Good Morning everyone,
I hope that all are having a great week and getting gardening and home matters going and in order.
We are unfortunately in a very unsettled spring/cold pattern that is very wet, and it borders with snow and rain and sleet, very drippy so say the least.
I am SOOOO very behind in gardening. In fact it is pretty bad. Too wet to do anything, and my problem is here where I live, the owners do nothing about the water and standing water that is around. This park is not code ready or even close. It is very uneven ground, and has never been leveled or maintained at all so we have nothing but water, water. And nothing can be done about it as the owners will not do anything anyway.
I am hoping that if it dries out some, I will bring my blue tubs around the front and work under the carport and get my strawberry roots in at least. I have got to do this in the next day or two or I will loose them. I will keep them around my north side for now, and move them later to the back for the sun. I also have to put in some shallots and a few onions, but it has been so wet and muddy, I cannot even get through the back to have my garden man come and roto till my spot. I am afraid it is going to be like last year, where it was a cool summer to start out and I had to use greenhouse plastic on and off throughout the summer for anything to get going. Everything was very late, in mid August and September and some of my tomatoes clear into October. It was crazy.
I thought I would post some after photos of the no snow thing. The snow started to melt Saturday afternoon, and by Sunday, it was gone. The only nice thing about spring snow storms, it goes quickly.
Really not much else going on, being so wet and cold. You just cannot get out to do anything. But I will start to work my strawberries and shallots at least. I know we need the moisture, but it sure puts a damper on gardening when you do depend on what you grow. And I am afraid that I will be unable to use the south side of my trailer because of the new south people who moved in. We had the cops there Sunday afternoon, three cars to be exact, and it got a little ugly. I didn't even know about it, (I was cleaning house, and had the shop vac going and I couldn't hear anything anyway) but one of my house neighbors called me that she called the cops as the male was beating the woman and the kids as they were going out the door, so I am going to just garden to my north and I will have to spray weeds on the south and not do anything until they are kicked out or move. The male is violent and I am not going to be on the receiving end. I will tell you if I ever was, you would probably be reading my blog in prison as I would hurt him real bad....
Anyway, I am trying to catch up with laundry and things I didn't get done while I was ill, so I will talk to everyone later, and have a great week.
Hugs
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Snow, Snow, go away
Good Morning Everyone,
Well, we had one of those whopper Spring blizzards, we generally get one or two of these every year. What a mess. I had one hell of a time getting out of the front door, and opening up my poly zipped cover I have around my porch that is on the North side of the house. I am not sure HOW much snow, but the winds were 50-65 mph during the night and I have 3-4 ft drifts around the house. (It just came over the radio, we had a inch of rain and an average of 4-6 inches of snow, but with the winds, it really drifted).
I will get out this afternoon and open up my steps and porch and post some snowy, white photos, for your enjoyment, LOL. I don't think that my chives and walking onions are laughing at the moment, though.
Right at the moment, the sun is shining, and it is raining east of us in Kearney, to Omaha,. This storm is a very slow mover, what makes it bad is the wind.
So, other than that, there isn't much to talk about, definitely can't get out in the garden, unless you want to grow snow tomatoes or something that can take the cold. I covered my greens and lettuces a few days ago, covered my Asparagus, and I put my berry canes in pots under my car port and covered them with blankets. Hopefully they will be ok.
I want to take the time to thank all of you for well wishes and get well's. It has been many years, really since I had my cancer surgery 13 years ago, that I have been so ill and droopy. And to be honest, I didn't really take to heart how run down I was, no wonder I could not get moving, and then to get the flu and really run down was a low point for me, but I am improving every day, I see strength returning everyday, and take it one day at a time. Again, thank you for all of your love, prayers, thoughts, it means so very much to me, and hugs and love to all of you. I guess, I have so many to look after, that I forgot to take care of me, which sounds selfish, but if you don't take care of you, you cannot take care of business, or family, or commitments as there is no one else to do it. So take it from me, make sure you all take care of your selves.
