The Way to Happiness
Pictures, Pictures and more Pictures
Nothing special about the pictures...just things around the homestead lately :o) Enjoy!Some of the property over the weekend. This is the back clearing where we want to build. If we don't build here, I want to put our schoolhouse up back here anyway (just to the right of that center pine tree...that's where the trail heads back to the pond.
The next is the logging road they used a few years back to get to the neighbors property...and where they come up with the 4-wheelers. The bottom of that range there is the end of our property.
Next two are of the pond, coming in from that logging road, through the trees. It's just seasonal and lately, that has meant no real water to speak of. The first year it had maybe 2 foot of water. This year, maybe the same. The 2 years in the middle, it was just about bone dry and useless with the drought. We'd like to dig it out more and shore it up to try to keep water in it. We know there's a decent aquifer running through this part of the mountain, down about 150 here at the house end of the property. Would be nice to have some water for the animals if nothing else.
Thanksgiving weekend work on the homestead...Finally getting the holes dug out for the posts for the back porch area. Most likely, it will never make it as a porch and will be enclosed for living space...maybe that outdoor kitchen ;o) I tried to get the holes started but it's all clay...and really thick nasty stuff at that. I just can't do it. I'm a wimp. I admit it. So, as Drew was over for dinner, we put him to work with Dewey :o)
The goofy pup there is the beagles basset mutt mix we have...brains of a stuffed animal, but lovable. He chases rabbits and such all night. Pinned a coyote down in the timber last year so we could shoot it. He's a good dog...just goofy. Notice Miss Abigail's bare feet...this was the day after Thanksgiving. Sure wouldn't be out running the countryside like that back North this time of year!
Thanksgiving fixins' on the homestead...We spent all day Wednesday baking...2 pecan pies, 2 apple, 2 chocolate (that's the empty crust with the tin foil in it) and 2 9x13 pumpkin cobblers. And the yummiest yeast rolls :o) It's a mix we do up and keep in the pantry --delicious. And, yes, I'll add the recipe soon!
The full menu ended up looking like this...deep-fried turkey, a huge (h-u-g-e) smoked ham from the butcher (stupid me didn't ask about size, just got the one that looked so good...it didn't fit inside the 18qt Nesco roaster we have...had to sit cockeyed until it cooked down some and slide into the pan the right way!). Dressing, green bean casserole, baked corn, potatoes/gravy, sweet potatoes, then the list of desserts. We made honey nut crunch and ranch/dill crackers for snacking all weekend.
This was the first year our eldest wasn't at the table. He rode up with Dewey to pick up Hope's car and drive it back. He wanted it to be their first Thanksgiving, and he was frying his first turkey solo...
The 20 quart mixer...yes, that's a make-do kitchen sink set up there. We pulled out the cupboard a while back. I have a very nice, new countertop sitting out in the building, but until I know for sure what we are doing (building or simply remodelling) I don't want to use it yet ;o) And, yes, those are cinder blocks under the mixer -- it sits too low to the floor for comfortable use. I know it looks rather hillbilly-ish, but it works ;o)
The meat, part 1/Day 1...still partially frozen, even after 2 days of thawing in the cooler bag. Guess that cooler bag works far better than I thought it did! We cut up most of the chunks to more suitable pieces and readied them for the canning jars.
Back Online again....several updates here
First off -- Ron & Jo...if you visit and read this, do email me! We've been worried about how you both are doing!The computer went down again. Apparently, the first computer geek didn't do any sort of system diagnostics and simply wasted 3 days or so re0installing my modem driver.
Well, it went down on me again, 2 weeks ago now. Not that it didn't make for a quiet and peaceful Thanksgiving, and we did get many things accomplished, but still....
This time, I went to the original geek I had planned on using last time. They did a full system whatever and ran several diagnostics. They think the main issue I was having is that my BIOS system was rather outdated. There were 5 newer updates than I had, and they don't simply install with the regular system update stuff this thing does on it's own every so often. He updated me that way, installed another antivirus program then downloaded a new modem driver and viola...we have internet again.
And life picks up with hectic busy-ness, of course.
Just to note: If you sent me an email over the past couple of weeks and haven't heard from me...don't expect to. Just email me again. I had a million emails in my inbox and they are all being deleted as I write here. Please, email again if you need me!
