Good Morning!!
Its Wednesday and I am thankful for a day at home. I have a good deal of things that need caught up on around here, a busy day for me for sure.
Dh went to the dr on Monday for his Post-Op check up, they removed the stints and looked him over well and said he was recovering nicely, but they want to see him again in 2 weeks. He's back to work now, and he says without the stints he is much more comfortable and even the pain is more manageable without the stints in.
It was a productive week for me, I canned the peaches and got 27 quarts and 1 pint, I canned 5 quarts of strawberry-lemonade concentrate, 4 quarts of tomatoes and I grated and froze 5 2cup bags of zucchini.
The tomatoes are trickling in, I guess this will be the year of can a couple quarts every other day or so, which is ok I guess, it will keep me from working myself silly. I just hope to get enough from the garden to stock us up.
The upcoming weekend looks to be busy too. I am hoping dh will have time to fix my clothesline, it would be a savings to be able to stop using the dryer!! I know he also needs to put in his grams dishwasher and fix her doorbell, that is of course depending on how he feels, I guess it could be a very productive weekend or another weekend to just slow down and heal more. Hopefully he's on the mend and will be getting back to normal soon!!!
There is also a benefit dinner for my Uncle Jerry who is battling cancer, to help cover some of his medical bills. I don't know if we are going or just going to make a donation, again depends on how my hubby feels. I will be baking some things to donate to the bake sale. Everyone loves home baked goodies and every bit sold will help my Aunt and Uncle pay down those medical bills.
Our babysitter turned 16 yesterday and there is a little get together for her on Sunday sometime after church, I need to work her up a gift really quick, I think I'll make her some quilted potholders or something for her hopechest.
Lots of things going on, but our participation all depends on how well dh feels. The dr said it could take up to 6 weeks for him to even begin to start to feel normal again. Poor fella.
I know I've got lots to keep my busy here at home so staying home just might be a good idea!!
Enjoy your day!!!
Dana
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Happy Saturday
I'm up early after going to bed late...Not sure how that is going to work out for later but oh well... on with the day...
So a little update as to what has been going on in our little piece of the world.....
Monday 7/16/2012 The hubs had surgery to remove as the dr put it "An extremely severe deviated septum" Pretty much she broke out what bone she could then she chisled out the rest.....Sheesh!!!!! Boy, has he been through the wringer!!! He's still not 100% and I have no idea when he will be, its slow going on the healing for sure. She also put in stints I guess to keep his airway open and of course they are a bugger to deal with!!! Poor fella is pretty much miserable and in pain. The meds make him itch and knock him out, both of which he is NOT fond of. Its been a rough recovery for him to be sure. We go back to the dr on monday hopefully to remove the stints and hear praises of a great recovery but we'll wait and see how it goes.
The rest of the week was spent at home, just doing things around the house. I've pretty much caught up all the laundry, I canned 27 qts and 1 pint of peaches, the kids have had video game marathons with their friend who has hung out here a couple days this week. Last night I went to Ladies night with the girls and today...well today is still up in the air. With Dad home full time on recovery we aren't really making plans just taking the day as it comes and deciding what to do as the mood strikes us. Its nice for a change to just.... be, not to be on a set schedule, at least for the time being. When the hubs is released back to work, I am expecting a rude awakening and some balking on the kids part and mine as well probably as we get back into the groove.
The garden is really starting to produce and I feel like I am fixing to be busy but I am looking forward to it really, I love canning and hope this year is a bumper crop kind of year. I was a little worried about rain and without it and without hand watering ,worrying that things might dry up and not produce but its been raining for 2days with small breaks inbetween soakings and I think everything will be just fine now!!!
I'll still get a few things from the farmer's market, mainly peaches but it will be nice to be putting up whatever we can!!!
I hope you have had a wonderful week!!!
Dana
So a little update as to what has been going on in our little piece of the world.....
Monday 7/16/2012 The hubs had surgery to remove as the dr put it "An extremely severe deviated septum" Pretty much she broke out what bone she could then she chisled out the rest.....Sheesh!!!!! Boy, has he been through the wringer!!! He's still not 100% and I have no idea when he will be, its slow going on the healing for sure. She also put in stints I guess to keep his airway open and of course they are a bugger to deal with!!! Poor fella is pretty much miserable and in pain. The meds make him itch and knock him out, both of which he is NOT fond of. Its been a rough recovery for him to be sure. We go back to the dr on monday hopefully to remove the stints and hear praises of a great recovery but we'll wait and see how it goes.