Well, I am going to start to get dressed, somewhere I need to find my boots, (somewhere), and I need to find a sweat shirt somewhere also, think those are put in the closet so got to dig those out. My snow removal guy should be around later today or tomorrow, but I want to get some photos so you can laugh at me and my snowy world.
Take care all, have a great weekend, and hugs.
Well, we had one of those whopper Spring blizzards, we generally get one or two of these every year. What a mess. I had one hell of a time getting out of the front door, and opening up my poly zipped cover I have around my porch that is on the North side of the house. I am not sure HOW much snow, but the winds were 50-65 mph during the night and I have 3-4 ft drifts around the house. (It just came over the radio, we had a inch of rain and an average of 4-6 inches of snow, but with the winds, it really drifted).
I will get out this afternoon and open up my steps and porch and post some snowy, white photos, for your enjoyment, LOL. I don't think that my chives and walking onions are laughing at the moment, though.
Right at the moment, the sun is shining, and it is raining east of us in Kearney, to Omaha,. This storm is a very slow mover, what makes it bad is the wind.
So, other than that, there isn't much to talk about, definitely can't get out in the garden, unless you want to grow snow tomatoes or something that can take the cold. I covered my greens and lettuces a few days ago, covered my Asparagus, and I put my berry canes in pots under my car port and covered them with blankets. Hopefully they will be ok.
I want to take the time to thank all of you for well wishes and get well's. It has been many years, really since I had my cancer surgery 13 years ago, that I have been so ill and droopy. And to be honest, I didn't really take to heart how run down I was, no wonder I could not get moving, and then to get the flu and really run down was a low point for me, but I am improving every day, I see strength returning everyday, and take it one day at a time. Again, thank you for all of your love, prayers, thoughts, it means so very much to me, and hugs and love to all of you. I guess, I have so many to look after, that I forgot to take care of me, which sounds selfish, but if you don't take care of you, you cannot take care of business, or family, or commitments as there is no one else to do it. So take it from me, make sure you all take care of your selves.
Well, I am going to start to get dressed, somewhere I need to find my boots, (somewhere), and I need to find a sweat shirt somewhere also, think those are put in the closet so got to dig those out. My snow removal guy should be around later today or tomorrow, but I want to get some photos so you can laugh at me and my snowy world.
Take care all, have a great weekend, and hugs.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Snow, cold, and cabin fever
Good Morning everyone. I hope that everything is going well with all of you and your homes.
We had snow yesterday. It started early Wednesday morning about 5 am. And it would snow on and off light, then very heavy, then quit for a while then heavy.
Moral of the story, don't listen to the weatherman, especially the one we have. You get a "snow job". Have close to 7 inches of snow this morning, and its very cold, -8 below with a wind chill of -25 below. I'm not going out today.
I had plans to go out later this morning to run a few errands, but I think not, I wanted to get out and go have a cup of coffee out to just get out of the house as I have a major case of cabin fever, and it does not help when you want to start some garden seeds and get things going a little. I wanted to go get a grow light so I can start some herb seeds and place it in my kitchen but I am afraid that it will have to wait till the weekend. Some of my blog I follow, they are starting their gardens and seeds, and I get so bummed out. I was hoping to get to my cold frames and start laying them out so I can set up my lettuces and radishes and spinach and get them covered, but they are under the porch and I have ice sealing up the space where I can get to the frames. I am hoping that we will have a thaw toward the end of the month so I can at least get these set up and covered so I can get the soil warmed up.
