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This is marilynBoothBladow signing in on a rainy afternoon. We were supposed to be having thunderstorms all thru the weekend and this coming week, but they seemed to miss us. My crab apples on the tree by my bedroom window turned out to be McIntosh Apples on their first year of bearing. They are starting to get red now. The tree is on a hill and I can't help but wonder just how they are going to get picked. I can't do it of course, and I know that Pete and Tom will figure out a way when the time comes. Yesterday the rabbits were eating the ones that were on the ground. Today there was a little orange rabbit that I have never seen before. So far the squirrels aren't getting in too close. Wild birds, I have a lot of them. There were quite a few little ones that hatched this year. My deck and ramp to the outside still hasn't gotten built.I guess most of my problem today is that I just am having cabin fever. I feel trapped inside of the trailer. There is a lot of room for me to get around in and I have so many things that I want to do, but it seems like I am accomplishing nothing althugh I have a little bit. I have gotten interested in scrap booking. I joined a web site and have lots of ideas, but just have to get all of the materials together. I could be filing away all of the web information that I have copied, but maybe I will start it bright and early in the morning. It shouldn't really take me that long once I get started. I am so happy that Vick guy is going to plead guilty. I hope they throw the book at him and the NFL never lets him play again. I just can't see how anyone could be so cruel to animals. I love my cats to pieces and worry about them all the time. They are all only just a little over 2 yrs old. One of them gets to go in the pet taxi to the Vet on Sat for his annual exam and shots. He is getting so fat that he is waddling like a duck. Guess this is about all. Maybe I will write a story next time or maybe put in a good recipe. I really used to be a good cook when I was cooking all of the time. |
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I feel so stupid. I forgot my user name and password. Finally figured it out. It is warm here in MN. I don't go outside since I don't have a good wheel chair ramp to get back in. So my cats and I just stay inside while I play with the computer most of the day. Do watch some tv. Tonight I tried something new with my cucumbers. Diced them up and put the in a jar of left over sauer kraut juice with about a cup of Splenda. Letting them cool and marinate in the fridge but they were good when I put them in there. Found out I have first crop of McIntosh apples on a tree just outside of my bedroom window. I can't wait for them to ripen. My son who owns the trailer says he didn't even know that he had an apple tree. He is a long distance big rig driver. He says he is drives a truck and is not a trucker or a truck driver. My other son who is taking care of me--at 76 I am in need of a baby sitter it seems--got back from California. My daughter that lives in Sioux Falls stopped in for a visit Sunday. She had been staying with my ex husband (her father) while he had a triple by-pass heart operation. I am on a scrap booking web site and am learning how to do it. The pages that everyone else does are just gorgeous. I may just get the courage to start to do one myself. Whether or not I let anyone see it is something else to think about. So that is catching up with my uneventful life. Funny, I don't do anything real fantastic, but at the same time, there is so much for me to do I just never seem to have the time to get to it.
