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DH was working on a new brooder he said for quails but he said he would use it for chicks until he gets the quail. He was doing that while I was trying to prepare the front porch for trick or treat. I hope he is almost done cuz they really stink.

I don’t know what I am doing trying to reply. I need help!! 😆. Well I just wanted to say that I use a mattress warmer in the winter and with my surgery and back pain it helps. I know… I am ridiculous.

I’m here, alive and mostly well. I picked up HG at work and cuz the baby was asleep we snuck over to the Dollar General and the grocery store. Today is DH’s 60th birthday so I wanted to get a carrot cake mix and some ribeyes. So Dollar General didn’t have carrot cake so we got other options and...

I’m sorry. I’m okay but I feel like I haven’t been able to be worth $0.02. I think the Lord works in mysterious ways though. So my tests continue to show no new growth but I’m getting so tired all the time and I know I am weaker. Well as faith would have it, I received my new Medicare supplement...

The last few children I had were homeschooled so they weren’t influenced by their peers for a long time and when the neighborhood kids came over and I discovered that I needed to get creative to make 2 pieces of chicken stretch out to feed 1 adult and 4 kids, it was a team effort…..okay, you too...

It’s been a little minute. I didn’t used to be like that. I will attempt to answer whatever questions came up in no particular order or just add to the conversations. Well I think the hatch is over. Only 8 hatched and 7 survived. But actually there aren’t a whole lot of unhatched eggs in the...

Pectin does usually bite. When I discovered I could make my own from the pith of my oranges I was surprised. I have attempted it but never to the extent that I felt I had succeeded. Maybe next time 🤷‍♀️. I mean I now have more time than money so it averages out. So I know I didn’t get the...

Well I can just power up the generator myself but how much stored gas do I have? In all honesty it’s going on by nightfall regardless and DH has a lot of vehicle batteries fully charged that can be hooked to an inverter to run the freezer and fridge when the generator is off. If I want to, I can...

Nature called so I got up and convinced myself to get busy. I wanted to get more done before anyone was up but DH was maybe only 40 minutes behind me. I hope I’m not sorry but I just ordered some 6X300 foot black fabric weed barrier and 100 stainless steel 6 inch staples to hold it down. It was...

9. A. You gotta do what you gotta do 🤷‍♀️ 10. A. and B. Depends on the time.

1. B. It might not be a big deal 🤷‍♀️. If it is just me, I should probably know about it. 2. A. Every pantry should be stocked 🤷‍♀️ 3. A. Solar lights. I don’t want to create heat. 4. A. Rainwater on the side of the house for emergencies. 5. A. Unless I’m forced to cook on the hibachi…...

I believe you. I only had one baby I bought baby food for and it was mainly out of ignorance. HG now works at our local grocery chain and she tells me a jar of baby food is $4. Unbelievable!! Only the rich can feed babies if they’re not knowledgeable about these common sense approaches. I will...

I’m on a mission. Baby food!! It costs too much to buy it premade but the baby gets $13 worth a month. Basically not enough. She also only gets 7 cans of formula a month but it doesn’t last the whole month so I have been doing the math to see how many bottles she can have per day and then how we...

I was much earlier getting woke than up but it’s time to get my coffee (I’m going to try a different sweetener as a little experiment). Then I’ll try to be a little productive before my normal scheduled Saturday disappearance with the grandkids.

The next thing I want to talk about is a purchase I made just yesterday that my godchild turned me onto. She had taken to buying dry whole milk in bulk and she claimed her kids liked it. I drank a glass from her fridge and it tasted like milk 🤷‍♀️. It wasn’t like non-fat dried at all. So I...

Okay, I’m in. But I have to confess I have only done some of these things. Others I haven’t done but now that I know, I’m determined to go for it. Corn….. I now buy it fresh and it might be $0.33 an ear. I justify it because I fill about 7 gallons of whole kernel corn with the 100 or so ears I...

So I guess I kicked butt for someone in my shape. I fed the chickens scraps. Hung a bunch of clothes and I noticed a hen was brooding on eggs that couldn’t possibly be fertile. I brought her inside and gave her to DH, robbed her pretty nest, lined it with DH’s worn out socks, took the fertile...

My great aunt was the baby of the family and she accepted shrimp from a sister and forgot it in her car and didn’t go anywhere for a few days. That story is rather famous in my family. Yesterday we buried my mom’s first cousin. Got to see lots of relatives. Hope next time it’s under different...

DD has been with me a few days. Always a joy. HG has been MIA here and there. I mostly just miss and worry about the baby when she vanishes. Well I have tried and hopefully she has been learning survival skills and life lessons. I’m sure she will continue to call this place home but she vanishes...