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Last year I made crochet scarfs as Christmas gifts. They were fast and easy to make. It was a Red Heart I made 6 of them. This year I'm thinking about shawls. This is becoming my top choice. [ I'm still working on the crocodile shawl for my DD2. That's a lot of stitches. What are you thinking about making? I love YouTube.

Our church is having the MCC conference this weekend and needed volunteers. A lot of volunteers. Since I serve coffee one Sunday a month I volunteered to do that today. Only to latter realize that this is my Sunday to serve coffee. My helper kids ( DD2 and her friend) are not to happy and I haven't told them even if I realized it was our coffee Sunday I still would have volunteered us. We are only going to be serving coffee and tea this weekend. The church kids are going to be upset. They LOVE their hot chocolate. They can go through a big canister or more of hot chocolate every Sunday. I had to get up early because my arthritis is killing me today. I didn't want to be to stiff to get up later. Hopefully if I take something now it will kick in before I have to leave for church. What are you doing this weekend?

I am sad to report Dan passed away . He got sick suddenly and died of septic shock. He was laid to rest in the Congo. Homesteader I'm sure he will meet you in heaven to introduce you to the people you help with your generous gift of seeds. http://www.padintl.org/#

Yes I have more growing along with poke weed in the back yard by the shed .Out of sight and out of the way. It's interfering big time.I plan on planting more useful things there next spring and the dog and kids keep draging the burrs into the house. I'm thinking herb garden with some edible flowers thrown in. That's why I didn't want to use a herbicide.

I have burdock growing by my front porch. I have tried chopping, pulling.digging it out. I do not want to use a herbicide on it. If I put vinegar on the leaves will that kill it?

Looking around I noticed some of our soffits have fallen down. I'll have to get Dh to put them back up. The squirrels are becoming a problem this year. Son has killed 3 squirrels so far with his air riffle. He just didn't want to kill it in the house. Most of the time the dog would have gone berserk but the last few weeks we have noticed she is slowing way down.

I sorry for your loss.

Yesterday Son said he heard a animal under the kitchen sink. I told him it was the cat. she likes to hide there. He said the cat was in the living room. We looked under the sink and didn't see anything. We went to a friend's house for dinner last night. Son didn't want to go so he stayed home. He called me. He heard something under the sink so he opened the door. Out popped a squirrel. it ran into the living room jumped over the dog and was trying to climb the wall. Son tossed a towel over it and took it outside. Now I have to figure out where the squirrel got in and I told the dog she wasn't doing her job. Although to be fair to the dog she is starting to show her age.

The Man in the Mirror shots reminded me of a nice dinning room table someone was selling on eBay. If you are taking a picture around a mirror make sure you have some clothes on.

I do buy the shredded cabbage. Just because of the size. Dh and I are the only ones that will eat it .

The brakes on my car are fixed. Dh fixed them the day after they went out. DD1 was with a friend. Her friends car just got out of the shop and he said he lost the power steering for moment and he over compensated and hit the side of the road. They had just stoped at a intersection so they were doning less that 30mph. All this happened before dark. She is sore today but other than that all 5 of them are OK. Maybe not the driver. Now that she know's he's safe his Mom is going to kill him. As soon as he heard they had flipped the car Dh was getting dressed to go rescue his baby.

My Dd1 was out with friends tonight. She just called me. They flipped the car. I'm thanking God that everyone is OK. He is really looking out for my family this week with the brakes going out on my car and now this.

YOU GO GIRL There is a skunk hanging around my house .Would you take care of that too?

