CrabGrassAcres

:woohoo: WOW!!!! CONGRATS AND HAPPY HAPPY!!!! :woohoo:

Dried lima beans with dumplings. gag

Dried black eyed peas with catsup. gag gag

Milk toast. gag

Bread pudding. gag gag gag.......

Mama never was much of a cook. I learned early that I would have to do it myself or starve.

HUGS, hon! So sorry you are having to go thru this.

No problem.

If you learned to speed read, you don't really read each word separately. You read groups of words, even paragraphs or sometimes, if the subject matter isn't convoluted, you can read an entire page at a glance. I taught myself to speed read before I was 8. I didn't think anything of it until my uncle came over one day and was talking about the speed reading course he was taking. Mom told him that I could already do it and he wanted me to show him. I remember him quizzing me to find out if I really read it that fast and how astonished he was.

I think the way children are taught to read is very poorly done. I believe that they get caught in the tangle of complexity when it is really quite simple.

Hon, just don't expect any improvement from them. Think of the letter as catharsis for yourself and let it go at that.

What I think is sad is that so very many of us here can empathize deeply with you because we've had to deal with similar family drama and difficulties. At least you are not alone. Don't ever think it is your fault that any of this happened. Some people are just not fixable. Sometimes they are parents. Children cannot fix parents that are not fixable.

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I know what you mean about the tea. Takes two bags now to get it strong enough. I should switch to by the pound loose, but the bags are so much more convenient.

My buck went to my friend's farm to board for now. Just in time. The doelings were nearly all in heat today.

Sounds lovely! I'll be so glad when the heat breaks and I can turn off the a/c at night and open windows! I need to do a lot of canning, just putting it off till it won't run my a/c bill up so.

Yes, I have canned in only water with no syrup when I had a super abundance of apples and not enough sugar. Try putting a scant tsp of non-iodized salt in each qt when you can so the fruit will be firmer.

You can send books back to your cloud on amazon and delete them from there, permanently.

My kindle app quit working on my computer for some odd reason so I can't open it and give you specific instructions.

I got 10 # of organic carrots today. Going to dry most for my trip, though we are going to eat some cooked. Neither of us chews them well enough to eat raw anyhow.

I was at the salvage food store and the owner asked if I wanted 10 cans of green beans for $10? #10 cans! So I'm going to dry some of that for my trek. The rest will go into meals for daughter.

Bought some diced, frozen okra and frozen sweet corn to dry for my trek too and I want to dry some sweet potatoes.

Not much new here. Same battles, different day. Listened to a sermon on Jehosophat's battle that was comforting and uplifting.Don't know how we managed before we had online sermons to listen to. They really help me. Wish I could go to church though. I miss the fellowship.

Just think how few days you have till Christmas and all the gifts you need to get made. HURRY!

Cheer on! LOL

Startle is NOT good! Wish I could time out those Pyrs when they get under my window to bark. Going to have to put fence back up so they can't reach. Stole the cattle panels to make a pig pen though.

Wanna borry some goaties, Jeepers? LOL

LOL, at least I will get it over with early in the yr. I will probably sell off the kids though. I can't leave bottle babies with a farm sitter. Still have to find someone to take the milking does while I'm gone.

Thanks, Ann! Lisa will be boarding Maynard for me! I really didn't want to sell him.

My buck has been very busy and has the 7 sr does bred for mid Jan kidding. I've decided to forgo breeding the doelings this yr since they won't be old enough in time to kid before I plan to start my trek next spring. Maynard will be going home with my friend Lisa next week and won't come back here. If she can't board him till I get moved or return from the trek I'll sell him. He is the father of all 8 doelings so really didn't want to use him on them anyhow and don't want two bucks here since it is so hard to keep a fence up and intact. 7 does kidding is a plenty anyhow.

Its probably cooler than here! 108 today.

Love to see it!

http://www.healingwiseforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=27098

Might be some info here that would help.

Mom11, you should NOT feel guilty! That is your living! They don't bring over part of their paycheck so why should you give them part of yours?

Mom11, I've been thinking about you all day. It grieves me that anybody would have the unmitigated gall to take anything from you and those precious children! God calls it encroaching on the fields of the fatherless and He will repay those that do such things! I hope the Lord blesses you with an abundance to care for your chicks.