Amishway Homesteaders

Well it sounds like you are doing all the right things so not much to add?

Your Budget gives you about $8.00 a day and that ain't bad so keep it up.

Now...........................

adding bread to each meal will help fill out a meal, if you can eat that (homemade bread is the best! And cheapist)

For us it really helps to have a garden (even a small one as part of your flower beds will help) so you can eat meals for FREE!

Veggie night is a cheap was to go, also cooking more than 1 meal at a time.

Our crockpot works overtime make meal out of a cheaper piece of meat and even the cheaper cuts come out moist and tender!

Can whatever you can and plan meals around that so you can save money for the things you need.

Are you a scraper or dumper?

So as I was making Tomato Sauce to can I had to chop up onions and peppers and add them to the sauce. So I got out our hand chopper thingy and went to it, that is after going out to garden to get the fresh Peppers and Onions. As it got full I would dump it into the pots on the stove to cook down with the sauce but the last one I always get out the spatula and scrap, scrap, scrap to get the last bit out. Now I know the peppers and onions were free from the garden but I am a person that doesn’t like to waste so scrap, scrap I go until most of the food is out of the chopper. Do this with just about everything and peanut butter drives me nuts trying to get the last bit out. Now sometimes I just think it is a waste of time to get the last bit out so I just dump what is left and wash the chopper out.

So stand up!

Who’s a scraper and who’s a dumper?

................. But other than THAT Mrs. Lincoln how was the play?

And hey YOU can’t be worthless? After all you ARE a member of this great forum!

So come back often and vent – we will be here for you whenever you need a shoulder!

COOL!

This sounds great!

I am going out now to find a kid so together we can build the London Bridge so after e splitting up the piece between us I will still have a bunch to add to my collection.

I did send a bunch of loose and extra pieces to the local Library last year as they were collecting for the kids programing that has they using them every month on different things.

OK, here we go...........................

I had a friend ask me today how to get that filmy stuff off his Tupperware?

Now seeing we don't use it that much I said:

no help but I know just the Ladies to ask.

So....................

How do you clean your Tupperware when it gets that build up on it?

Leman, vinegar, flame thrower?

Or just toss them out and buy new ones?

Just another day for us……………………….

Headed out early as Farmers Market started at 7 am! Only had to stay for busy time before heading 40 miles away to buy a new canopy for our Flea market both, but when we got there they were out of them but they called the other store and they had one left, so we asked them to put it on hold and we were on our way there to get it in 20 minutes. So off we went but as we went along we realized we were going through the town we planned to visit on Saturday so we went to the used craft store (great barging place to shop) but they are closed for inventory (good thing we stopped so we don’t have to drive all the way there on Saturday!). Then seeing we were in the area when to the Dollhouse shop that we are doing a dollhouse display for at their Dollhouse Sale for the eastern New York area Sept 9^th, 15 dollhouse dealers and our 18 dollhouses.

Back on the road to get canopy and when we get there next door was a Joanna Fabrics so of cause I had to go in. Got a few things and started for home, Don’t you know we hit a yard sale! So we stopped and got some cool stuff cheap! We are now running late so stopped at Burger King for quick meal and drove over to the Canal Park for a quick picnic watching the boats go by.

Got home just in time for Lori to go to work at the Library and I had errands to run in the afternoon:

Went to feed store to get feed to deliver to an Amish Farm,

Stopped at car repair place to drop off a part for someone,

went to Ruth’s (Amish) to see if her sister Tina made it down from upstate today (she called us very early to say they were leave there and coming for a Surprise visit) and IT WAS for Ruth! She is the Amish lady we worked for at the Greenhouse Business before she got married,

Got to Ben’s to help unload from this morning’s market and put things away,

Went and dropped off feed and got Chicken feed I have to take with us tonight (more later),

Stopped over to the Amish Machine shop to give a message and see if my metal sign is done?,

Went out to the Farm where we have eggs to pick them up and let Emma (Amish) know we will be picking her up to go visit Tina with us tonight for Supper,

Now I am back home just in time for Lori to come from work at 4:15 pm so we can leave to go back to ‘Amish Land’ but we also have a quick stop on the way.

SO other than THAT we didn’t do much today and I only put 195 miles on Morgan the Wonder Van?

So how was your day today?

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$7.00 now and they last for years so think of it as $.50 a year worth of insurance for making all the jars seal and you not getting burned!

Soon you will be buying up jars and lids so you can can more, be on the lookout at yard sales for glass jars as they are very cheap that way and all you have to do is wash them really good and you are all set. We buy lids on sale at end of canning season (and store them well) for next year’s canning to save a bit of money. After canning wash and dry your rings and they will also last for years.

Now get canning.......................................

Last few years here have not been good for anyone having anything to do with snow? Low sales of snow blowers, ice skates, snow shovels, etc. Have all been put on deep sales all winter long.

Snowplow people have had it ruff trying to make payments on their trucks and snow plows without a lot of snow to plow.

The Ski place near us has closed early the last few years as they had to make snow and that ain't cheap when it keeps melting.

Well.....................................

All our Amish Friends use a winger washer and they don't have electric to run it.

They just take off the electric motor and put a pulley on and then run a gas engine (outside) and run a belt from it into wash house.

Some now use a 'flex hose' that spins from the engine to the gear without belt?

by the way –

Same engine is used to run the meat grinder, wheat grinder and they even use it to turn the alternator (used form a car) to charge the batteries to run electric fences.

So you see you CAN live without that electric and do just fine!

That's the main reason I don't think we will be having any trouble when

we will just go from Amishway Homesteaders - to - Amish

but we will miss all you guys!

What's Your Bumper Crop This Year?

WEEDS! And lots of them with the weather and no rain than lots of rain than no rain this year things have been hard to keep going.

But Tomatoes are doing OK and they are growing higher than the 5 1/2 foot cages I grow them in. Some plants are over 6 feet and still going with tons of tomatoes. Peppers were slow to start but now the plants are full and turning nice and red. Peas did very poor this year both snow peas and reg. peas?

Most of what I found this year is it all depended on when it got planted as to how well it did this year.

I had to do a lot of hand watering in the early part of the growing season and now don't have to water at all?