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  1. Dh had to have surgery for a cyst in his mouth. So I took care of him today. We had a hard frost last night but it was sunny today. Rain is moving in for tomorrow. Tomorrow I will be the parent of a ADULT CHILD. Not that I think 18 is grown up.
  2. He's 15. Last weekend they jumped from a helicopter. That had the house shaking every time it went over. They do yell on the way down. If he really wants do this his Dad can sign the forms. Jori next time your in the area I'll gve you the address.
  3. I live near a small airport. While the airport owns the land across the road from me, including a house they rent out the runway and buildings are about a mile away. They rent most of the land to farmers. Except for the sky diving business. They land in the field across the road from me. They have a building behind the house the airport rents out. . A friend of our went over to talk to the pilot. He found out the name of the sky diving business and told Son. Son looked it up on the internet to see how much it would cost to sky dive there. It had a distance calculator so he put in our address. Distance 315 feet. Travel time 1 minute. Cost 250 for the 1st jump with video of you jumping. It's a tandem jump with someone who knows what they are doing. Now Son wants to do it. He is going to save his money. His biggest problem is going to be liability release forms that need a parents signature.
  4. How to Make a Leper Bandage eHow Hobbies, Games & Toys EditorThis article was created by a professional writer and edited by experienced copy editors, both qualified members of the Demand Media Studios community. All articles go through an editorial process that includes subject matter guidelines, plagiarism review, fact-checking, and other steps in an effort to provide reliable information. By an eHow Contributor Leper bandages are used in third world countries to bind tropical sores on the skin. The bandages are made with 100 percent mercerized cotton and are either crocheted or knitted. The bandages are made quickly once you have the hang of the pattern. Donate leper bandages to charitable organizations that will distribute them to individuals in need. Does this Spark an idea? Things You'll Need 100 percent mercerized cotton in white, ecru or cream #2 or #3 knitting needles D or #3 crochet hook 100 percent cotton mercerized thread in white, cream or ecru Instructions Knitting 1 Use size 2 knitting needles if you tend to knit tightly. Use size 3 needles if you tend to knit loosely 2 Cast on 24 to 28 stitches so that the width of the bandage is three inches. Use a knit stitch for the entire 3 Continue to knit the bandage until it is four or seven feet long. Bind off when the bandage has reached this length4 Slip the thread through the last stitch and tie it in a double knot to secure. Weave the end of the thread through the stitches. Crocheting 5 Use a #3 or D hook to crochet a bandage 6 Make a chain of 22 to 23 stitches to measure approximately three inches. Make a single chain in the second chain and across to the end. Chain one stitch and loop 7 Make a single crochet in the first loop. Single crochet until the end, chain one and turn the bandage over 8 Continue the process until the bandage is four or seven feet long. 9 Finish the bandage by the thread through the last loop. Tie it in a double knot. Tips & Warnings Use double stitches when using a knitting machine. When the bandage is complete, roll it up and secure it with a large safety pin. Do not use dyed strings. Read more: How to Make a Leper Bandage | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/...l#ixzz1siu0yMPQ
  5. My youngest has a baby think it over this weekend. At 2 this morning it was crying and would not accept the wrist band so she could care for it.With one blury eye open we finiily got it to accept it. That is when I longed for her to have done the atternative assingment of pricing how much it cost for a baby's frist year. She also got a B+ on her report card and is mad that she let her grades slip. It's cold and sunny here too. My heating element went out on my dryer and the clothes line needs work before I can use it. Not sure how much laundry I'm going to get done.
  6. By JOHN KLINE THE GOSHEN NEWS The Goshen News Fri Apr 13, 2012, 07:00 AM EDT GOSHEN — Wednesday night was definitely not a good night for fruit growers in Elkhart County. With temperatures reaching down to 19 degrees in some areas, Tom Kercher, owner of Kercher’s Sunrise Orchards awoke early Thursday morning to a fruit grower’s nightmare — nearly 100 acres of fruit trees with white blossoms tinged by the telltale brown of a hard frost. “We have a lot of damage,” Kercher said from the orchard’s main complex early Thursday afternoon. “It’s pretty widespread. We haven’t determined how bad yet. It’ll probably take a few days to really see how bad it is. But we know it’s bad.” According to Kercher, the long run of unseasonably warm weather that has blanketed the area in recent weeks only served to exacerbate a situation by encouraging the fruit trees to bud and flower much earlier than is typical for a regular growing season. “We’re six or seven weeks ahead of normal as far as growth,” Kercher said. “At the stage of development we’re at, which is petal fall, apples can take about 27 or 28 degrees without getting a real large percentage of bud kill. But (Wednesday) night we got down to anywhere from 19 to 22 degrees...so it’s pretty bad.” Of the Kercher’s 100-acre orchard, apples make up a majority of the fruit produced, along with a smattering of peaches and various other fruits and vegetables. “It’s mostly apples and peaches, and the peaches even got hurt,” Kercher said. “Normally we don’t worry much about the peaches, because generally they are a little hardier and can take a little more cold weather. But at this stage, they got hurt pretty bad too. So it’s tough all the way around.” On a good year, Kercher said his operation can take in between 80,000 to 100,000 bushels of apples. “This year, I don’t even want to speculate on what we’ll bring in,” Kercher said. “I don’t even want to think about it.” While exactly how much of his crop was destroyed by the frost has yet to be determined, Kercher admitted that the apple market locally could take a pretty good hit if the die-off turns out to be as significant as he expects. “It could be pretty tough for us locally here if we do come up with a really short crop,” Kercher