WHAT A BUNCH OF HOOEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOT my video

Its sounds like this study is lumping ALL home canned goods as a PROCESSED FOOD 

Kiss my Ball Jars!

ITS BEEN A LONG LONG TIME

It has been so long -- that this is the 5th time I've restarted this post ... LOL ... I just feel like I'm drolling on and on .... So I'm going to split this up ... on the plus timde - it means more posts.m

So lets hit the MAJOR updates:

    My husband mom, my mother-in-law, passed away 4 years ago and our youngest sone has become my Father-in-law's primary caregiver.  He says he likes it up there.  Its very quiet, and his work load is pretty light ... he just refuses to get paid for it. 

    My father-in-law turned 92 yrs old this year, and had a couple of stays in the hospital up there.  He is now on Hospice - but that just means "comfort care" not "death bed" care these days ... he had a prettyn major change to his medication. But he seems to be doing well as can be expected.

    Oldest is engaged - he went with his girlfriend up north at the end of September and came back engaged ... no date set as of yet, but it sounds like they are going to have an "engagement party" in December ... Nevver heard of one before, do we buy a gift ... god I hope not (more later)

    We are going to be grandparents - oldest daughter has had a "Timing Issue" as we call it, and she is due in February right around Valentine's Day ... marrieage may come after the baby is born, I think. Baby daddy seems to be dragging his feet ... but that's a whole different can of worms and I don't want to get into that.

    My youngest son, while excited to be an uncle and getting a new sister-in-law, is enjoying living at the resort.  He says he isn't sure if he could move back so close to the city any more.

    My youngest ... she is in her last year of college.  She says the one class that had kicked her butt twice before - problems with the professor - I want to say its the last class she has to pass to get her accounting certification.  

    Now for hubby -- okay, fair to say I am keeping a LOT of info off this page.  Its his story and I just come across as being witchy, give and take a letter ... Let me say - I love my husband very much, and I'm glad things weren't any worse ... and he is still alive, even after I found out the story as he's told it to me so far ... I've a feeling he is still holding a few things back that I likely will not know about for a while yet.  He was pretty embarrassed.

    Hubby got a spiral fracture of the smaller of the two bones in the shin ... he also messed up the tendons in his ankle.  He had to have some surgery - pin to hold the shin bone in place and then ... how to describe this ... to fix the tendons in the ankle, they had to tie the tendons back where they belonged with whatever it is they use for such things ... he has to keep weight off of it until January.

    This will not be easy for him to do in a state where 7-8 months are in snow.

    This winter is going to be .... Interesting ... 

    I used to have a parent at the daycare of Japanese decent ... one day I told him to have an "interesting day" - he said he understood that I certainly didn't mean it this way, but in Japanese culture to wish someone an "interesting day" is kind of like cursing them out.

    I just hope I haven't damned us ... this year will be hard enouhg.

HODIDAYS are coming ... inflation is up ... especially food ... its definately going to ge 'interesting"

ITS BEEN NEARLY 21 YEARS

This year was 20 years since we moved to the farm ... and there are days I still feel like Lisa - only difference is, I WANTED to move here!