I have all 300# of meat in the freezer...well, minus the 50# of stewing chunks sitting in the kitchen waiting its turn in the canner. My pressure seems a bit off today -- it's taking forever to get up to pressure for some reason. But, it's all cut up, the packing juice blend prepared and jars scalded and waiting.
I am going to get very tired of looking at meat, I can tell that already, and it's just Day 1 of a long line of days to come! We may well turn vegetarian for a couple months once it's all said and done!
We have, aside from meat meat and more meat in the works here, fencing outside we are dealing with. Seems we are being over-run with wayward hunters. We knew they had been around the property, but they have found several signs of them running 4-wheelers clear up to the back of my barn! They are using our deer stands, running their dogs all over and apparently using our private property as their own personal hunting grounds.
That will come to a stop this week. We are getting the signs up so we are more properly POSTED everywhere, and I am setting up some wire along the back access where we know for a fact they are coming and going. If they damage a 4-wheeler with a slightly hidden barb wire fence, serves them right. It will be well inside the perimeter of my property line, where they don't belong. That and some bird shot peppering their hunting expedition should do the trick.
Before anyone takes issue to our methods here, we have a very good idea as to who the culprits are, and they know we don't want hunters here. They know we have young children who enjoy our property, and as they hunt with high powered rifles, they are definitely not welcome here. My own dogs stay on our property, and they are being annoyed with the constant traffic as well. I don't need the aggravation, or the worry of my children being shot while playing on their own land.
To give you some idea of the genius we are dealing with out here, this group was shooting targets last year in their own cleared plot just down from our line. It's their property, I have no concern there whatsoever. It's a free country.
However, they use high powered, long range shot guns/rifles whatever you call them. Where they were shooting from/at, in virtually every direction on the compas, they had nothing but timber land. Literally hundreds upon hundreds of acres going out in every direction. Nothing in line for miles and then some.
Every direction, that is, but they one they chose to shoot in. They set up just the other side of the creek and were shooting directly toward my house. Literally peppering my roof with their shot. Branches and leaves were falling after every shot. Genius, pure genius. In any other direction, they would have had nothing but trees for miles and miles, yet they picked the direction that went through my property straight to my house and animals....and children.
Running a 4-wheeler across a low-lying wire fence is going to be the least of their concerns if we actually catch them on the property hunting, instead of their leftovers and signs.
We also have a lengthy sewing list, as usual. And school work to catch back up on. We are having reading issues it seems. I need to determine where my cut-off needs to be. There is a point where not reading well is a problem, and I think we might be there. I know we took more time with our first reader learning, but I've 3 in the works now and they simply aren't coming along very quicky. I know, homeschooling certainly affords my time in that respect, no hard-lined schedules to adhere to and all, but still...we have been at this enough now there should be a bit more progress I think. Time to re-evaluate The Plan here.
As to the olders, Jennifer finished a decent amount while gone with Dewey the past couple weeks. And Johanna, well, she has her own agenda. She is set on graduating when she turns 15 years old...about 2 years or so from now. She blew right through one grade level already and is just about finished with the next set of math, language and science I bought a couple weeks ago. She definitely needs some more indepth work to keep her coccupied. She easily completes 4 or more lessons a day. Like I said, a girl with her own agenda.
I have a Christmas gift...yes, I know what I said about Christmas and all, but this is different, sort of. I came across a bargain and couldn't pass it up. Dewey said birthday and Christmas gift and I jumped on it! (my birthday is Christmas Eve...I tend to get those 'combined' gifts quite often!). I have a 20 quart Welbilt Varimixer sitting in my kitchen :o) It's huge. It's sitting on the floor right now -- there's no way my counters, besides being far too tall, would accommodate this machine. I'll have to build some sort of stand for it, but for now, it's just sitting there, waiting to be used. We will start selling bread and such soon, and much easier.
The man we bought it from buys out various businesses and such and resells the equipment. He thinks he knows of a commercial oven and stove and is checking on that for me. Dewey wasn't really in the mood to drag along with me to pick it up, but he wanted to check it out first. Well, he has found his new dream shopping warehouse now. This man has virtually everything. If he doesn't have it and doesn't know where to find it, you simply don't need it. He has all sorts of building materials and so on. Dewey enjoyed his trip more than I did I think!
