 
We found a house
We found a house we like. It is a 7 bedrooms, 4 baths 4200 square feet and on almost 3/4 acre, only for 350 thousand!! , we are in California remember. We were emailed it and just loved the pictures and how it sounded. We went to see it and it is two house not one house! Ugh!!! Why do they not tell you that when you are looking at a few to see? They know what you want, so why do they waste my time??
We are going to look at another one, but this one is smaller only 3 bedrooms, 2 bath and 2300 square feet , but it has the land we want.
We are just looking at this time as we still have our ranch and love it there. We will see where and if God wants us to move, but we keep looking.
God Bless, mj
Our Yearly Turkey Hunt- Is It That Time Already?
Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 04:33 by amanda - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Good Afternoon Family & Friends! It is a COLD day here in NC. We rarely see these kind of temps. this time of year. (did I say that in an ealier post?) If I did, you can really see that I am amazed to see that we are at 43* at 5 in the afternoon in the middle of November. This is usually Jan. or Feb. weather in our neck of ther woods.
Anyway, the kids and I went on our "yearly" turkey hunt today. We started calling it a hunt when my oldest Dd (18) was in the 5th grade. I am always the one who cooks in the family. So it has been up to me to find the biggest turkey to cook for Thanksgiving day. It was dubbed "the hunt" because it usually takes going to 3-4 different stores to find a 23 lb. turkey.
This year, I found what I was looking for at the first store I went to. That was REALLY nice. The turkey was priced at .57 a lb. That was a really good deal. I had to buy $35 (minus the turkey) to get it at that price, but I had to purchase other sale items anyway, so it worked out really well. I actually got 2 turkeys and plan on going back next week for 2 more to stock the freezer with. Let's just say that this old homesteader is preparing for the winter.
Wal Mart had some good deals this week. Real Land O Lake Butter for $2 a lb. Green Giant corn, beans and peas for .50 a can. So I ended up with 6 lbs. of butter and 30 cans of veggies. I think the butter should last for the next month and a half. The veggies should also last until March or April, with what I already have stored in the freezer. I would love to be able to get enough veggies (canned) to last until July. That's when (prayerfully) the corn and beans we usually plant would be harvested.
I still need to get a better system in figuring out the exact amount of veggies I would need to last from one harvest to another. That really depends on "how the garden grows" though. With the last two years being in a drought, I never know just what I am going to harvest. (thank The Lord for Wally World and veggies on sale at.50 a can!)
I have a busy day ahead of me tomorrow. I am baking bread to sale at the local libray. I also need to get to the library and pick up a book. Then there is still school to do and a house that ALWAYS needs cleaning. (Thank you Lord for all that You allow me to do for my family.)
Well, I need to get off here and get ready for church. At least I don't have to cook tonight. On the way home from "the hunt" we stopped and picked up Chinese to bring home for lunch. They always put way too much in the boxes to eat at one sitting. So hence, it's Chinese for dinner as well!
Have a blessed evening in The Lord!
Amanda <><
II Corinthians 5:7
MY MOTHER AND I
Posted on November 19, 2008 at 03:33 by Karen - 4 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Oh how good it feels to sit down and look through blogs and let my mind just go...........
I want to thank those who have prayed for my mother and I. Thank you so much. She is in ICU still after having surgery on October 27th. I thought many times she was not going to make it but she has. She should've only been in the hospital for a relatively short stay but had one complication after another with pneumonia and respiratory failiure and her body becoming septic and blood clots and the list goes on. She had a tracheotomy and peg tube yesterday put in and will move from ICU to a long term critical care unit and then on to a rehabilitation home for a year the doctor said today. This all has been horrifying. My mother was a well person before all this and got around great with no serious health issues and was very active and happy. She had just had new flooring put down in her house and had gotten new furniture for her den and sun room. She was enjoying her new car and loved wearing stylish clothes and was in Church every Sunday to give you an idea of how Mama is and of how shocking this has been for us.
As for me? I stayed with her constantly for 17 days and then a sister came from another state and has been with her while I came home and got some much needed rest. I believe I have been at my breaking point and have been just teetering on the edge of somewhere I've never been before. I covet your prayers for my mother and myself and my entire family.
I hope, as time allows between trips back and forth, to blog about other things again. I love my blog and I miss it. I think it would be good for me to do so and it would help me get my mind off of things if I'm able to. So come back and visit.
Omnivore's 100 list of things eaten (or not eaten!)
Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 02:36 by Sunflower - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Here’s what I want you to do:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Mark any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here with the link to your blog with you answers, I would love to see what’s bolded on your list and post a comment at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results (so far there are over 1170 comments)
The Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison - almost every year my dad gets a deer for us
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos Rancheros - very popular in Colombia, love love love them!
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile - does alligator count? I think so
6. Black pudding - they have this in Colombia - NO THANKS!
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht - my mom made a big pot of this once, sadly it all went down the toilet, none of us liked it. I should try it again.
10. Baba ghanoush.
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi -
15. Hot dog from a street cart -
16. Epoisses -
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (just a taste...)
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream - I prefer vanilla bean.
21. Heirloom tomatoes - are there any other kind you’d want to eat?
22. Fresh wild berries - oh yes, remember these?
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans - any kind of beans are good with me, particularly frijoles antioquenos, YUM!
25. Brawn or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper - no but I would like to
27. Dulce de leche - ooooo yeah, it’s called arequipe in Colombia.
28. Oysters - yes, they tasted like sand!
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas - l
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi -
34. Sauerkraut - my dad makes the best on New Year’s Day!
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar -
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat - no, but I would love too
42. Whole insects - MMMM, fried ants, ate these when I was a kid in Colombia, we caught them ourselves and fried them up.
