What's everybody doing today?

[timmie]

are you guys rubbing it in about retirement? lol i can't retire until may.

 

[Patchouli]

At least it has stopped raining. I love the rain though, just not floods.

 

[gumpy]

At least it has stopped raining. I love the rain though, just not floods.

It's still pouring here! Waiting for the thunderstorms to get here.

 

[Patchouli]

That's incredible. Does it always rain in your area so much in the early spring, gumpy? I'm not looking forward to the typical spring tornado/hail/wind/flooding.

 

[NannyPatty]

Celebrating our 44th anniversary with a T-bone on the grill, corn on the cob and baked potato for gramps and a sweet potato for me. Cake in a cup for a sweet.

 

[Grimm]

Mostly getting my self in better shape and spiritually ready for Jesus' next visit.

 

[backlash]

Now I want cake and I don't have one.
Maybe time to bake from scratch.

I finished my cattle panel green house.
I'll build some potting benches and get my seedlings moved in.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@NannyPatty happy 44th wedding anniversary and I hope you and other half have a wonderful day .

 

[Sewingcreations15]

So far this morning we have put on 2 loads of washing and about to do the third load and hung them on the clothes line to dry and put out two loads of grey water out to water the rest of the back lawn. DH has repaired the rest of the tank zip that came unstitched with a leather awl and waxed thread so that it closes properly now and also tied the shade cloth privacy screen to the balcony so it doesn't blow around in the strong breezes we have here.

I have just stripped the bed and taken the dirty towels out of the bathroom and I will stain remove a towel and sheet that DH was struggling with due to our manure spreading and plowing yesterday and that will go in the next load.

Round 2 coming later .

 

[Peanut]

I did way too much today, exhausted. The laundry can wait until tomorrow. I just got back home with a few groceries from the big town. I also stopped at the big garden center and bought about a dozen plants, mostly cooking herbs. I did get a couple of jalapeno pepper plants. I got a new water can for the porch plants. I wanted a metal one but they were out of them, had to get a plastic one.

 

[*Andi]

Had to run into town ... bills and such.
but the race is over ... so we are alright till the fall. (UGH)
Along with the basic farm chores and some paper work.
We are good to go.

 

[snappy1]

@snappy1 I am there especially if those gorgeous cakes have buttercream icing on them, they look divine . At our church unfortunately all the members seem to be on a no sugar anything diet and if I took that they would not eat it. I did however take a whole orange cake with buttercream icing with orange juice and zest on top and they ate that.

I believe taking whole food groups out of anyone's diet is not a good thing unless you have some medical reason to do so. Eat everything in moderation and most people are fine.

It's a whipped cream type icing I made. I cheated and used cool whip which I know is bad for us but enough whipping cream would cost too much to make. Anyway, it is just pudding and cool whip. Recipe on pinterest. Turns out great and not too sweet! Could use sugar free of both but I just won't do that!

 

[Grimm]

It's a whipped cream type icing I made. I cheated and used cool whip which I know is bad for us but enough whipping cream would cost too much to make. Anyway, it is just pudding and cool whip. Recipe on pinterest. Turns out great and not too sweet! Could use sugar free of both but I just won't do that!

About a quart of heavy whipping cream would have done the job for less that $4. I go through a quart or 2 a week. Great in coffee, fat bombs and a lot of the foods I eat.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Think it would be sacrilege to make such a beautiful cake without sugar . We don't have cool whip here so got no real idea what it is but mixing it with pudding would do the trick nicely @snappy1 .

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Grimm rather partial to cream here too on just about everything although now I am getting older I am tending to put weight on more so have to be careful of the amounts of sweets I have.

 

[Peanut]

@Sewingcreations15 Cool Whip is made of water, hydrogenated vegetable oil (including coconut and palm kernel oils), high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, skimmed milk, light cream (less than 2%), sodium caseinate, natural and artificial flavor, xanthan and guar gums, polysorbate 60, sorbitan monostearate, sodium polyphosphate,

It is artificial whipped cream. I don't buy it.

And I though monostearate was a volcanic island in the Caribbean sea that blew up...

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Thanks @Peanut it sounds like a chemical factory my body wouldn't like at all as I am sensitive to a lot of food additives.

 

[Amish Heart]

Visited with cousins this morning at their farm. We all went shopping at the thrift store and then went to the local place for fried pickles and soft serve ice cream. Then back to our farm. Made two chocolate cream pies for the coffee break I'm hosting in the a.m. Back to my cousins for dinner, and then took Mom back to Menno Manor. Bedtime. We have a ton of ladies here at 9 tomorrow for breakfast

 

[The Innkeeper]

Celebrating our 44th anniversary with a T-bone on the grill, corn on the cob and baked potato for gramps and a sweet potato for me. Cake in a cup for a sweet.

congrats. Happy anniversary. May God bless you with plenty more

 

[squirrelhunter]

I'm telling ya Mon! I'm easing through the woods in an on and off misty rain, with my little pellet rifle for snakes, and looking for Turkey sign. I just jumped about 1/2 dozen or so deer off the bed, squirrels everywhere, beautiful day! I've seen quite a bit of sign but it's all in dense underbrush. Not much room for an arrow.
Have I said I love retirement too? LolView attachment 5709

It sounds like my kind of paradise,I envy you.

 

[hiwall]

Nice day here today. Went for a nice walk up in the hills behind my house and even started writing a new book. A good day.

 

[The Innkeeper]

Nice day here today. Went for a nice walk up in the hills behind my house and even started writing a new book. A good day.

looking forward to reading it

 

[gumpy]

That's incredible. Does it always rain in your area so much in the early spring, gumpy? I'm not looking forward to the typical spring tornado/hail/wind/flooding.

I don't think so. This is our first spring up here in Tennessee. Someone told me last week that during the next drought, everyone would chip in and hire me to build a house so it would rain!

Celebrating our 44th anniversary with a T-bone on the grill, corn on the cob and baked potato for gramps and a sweet potato for me. Cake in a cup for a sweet.

On your anniversary!

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Now I'm going to be waiting for an update.

Me too!

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Round 2 of today is that DH and I made the bed with fresh sheets and I deep cleaned the bathroom and toilet and mopped all of the floors in the house including around the fireplace. DH has vacuumed the whole home for the week too.

Shortly we will take in the other part of the washing and fold up 4 loads of washing and wash up and wipe up the dirty dishes in the kitchen.

We are trying to get all of our housework where possible done before tomorrow being Good Friday and tomorrow we will spend some time cooking in the kitchen and making some granola and some treats as well as reading some scriptures.

 

[snappy1]

Today is housecleaning and making Chicken Parmesan, maybe eBay. Storms coming through in an hour or two.

 

[squirrelhunter]

I think I'll go out in a bit and see if I can loosen up the 4x4 shift motor on the Ranger by turning it on and off several times, then jack up the front end and check to see if it actually went off. If not,I may have to rebuild the shift motor or replace it some time.

 

[Flight]

are you guys rubbing it in about retirement? lol i can't retire until may.

Well it's going to be another 20 yrs or so for me.

 

[Terri9630]

are you guys rubbing it in about retirement? lol i can't retire until may.

I have to wait until next Oct.

 

[Resto]

Back from "The Dark Side" a day early. Im Gassed. Went in to town. Had a nice Visit with Ms Chen. Went to get Deep Tissue. Grilled Carne. Waiting for 5PM to drink some Beers. I never drink before 5 as I can make up for it past 5. Semper Fi. LOL