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Has anyone read The Pact, by Jodi Picoult? Oh my, it's heartbreaking but so very good. I'm not quite 1/2 finished and I can't put it down. I usually don't read heartbreakers or love stories, but a friend recommended this one. It's not a new book, I think it's 1997 but it's good all the same. Keep reading!

Hope your day is perfect in every way.

This is enough for me to know I'll never have too much on hand but again I doubt I'll ever have enough either. I just keep trying. It's what we do. Food Storage Calculator – Provident Living Family Preparedness

I am so excited about all these hacks. You ladies are all so ingenious!!! I can't leave things out in the open that mice will get into (Living on a farm where we grow corn, it's hard to keep the darn things out) but I can see how all of these hack's work for other things. I love this!!!

This is so cool Midnightmom. It's so organized and you know where everything is and it's easy to get to. Thanks for sharing!!!

Welcome, Justmelome!

He takes his cows to his in-law's farm to feed all winter long, but I have in the back of my mind that if things go bad, he'll give us a cow or two a year for free pasture. Using a barter system.

We rent our 50 acres pasture out to a kid who runs cattle on it all summer. Sometimes when he butchers, he'll bring us about 20 lbs. of hamburger. I feel like we've won the lottery when he does that.

I am going to give that a try when I have time. Oh, how I hope it works. Thanks mm!

Love that mm. Now I get it. Thanks mm, I just couldn't figure out what they were.

A Gentleman in Moscow and Red Famine. I'll check them both out. Thanks ladies! I just read the blurb from Amazon on Red Famine by Anne Applebaum and here is part of what was written in 2017. Seems like she knew what she was talking about. "Today, Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more. Applebaum's compulsive narrative recalls one of the worst crimes of the 20th century and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the 21st."

DH and I don't eat out much, but I'd never thought about saving the 20% you mentioned. That's really kind of cool, isn't it?

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Wow Midnightmom, you are so very organized. I love all your ideas! I do have a question. What are paper sized baskets? Buttercup, I've never done this, but I have loved looking at hanging pots, utensils, etc. in kitchens through the years. So many of the expensive homes in magazines and movies have them. Yours is so cool! And the lights just set it off.

Today I was washing the saucer my bottle of oil sits on and it made me wonder how many others do the same thing. For syrup or oil, I set them on a saucer in the cupboard to keep the shelves clean. It's slick as a whistle and so much easier washing the plate periodically than scrubbing the shelves. What ideas can you come up with? I'd love to find more!

Stay safe Jeepers and see you when you get back!

Hope you're soon on you way to be rid of him. Anyone raising livestock for any length of time knows exactly what you're talking about. Good luck and thank him with each bite you take.

Happy Birthday!

Oh, that does look good. DH loves Italian sausage and I think he'd love this. I bookmarked it. Thanks!!!

Our Iowa Hy-Vee's have the Hy-Vee brand, 16 oz., peanut butter on sale for $.77. I went to Fareway, and they honored the sale. I got 4 jars for $.77 each instead of the $2.49 each. It's a great sale if you're close enough to have a Hy-Vee! I saved almost $7 on 4. Think what you could do with 10. I saw no limits. Remember it's TODAY only.

I have it cubed and in the freezer too Becca. Use it for scrambled eggs or scalloped potatoes and ham.

I keep thinking/hoping hams will be on sale at Easter. They usually are but who knows this year?!?!?

Our sheep lived well, dogmom4. This is a chandelier DH put in their building. It was actually wired and worked.

Just what I thought Becca....like a family reunion and the new faces make it perfect.

I bought a ham a while back and didn't get it all used. I cut it in meal sized slices, put 2 slices wrapped in plastic wrap, froze them all on a cookie sheet and bagged them all together. Today I got the last 2 out of the freezer and fried them up. Added sweet potatoes, cucumber/onion and cottage cheese with applesauce. My but it was easy AND good. Anyway, what I was going to say is: I will buy another ham, when they're on sale, and slice the whole thing into meal size servings. It is so good to have on hand and have ready in just a few minutes. P.S. For those of you that read my other post about the 97-year-old lady, I will be taking some ham and sweet potatoes to her afterwhile that she can have for supper. She'll be so appreciative, and I did my good deed for the day!