The rest of the week was spent at home, just doing things around the house. I've pretty much caught up all the laundry, I canned 27 qts and 1 pint of peaches, the kids have had video game marathons with their friend who has hung out here a couple days this week. Last night I went to Ladies night with the girls and today...well today is still up in the air. With Dad home full time on recovery we aren't really making plans just taking the day as it comes and deciding what to do as the mood strikes us. Its nice for a change to just.... be, not to be on a set schedule, at least for the time being. When the hubs is released back to work, I am expecting a rude awakening and some balking on the kids part and mine as well probably as we get back into the groove.
The garden is really starting to produce and I feel like I am fixing to be busy but I am looking forward to it really, I love canning and hope this year is a bumper crop kind of year. I was a little worried about rain and without it and without hand watering ,worrying that things might dry up and not produce but its been raining for 2days with small breaks inbetween soakings and I think everything will be just fine now!!!
I'll still get a few things from the farmer's market, mainly peaches but it will be nice to be putting up whatever we can!!!
I hope you have had a wonderful week!!!
Dana
Monday, July 9, 2012
Monday 7/9/2012
Good Morning!!!
I am sitting here in the quiet, having got up early to make dh's lunch and send him off to work I have been the only one up for awhile, my middle child just came down the hall but he his not quite awake. The other 2 children are still asleep. I love lazy summer mornings!! We woke up this morning to
RAIN GLORIOUS RAIN!!!!!
Our garden, needed it to be sure!! The 2 short bursts of rain we got this past week has really made the pumpkins take off so I can only imagine what this awesome soaking rain will do for the garden!!!
How was your weekend??
Ours was busy but productive and wonderful!!!
Saturday we stuck pretty close to home for the most part, we did till in the garden, mow, and ran the weed-eater around the garden fence, dh repaired a piece of fence that it looks like a deer tried to get into the garden, thankfull it didn't. We came in and showered because it was 101*+ and we were dripping after working in the yard, then we met up with a former scout parent and picked up our scout float from him and are storing it at my mothers for the time being. We came home and worked in the house some but the heat really zapped us so we were happy to just relax and watch a movie for the most part!!! I think the guys especially the Hubs stayed up way too late watching tv because come morning everyone was having a hard time getting up infact dh was still asleep when I left for church. I left him sleep and told the boys to stay quiet so he could rest and Baby Girl and I went to Church.
*Cute side note, I'll be cuddling Kara and ask if she is momma's "baby" to which she replies " I mommas howny baybee" So I've been calling her Honey Baby!!
Church was wonderful!!! Kara was super excited to be there and she just chatted and chatted, it was a chore trying to keep her quiet during the service, our Pastor who has a young child hisself - Thanked God for the voices of small children because they are truely a blessing to us- during one of his prayers. He really is a great Pastor!! Of course Kara wasn't the only little person chatting and socializing!! I love our church!!
Soon all the littles were called up for children's time and then after led out to their "classes"
The rest of church was great!!!
After Church, Kara and I came home, I made lunch for all the kids and then made dinner for the kids and put it in the fridge, I tidied up a bit, then got myself fixed up and Kara and I went to pick up the sitter. We left the kids here in capable hands, with instructions on cooking the dinner, then Mike and I went out to dinner and to a movie!! Gosh I can't even tell you the last movie I saw in a theater... I'm guessing it was maybe the Polar Express?? It has been quite a while.
Dh took me to Outback Steak House for dinner, it was AMAZING!!! Then we went to see The Avengers!! It was equally good!! We had such wonderful time!!! We came home and the kids were great, they had a wonderful time with the sitter!!! She really is a sweet girl, she is 15 and the daughter of a great friend and the best part is she only lives about a mile from us. GREAT with my kids and we adore her!!!
We ended the evening hanging out and watching a show with the kids, I crocheted a bit, I really should be more diligent about it concidering I have 4 babies needing blankets that are due before the end of the year!! YIKES!!! I gotta get busy!!!!
But that was our weekend, busy, productive, family filled,and wonderful!!!
My day today will be somewhat busy, I need to take dh's gram to the dr, do a little shopping and work on the laundry and then there is VBS!!! And this year I am a leader!! Whoo, I don't know what I was thinking when I signed up but I'll handle it and I am sure it will be a wonderful time!!!!!