43. Phaal -
44. Goat’s milk -
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more -
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel -
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut -
50. Sea urchin - see eel.
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer - LOVE IT
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal - when I was young ... no longer!!!!
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini - shaken or stirred?
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine -
60. Carob chips - yep but I prefer 60% dark chocolate chips
61. S’mores - of course
62. Sweetbreads - of course, who hasn’t. My fave is a roscon, a sweet bread filled with guava.
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst -
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs - yep, taste like chicken
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake -
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain - yes, both ripe and green, one of my favorite foods!
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette - no thanks
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini - caviar, delicious.
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost -
75. Roadkill -
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie -
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong -
80. Bellini
81. Tom Yum
82. Eggs Benedict -
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef - nope, I prefer mine local
86. Hare - yep dad hunted these as well.
87. Goulash - yum!
88. Flowers -
89. Horse - not that I know of, but do we really know what is in hot dogs?
90. Criollo chocolate -
91. Spam -
92. Soft shell crab - My first taste fresh on an island in the carribean was best - never tasted so good since...
93. Rose harissa -
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano -
96. Bagel and lox - bagel and anything is good
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
Question, comments, and my experiments
Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 01:52 by Charity - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Hi from Down Under,
I'm trying to grow Stevia for the first time this summer, and I can't seem to get the seeds to germinate. Is there any trick to it, do you know, or am I better to try and find a plant at the nursery?
Rachel L from NZ
I did not have success at growing from seed though it was my first try from seed. I did get a sprout but it didn't make it after that. I may have over watered I don't know. They do say that it is hard to grow from seed. What I did is got the plant and grew from the cuttings. I have three new plants from cuttings I could have made a lot more. I put the cuttings in straight permilite till it rooted (saw new leaves grow) and then put them in soil and a little bigger pots.
Hope that helps
huh... I wonder.... a lot to be able to sell.... but what about just for family/homestead use? Thanks for the idea... I think I will look into this as a supplement to honey.
Thank you for your comments and questions. This is my goal to supplement our sugar or sweetner intake with stevia. I am selling and using stevia green powder that you can cook with.
I will be expermenting on ways to use it and the taste. I will try and keep you all up to date on things I try what works and what doesn't.
limeaid with stevia
Right now I am drinking limeaid with stevia. I started to drink just a glass of water with a lime then thought I'd try adding one of my stevia tea bags to it. Not bad though I may try putting the stevia bag in a little bit of hot water and then try adding it to cold glass of lemon water. Kind of like you do with ice tea. I will let you know how that goes
Cinnamon Apple Oatmeal
I tryed the recipe below and it tasted good. I used soy milk next time I will use regular milk to see what it taste like.
Wednesday and a pic
Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 08:14 by Isabella - 2 Comments - Link
Hello everyone. Feeling better today. Ds only woke up one time last night. I had a good nights sleep. My energy level was okay yesterday so I am hoping to get a few extra things done today. This is the week before Thanksgiving so I am in deep clean mode. I am trying different things this year. It will be a back to basics year. Just simple. Doesn’t that sound wonderful?
I will try and post the picture of the quilt. The quality of this picture doesn’t really show the quilting but you will get the idea. It is a printed nativity scene that I will put in the hallway. Hope everyone has a wonderful day. God Bless. I
growing and selling stevia
Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 07:10 by Charity - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
At farmers market I was talking to one of the gardeners about growing stevia. He said he grew stevia once. And that it would take a lot of stevia to be able to fill the bottles to sell. I told him that I wanted to sell what I grew but learn really fast that I would have to grow a lot more in order to do that and that I didn't have the space for it. That it was just best for me to buy bulk and sell that for now. He agreed. Anyway since I make tea it doesn't take that much stevia to fill the tea bags. So I will use the plots I have at Edens for tea only. So I can a least say I grew the tea myself. As far as the bottles I will continue to order in bulk. If I can bring in some money with this I hope to one day get a place where I can grow all the stevia I sell.
(my first growth of stevia from cuttings)
Today or tommorow I plan to get out to my plot and do some weeding.
Fires in California
Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 10:00 by m j - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
I do not know if you see on your news things about California , but we are having major fires. We have 6 going and 3 of them are close around us. We live in Chino. Chino Hills was Chino to, until they changed it to Chino Hills ( it was always just called the hills) because they did not to live in a city that has a prison. Carbon canyon is also part of Chino Hills (Chino). We live a few miles form Diamond Bar and Corona. We have fires all around us. We are praying for the people who lost their homes and for all the people helping out. So many people lost it all.
People were evacuated 3 miles from us. It has been very smokey and it looks like it snowed due to the ash. It is fall but we have been in the 90's. Hubby had such a hard time getting home from work on Friday. The 3 freeways were closed as was Carbon Canyon. It took him over 2.5 hours to drive the 17 miles home!!
God Bless, mj
Pictures of Marty's life
I am posting more pictures of Marty.
Marty as a pup:
As a young man:
 At Disneyland :
   Different Christmas pictures taken at Disneyland:
Him with one of his puppies:
As you all can see we love this guy a lot!! Marty was a part of all our lives everyday. I am still developing rolls of film. As I find pictures of him I will post them.
We miss him so very much.
P.s here is one of the poor guy dressed as Snow White:
 He just love to be with us and his sisters, even if they painted his nails and dressed him up as a girl.
God Bless, mj
Homeschoolers Seeking Asylum! Please Pray for These Families!
Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 10:42 by amanda - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link
 http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=81318-
We, as Christians need to pray for these families living in Germany. Imagine having to flee the U.S. because you just want to raise your child in the fear and admonition of the Lord?
If we don't pray, who will?
Amanda <><
II Corinthians 5:7
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