I will get some pictures up this week, but today, the meat is calling!
Keeping Warm
One of the downfalls of an old home is when you have a lack of insulation in the walls. Homes built in 1890 didn't have insulation as we know it today. My Beloved's and my bedroom is one of the original rooms of our homestead home. Like typical homes of that period, there is no insulation to help keep the winter cold out. Nothing can be more "chilling" than to climb into bed in an unheated, uninsulated room and lay between two icy cold bed sheets! Yes, we have other blankets in the bed, but the top & fitted sheets are still very cold. Here is the solution that we have been using with great results.
The first step was to remove the top sheet from the bed. We left the bottom fitted sheet on the bed, but covered it with a large fuzzy acrylic blanket/throw that we have. This acrylic blanket/throw is what we sleep on. Next, we took a second fuzzy acrylic blanket/throw and used that in place of the top sheet. Last came another heavy acrylic blanket, comforter, and quilt. Yes, it is alot of layers, but it worked! The first night we did this, we had temperatures reaching the freezing point. Typically, the bedroom was very cold but instead of sleeping in a cold bed, we were kept very toasty warm!
If you are having problems with cold sheets when you go to bed on a cold night, try sleeping between 2 layers of acrylic fuzzy blankets. It may be much warmer for oyu and save on the extra heating costs.
Additional note: if you come across old acrylic blankets like the fuzzy type I described using, consider using them inside your quilts as a batting. The blankets are very warm and would make a nice, easy to launder batting.
A Too Large Pot Roast...
Houston, we have a problem.My 4 inch by, oh, maybe 14 inch, chuck roast won't fit in my roaster :o(
Well, let me rephrase myself. It fits...with some tucking in along the sides, and I do have a bit of space on the ends. But overall, my cast iron roaster is simply too small. My mother said cut it in half and use 2 pans. Oh, the indignity of whacking this wonderful, marbled roast in half! Isn't it a beauty?
No, I don't usually covet meat like this, but this is special :o) I'm used to rolled roasts, or rump roasts...something more akin to the size of a regulation football. In our area here, pork is the meat of choice it seems. Boston Butts, Loins, etc. They are more readily available in the stores. Beef roasts, even a simple chuck roast, just aren't what I think of as a roast. Most around here are what I'd consider more of a thick steak than anything of a roast.
But I got this at the butcher yesterday when I ordered my bulk meats. The owner was cutting up a half a steer and his wife brought out some small cuts to cut them down more. I saw this one on the table and asked about it. She was going to cut it at least in half, if not thirds. No way -- it was just perfect, I thought. So I bought it.
Me.
Home alone here with no husband, no eldest son and fiance, no eldest daughter. Just me and 7 children. Seven younger children.
This roast could last us most of the week if I play it right.
I managed to get about 4 potatoes cut in half alongside the roast on the ends, and maybe 3 or 4 carrots cut into lengths as well. But my usual broth/gravy concoction doesn't stand a chance of being in there. Not without a serious drip shield along that pan! I simply mixed a bit of stock with a touch of flour to thicken slightly and poured it over. It will be covered and cook all day now. Around 5 or 6 pm we'll eat dinner :o)
Can you imagine how tender this baby will be? I probably shouldn't have bought it, being here with just the children, but I lack self-restraint. It just looked too good to pass up.
I imagine when Dewey reads this his mouth will be watering all over the computer :o) I could FedEx a plate overnight to you honey....
Blog Housekeeping *edit
While I fully intend to visit here regularly and keep up with my HB friends and pm's, for now on I will be posting at my new blog:http://www.themennobrarian.com/
See you there!
(*edited to add that I have fixed it so that anyone can comment on my new blog, you do not need a google account.)
The Tea Party
Yesterday some friends and I got together for a tea and gabfest with an eye on sharing about what we have been reading lately. While Ruth plied us with brownies, sausage slices, and tiny pecan tarts, I shared about the Brother Lawrence book The Practice of the Presence of God, and also talked about how I am always behind and off-course in my reading due to my infatuation with cookbooks. Melody shared about William Barton's Parables of a Country Parson, which is this collection of terribly charming and witty contemporary parables. I promptly asked to borrow it and have found it to be insightful and entertaining. Ruth highly recommended some Christian psychology books by Dan B. Allender, PhD. such as The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions About God and The Healing Path. My friend Ruth is one sharp cookie. Have you ever met anyone who is interested in exploring God's emotions and how our own feelings may give just the tiniest clue, the barest glimmer, of what God might feel? We all agreed that it was easy to somewhat envision the Lord's righteous anger, but what else might God experience? Fascinating.
