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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!

I wondered if I sounded owly (my mother's favorite phrase to me when I was a grouch) when I made my last post. Anyway, I wasn't being so at all. I was just explaining how it all happened.

When I was working outside the home, I found the crockpot to be my lifeline. Put a roast, chicken, whatever in the crockpot in the morning and off I'd go. I'd add a can of soup with a can of water and season. When the kids came home from school, I'd have potatoes and carrots peeled, or have them do it. Then they'd put them in the crockpot, turn the dial to high and in an hour or so I'd be home and we'd have supper. The gravy, from the soup, was delicious too. So easy, good and nutritious. Even now, being retired, I use the crockpot so much.

Our foster daughter is no youngster AND she was taught to cook with me. She lived with us her 4 years of high school and will be 60 in April. Wow, what does that tell you about my age? I taught her to bake, can, etc. and she does it well. She just likes giving me something different and this year it was from the Apple Orchard in Ft. Dodge. I'll also add that was not all that was in the Apple Orchard bag. I'm sure she spent close to $100. She knows I cook mostly from scratch and was just giving me some nice things to try that I would never have spent the money on. She's a great wife, mother, grandmother and so on and has been a part of our family since 1976. In the bag was also a jar, not quite a pint of jam, some kind of dark berry, I can't remember which for $8.95. Again, I can't imagine that price but it was good. I can't remember what else but I felt like a queen using that expensive stuff.

That tree still looks like there's a lot of work left Vic303. How nice it will be to have on hand for your sawmill or burning. Be careful! I'm home from church and thinking about fixing dinner. It's 11:00 so soon I need to do more than think about it. Otherwise, this afternoon I plan on going to visit an elderly relative, 97, of DH's. She and I have become good friends and can visit way longer than we should. She lives alone in her home and doesn't cook any longer. I always try to take her something so that's another thing I better think about before long. I do a lot of thinking. If I did as much work as I do thinking I'd get a lot more accomplished. You all have a good day!

Happy, happy birthday Virginia!!

Have you read, The Pilot's Daughter, by Audrey J. Cole? I was trying to finish it one night before going to sleep. It was so intense, but I couldn't make it. When I got up the next morning, I sat down with my 1st cup of coffee and finished. It's good! I've just now picked up, Shadows Reel, by C.J. Box. Have you read him? It's a Joe Pickett novel and he's a game warden in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming. They're usually very good too. I'm anxious to give this new one a try! Keep reading!

Yesterday I baked cinnamon rolls from a box our foster daughter had gotten me for my birthday. There were 6 rolls that were so sweet we could hardly eat them, but we did. Other than too sweet, they weren't bad, BUT that boxed mix cost her $13.50, for 6 rolls. Does just your average buy these? How does a company keep in business with those prices? If I was to spend $13.50 for rolls they'd be baked and ready to eat. These not only needed mixing and baking, I still needed to add a 1/2 cup butter and milk to the mix. I realize it was a gift and I doubt she buys them for herself but I was shocked when I saw the price stamped on the bottom. Am I just old and cheap or do others find this expensive?