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Starting July 1st dh will be taking a once a pay period furlough, which equals out to a little over our grocery budget each month. And comes just as the elec bills get to their high point. Great timing for the state! Although the alternative is to lay off people & I see this as a better way...

I am so prou of my ds, he took the 2 d'Uccles to the fair along with 6 of her eggs to compete with & this is how he came out with awards: eggs- blue ribbon hen - blue ribbon cock - blue ribbon & purple for best of breed showmanship(cock) - blue ribbon medal for best new exhibitor!! Because he...

WE have so much going on it makes my head spin! Dh rented a tractor over the weekend & we got so much accomplished, now i am getting the inch of dirt out of my house!! Not to mention the garden is done except for building 2 more raised beds out of cinderblocks(freebies), so we are watering &...

Sat we went over to a nearby nursery & got a fuji apple tree, rio red grapefruit & lemon tree. WE palnted the apple right away after getting home & yesterday the grapefruit went in. Today I believe the lemon is going in & I will be ordering a granny smith apple, elberta peach & 2 concord grape...

I finally got an elec grinder Fri., the lady who taught me about grinding had to sell hers to get a new one(her & dd have celiac). So for $175 I have a elec grinder now. It is a wondermill & she even had the booklet with it too!! And next weekend I think I am getting a Zo bread machine...

I could not believe it when I went to Safeway yesterday they had moved everything around basically & had a shelf unit back by the dairy products with clearance items & I got 2 cases of jelly jars for $8.49 ea, regular lids $1.64, wide mouth rings w/lids for $4.49 & regular rings w/lids for...

This weekend dh got the intial tilling done in the garden & the expansion area too. All we need to do is get the manure spread in it now & till it all in before we start digging out the trenches & get things planted next month. The weather was so great this weekend that we just had to do it...

I took ds to his first 4h meeting last night & boy were we overwhelmed with info! Did find out though that there have been no other porcelain d'Uccles shown but lots of millie de' fluer's so he will have a better chance of winning best of class with his being different! Which is a really good...

Not 100% sure this belongs here, but f it gets moved thats ok. Last night I heard on the news that amid the financial mess Iceland is in their Gov't has now crashed & burned on them too. How sad is that? Not sure of all the details as a child interupted my viewing & listening. But that...

2Tbs. shortening 1/2 cup sugar 1 egg 1 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 1 1/2 tsp vanilla 1 tsp water 1 1/2 cup baby cereal Heat oven to 300...

All-purpose flour- the finely ground endosperm of the wheat kernal minus the bran and the germ which contain the highest concentrations of B-vitamins and vitamin E. The flour is widely used for all home baked goods but devoid of nutritional content. It is generally enriched with flour B...

1.Whole Wheat: Natures storehouse of 44 vitamins and minerals plus bran "locked in" the "staff of life" gives life(when planted) and sustains life(when eaten). Wheat requires planting or milling to unlock its magnificent nutritive and therapeutic qualities. The body recognizes whole wheat as...

I have a King Arthur Flour cookbook & they recomend that unless you are using freshly grounf flour you stir your flour before measuring it to add air to it to make it more fluffy & your baked goods will come out lighter & not heavier. Just thought I would pass info this along.

WE got ds#2's 4h project saturday, a pair of porcelian D'Uccles. They are so cute & small compared to the other chickens. Ds is working on domesticating them & getting them used to being manhandled so to speak. The hen laid an egg on Sun., which really surprised me after driving down the...

This link will get you a coupon for a free FULL SIZE bottle of sauve products for today only(Jan., 14th, 2009). I already sent for mine. www.suave.com/nomics enjoy! ETA correct link, I apologize to those who tried it from my first post! It does work now!

Just wanted to wish everyone here a very blessed Merry Christmas! Hope everyone gets at least one thing on their wish list!

Do you make a menu? If so how long do you make it ahead for? I try to make mine for at least 2 weeks at a time. I do sit down & make a whole month with pasta, beans & pork at a time even throwing in my stir fry's too. So I can usually fill out a month's worth of 4 day weeks each month at one...

How old were you when you stopped believeing n Santa? I was 6 when my big brother ruined it for me. If my dad could have reached across the cab of the truck & smacked him he would have. We were driving into town one evening to go shopping for my moms gifts & I asked my dad if I could go see...

I was looking for the satelite bill Sat to make a payment & found a letter from another mortgage co in the stack(came last week) & decided to open it, it was a welcome to the company letter, seems they bought our mortgage from GMAC last month(never got a notice from GMAC) & now the one month...

For those of us here that celebrate Christmas & have been buying presents, what is the best score you have got so far? Me I was in Walmart yesterday to get a guitar game for ds & his PS2. Well I went with a guitar that is compatible with both the Rock Band & Guitar Hero games & was less money...