Cabin fever is a multi-faceted term and for many people, has many faces. Funny thing is, I have plenty to do in the house, for one thing, start cleaning out rooms and get rid of "stuff" that is truly driving me buggy. But I simply just need outside for a few hours to get some fresh air, and a change of scene, if only for a few hours. We also have had 0 sun for over a week now, and that really bothers me. It seems if the sun shines, I am better at staying in, than with no sun and cold and snow just makes me more blue. My doctor told me to up my vitamin D. I am some what bad on vitamins, I take them, but I can only afford certain ones on my little salary, so I take a whole food supplement, and a 2000 unit Vitamin D, which I am supposed to anyway since I have had cancer. She also jumped on me to eat more fruit, but I informed her that fruit is unaffordable for me period, and it is beyond affordable here, and our fruit we get here I wouldn't let a parrot eat. It is terrible and price wise is beyond my as well as others paychecks. I have some peaches and apples and apricots that I canned last fall, and I do eat these, with my homemade yogurt, over my oatmeal, and I am in the process of starting some crocked fruit or "drunken fruit" as my grandmother called it. It takes a little while to ferment, but its sure good over cake or ice cream. All I need to do is just wander over to the liquor store and get a small bottle of brandy or another liquor and start it. It will have to wait till payday though in February. I also have dried fruit that I dried last summer and fall, from some fruit that I got from my prairie paks, so I usually dry these if I cannot eat them right off the bat. I will see if I can do this crocked fruit and not have a lab experiment in the kitchen! I will have photos to show progress.
Update: The sun is shining now. WOW, I thought that it disappeared forever.
I also wanted to let you all know that when I changed my blogs name, somehow I created another blog site. Now I am stupid when it comes to blogs, and I deleted this "new" blog. By some chance, if you go to something, and you have problems, email me and let me know. I'll see if I can fix it. Or I will probably delete something and it will disappear into the ozone and outer space.
Well, I should go do something, even if it's wrong. I need to get some laundry done, and some dishes done. It does not get done looking at it, though it would be nice.
So everyone, please have a great rest of the week, and a great weekend.
We had snow yesterday. It started early Wednesday morning about 5 am. And it would snow on and off light, then very heavy, then quit for a while then heavy.
Moral of the story, don't listen to the weatherman, especially the one we have. You get a "snow job". Have close to 7 inches of snow this morning, and its very cold, -8 below with a wind chill of -25 below. I'm not going out today.
I had plans to go out later this morning to run a few errands, but I think not, I wanted to get out and go have a cup of coffee out to just get out of the house as I have a major case of cabin fever, and it does not help when you want to start some garden seeds and get things going a little. I wanted to go get a grow light so I can start some herb seeds and place it in my kitchen but I am afraid that it will have to wait till the weekend. Some of my blog I follow, they are starting their gardens and seeds, and I get so bummed out. I was hoping to get to my cold frames and start laying them out so I can set up my lettuces and radishes and spinach and get them covered, but they are under the porch and I have ice sealing up the space where I can get to the frames. I am hoping that we will have a thaw toward the end of the month so I can at least get these set up and covered so I can get the soil warmed up.
Cabin fever is a multi-faceted term and for many people, has many faces. Funny thing is, I have plenty to do in the house, for one thing, start cleaning out rooms and get rid of "stuff" that is truly driving me buggy. But I simply just need outside for a few hours to get some fresh air, and a change of scene, if only for a few hours. We also have had 0 sun for over a week now, and that really bothers me. It seems if the sun shines, I am better at staying in, than with no sun and cold and snow just makes me more blue. My doctor told me to up my vitamin D. I am some what bad on vitamins, I take them, but I can only afford certain ones on my little salary, so I take a whole food supplement, and a 2000 unit Vitamin D, which I am supposed to anyway since I have had cancer. She also jumped on me to eat more fruit, but I informed her that fruit is unaffordable for me period, and it is beyond affordable here, and our fruit we get here I wouldn't let a parrot eat. It is terrible and price wise is beyond my as well as others paychecks. I have some peaches and apples and apricots that I canned last fall, and I do eat these, with my homemade yogurt, over my oatmeal, and I am in the process of starting some crocked fruit or "drunken fruit" as my grandmother called it. It takes a little while to ferment, but its sure good over cake or ice cream. All I need to do is just wander over to the liquor store and get a small bottle of brandy or another liquor and start it. It will have to wait till payday though in February. I also have dried fruit that I dried last summer and fall, from some fruit that I got from my prairie paks, so I usually dry these if I cannot eat them right off the bat. I will see if I can do this crocked fruit and not have a lab experiment in the kitchen! I will have photos to show progress.
