to the last several minutes of video. Skip to about 18:00 section.

https://youtu.be/3dckmSgp1nw

 

[Meerkat]

So I will keep doing what I have been doing. Unplug everything, including my air conditioner. It is a pain, but not as much trouble as replacing my equipment. Which I can not do now.

 

[Meerkat]

Today is vacuum ,mop so far I have done half the house this morning, in between posting of course.

I can really tell the cigs are doing a number on me. .

 

[WVDragonlady]

Today is vacuum ,mop so far I have done half the house this morning, in between posting of course.

I can really tell the cigs are doing a number on me. .

Best thing I ever did was stop smoking

 

[Meerkat]

Best thing I ever did was stop smoking

That is great WVD, hope to join you soon.
I'm working on it, have slowed down alot. Dr.said at my age not to quit cold turkey. So plan is to quit by November 15th.

 

[Swing]

That is great WVD, hope to join you soon.
I'm working on it, have slowed down alot. Dr.said at my age not to quit cold turkey. So plan is to quit by November 15th.

Best wishes on meeting your goal. That would save you so much money in cigarettes and doctors. I sure hope we can celebrate the quitting with you later this year.

 

[timmie]

we didn't get the pears today ,family emergency, but will do so tomorrow. we did finish with the onions. 25 gallon bags in the freezer for canning recipes when it cools down some. got to get an outside kitchen. hubby picked about 3 gallons of maters,4 gallons of okra and daughter picked 2 dishpans of banana,jalepeno,and tobasco pepper with more to pick tomorrow. it is supposed to be slowing down but i think that garden went into high gear. plus i still have herbs to gather.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@katlupe that is what I do is unplug everything when not in use or if we here a storm coming too. My laptop got fried a couple of years ago but the storm was nowhere near us but we did get a power surge.

I will ask friend if she wants her selling details put on facebook. I know she hasn't yet got to international postage so at the moment it would be postage within Australia only. She was too confused as it was with me explaining Australian postage so I told her we would work up to International postage later after she gets a letter gauge from the post office to judge costs of Australian letters.

Thank you for your kind offer though it is very much appreciated .

 

[Tank-Girl]

Big day already and resting up with nice cold water.

Hand pollinated the zucchini, applied a fresh portion of fertiliser and trimmed off the diseases leaves.
I knew the gold zucchini were weak plants with slow growth and minimal production but
wow in the last week they look really rough. Hopefully the new dose of fertiliser will perk them up.

Dug a deep hole and buried a dead chicken I found when I went out to feed them this morning. I think
it got bitten by Johny Death the Brown snake. This time of year they are starting to get active with the warmer
weather and they are even more bad tempered than usual when they wake up from winter sleep.
No walking around outside at night without a torch and gumboots from now on.

Made up some seedling potting soil to plant my cherry tomatoes, okra, rosellas,
melons, spanish collards and summer zucchini tomorrow.
The moon chart says that tomorrow is the right time to plant greens and plants that set
fruit.

I've gone back to the traditional rosellas because the newer, bigger variety has had all the
pectin bred out of them.
No way could I get the jam to set using the new variety rosellas using the traditional fool proof recipe.
So, it's a return to tradition and a new appreciation of - If it isn't broken, don't fix it.
It'll be 6 months after planting this older variety to get a harvest but good things are worth the wait.

Trialled a new refrigerator zucchini pickle.
It seems that if I use the more mature zucchini I have to scrape out the center
because the texture is too mushy even over night.
The out side layer and skin are still crisp and the pickle it's self
is delicious.
The recipe is a keeper but my technique needs work.

Broad beans were a complete fail.
I gather it's too hot here even in winter for them.
Live and learn.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Glad your doing so much better MoB. .

Thank you

 

[snappy1]

Canned Baked Beans today. And housework. Slow day.

 

[Meerkat]

Today got beat worse than ever on a Rummy card game with hubby.
Played to 1000, he was 1060 to my 550! I've never lost that bad and the longer it lasted the worse it got. Of course he was loving it!

 

[Swing]

we didn't get the pears today ,family emergency, but will do so tomorrow. we did finish with the onions. 25 gallon bags in the freezer for canning recipes when it cools down some. got to get an outside kitchen. hubby picked about 3 gallons of maters,4 gallons of okra and daughter picked 2 dishpans of banana,jalepeno,and tobasco pepper with more to pick tomorrow. it is supposed to be slowing down but i think that garden went into high gear. plus i still have herbs to gather.

I wish we had more than just LIKE for the options on a thread. I still say WOW! Sorry you had a family emergency, hope all is okay now. How big is your garden?

 

[timmie]

I wish we had more than just LIKE for the options on a thread. I still say WOW! Sorry you had a family emergency, hope all is okay now. How big is your garden?

we have 3. each one is small in my book. i have had bigger. i would say maybe half an acre for all 3.i guess it;s true that smaller you can take care of better. because hubby has been taking care of this one pretty much on his own,because i have been busy putting up the produce.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Started off the morning with DH sweeping the floors for the week and we then changed the bed and made it with clean sheets and folded up the last load of washing for the week.

This afternoon we made another 2.8 kg batch of homemade almond, coconut, honey, oat and sultana granola to last us a while from food storage saving us $28.69 over purchasing commercially made that doesn't have all the ingredients in it that we put in and any breakfast cereal that is good for you here costs a fortune to buy .

Tonight we shall wash the dishes in the kitchen after having the rest of our homemade pizza and the last of our homemade chocolate pudding.

 

[Amish Heart]

Need to clean house and do some cooking. We have a couple coming for supper tonight that want to learn how to use a handheld ham radio (handytalkie). Twins are going to a baseball game tonight for Boy Scouts. First it was grandson because they're doing the flag ceremony. We found a ride for him because a large stadium is not possible for husband to maneuver around in. Then they asked granddaughter to go to, so I figured it was a family thing.l Now I'm realizing I've been duped, and it's a 'let's try to get some girls to join Boy Scouts thing". So she's going tonight with clear instruction to stay close to the two moms that are going, but that's the end of it. The cub scouts just left a bunch of recruitment flyers at the preschool and it's now called "family scouting" and has photos of girls in cub scout uniforms. Glad American heritage Girls starts back up again on Monday.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Sitting outside enjoying nature while drinking hot lemon ginger tea.
Strawberry is doing her morning patrol of the sidewalk.
Sniffing out all new and old smells of the night.
Probably getting a few bugs to munch on too.
Now she's munching on tender young grass that has come up over night.
Finally she has settled by my chair with a woof.
Sprawled out like the puppy she was.