http://money.msn.com/frugal-living/post.aspx?post=d39d5193-c7d0-403c-a95f-15ad7f8c8dae Breakfast bacon for $22 a pound? And it's not even the artisanal kind. Here are some other ways you pay for convenience. By Donna_Freedman 20 hours ago Would a BLT be quite as delectable if you made it with bacon that cost three times the federal minimum wage? Not artisanal bacon, mind you, or even one of the fancier versions of everyday pork. Just ordinary bacon that the folks at Oscar Mayer cooked in advance, ringing up at $22.22 per pound at a Seattle supermarket. Sometimes convenience food is worth it because it makes life a little easier during hectic times. But if your grocery bill is over the top, take a closer look at the prices you're paying. Yesterday I poked around a Seattle supermarket (from a regional chain with prices typical of other supermarkets), alternately laughing and shuddering. You might, too, if you did the math on what convenience is costing you. Can hardly wait? For example, several varieties of "steam-in-the-bag" fresh vegetables are available for microwave cooking. The 2-pound bag of green beans cost $7.97. The same amount of loose green beans was $1.98. I took home about three-quarters of a pound. It took approximately 90 seconds to snip the ends of the beans, cut them in half and toss them into a steamer basket. Cooking lasted around 10 minutes, vs. 2 to 4 minutes for the bagged type. Seriously, you can't wait an extra 6 minutes for food? They'd be steaming while you put together the rest of your meal or opened your mail (or some wine). Here are 15 other foods that caught my eye. Pricey produce "Baby-cut" carrots. These were $1.84 per pound. Whole carrots were 99 cents a pound. You're paying almost twice as much. Ready-to-microwave potatoes. Washed and wrapped in plastic, sweet potatoes were $1.67 apiece and regular potatoes were $1. Unwashed taters were $1.24 and 67 cents, respectively. Not much of a difference, but how much work is it to rinse off a potato? Post continues below. Shredded iceberg lettuce. It cost $4 a pound, vs. 65 cents a pound for head lettuce. Bagged salad. A bag of mostly iceberg was $2.40 per pound. The fancier blends are even more expensive. Stir-fry vegetable mix. The store chopped up a few vegetables (peppers, broccoli, cauliflower) and charged $3.99 a pound. Sold solo, those varieties cost no more than $1.29 per pound. Vegetable tray. This office potluck staple cost a whopping $12.99. It weighed 3 pounds, but 8 ounces of that was dressing; the tray and lid weighed several ounces, too. Cut melon. Someone's knife skills meant $3.99 a pound; whole melons were 99 cents to $1.29 a pound. Even though that includes rind, I doubt you're paying for $3 worth. Other spendy stuff Soup At Hand. This is a microwavable variety of Campbell's, for $3.85 a pound. Regular canned soup is $2.22. Applesauce pouches. Kids love these things, but the per-pound cost is $3.77. Jarred applesauce is $1.24 per pound. Buy yourself some reusable containers, already. Microwave popcorn. The nuke-able stuff costs $3.89 to $7.96 a pound. Compare that to the $1.25-a-pound plain kernels on the shelf below. (I got it even cheaper at an ethnic market. For links to exotic recipes, see "The world's most frugal snack.") A premium for proteins Marinated chicken kebabs. A few bits of bird plus pepper and mushroom go for $6.99 a pound. Boneless, skinless chicken breast was $4.99 (and buy-one-get-one this week, thus $2.50 per pound); marinade is easy to make. Stir-fry chicken. More of that boneless, skinless stuff, thinly cut for $5.99 a pound. Seasoned beef flank steak. Rub a few everyday ingredients (garlic powder, cayenne, et al.) on $7.99-a-pound flank steak. Now it's $9.99 a pound. Shredded cheddar. Too busy to shred the $4.50-a-pound block? Buy it pre-slivered for $8.58. They'll throw in some potato starch, "cellulose powder" and mold inhibitor for good measure. Yum. Snack-size cheddar cheese. Handy little 3/4-ounce pieces of the same kind of cheddar work out to a whopping $12.59 a pound. You should always cut the cheese yourself (assuming we're still talking about cheddar). You're in a hurry. I get that. But when it's a "valued added" product, you can bet it's the manufacturer or retailer that receives the value.

I live in one of the county's in Indiana that was hit hardest by the drought this year. http://www.hoosieragtoday.com/index.php/2012/07/19/more-indiana-counties-may-be-declared-disaster/ This week It has rained every day. Yesterday most of it went north of me but we did get a few drops. It's raining now for the 4th day in a row.

I love beets any way you can make them. Harvard beets are my favorite. I also like them with orange butter sauce.I don't make beets often because I'm the only one that likes them but Dh will help me eat them. I didn't know he didn't care for them until the kids were old enough to whine about me making them. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/grandmas-harvard-beets/ http://southernfood.about.com/od/beets/r/bl30609f.htm

This past weekend I got a lot of much need yard work done. I have a allergy to sun light and I only wanted to work on it in the mornings when it was cooler.. I wanted to be finished before today Monday morning it rained. Tuesday morning it rained. This morning it was beautiful a nice 74* with a bit of a breeze so I started bright and early. I got a lot of mulberries cut down that was growing by the house and trimmed by the fence. I heard a jet take off from the airport and was listening to it rumble off in the distance. The rumbling went on for longer than I thought it should so looked to see what was going on. It going to rain soon. If this keeps up we might have to mow the grass soon.

I have the week off and the fair started this week so of course it has to rain this week. Not that I'll complain about the rain. I heard they lifted the burn ban in St Joe county. I did some trimming and pruning in the yard this weekend and was going to finish it yesterday but it rained and then got hot and today it's still damp from this mornings rain. I did get my closet cleaned out yesterday. I'm trying to get some deep cleaning done while I off work this week.

Jori one year I put up 100 lbs of blueberries. My kids were a little older than your at the time. They were gone by Christmas.