said. “We can tell which flowers are dead or alive right now, but there are some of them that are just injured, and we don’t know right now which way it’s going to go with those. We may find that we have enough crop to get us through the fall, but we usually market through most of the winter too, and I don’t think that’s going to happen this year.” Over at Fruit Hills Winery and Orchard, 55503 Ind. 15, Bristol, owners Michele and David Muir reported similarly dismal tidings for their vineyard and fruit trees. The orchard, which has been in the Muir family since 1852, is made up of approximately six acres of apple trees, two to three acres of peaches and cherries, and approximately an acre of grapes for use in the family’s winery. “I just went out and looked around in the trees in the lower elevations, and it looked to me that they’re about all gone,” said David from his home Thursday afternoon. “The trees that are a little higher up on the side of the hill and on the far west side of our orchard are a little bit better. We lost some, but there’s still enough that we’ll have a crop.” On a brighter note, David said his peaches seem to have fared fairly well despite the frost, though he added that it looks like the orchard’s apples and cherries took the brunt of the damage. “As for the grapes, anything that had budded out has died off,” David said. “But there are still some that need to bud out, so my hope is that we’ll still have enough for a crop with those as well.” Wednesday evening’s potential for a grape die-off was made particularly potent for the Muir family due to the fact that this year’s crop marks the first that the family will be able to harvest from their own vineyard. “We started the winery a couple years ago, and this was supposed to be our first official harvest of our own grapes, because it takes a couple years for the vines to mature,” Michele said. “We’re definitely disappointed, because we were really looking forward to harvesting this first crop, and now we’re not even sure if we’ll have a crop to harvest. So we’ll just have to wait and see.”
  7. My Son's friend said he took a this picture in a town near us. Dh thinks it photoshoped. You decide.
  8. 11 - 12 hour days at work = screaming arthritis pain. Screaming arthritis pain makes it hard to sleep at night.
  9. My factory runs 3 shifts. 1st shift works 5 to 1:30. 2nd shift is 3:00 to 11:30. 3rd is a maintenance shift with only a few people working it. When we work overtime 1st shift runs until 2nd gets there and we end up trying to work around each other. We do work a lot of overtime and often see 2nd shift in the afternoon. There was a problem in the finish room Monday so my department started 3 hours late yesterday morning. 2nd shift came in 2 hours latter then usual. We had to go in at 4 am this morning. 2nd shift was still there working when we got there. As they were leaving they told us they would see us this afternoon. Yes we were still working as they got there this afternoon. I hate when they are right.
  10. Did they have more? I can be there in 20 minunites.
  11. My Grandparents milked a cow until I was 9. I remember Grandma pasteurized the milk on the stove. For making butter she just put the milk in the refrigerator and skimed the cream off the next day. http://www.ehow.com/how_2106055_separate-cream-from-milk.html
  12. Way cool. I love reading Grit. I get it at Tractor Supply.
  13. It' that time of year again. Colld and flu things are going on sale. Anyone have any new ideas to add?
  14. C4C I love autumn colors. My dd2 wants me to make a shawl for her and I want one for me too. Christy the hat is wonderful and it's getting cold enough to dig it out again. Any ideas for the teal would be appreciated. The teacher that Son made the hat for gave the hat to his wife and she wants Son to make her some more hats. She said she would pay him for them.
  15. Yes Christy the teal still lives. When I was working on my scarfs my kids got out the knitting looms and are working on making hats. Son made a baby hat for his favorit teacher's to be here at moment baby girl. DD2 told her dad he should learn how to do something so he could join our Granny corner. She is getting a kick out of teasing me about turning 50 soon.
  16. I like to crochet and sew. I don't have a lot of time for either. I'm making 4 scarfs for Christmas gitrs now. I can finish one in about 3 days. I found a pertty soft fuzzy teal yarn for one of the scarfs. I'm going to burn the yarn. Yesterday I got some Carron simply soft yarn. I might not go back to any other yarn. I love it. So easy to work with and really soft. And to Mrs.S
  17. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4zMe_JutTY&feature=related
  18. For Christmas Dh got me slippers that come midway up my legs. Don't know how I lived without them. We use a kerosene heater. While I'm not all that happy useing it as long as it above 15* it keeps the house comfortable. We put new windows in the house about 4 years ago and that helped a lot in the bedrooms. I like the idea of a heating pad warming up the bed. As long as I can keep my feet warm I'm good. I would take it out before sleeping. I used to laugh at Mom for waking up with overly hot feet. Now it's not so funny. # 1 prep is a poster of Hawaii. I get it out about the 1st week of February .
  19. gofish

    SEEDS!!!!!!

    I just have a catalog.I have not ordered from them yet. Here are some reviews. http://davesgarden.com/products/gwd/c/291/
  20. gofish

    SEEDS!!!!!!

    This is not seeds but it looks interesting https://indianaberry.com/
  21. A man in my church is starting a seed bank to help the people of the Congo.He has trained people in how to compost and now has master composters training others.They are developing irrigation systems. What he needs now is seed.He will take any seed new or left-overs. If like me you are going through your seeds and find out that you have 2 of the same melon seeds or after you plant your garden and have left-over seed a padded envelope a few stamps and some time will help a family feed themselves. This will not be a hand out but a hand up. If you have any extra seed or want to help out pm me and I will get you a address to send the seeds to. What is needed is warm weather plants. garden soybeans squash pumpkins all types of beans tomatoes melons sweet corn. No flowers&ornamentals or gourds. Thanks
  22. Are they kidding? https://www.ezcracker.com/
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