Oh and before I forget it is Monday I probably should post our menu right??? :)
Tonight- BLT's and Cukes from the garden
Tuesday- Chicken alfredo with mushrooms and broccolli
Wednesday-Hamburgers and chips
Thursday-Lasagne and garlic bread
Friday- Hm Pizza
Weekend?? Thats kind of up in the air, if the temps cool down like its supposed too we will probably grill out being that its will be Dh's last weekend before his Septum surgery on the 16th, he probably isn't going to want much to eat and if he does it will probably be something soft that he asks for. Poor fella!!!
Hope you all have a wonderful day!!!
Dana
I am sitting here in the quiet, having got up early to make dh's lunch and send him off to work I have been the only one up for awhile, my middle child just came down the hall but he his not quite awake. The other 2 children are still asleep. I love lazy summer mornings!! We woke up this morning to
RAIN GLORIOUS RAIN!!!!!
Our garden, needed it to be sure!! The 2 short bursts of rain we got this past week has really made the pumpkins take off so I can only imagine what this awesome soaking rain will do for the garden!!!
How was your weekend??
Ours was busy but productive and wonderful!!!
Saturday we stuck pretty close to home for the most part, we did till in the garden, mow, and ran the weed-eater around the garden fence, dh repaired a piece of fence that it looks like a deer tried to get into the garden, thankfull it didn't. We came in and showered because it was 101*+ and we were dripping after working in the yard, then we met up with a former scout parent and picked up our scout float from him and are storing it at my mothers for the time being. We came home and worked in the house some but the heat really zapped us so we were happy to just relax and watch a movie for the most part!!! I think the guys especially the Hubs stayed up way too late watching tv because come morning everyone was having a hard time getting up infact dh was still asleep when I left for church. I left him sleep and told the boys to stay quiet so he could rest and Baby Girl and I went to Church.
*Cute side note, I'll be cuddling Kara and ask if she is momma's "baby" to which she replies " I mommas howny baybee" So I've been calling her Honey Baby!!
Church was wonderful!!! Kara was super excited to be there and she just chatted and chatted, it was a chore trying to keep her quiet during the service, our Pastor who has a young child hisself - Thanked God for the voices of small children because they are truely a blessing to us- during one of his prayers. He really is a great Pastor!! Of course Kara wasn't the only little person chatting and socializing!! I love our church!!
Soon all the littles were called up for children's time and then after led out to their "classes"
The rest of church was great!!!
After Church, Kara and I came home, I made lunch for all the kids and then made dinner for the kids and put it in the fridge, I tidied up a bit, then got myself fixed up and Kara and I went to pick up the sitter. We left the kids here in capable hands, with instructions on cooking the dinner, then Mike and I went out to dinner and to a movie!! Gosh I can't even tell you the last movie I saw in a theater... I'm guessing it was maybe the Polar Express?? It has been quite a while.
Dh took me to Outback Steak House for dinner, it was AMAZING!!! Then we went to see The Avengers!! It was equally good!! We had such wonderful time!!! We came home and the kids were great, they had a wonderful time with the sitter!!! She really is a sweet girl, she is 15 and the daughter of a great friend and the best part is she only lives about a mile from us. GREAT with my kids and we adore her!!!
We ended the evening hanging out and watching a show with the kids, I crocheted a bit, I really should be more diligent about it concidering I have 4 babies needing blankets that are due before the end of the year!! YIKES!!! I gotta get busy!!!!
But that was our weekend, busy, productive, family filled,and wonderful!!!
My day today will be somewhat busy, I need to take dh's gram to the dr, do a little shopping and work on the laundry and then there is VBS!!! And this year I am a leader!! Whoo, I don't know what I was thinking when I signed up but I'll handle it and I am sure it will be a wonderful time!!!!!
Oh and before I forget it is Monday I probably should post our menu right??? :)
Tonight- BLT's and Cukes from the garden
Tuesday- Chicken alfredo with mushrooms and broccolli
Wednesday-Hamburgers and chips
Thursday-Lasagne and garlic bread
Friday- Hm Pizza
Weekend?? Thats kind of up in the air, if the temps cool down like its supposed too we will probably grill out being that its will be Dh's last weekend before his Septum surgery on the 16th, he probably isn't going to want much to eat and if he does it will probably be something soft that he asks for. Poor fella!!!
Hope you all have a wonderful day!!!
Dana
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Thursday 7/5/2012
Good Morning!!
Dh was able to fix the fridge!!! I can't tell you how excited that makes me!!
My plans for today are to take apart and clean out all the shelves and drawers of the fridge then put it all back together.
I also have sweet potatoes and zucchini pineapple to can today.