Dh took the car over to our church. It's a old Walmart building and still has the bays where they did tyres. The church uses it to fix cars for people who can't afford car repairs.The people pay for their parts and volunteers do the labor for free . Walmart built that store and a few short years later they built a bigger store across the road. It make a great church buliding. Dh called and said that he has to completely replace both brake lines and the brake pads in the back brakes.

My girls and I were going to the mall. DD1 was driving. She's a new driver and needs to work on slowing down to stop. My car doesn't slow down well. Dh said something about the idle being high? She made a bad stop and I told her to slow down and stop sooner she said that the brakes were kinda of weird. By that time we were at the mall. She got in the car to drive home and pushed down on the brakes to put it in gear and we had no brakes. Dh came and put brake fluid in and drove my car home. He barely made it home. He said he was really sweating it the last mile. Thank you Lord for wonderful husbands. Tomorrow he's replacing my brake lines.

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http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/19/12835335-cdc-whooping-cough-epidemic-worst-in-50-years?lite The bacterial infection also known as pertussis can be very serious for children under the age of 12 months. The biggest outbreak is currently in Washington State, where there were more than 3,000 cases through July 14. NBC's Robert Bazell reports. By Maggie Fox, NBC NewsWhooping cough is causing the worst epidemic seen in the United States in more than 50 years, health officials said Thursday, and they’re calling for mass vaccination of adults. The epidemic has killed nine babies so far and babies are by far the most vulnerable to the disease, also known as pertussis, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. The best way to protect them is to vaccinate the adults around them, and to vaccinate pregnant women so their babies are born with some immunity. “As of today, nationwide nearly 18,000 cases have been reported to the CDC,” the CDC’s Dr. Anne Schuchat told reporters in a conference call. “That is nearly twice as many as reported last year. We may be on track for a record high pertussis rate this year,” she added. “We may need to go back to 1959 to find as many cases. I think there may be more coming to a place near you.” The last record year was 2010, when 27,000 cases were reported and 27 people died. In 1959, 40,000 cases were reported.In 2008, whooping cough killed 195,000 people globally, according to the World Health Organization. Whooping cough is caused by a bacterial infection. It gets its name from the nagging cough it causes that can make children breathless. They often gasp for air, making a distinctive whooping sound. But it’s not so serious in adults and they may not realize that a persistent cough is being caused by pertussis. Washington state is having an especially bad time with whooping cough this year, with 3,000 cases so far, compared to 20 at the same time last year, said Mary Selecky, secretary of the Washington State Department of Health. “For every case that we know about, we suspect that there are many people out there who have pertussis and don’t know it,’ Selecky said. “In many cases, babies get this illness from their mothers or others close to them. It’s absolutely tragic.” The state has distributed 27,000 doses of a booster vaccine for uninsured adults and has ordered more. “This disease is very easy to catch,” Selecky said. “It has certainly gotten hold of our population in Washington state.” The CDC is trying to figure out what's going on, but Schuchat said a couple of factors are clearly at work. The formulation for the whooping cough vaccine was changed in 1997, and kids hitting age 13 and 14 now are the first to have been fully vaccinated with five doses of the new vaccine. The new formulation causes less of a reaction, but it may also wear off sooner, Schuchat said. The older vaccine was made using a whole pertussis bacterium. It was very effective, but it did cause swelling in some kids who got it, and sometimes caused a fever -- something that scared parents. It also was widely blamed for causing rare but serious neurological reactions, although Schuchat said studies have not confirmed this. Vaccines have done a good job of reducing the incidence of pertussis but our vaccines aren’t perfect,” Schuchat said. “We wish we had better ways of controlling pertussis. Given how dangerous pertussis is for babies, preventing infection in babies is our priority.” Schuchat says people who are not vaccinated have eight times the risk of infection compared to people who are fully vaccinated against whooping cough. And if someone who’s been vaccinated does get whooping cough, the disease is usually less serious and they are far less likely to infect someone else. The CDC says 95 percent of toddlers aged up to three years have received at least three doses of the vaccine and 84 percent have four doses. And in 2010 69 percent of 13- to 17-year-olds got a fifth booster dose. Kids should get five doses to be fully protected. And while adults are supposed to have at least one dose of whooping cough vaccine, only 8.2 percent of U.S. adults have done so.

When I came home from work today I saw something strange... there was water sitting in the low spot in the driveway. I think they call it a mud puddle I don't know it's been so long since I saw one. Son said we had a downpour for about 6 minuntes.

Yes there was a lot of dust under the bed where DH had stored his junk. It hadn't been cleaned very well in a long time. Strong scents do choke me up. I can't stay in Bed and Bath for very long and I'm very careful about hand lotions and perfume candles. Sometimes shampoo with get me coughing. When I went to bed I had the fan blowing on me and the doors to both rooms were open to get air circultion. One of the reasons I getting the house mega cleaned is because my asthma is getting worse, but it has not been that bad before . I'm making a Dortor appointment.