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The skies got gray awfully quick. So far not much in the line of a drizzle though. The birds are still feeding. I enjoy watching them so much. Right now they are just getting bird seed, but pretty soon I will start making their winter treats for them. The treat consists of bacon grease, peanut butter, crushed eggs shells, shaped into a ball and then rolled in bird seed. I usually put a string through them so they can be hung on a litttle cedar tree that is just inside of the patio area. I can still remember my first South Dakota thundestorm and that has been 47 years ago. We had just moved onto this farm. and were about 2 miles from town. For some reason, we had gone into town. My exhusband told me that we should gather up all the kids and get home since there was a big storm coming in. I could see the dark clouds. We were about 1/4 mile from town when we had a blow out on the car tire. Wayne changed the tire, cussing every minute as it started to rain. And I mean it was raining. By the time we got to the house, it was raining so hard you could barely make out the house. The disaster inside the house was even worse. Somehow the wind had blown open the front door and the force of the wind had blown out every single window upstairs and downstairs. I had about 1 inch of water all thoughout the floors. The wind had knocked my oil painted pictures of the kids off of the table and into the water. I couldn't do anything but sit down in the middle of all of that water and cry. I don't think I will ever forget that storm the rest of my life. July 8, 2006 |
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Funny, I don't feel like I should be 76 years old. I have already lived past what both of my grandmothers lived. I have a ways to catch up with my mother's 87. don't really know if I want to live that long. There is so much that I am dependent on others for. And at the same time, I certainly am now reeady to die. If I were I wouldn't be following the doctors orders, taking all of those pills she sants me to take, watching my diet and just longing for those cokes and banana splits I can't have, poking my finger to check my blood sugar, taking my blood pressure. I certainly wouldn't be wasteing my time and money to print out all of that family information. I wonder if any of those kids will actually appreciate it. But still, I keep on printing it out. trying to make order out of the printouts as I file them. I don't really feel depressed but at the same time I guess I am feeling a little low. I have made so many mistakes throughout my life and I am at a stage where I keep remembering the mistakes and wonder how I would have done them over. Think it is time for me to take a nap. |
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another hot muggy day here in Minnesota. I thought perhaps I would make a meat loaf today and so here is my special recipe for meatloaf. Of course you have to have hamburger lots of chopped onions chopped green bell peppers diced tomatoes ( happen to have the Italian style today) cracker crumbs a couple of eggs chopped celery all sorts of seasonings: salt and pepper of course, garlic, paprika, cayenne, and a few drops of tabasco. yes, i am making it on the hot side today. bake until done. you can tell I am a taste and stir cook. Don't measure too much. I am on a low carb diet due to diabetis. but I am sure going to break that diet on my birthday next week. Looking forward to the fish "n more Long John Silvers meal, a banana split from dairy queen and a real, real coke. probably won't get it but I can dream. I often wonder why I do some things that my kids can't figure out. Usually because it is something my mother or grandmother did. I always separate eggs when baking a cake....add the yolks well beaten, and then fold in the egg whites very stiffly beaten. Makes the cake fluffier. I put just a dash of ginger and a tsp of sugar in almost everything. It includes veggies. Seems to draw out the flavor. A 1/4 tsp of ginger in the yeast mixture acts as a catalyst in helping the dough rise. Well, off to the meatloaf. |
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No one seems to think of Minnesota weather as being anything but cold. Today is almost the middle of June and it is already hot. The patio door is open and the cats are all watching the birds in the aviary and licking their chops. Sorry kids, wild birds aren't on the menu tonight. one of the trees in back has some kind of fruit on it. Looks like it may be apples. Will have to wait and see what comes off of it. The trailer park cut down a lot of trees in back last fall, but left the stumps. I have news for them. One of the stumps has sprouts coming up out of it. Just like you aren't going to get rid of me that easy. I hope no one notices them and goes to cutting them down after they have had such a struggle to try to revive themselves. I belong to a cat web site. Seems rather ridiculous to hear grownups trying to talk like cats. one link they have is to a site that if you click it the sponsors of the page will donate 6 bowls of food to an animal shelter. I have been clicking it a lot. I wish I had a lot of money to provide shelters for all of the unwanted animals. guess I really have a soft spot for them. I already have the 6 cats so I can't even think about getting more. Since this is all full of nonsense I guess I will just go on about the world. |
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Of course, we have been waiting now for several days. A little bit of rain, but nothing drastic. The cats and I had company twice today and of course they had to misbehave. Now they are all sleeping and getting their rest so they can stampede up and down the halls all night and keep me awake. I envy all of your with your gardens and fresh vegetables. I can't even grow plastic plants. There is a story to that. We moved into this house in South Dakota that had beautiful flowers all around it. I took such loving care of them they promptly died. So I went into town and bought 2 dozen plastic red geranium plants and put them all around the house. They looked so pretty against that white house. Then one day I went into town and when I came home the dogs had dug up every one of those plants. The kids always teased me after that that I couldn't even grow plastic plants. Well, I don't know if I am working this right, so will close for right now. |