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I wonder how many even know who Art Linkletter was? I miss his program too.

Check this with Violet please, my mother would pack the tomatoes and fill the jar with canned tomato juice. A much more pleasing look to the finished product.

I am making one of their other whole wheat bread recipes today, using our homegrown Kamut. Smells pretty good in here again.

Darlene you have been on my heart for quite some time. Are you well, and keeping up with the critters?

I'm so sorry for your hurt just now. Their selfless love helps US let them go when it is time. That love also helps us to heal after the loss. "Buddy wiggles" stay forever.

I admire such strength Deerslayer. A little rest and reflection and you'll be ready to do it all again! You must know that it is impossible to "feel inspired" without that same inspiration radiating from you to everyone else.

The leftover Kraft Dinner is coming to an end. The last of it is in tomato soup for lunch, which we will have with a subway sandwich. I'm thinking hot comfort food for the evening meal because we still have winter weather. It is snowing and raining again.

Once in a long while we have Kaft Dinner. Tonight it is Smart KD, with green beans, pork chops and apple sauce. I just took fresh wholewheat bread out of the oven a few minutes ago, so I'm sure there will be the "crust" on someones plate too. It smells good in our kitchen tonight.

CGA, do you pail feed these little girls or must you bottle feed each one? I would be first in line to help you (and benefit from the giggles/joy they must bring)

It is still "hibernation" weather here too, so be sure you get back into the resting mode so you can enjoy spring when it DOES arrive.

Twilight, whatever do you do with that much liver?

Hi! Simone. Join right in.

OOOPPPS, my link didn't work. Sorry.

A Blog called http://Whole New Mom.com will give you great info about homemade nut butters.

Philbe, what is the dollar value of your chicken corn chowder, ie. - cost per can? I do like the conveinence of it, but think it would cost about ten dollars to make it with our prices. I did get Great Value brand corn on sale for .66 cents, but most canned vegetables are over a dollar each, the soup being over two dollars. Green Giant brand corn NOT ON SALE is $1.69. You can catch it at $1.25 sometimes. How about the same recipe using dried vegetables, the chicken broth/boullion and a white cream sauce? Could we make it work? Cook the veggies with the broth and thicken with the white sauce when the vegs. are well rehydrated. You might even be able to use powdered milk. I'm curious about the cost difference, between here and there, and between canned and dehydrated.

Can you put your tinfoil hat back on when the buzzer goes off?

Aren't most of us already FAMOUS for being Crazy? My kids point at me all the time!

With the Zellers stores closing here, you had to wait it out to get items you wanted at really reduced prices. The original price was over inflated on lots of things. So many people just see the "SALE" sign, and buy. Some things were less expensive at regular prices elseware. We don't have good coupons, or stores that will double them here, so knowing your prices, not being brand loyal, and watching the sale cycles are all important to do. I base my "buy" price, on the lowest sale price, that I have "noted" for a particular item. We have stocked up, and bought out of season for so long, that I seldom pay full price for anything. I think the razor blades dh uses are getting scarce. We may have to switch brands on those. They're important, cause he is his own barber keeping the three hairs off of his bald head.

DH stood some pallets upright to make a picket fence around our camper. Painted white with some flowers out front, they looked pretty good, and we were able to move them out of the way when we wanted to take the trailer out of our camping spot. Free is good!

Philbe, I am suffering from camping envy right now. With all this snow, it will be a long while before we'll get into our camping site. The park is in a coulie and if the creek floods we have to wait for the water to go down. Many campers were flooded/destroyed a couple of years ago. We used to leave the trailer there over winter, but not any more. The graders were by yesterday and had the roads cleaned off. Today the snow is up to our knees, and because the ditches were full you can't even begin to imagine where the road is for driving. We wear amber colored glasses after a fresh snow so you can see the underlying tracks better but those aren\t going to help. Our school buses are useless in snow too so I think we'll not be running in the morning. That will be four ice/snow days in the last two weeks. Part of our going to the city for the skating was just to be away from the house before the snow came again. I cleaned some bathroom drawers and turffed alot of junk today. Dh is holding the recliner down and watching the world curling. We're having "Planned overs" fried rice for supper.

I have watched the Eagles in the nest too Jeepers, it was rather fun to see. I'm going to google more about sycronized skating, we didn't know how the teams were judged and marked. There is a snow fall warning for our area for the next couple of days. It is snowing so heavily right now, with threats of 60 km winds, that dh and I have decided it would be much safer to stay off of the roads. We will miss hearing a missionary from Columbia speak at church today. We're such a small congregation that it will be disapointing if few show up

Deerslayer, we match!!!!! Too funny.

We spent some time last evening and this morning watching our great niece participate in a sycronized skating competition. It was something new to us - one team had sixteen skaters, and the "flight" was amazing to see.

It is great to hear that all is well with your dad, and he'll be on top of it for the next gathering! Dh says hello. Are you beginning to get more down time now Ma?

I'm guessing a corn/potatoe planter........something that digs a trench. Dh sees what he thinks is a clutch pedal and a gear box or reducer.