And then before we left, my dear friend Melody gifted me with a cookbook, the title of which escapes me right now, but it was farmhouse type cookbook that had recipes for absolutely everything (including a section of church fellowship type recipes that can feed two hundred people). So of course I went right home and started browsing that.
On the Table: Stuffed peppers, canned garlic mushrooms, and creamy ginger snap pumpkin pie.
In the Kitchen: Catching an elusive mouse! It ate my Italian bread crumbs, plastic lid and all.
Around the Home: My husband is pouring the foundation for a new front step and getting ready to put in the chimney for the new stove. Last night we looked at tile for the floor under the stove. I am almost finished the cover I made for my mixer and will post a picture soon.
In Other News: I have been seriously considering moving my blog to a different platform. Although I like HSB and many of the people here, there have been some problems with using photobucket to post pictures. Mainly, photobucket claims to have little control over the scareware ads that randomly pop up on my screen while loading photos on to their site, and some of those ads are an abomination and encourage malware. Also, I would just like more control over the content of my blog, and I do not have a lot of time to fool around with it. Trust me, when your job is dealing with computers all day, you don't feel like going home and playing with HTML. And if I have just lost you in discussing the technicalities of blog problems, I am sorry, but I am very well studied on computer science and am just pointing out some problems with HSB. Anyway, stay tuned.
And then before we left, my dear friend Melody gifted me with a cookbook, the title of which escapes me right now, but it was farmhouse type cookbook that had recipes for absolutely everything (including a section of church fellowship type recipes that can feed two hundred people). So of course I went right home and started browsing that.
On the Table: Stuffed peppers, canned garlic mushrooms, and creamy ginger snap pumpkin pie.
In the Kitchen: Catching an elusive mouse! It ate my Italian bread crumbs, plastic lid and all.
Around the Home: My husband is pouring the foundation for a new front step and getting ready to put in the chimney for the new stove. Last night we looked at tile for the floor under the stove. I am almost finished the cover I made for my mixer and will post a picture soon.
In Other News: I have been seriously considering moving my blog to a different platform. Although I like HSB and many of the people here, there have been some problems with using photobucket to post pictures. Mainly, photobucket claims to have little control over the scareware ads that randomly pop up on my screen while loading photos on to their site, and some of those ads are an abomination and encourage malware. Also, I would just like more control over the content of my blog, and I do not have a lot of time to fool around with it. Trust me, when your job is dealing with computers all day, you don't feel like going home and playing with HTML. And if I have just lost you in discussing the technicalities of blog problems, I am sorry, but I am very well studied on computer science and am just pointing out some problems with HSB. Anyway, stay tuned.
16 Years Ago Today...
...A pretty pink, pudgy bundle came home with us from the hospital.It took 2 full years to get our Miss Jennifer. We had lost our first girl, Stephanie Michelle, at 36 weeks gestation with CMV, pre-eclampsya and Placenta Previa and were told it would be best not to have another baby until my body had gotten back to normal. We waited that next year and then tried again. Must have been a half-hearted, worried attempt on our part because it took another year to get pregnant....and if you know me at all, you'd know that I am jokingly referred to as 'fertile Myrtle' so a year of no babies was rather unusual, or so we know now looking back!
With our previous pregnancy troubles, I was a doctor's nightmare this time around. If they said it was 'normal' to sneeze 3 times a day and I only did it once, I was on the phone in a state of panic. I worried about all manners of things that seemed different this time around. I worried about every little thing concerning pregnancy and babies in general. Ahh, those young, ignorant years.