And laundry lets not forget the never ending laundry pile :)
A busy and hopefully productive day for sure!!!
Have a wonderful day!!!
Dana
Dh was able to fix the fridge!!! I can't tell you how excited that makes me!!
My plans for today are to take apart and clean out all the shelves and drawers of the fridge then put it all back together.
I also have sweet potatoes and zucchini pineapple to can today.
And laundry lets not forget the never ending laundry pile :)
A busy and hopefully productive day for sure!!!
Have a wonderful day!!!
Dana
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Happy 4th of July!!!
A great and sincere THANK YOU to all those who have served in our Military past and present!!!
An update:
Our power is back on after going out again last night in the middle of dinner!! I gotta say to lighten the mood, I teased the hubby a bit that it was his doing as a suprise for me for our anniversary next week, that we were eating by candlelight!! He played along but wasn't as enthused as I pretended to be, we ate our dinner by candlelight and then set out to get things secured for the coming night. The storm that blew in, increased the humidity quite a bit, we went to my mom's who had not lost power to fill up water jugs and then stopped to get ice for the coolers. We took water and a cooler to dh's gram so that she would be ok, then came home and tried to get the generator going, we couldn't get it to start so we gave up and decided to deal with is in the morning when there would be plenty of light. We opened some windows hoping for a breeze then tried to sleep. The power THANK GOD came back on in the middle of the night, dh got up and closed the windows and turned on the air, as it was quite stuffy as there wasn't much breeze and the humidity was high.
Some friends of ours who live in WV still haven't gotten power back from the first storm last friday, I called this morning to offer our shower, washer/dryer and a hot meal but they are just fine they say, they have a generator and a huge pool to stay cool in, so they are just fine and ok which is a relief.
The new fridge parts came yesterday afternoon, dh got up this morning and got the new parts put back in, I am hopeing that they work and we haven't lost the fridge completely!!!
Our plans for today are to work a bit around here, then have dinner with friends!!
I hope you have a wonderful 4th of July!!!
Dana
An update:
Our power is back on after going out again last night in the middle of dinner!! I gotta say to lighten the mood, I teased the hubby a bit that it was his doing as a suprise for me for our anniversary next week, that we were eating by candlelight!! He played along but wasn't as enthused as I pretended to be, we ate our dinner by candlelight and then set out to get things secured for the coming night. The storm that blew in, increased the humidity quite a bit, we went to my mom's who had not lost power to fill up water jugs and then stopped to get ice for the coolers. We took water and a cooler to dh's gram so that she would be ok, then came home and tried to get the generator going, we couldn't get it to start so we gave up and decided to deal with is in the morning when there would be plenty of light. We opened some windows hoping for a breeze then tried to sleep. The power THANK GOD came back on in the middle of the night, dh got up and closed the windows and turned on the air, as it was quite stuffy as there wasn't much breeze and the humidity was high.
Some friends of ours who live in WV still haven't gotten power back from the first storm last friday, I called this morning to offer our shower, washer/dryer and a hot meal but they are just fine they say, they have a generator and a huge pool to stay cool in, so they are just fine and ok which is a relief.
The new fridge parts came yesterday afternoon, dh got up this morning and got the new parts put back in, I am hopeing that they work and we haven't lost the fridge completely!!!
Our plans for today are to work a bit around here, then have dinner with friends!!
I hope you have a wonderful 4th of July!!!
Dana
Monday, July 2, 2012
Monday 7/2/2012
We had another storm pass through last night but thankfully we were able to keep our power!!!
Dh is off to work, no word yet if they have power in his office or not. I told him this morning if they didn't it would be nice to have him home another day. He agrees it would be nice to have another day off, he is really sore and tired from our weekend.
He cut up those 8 trees on Saturday for our neighbor in 100* temps with 100* humidity, he worked so hard and long in the heat that by saturday night his face was coved in hives from the heat. Thankfully we have the pool and he has been getting in, in the evenings to cool off. With our power back on it certainly makes sleeping better but everyone is still tired from such an eventful weekend!!!
He had me order the parts for our fridge and we even paid extra to get them here faster, hopefully they will be here by tomorrow so that dh can work on the fridge and get it fixed. I am lucky to have him, he isn't afraid to tackle the big jobs and by working on it ourselves, if he is able to fix it,he will have saved us a ton of money over buying a new fridge!!
My day today will be spent at home, working on getting the dishes and laundry caught up, there is a ton of that to do!!!