Update: The sun is shining now. WOW, I thought that it disappeared forever.
I also wanted to let you all know that when I changed my blogs name, somehow I created another blog site. Now I am stupid when it comes to blogs, and I deleted this "new" blog. By some chance, if you go to something, and you have problems, email me and let me know. I'll see if I can fix it. Or I will probably delete something and it will disappear into the ozone and outer space.
Well, I should go do something, even if it's wrong. I need to get some laundry done, and some dishes done. It does not get done looking at it, though it would be nice.
So everyone, please have a great rest of the week, and a great weekend.
Friday, January 7, 2011
Iceburg dead ahead, Captain
Hello everyone,
First a blog change.
Well, I am trying to change the look of the blog, and I will say, that I will have to work at it. I did change the name of the blog, as this is the way I look at things through my eyes, whether good or bad, because of the place where I live, it can go either way, so it is through my eyes that life will proceed, and hopefully as best as it possibly can.
I am trying to find interesting photos of my area, since I live in a 3rd world trailer park, with 3rd world inhabitants, I do not have beautiful fields, or beautiful trees, or a beautiful area, period, so I have been taking short walks around the neighborhood to find things that may be alright to use on the blog, again, through my eyes. And also, it is winter here, and it is very brown, and snowy, and COLD, so I am limited to the day, what it brings as far as a nice day, or a blizzard., or anything in between.
Well, its going to be a COLD weekend and week ahead here, colder than the last blast we had, and as usual, snow, though I really don't know how MUCH, but we are to have very bitter cold, with lows into the -20 below, and that's not with windchill either, folks, so if we have wind, it will be just downright cold. And I think I heard that the highs for daytime would be like single digits, 1,or 4 above. WOW. Well this time of year, this is our cold period, we have had high 30's and yesterday it was 45* so it was for us, nice, but now its going to be cold again, and a time when you do not go out at all, or you will freeze body parts off that are exposed. So I think that potato soup is on the menu, and just hunker down and plan garden space and seed purchases. I was going to dig out some of my cold frame pipes but I think that I will just wait until this cold crap gets out of its system and hopefully the end of this month or February, I can start doing that, and show everyone how I do my simple cold frames and hoop house covers.
Have been getting seed catalogs, and I think that like everyone else, I want to try some different seeds for my area, I am in Zone 5, not sure if its a or b, but some things do ok, and some things don't. Then the next year, the seeds that didn't do good, do great and the ones that performed great, pizzled out. Ah, the joys of farm'in. I do know that I am planning on trying to utilize my space better, I wish I could spend money on good raised beds, and a better set up, but when you just do not have the funds to do so, you have to either recycle or use other methods for raised beds from things that you can recycle. But its fun to find things that you can use until you can work a plan for a better set-up.
We have a new homeless shelter that was built here last fall, and they put a call out for help and information on how to put up a green house or hoop house. I went over to the shelter yesterday and took some old seed catalogs, and a book that helped me start out in my cold frame adventures, it was Eliot Coleman's 4 season gardening book. I gleaned everything that I wanted from it, and I feel that books need to be shared and someone else use it, so I took that over to the director. The shelter wants to put this greenhouse up for several reasons, first, it will help feed the residents and second, it will help instill work ethic and hope for them and give job skills, and a chance to start over. They want to start a booth at the Farmer's Market to sell their produce also to help residents earn job skills and work with the public. The director asked if he could call me for help, and I told him, I can help to a point, with my physical limitations, I can't work like a mule and help put up the greenhouse, but I can start seeds, transplant, and hoe, and do little things, but it will have to be up to the males of the town to tug and pull a greenhouse frame up and lay the plastic. I have also been looking into starting a fund raiser for them to help them get seeds. I haven't done a fund raiser for many years, so if anyone has an idea for fund raising, or helping a non profit get seeds for their project, please contact me and possibly give me some ideas.