The day before Miss Jennifer joined us, my Mom and I had done some shopping and such. Dewey had classes that evening, and it was snowy and nasty out. I had promised him a big pot of chili for dinner when he arrived home. However, things changed a bit from the plan of the day. Around 2 pm I started having some back pains. Mind you, this was pregnancy #3 for me, but I wasn't thinking about anything other than what might be out of the ordinary. I ignored the back pains until I couldn't stand for more than a few minutes or couldn't walk but a handful of steps. Note to new moms-to-be...if your back hurts and you are close to your due date, just head to the doctor :o)
As the day progressed, my back hurt even more, tightening and loosening almost constantly. I finally broke down and tried calling Dewey at school. Being night classes, I had to call the security office and they would send someone over to his class. I waited and waited and finally someone called back -- Dewey wasn't in class. He had left earlier, they assumed because of the roads getting bad for the night.
Nice. My husband wasn't in class. We lived out in the boonies basically, a good 45 minutes from the hospital if the day was bright and the roads clear as a whistle...longer with a solid covering of snow and more still falling, let alone if the roads in the boonies hadn't been plowed clear yet.
I put a bag together for the hospital and wandered about, wondering where Dewey was and how I might end up at the hospital if no one showed up at home. We had had to make arrangements with the fire department for emergency transportation already, due to my high risk issues, but I just couldn't see a helicopter landing in the ice and snow covered fields at night.
Finally Mr. Missing-in-Action pulls in. He takes forever to get inside...his arms are loaded. So were mine...I had my bags for the hospital and my coat on. He brought in the mother-lode of baby goodies -- diapers, receiving blankets, bottle liners, formula, some outfits and doo-dads, and a cute little baby doll, all soft and squishy. I love my husband dearly, mind you, but a less-oblivious-to-his-surroundings man you couldn't find, at least that night! He's showing off this and that with a smile, tickled at the idea of a baby coming...
...then notices there isn't any chili on the stove.
...then notices I'm in my coat and have my bags.
I promised he'd get his chili soon enough but we needed to leave. LOL...gotta love a man who buys baby things, right?
We got to the hospital and within a couple of hours, here was Miss Jennifer Annette, all pink and pudgy and a bit on the cold side. We had issues with the doctor on-call, from previous experience, but he came in only long enough to play catcher for the nurse so all was good. Jennifer was cold and needed an incubator and warming lights...and we had issues with that as well, but finally things were taken care of and all we wanted was to go home with her.
I tend to have issues with hospitals...I have a plan in mind, they like to do things their way and by their books. I'm really more of the sort to try and re-write those books. Generally it's best if we just collet baby and head for home as soon as we can ;o) Saves wear and tear on all concerned because I don't give in easily at all.
All turned out well and Miss Jennifer flourished :o) She is spending her second time away from home right now, in Arkansas with Dad on his job until Thanksgiving. She gave him a stern talking to about not eating, hardly anything really, and certainly not very decent foods, and made him go shopping Monday evening. He said she did us proud, shopping as she did. She packed a lot of food into that buggy for a very good amount. Other than to drive -- and pay -- he wasn't really needed at the store at all. She planned the menus out and bought what she needed for him :o) He'll feel just like he's at home...minus the missing 8 people ;o)
Miss Jennifer will make a great wife and mother one day if The Lord moves that direction in her life. She has common sense, panics very little over anything (remember Jacob and David being burned so badly a year ago? She remained totally cool and calm through it all while we raced to the hospital, and she managed the homestead while I was gone at LeBonheur for those weeks). She askes questions and fully expects to get decent answers from folks (like doctors...). She can plan a menu and see it to fruition, and save money in the process.
She was Grandpa's Girl right from the trip home from the hospital. He loved her to pieces ;o)
She's a Daddy's Girl in many ways...and he's fully prepared with a dating contract and plenty of shotguns and ammo to defend her when the tomcats start making the rounds :o) Right now, we all get a laugh out of that country song by Rodney Atkins, Still Cleaning This Gun. The chorus is this:
Come on in boy sit on down
And tell me about yourself
So you like my daughter do you now?
Yeah we think she's something else
She's her daddy's girl
Her momma's world
She deserves respect
That’s what she'll get
Now ain't it son?
Y’all go out and have some fun
I'll see you when you get back
Probably be up all night
Still cleanin' this gun
And tell me about yourself
So you like my daughter do you now?
Yeah we think she's something else
She's her daddy's girl
Her momma's world
She deserves respect
That’s what she'll get
Now ain't it son?
Y’all go out and have some fun
I'll see you when you get back
Probably be up all night
Still cleanin' this gun
Like the song says, it's all for show and ain't nobody gonna get hurt :o)
But he's ready, nonetheless.