I love this farm

Truly I do

IMPORTANT WEBSITE -- CHECK OUT THE USDA INFO ON UP COMING FOOD PRICES

RE-POST FROM THE GINGER GARGOYLE GEMS PAGE Here is the link to the USDA's webpage where they discuss how much THEY say food prices are going to go up ... they, of course, don't have a foot into reality and we all know that they will be way unde%r the actual price of things ... https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings/#:~:text=Beef%20and%20veal%20prices%20increased%201.1%20percent%20from%20February%20to,strong%20domestic%20and%20international%20demand I have been watching the sale flayers for our local store ... Cub Foods ... and they have had their steaks jump from $7/lb to $10/lb ... I'm sorry but that is almost 150% of what it cost a month ago!!! I'm wondering if someone added a decimal point some place It is reminding me a lot of the 70's when the elderly were eating cat/dog food because it was cheaper than hamburger - and we're talking the really CHEAP burger too, not even 73/27, we're talking the 50/50 stuff. I don't know if you've ever had it, but if you were a kid back then you know the joy of having a greased up colon! AND we had 6 boys in my family too -- boy did we put the sewer system to task! then too there will be another run on TOILDET PAPER & PAPER TOWELS, as well as CLEANING SUPPLIES this means, if you are a CANNER you will be having a tough time finding VINEGAR yet again this year -- since so many people have found that it works just as good as alcohol or bleach for cleaning. Canners use it to clean the rims of their jars for ensure a strong seal, to add to the canner water to prevent the "dust" from hard water, to clean jars after canning (cuts the grease like you wouldn't believe), and for making fermentations/pickles. as well as for other recipes ... and cleaning Definately the thing to do is to learn the PROPER method for putting up/away food ... avoid Rebel Canning if you are a Newbie ... seriously, do NOT "can" bread, cake, meatloaf, or creamed soups ... or the like. Maybe I should start doing a series over on my "Oh Crock" blogger page ... what do you think??

Stay At Gnome!!!!!

Hey everybody -- it's been sooooo long since I've posted
I've been trying my best NOT to post online these days -- mostly because everything seems to get a political leaning mad - well - I've already accidentally posted to this blog items I've meant for one of my other pages as it is.

We put in a seed order this year and have found the seed catalog more than a tad vague when it came to seeds sold by the thousand but only had an option of 10 thousand ...

Needless to say .... it caused quite a bit of tension when hubby came home with the order

I needed to de-stress

Enter Maymay Made It  she has issued a Punch Art challenge ... and I wanted to send a quick note to my brother to be sure he wasn't ok (he is in/on hospice)

So here is the card I made for him

  

It's plain, clean & simple ... but it didn't actually use ANY punches

But only because I don't own very many

I used regular old Cutting dies

Simply Made Crafts "Square Paper Bag/Lantern " Die set - the banner (his hat) and 2 of the pedal flower dies, the medium (his feet) and the small (his nose)

Gemini Stitched Hearts - either die 3 or 4 would work, I chose #3 (smallest to largest) for his beard

The paper came from my stash, background from a 8x8 square that already had the green & blue

The paper for the beard & his hat came from the SSS 2020 March card kit 

Any ink can be used to color the edges, I happened to use "Gingerbread" Hybrid ink from Scrapbooking.com 

I covered the hat with a layer of clear Wink-a-Luna but it didn't really show up very well, so I say just forget about it

Then I hit the edge of EACH piece with the ink pad - best to do it now before you glue it together

Glue the hat behind the heart in the "hump" side, just enough so the corners don't show 

Then cut a THREE petal piece from the medium flower keeping them attached to one another.  Clip off the CENTER petal with cutting the other 2 apart (so it's kind of like a V) 

Glue the feet behind the pointed end  of the heart ❤️ making them stick out to your liking

Cut 1 petal off the small flower and glue onto the face between the 2 heart humps for the nose

Draw a smirk under the nose

I decided once the glu had dried to gently curve the hat & beard of the gnome

Then I used thin bits of foam (Scrapbooking Made Simple) to pop it up on the card front

Cut a tag, write "Staying Gnome, Thinking of You" on it

Attach to card front

Write a message inside the card base 

Glue the card front on the outside - check to be sure it's going the correct direction

And Viola!!

Pop in the mail and off it goes!

Test

Testing the app I use

Ok - figured I better post something .... I got a mysterious email from blogger saying "it's been awhile". 

No crop again this year ... at the resort caring for my Father in Law ... it has not been easy.

He's not the problem -- it's the pollen count and the cold ... and then there are the cats, which I'm allergic to - they have taken to rubbing all over my sons clothes so the dander/fur transfers to everywhere he goes! 

This year is particularly hard because we lost my mother in law a bit after Mother's Day -- but she had a good Mother's Da, I think. 

He has some memory issues which are kinda no f a blessing ... but he keeps asking for an old girlfriend, used to drive Grandma to distraction - well they were married over 50 yrs and he's asking for someone else ... you understand ...

Average temp this time of year is usually in the 80s-90s .... this year?  60s!

Weird part is .... I LIKE the cold - but not in AUGUST!!!!