This homeless shelter was very badly needed here in town, and the sad part of it is, we have a huge number of homeless families here in this small community, and many are hungry, and go without. This community has a bad side to it, and for its smallness, it harbors a lot of ills that a huge urban area have. I have theories on this, as this community does not pay a living wage at all, it is way below minimum wage, and some have to work 3-4 jobs to make ends meet, and still it does not help pay the horrid rents that landlords charge here, for dumps that I would not let a dog live in. I have several trailers here where I live, and the one has cockroaches in it, and mice and the stupid landlord rents it for $550 a month. This guy is a slum lord anyway, and anytime I can tell people not to rent it, I do, especially families who have kids, who may have asthma or a immunity issue with their health, as cockroach poop is deadly to asthmatics. Boy, ain't I a stinker.......I love being a pain in the butt sometimes, especially with people like this landlord, he deserves everything he gets, and its usually bad, what goes around, comes around, buddy.
Well, I had better get going, have a few things to do today before our weather gets here, I do not plan on going out anytime soon. I wish everyone a wonderful weekend, where ever you are, and a great week ahead. Send me some warm air and sunshine, please. I wilting...wilting.....
Take care all.
First a blog change.
Well, I am trying to change the look of the blog, and I will say, that I will have to work at it. I did change the name of the blog, as this is the way I look at things through my eyes, whether good or bad, because of the place where I live, it can go either way, so it is through my eyes that life will proceed, and hopefully as best as it possibly can.
I am trying to find interesting photos of my area, since I live in a 3rd world trailer park, with 3rd world inhabitants, I do not have beautiful fields, or beautiful trees, or a beautiful area, period, so I have been taking short walks around the neighborhood to find things that may be alright to use on the blog, again, through my eyes. And also, it is winter here, and it is very brown, and snowy, and COLD, so I am limited to the day, what it brings as far as a nice day, or a blizzard., or anything in between.
Well, its going to be a COLD weekend and week ahead here, colder than the last blast we had, and as usual, snow, though I really don't know how MUCH, but we are to have very bitter cold, with lows into the -20 below, and that's not with windchill either, folks, so if we have wind, it will be just downright cold. And I think I heard that the highs for daytime would be like single digits, 1,or 4 above. WOW. Well this time of year, this is our cold period, we have had high 30's and yesterday it was 45* so it was for us, nice, but now its going to be cold again, and a time when you do not go out at all, or you will freeze body parts off that are exposed. So I think that potato soup is on the menu, and just hunker down and plan garden space and seed purchases. I was going to dig out some of my cold frame pipes but I think that I will just wait until this cold crap gets out of its system and hopefully the end of this month or February, I can start doing that, and show everyone how I do my simple cold frames and hoop house covers.
Have been getting seed catalogs, and I think that like everyone else, I want to try some different seeds for my area, I am in Zone 5, not sure if its a or b, but some things do ok, and some things don't. Then the next year, the seeds that didn't do good, do great and the ones that performed great, pizzled out. Ah, the joys of farm'in. I do know that I am planning on trying to utilize my space better, I wish I could spend money on good raised beds, and a better set up, but when you just do not have the funds to do so, you have to either recycle or use other methods for raised beds from things that you can recycle. But its fun to find things that you can use until you can work a plan for a better set-up.
