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It’s frustrating to keep up with my son’s moods right now.

Late start today. DH is already in the garden planting okra, green beans and squash seeds. Maybe I will join him. Maybe I will tackle this mess. I really want a sewing room and DD5 is here. She needs to be studying though. Much of Louisiana is partying as I stay in my own little world. So before...

I am an Army Mom. I am in contact with other Army Moms and their children are not all doing well. Can I just ask everyone reading this to keep your military families under y’all wings? Check on them often. I might start tackling everything soon just to cope. I don’t yet have a deployment in...

I have heard about foraging for rabbits. I think I might have had a book about it before the storm. So today I was looking around at videos and I was wondering if anyone here touched on it. I might order a book or just make a comprehensive list of edible stuff I can forage. Somehow DH was...

This piece belonged to my great- grandmother and my dad shrunk the top for my grandmother who used it in her store for years. I am thinking about sanding it down and then applying tongue oil or something to give it a new finish. I guess I am doing okay. I have coffee in front of me, a list...

Yes!!!! My boy is getting all his equipment ready in case he needs to do his thing. Today he was doing something I ordinarily wouldn’t think he could do and I questioned him about that…. I mean his job is blowing stuff up. Why was he working on a truck? He told me the equipment he needs to blow...

Yeah so …..Army Mom suddenly freaking cleaning everything!!! Omg!!

I have brought Sis to the Dollar Tree at least 3 times in one week now. She wanted to go yesterday and I really didn’t need to but she swore the asparagus and mushrooms in the glass jars were the best she ever ate and so I told DH I really didn’t need anything but I could always grab a few of...

It’s hairy. Also DH says it gets some little red flowers but I know where he found it and I will keep my eyes open. Plant identification is something I would want to improve upon actually. My studies didn’t pay as close attention to this as I would have liked.

Me first. DH threw this at me. It looks very similar to parsley but the smell is off. What do y’all think it is?

I know one thing for sure…. I won’t be running out of toilet paper this year. It took a while to run out of dog food but we finally did need to buy more. If I go to work on the bridge I think I will get a tiny crockpot to bring food to cook there. Gotta get it first.

Since the hurricane I have been trying to cook bean soup with pasta at least once a week. I can’t believe how much canned beans and pasta I now have stock piled. I should probably think of something to do with the peanut butter. I have a feeling I will be eating it past the expiration date. I...

I am also seriously considering getting heavy into sewing. I think I can clear out one small bedroom in the house and turn it into a sewing room and I just interviewed for a really cushy job that I can do just about anything so figured I can get some cutting in and maybe hand stitches. I had...

Now I have to see where I am gonna store everything. I am totally gonna stock all my bins up with grain for the animals because I can figure how to survive as long as I can keep them alive. Eggs, meat, milk from them and fruit and vegetables from the garden and orchard. I will totally milk a few...

My house had a whole house generator that took care of the house, trailer and barn. I still have the generator but not the house and barn. After Ida we used small, gasoline generators which powered up DH’s trailer and later his family house….much smaller than my house. All we needed to do is...

So after church DSis and I are heading to the Dollar Tree to get all their shelf milk in cartons for hurricane season and/or possible shutdown. $1.25 a quart it’s not much more expensive than buying it from the cooler in gallon jugs and requires no refrigeration. Milk was a luxury after Ida.

I know…I am just a ray of sunshine. Well yesterday, after I got up and moving I had to track DH down in the bayou because he had forgotten his meds but I left the house with a bag of nightgowns my niece said she wanted. I figured less is more and because I was gonna be in the neighborhood I...

I have a little bit of magic in my hands and fingers and then some of my remedies really relax people. I make a pain lotion and put certain essential oil’s in it and benzocaine because the prescription alternatives are far too expensive and I apply that after a little chiropractic type...

Time to get started again. I have so many extra skeins.

I don’t recall who I am supposed to give credit to this idea for but I read or heard to put the original breeders in spray painted green or orange and then later when white or brown/grey…whatever bunnies emerge and you want to identify them as being of another age, block off nests when you are...