So, long-winded as usual:
HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY SWEETHEART!
Then, and Now...btw -- she started "mooing" in the store at that dress! She was just so cute, mooing every time we passed it, we had to buy it for her!
Just wanted to say that I am alive and hope to update tomorrow. I am very busy with my cleaning job ant tonight I am going babysitting. We have had a pretty good harvest this year. Apples have done very well. Anyway I have to go and wash up so I will sign off for now.
Sister Ruth Parkinson
Family Update
First, I want to thank everyone for the prayers and well wishes for the children. They are doing very well and are recovered.
Last weekend, we got a new addition to the homestead. We have a 3 month old female pup. She has the black and brown markings of a rottweiler, but is a Sharpei/Blue Heeler mix. One grandparent had a very small percentage of rottweiler, which is how she got the coloring. The pup's parents however were only about 30-35 pounds in weight, so she will be much smaller than a rottweiler. We had named her Gracie, which was close to the name the previous owners had given her & also easy for Abbie to say. Well, Abbie has renamed the pup and it actually responds to the name Abbie gave her. How she came up with the name is pretty cute.
Joe bought a little beginning reader level book to read to Abbie called, "Hot Dog". The story is about a little dog that is hot and gets itself into all types of mischief trying to cool off. Well, this story has become one of Abbie's favorites. She has now started calling the puppy, "Hot Dog". Poor puppy answers to it and so the name will likely stick. LOL
Over the past week. I managed to get 2 shawls crocheted to sell. Both are made using a very soft & cuddly acrylic/polyester blend yarn. One is done in earth tones of tan and other colors that remind me of a desert. The other is in shades of blue, cream, and a little bit of a soft rose shade. Both shawls are triangular and about 70 inches across at the top and 36 inches from the top to the tip of the point that the bottom. I am so happy to get two done so quickly. We have pictures of them on our website if anyone is interested in seeing them.
Blahs for Monday...canning, too
Well, I still cannot add photos over at my other blog. Grrrr! It's annoying, to say the least.Nothing special going on around here. It's cold this morning...yes, I will concede and say that 29 outside is what I'd consider cold. Brisk, at least. It's sunny already, although we have rains moving in they say. The heat kicked in last night...must have been rather cool. I have it set at something like 62 or so. I'm not a heat person at all.
It was great having Dewey home all weekend. What a surprise to have him show up Thursday. I talked to him several times on the phone Thursday and he never once said a word about being in the truck heading this way. Sneaky. It was about 7 pm when he pulled in, and I was talking to him at the time. The children yelled and said Bro Mike was here to collect the pigs...I had just taken my covering off and pulled my hair down, so told him I'd talk to him later and I hung up. LOL...everyone headed outside to help load pigs while I grabbed a different covering (one that didn't need a bun in my hair...). I'm snapping it and suddenly someone is standing in my bedroom door. I about hit the ceiling! There's Dad, Emily grabbing his neck with a force and whispering "my daddy" into his beard and his ears
He talked me into having Jennifer go back with him for the next couple of weeks. Something about not being able to cook for himself and being tired of McDonald's and Subway for dinner. Poor man...you'd think he's never had to fend for himself...well, ok, he hasn't had to for about 21 years (or such, since I really started getting better at cooking!). They will be back up for Thanksgiving weekend. My house seems so empty with eldest son and his finance, Dewey and now eldest daughter being gone. I only have 8 to cook for now....so I took a huge pot of chicken and vegetable spaghetti, some homemade bread and a couple of pies up to church last night "just because". Told them it was because we are having evening meetings earlier now with the time change.
I'm ordering some meat from the butcher today -- earned $150 for those two hogzilla beasts out here. Honestly, I'd have given them away just to have them gone, but he wanted to pay something. I'd have been tickled with $50 for the both of them, but $150?! Maybe it isn't much to some who deal in hogs, but it's more than enough for me. So, I'm ordering meat to get picked up Wednesday before Thanksgiving....
- 100# of ground beef
- 100# of ground sausage
- 100# of stewing chunks
- 25# of bacon, sliced
What else might I need to stock, do you think? The ground and stew chunks were the only things that came to mind standing in the shopthere. Any other thoughts?
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