We have a new homeless shelter that was built here last fall, and they put a call out for help and information on how to put up a green house or hoop house. I went over to the shelter yesterday and took some old seed catalogs, and a book that helped me start out in my cold frame adventures, it was Eliot Coleman's 4 season gardening book. I gleaned everything that I wanted from it, and I feel that books need to be shared and someone else use it, so I took that over to the director. The shelter wants to put this greenhouse up for several reasons, first, it will help feed the residents and second, it will help instill work ethic and hope for them and give job skills, and a chance to start over. They want to start a booth at the Farmer's Market to sell their produce also to help residents earn job skills and work with the public. The director asked if he could call me for help, and I told him, I can help to a point, with my physical limitations, I can't work like a mule and help put up the greenhouse, but I can start seeds, transplant, and hoe, and do little things, but it will have to be up to the males of the town to tug and pull a greenhouse frame up and lay the plastic. I have also been looking into starting a fund raiser for them to help them get seeds. I haven't done a fund raiser for many years, so if anyone has an idea for fund raising, or helping a non profit get seeds for their project, please contact me and possibly give me some ideas.
This homeless shelter was very badly needed here in town, and the sad part of it is, we have a huge number of homeless families here in this small community, and many are hungry, and go without. This community has a bad side to it, and for its smallness, it harbors a lot of ills that a huge urban area have. I have theories on this, as this community does not pay a living wage at all, it is way below minimum wage, and some have to work 3-4 jobs to make ends meet, and still it does not help pay the horrid rents that landlords charge here, for dumps that I would not let a dog live in. I have several trailers here where I live, and the one has cockroaches in it, and mice and the stupid landlord rents it for $550 a month. This guy is a slum lord anyway, and anytime I can tell people not to rent it, I do, especially families who have kids, who may have asthma or a immunity issue with their health, as cockroach poop is deadly to asthmatics. Boy, ain't I a stinker.......I love being a pain in the butt sometimes, especially with people like this landlord, he deserves everything he gets, and its usually bad, what goes around, comes around, buddy.
Well, I had better get going, have a few things to do today before our weather gets here, I do not plan on going out anytime soon. I wish everyone a wonderful weekend, where ever you are, and a great week ahead. Send me some warm air and sunshine, please. I wilting...wilting.....
Take care all.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Good Afternoon everyone
Well, its here, the four letter word, SNOW, only I have other words for it, and they are not fit for the blog to read.
We don't have a terrible amount on the ground, maybe less than an inch, but we do have 30+ wind with a 50+ gust and we are in a wind advisory, so I'm not going out today, folks.
This morning, I felt ambitious, why I don't know. Fixed oatmeal, with brown sugar and I guess the sugar got me going, so I had some somewhat tart oranges from my prairie land food paks this month and I made Orange marmalade. Wow, talk about where the energy came from.....
I even had some photos taken by D, so, don't look at the kitchen or the stove, they are a federal disaster area. I don't like my photos taken at all but I'm in there, hope it doesn't break your computer monitor.
Anyway, got some photos, and I hope that the marmalade turns out, this was a complete shoot from the hip from my head recipe. Won't know until later if they set up.\
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season with family and friends, and everyone made it safely home from traffic, and weather, and the general public.
Tomorrow, I hope that I have some energy, I'm going to do some Granny Smith apples. These were in my paks also, and I don't like to waste food, so I made do these for use on oatmeal, or bagels.
Really other than that, not too much is going on. I have been reading several blogs I follow and I am afraid the winter is decending upon most of us. Guess we just pull in, keep busy, start planning gardens for next year, which is what I do, to keep the winter blues under control and then visit some blogs that have the most beautiful tropical florals ever, I don't think that the blog owner would mind me mention her blog, it is the lovely FlowerLady, her blog is listed on my as Flowerlady's Musings and she and her hubby live in a magical, charming cottage with wonderful gardens, and it will surely get your through the winter.
Well, I think that I am going to fix some lunch, probably leftover turkey on homemade bread and then I will tackle the apples and get them done, I already have everything set up for canning anyway.
So, please take care all and I will try to post later in the week.
Love and thoughts to all.
