The WE2's

Just have to share this about Abby...when we scold her with a high pitched accusation of "did you do that!" she "dive bombs" under our coffee table and thinks she's hiding! This week she turned 9 months old.How do you like her sunglasses and her backpack!?

Let's hear it for Katz!

Hubby is an over 60 self employed individual...and has no insurance, never has. I dropped mine many, many years ago because I couldn't afford it even then on a secretary's pay. Turned to my Bible where it says "Bless the Lord oh my soul and forget not ALL of His BENEFITS. He's been good! We've had some expenses but always had the money to pay them. Catastrophics...no. But most insurance companies have limits on those too. Couldn't recommend any way to win...seriously, because it's most likely a "no win" situation if our USA comes totally "unzipped".

Probably will work just fine. I've used Rival's with my Gamesaver/Food Saver, but prefer the Food Saver bags because they're cheaper. I buy the rolls, cheaper than the pre-cut bags!

Don't have any trouble with anyone eating mine...but everyone enjoys their own I think? 1 lb ground beef 4 tablespoons of milk 1 small onion chopped 1 cup cooked brown rice 1 whipped egg salt pepper 1 diced green bell pepper 1/4 tsp garlic powder 1 tsp. liquid smoke Mix all ingredients together. Then form a meatloaf and roll up in aluminum foil. Place in your favorite cast iron skillet bake in oven at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes or until toothpick comes out "done". Unwrap & drizzle ketchup over top and brown under broiler.

Another funny from Abby...We had taken a sticky label off of something (?) and it was on the tv table. Somehow or another Abby got it stuck to the end of her tail (no...we didn't do this deliberately) and this pic is of her trying desperately to "chase it away"...LOL We both laughed sooo hard we cried! I keep a camera on my end table for occasions such as this!

Reminds me of one of my own favorites, when someone finds out where my goat is tied! ..."you don't pay me enough to occupy my mind all the time".

There's some pretty good books out there on dreams. If nothing else, very entertaining! God gives dreams (like He did in the Bible) to direct us, warn us, or perhaps to provide us the key to somebody else's situation. Just my thoughts.

CONGRATULATIONS!

Save tons on bleach (and yes, the liquid will go bad in a very short time) by buying bleach tablets. One tablet makes a gallon...and there's 32 in a bottle, which costs me $2.97...available at WalMart in the laundry section, usually on the bottom shelf area. Here's a pic...

Still find loads of stuff on this website! Woohoo! I dehydrate and store lemons, limes & oranges. I also store large liquid lemon juice...I find it at Sam's Club and stock the biggie bottles. Love the dehydrated fruit for my citrus jug in my frig, and the liquid lemon juice for spraying on my apples etc. Mix it 1 to 4 in a spray bottle...saves tons of money!

I think you're exercising some magnificent wisdom! I'm fearful of cannng myself, that's why I don't! We had our Vita-Mixer going and hubby forgot to put top on...had hot soup all over him, me, the ceiling, the stove, the frig...you name it...major clean up! It cured me of canning. If it had been a presser canning we both would probably have gotten burnt severly...it was hot enough anyway! And losing power is one of my biggies of freezing. Again, I LOVE MY DEHYDRATORS!!! oops...forgot something! Go online and find youtube's dehydrate2store lady. She is magnifico! She's the one that convinced me of dehydrating...then, katzcradul is another lady I enjoy! Have fun!!!

Learned another use for the mylar-type baggies...the ones that the Capri drinks come in. Trim off the top, wash, rinse & dry. Then put in your BOB or ??? to drink from.

I believe that this does work. My husband learned to do this because he works in an environment with lots of industrial-type dust He doesn't do it 5 times a day, but he does do it at least twice. He is able to remove a lot of dirt from his nose and I would think that the removal of dirt & germs would promote good health. He gets sick about once every 4 or 5 years. Several years ago I ran onto Jordon Rubin's books. One of the things he mentioned was "if you wash EVERY opening of your body two times a day, you won't catch "what's going around". I've practiced his recommendation for several years and I truly believe it. Have only had one cold in all that time.

Did you ladies know that you can recycle washclothes into house slippers by sewing up the sides to make a "footy". Then (oops...typo) tuck one end upward to form the "boot". Make a hem around the top and thread a piece of yard or (?) for the slip tie and wahlah! You have a pair of house slippers!

I have 3, but the newest one is a "gamesaver" and it comes with the hose attachment. My older 2 have the port, but the hose was lost. I also have the cannisters. I LOVE MY FOOD SAVER!!! I don't can. I dehydrate and then vacume seal in jars or bags. But...I will pass on a caution I've head...on vacume sealing flour. It can be combustible just like grains in a grain bin. So, I don't. I keep flour in buckets with oxygen absorbers. Have fun!!!

You'll love it! They totally spoiled me from canning. There's a youtube gal (katzcradul) that's very interesting for me, but the one that won my heart was the youtube gal on "dehydrate2store".

This might be an older post, but thought I'd share anyway. When my first husband passed on, my hair started falling out in chunks. I had one bald spot on the back side of my head the size of a silver dollar. Hairdresser said "alopecia". I went to our local health food store and bought some pine tar shampoo. Hair grew back in, but white as snow! Wouldn't even take color for a long, long time. Finally started growing back in with natural brunette and white. Periodically I wash my hair with the pine tar shampoo. About 3 months ago I had hair dresser take out all the "false brunette" and now I'm a blondish, silver, brown mix. Don't have to do nuttin' now...'cept let it grow in natural if I want. Great way to gradually leave the bottled brunette! (LOL)

We got broke into also! They chewed and P'd on everything...even though the house has been vacant with not much in it! They've met their match though...D-Kon (?) They can eat all they want! They even chewed a hole in a hanging cloth shelf to get to trash bags! I left them a treat there also! Nasty buggers! Only thing worse was when a racoon "broke in" and came up from the crawl space. NOW THAT WAS A MESS! We used a live trap and transported her to a new home in a state park...then with gloves & masks began the terrible cleanup. Removed all carpet. And this is the house we've been taking our time remodeling so we could move into it until we're ready to move to our "homestead". Grrrrr. Would a shotgun be "overkill"?

Got some "freebie" apples, onions, potatoes and oranges from a local pantry...so...the dehydrators are going again!!!

Potatoes & oranges. Tomorrow will be onions and apples. Got some freebies and I never pass up free food that I can dehydrate and get in my pantry!

One of our local pantry's was giving away...bags of apples, potatoes, onions and oranges. Guess what! I'm slicing and fireing up the dehydrators. Seems like they hardly ever stop! But these were freebies! They even had canteloupe but they were so near rotty that I just couldn't take even one (frown). The jalepenos went fast, which is okay, since we don't eat them. I don't preserve what we won't eat. People swarming...me too! LOL

Pictures speak louder than words! Got lemons and limes on sale & stocked up. I expect we'll see a price hike this spring on all fruits and we love "citrus" water. So put all the odd & end pieces into my Berkey filled glass frig container for a refreshing drink. Put the rest of the pieces in a vacume sealed bag and they're in the freezer for more citrus water. Yum, yum!

Found lemons and limes on sale at our local Aldi's and bought a bag of 12 of each. Got my dehydrator going, a vacume sealed bag of all the odds and ends in the freezer, and a Berkey filled glass decanter with lemon & lime bits in the frig for a nice refreshing drink. I fully expect lemons and limes (and most fruit) to see a price spike this spring. I'll be glad I've got them!

Congratulations! Hang in there on the rest...