Not sure what dinner will be tonight, maybe tacos, something easy and quick.
Have a blessed day!!!
Dh is off to work, no word yet if they have power in his office or not. I told him this morning if they didn't it would be nice to have him home another day. He agrees it would be nice to have another day off, he is really sore and tired from our weekend.
He cut up those 8 trees on Saturday for our neighbor in 100* temps with 100* humidity, he worked so hard and long in the heat that by saturday night his face was coved in hives from the heat. Thankfully we have the pool and he has been getting in, in the evenings to cool off. With our power back on it certainly makes sleeping better but everyone is still tired from such an eventful weekend!!!
He had me order the parts for our fridge and we even paid extra to get them here faster, hopefully they will be here by tomorrow so that dh can work on the fridge and get it fixed. I am lucky to have him, he isn't afraid to tackle the big jobs and by working on it ourselves, if he is able to fix it,he will have saved us a ton of money over buying a new fridge!!
My day today will be spent at home, working on getting the dishes and laundry caught up, there is a ton of that to do!!!
Not sure what dinner will be tonight, maybe tacos, something easy and quick.
Have a blessed day!!!
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Abundant Blessings in the aftermath of the storm
A horrible storm hit here Friday night. There were wind gusts of 80mph, rain and hail included. Thousands lost power, us included. Our power went out at about 2:30am Saturday morning. About a mile from our house, a tree had fell and snapped a power pole in half. And did I mention the temp as been 100* and the humidity seems like about 150%
To say we were miserable would be an understatement.
When we finally got up for the day, we found out one of our neighbors, Jeff, who is also a good friend had something like 8 trees come down. We decided to go over and help him cut them up, it was a long miserably hot day but we got it done. Our power finally came back on at around 11pm last night.
In the mean time we also had borrowed a generator from my grandfather. We hooked up the fridges and the freezer, and we were lucky that our extra fridge and the freezer did well. We weren't so lucky that our main fridge in the house died. I'm not sure if it was the storm or age or what but it just gave up. Even with the generator and then power coming back on the fridge never got cooler than 64* and that amount of time at that temp the parishable foods were just not safe to eat!! So sadly we lost alot of food.
Our chore after church today was to clean out the fridge, take all the bad stuff to the dump and then make a list and go to the store to replace what we lost. We also ordered parts for the fridge and paid extra *ouch* for them to be overnighted to us.
Tonight while I was fixing dinner I heard a car horn, I looked out and it was our pastor, he heard that we lost all our parishables and brought us a car full of groceries!!!! How amazing is that??? I hadn't told anyone at church that we had lost everything parishable in the house fridge but he had heard through the grapevine so they say and said they wanted to help. It was totally unexpected and left us speachless!!
We got everything put away and finally had a late dinner of BLT sandwiches and cucumbers from the garden!! My husband agreed that this dinner really said SUMMER!!! We also said that it would have only been any better if the tomato had come from our garden. It was still good though!!!
Its been a long weekend and we are super happy that the power is back on!!!
To say we were miserable would be an understatement.
When we finally got up for the day, we found out one of our neighbors, Jeff, who is also a good friend had something like 8 trees come down. We decided to go over and help him cut them up, it was a long miserably hot day but we got it done. Our power finally came back on at around 11pm last night.
In the mean time we also had borrowed a generator from my grandfather. We hooked up the fridges and the freezer, and we were lucky that our extra fridge and the freezer did well. We weren't so lucky that our main fridge in the house died. I'm not sure if it was the storm or age or what but it just gave up. Even with the generator and then power coming back on the fridge never got cooler than 64* and that amount of time at that temp the parishable foods were just not safe to eat!! So sadly we lost alot of food.
Our chore after church today was to clean out the fridge, take all the bad stuff to the dump and then make a list and go to the store to replace what we lost. We also ordered parts for the fridge and paid extra *ouch* for them to be overnighted to us.
Tonight while I was fixing dinner I heard a car horn, I looked out and it was our pastor, he heard that we lost all our parishables and brought us a car full of groceries!!!! How amazing is that??? I hadn't told anyone at church that we had lost everything parishable in the house fridge but he had heard through the grapevine so they say and said they wanted to help. It was totally unexpected and left us speachless!!
We got everything put away and finally had a late dinner of BLT sandwiches and cucumbers from the garden!! My husband agreed that this dinner really said SUMMER!!! We also said that it would have only been any better if the tomato had come from our garden. It was still good though!!!
Its been a long weekend and we are super happy that the power is back on!!!
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