Well, its here, the four letter word, SNOW, only I have other words for it, and they are not fit for the blog to read.
We don't have a terrible amount on the ground, maybe less than an inch, but we do have 30+ wind with a 50+ gust and we are in a wind advisory, so I'm not going out today, folks.
This morning, I felt ambitious, why I don't know. Fixed oatmeal, with brown sugar and I guess the sugar got me going, so I had some somewhat tart oranges from my prairie land food paks this month and I made Orange marmalade. Wow, talk about where the energy came from.....
I even had some photos taken by D, so, don't look at the kitchen or the stove, they are a federal disaster area. I don't like my photos taken at all but I'm in there, hope it doesn't break your computer monitor.
Anyway, got some photos, and I hope that the marmalade turns out, this was a complete shoot from the hip from my head recipe. Won't know until later if they set up.\
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season with family and friends, and everyone made it safely home from traffic, and weather, and the general public.
Tomorrow, I hope that I have some energy, I'm going to do some Granny Smith apples. These were in my paks also, and I don't like to waste food, so I made do these for use on oatmeal, or bagels.
Really other than that, not too much is going on. I have been reading several blogs I follow and I am afraid the winter is decending upon most of us. Guess we just pull in, keep busy, start planning gardens for next year, which is what I do, to keep the winter blues under control and then visit some blogs that have the most beautiful tropical florals ever, I don't think that the blog owner would mind me mention her blog, it is the lovely FlowerLady, her blog is listed on my as Flowerlady's Musings and she and her hubby live in a magical, charming cottage with wonderful gardens, and it will surely get your through the winter.
Well, I think that I am going to fix some lunch, probably leftover turkey on homemade bread and then I will tackle the apples and get them done, I already have everything set up for canning anyway.
So, please take care all and I will try to post later in the week.
Love and thoughts to all.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Snow? or just pull'in your leg
Well, it's 34* and it rained a little during the night. This is the first of some weather moving through the area and the second punch is supposed to move through Thursday afternoon with some SNOW? Not sure how much but your never know here in the Plains of Nebraska.
Last year in October, we had over 60" of snow from 3 storms that whacked us. This year is different, as they generally are, like us natives like to say, " if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes and it will change". Like the 49' blizzard that hit here, it was in the 70's before that hit and they really aren't sure how much snow that dumped on everyone and the area.
I really don't worry about weather, if its going to storm, I just make sure I have everything done, gas in the car, pantry is stocked anyway, and I have oil for the lamps and backup kerosene heater ready if I need it, I usually don't use it unless I have to. Since I'm in a trailer, I have to keep the plumbing warm or I will have a major problem with frozen pipes if it really gets cold and the wind really blows, if the electric grid goes down, which it does, when we get 60 mph blizzard winds blowing or a major ice storm. We seem to get more ice storms than we usually did a long time ago, and those I think are worse than the blasted snow. That's usually when we lose the grid.
Still working on the cupboards and cleaning, my back is screaming when I do this, crawling around on the floor and the cats looking at me like I lost my mind, wondering why is mom on the floor, and whether I am getting any food out of the cupboards for them.
Didn't get the rest of my outside work done either. I am sure I have ADD or something, first inside, then I take a break and do something outside. I'll just have to work at that too.
Thank you from all of you for suggestions for the fleas. My vet recommended the Advantage for the dogs for a few rounds and she found a spray that is eco friendly as she knows I don't like to use sprays and pesticides, but we treated the dogs for a little bit and will do the brewers yeast for the cats and a spray for them that is eco friendly also. It is hard when you have a multi animal house and try to control bugs and crawly stuff and not have major buggy problems in the house. I vacuumed the house Sunday, and had a trash can outside with spray in the plastic bag and a cover and dumped my vacuum tray in it and covered it up and then wrapped it and dumped it in the big trash bin we have here in the park and will go over the house again and do the spray she got me and just watch.. This spray she found is similar to the spray they are using for bed bugs and sand fleas overseas.
I will try to see if I can post this article that came over my health news email a few days ago. It is about the Chicken McNuggets at McDonalds and what it in them, and according to the article, its not chicken meat! The chemical ingredients that were written about is not even for human or animal consumption. I don't eat fast food, and didn't eat it, even when I was a teen, my parents just could not afford food anyway, and I didn't get to run around town like the other kids and eat at the fast food places that were creeping up here in town in the 60's here. McDonald's was the first here of the chains. We had some little drive ins that were hometown people who did hamburgers and things like that, but it was pure beef and "real" food, not the processed crap that is mystery meat we have now. My grandmother would not let me eat fast food period. She would not hear of it. And people wonder why everyone is sick from eating fast food. My neighbors eat nothing but fast food, the woman that lives there doesn't cook at all, and they eat nothing but fast food, and I'm quite sure they spend a small fortune in fast food every week. They make very little income and its all spent on take out and soda.
I offered one time to teach her cooking skills and she looked at me like I lost my mind, and she told me she doesn't cook at all and never will. OK, that's fine, starve when we have an upheaval in the economy. I won't share my stash.
Anyway, I'd better quit ranting, can't change anything or anyone anyway.
So, everyone please have a great hump day, and up coming weekend. I'll keep you posted on the snow situation if we get any.
Bye
Last year in October, we had over 60" of snow from 3 storms that whacked us. This year is different, as they generally are, like us natives like to say, " if you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes and it will change". Like the 49' blizzard that hit here, it was in the 70's before that hit and they really aren't sure how much snow that dumped on everyone and the area.
I really don't worry about weather, if its going to storm, I just make sure I have everything done, gas in the car, pantry is stocked anyway, and I have oil for the lamps and backup kerosene heater ready if I need it, I usually don't use it unless I have to. Since I'm in a trailer, I have to keep the plumbing warm or I will have a major problem with frozen pipes if it really gets cold and the wind really blows, if the electric grid goes down, which it does, when we get 60 mph blizzard winds blowing or a major ice storm. We seem to get more ice storms than we usually did a long time ago, and those I think are worse than the blasted snow. That's usually when we lose the grid.
Still working on the cupboards and cleaning, my back is screaming when I do this, crawling around on the floor and the cats looking at me like I lost my mind, wondering why is mom on the floor, and whether I am getting any food out of the cupboards for them.
Didn't get the rest of my outside work done either. I am sure I have ADD or something, first inside, then I take a break and do something outside. I'll just have to work at that too.
Thank you from all of you for suggestions for the fleas. My vet recommended the Advantage for the dogs for a few rounds and she found a spray that is eco friendly as she knows I don't like to use sprays and pesticides, but we treated the dogs for a little bit and will do the brewers yeast for the cats and a spray for them that is eco friendly also. It is hard when you have a multi animal house and try to control bugs and crawly stuff and not have major buggy problems in the house. I vacuumed the house Sunday, and had a trash can outside with spray in the plastic bag and a cover and dumped my vacuum tray in it and covered it up and then wrapped it and dumped it in the big trash bin we have here in the park and will go over the house again and do the spray she got me and just watch.. This spray she found is similar to the spray they are using for bed bugs and sand fleas overseas.
I will try to see if I can post this article that came over my health news email a few days ago. It is about the Chicken McNuggets at McDonalds and what it in them, and according to the article, its not chicken meat! The chemical ingredients that were written about is not even for human or animal consumption. I don't eat fast food, and didn't eat it, even when I was a teen, my parents just could not afford food anyway, and I didn't get to run around town like the other kids and eat at the fast food places that were creeping up here in town in the 60's here. McDonald's was the first here of the chains. We had some little drive ins that were hometown people who did hamburgers and things like that, but it was pure beef and "real" food, not the processed crap that is mystery meat we have now. My grandmother would not let me eat fast food period. She would not hear of it. And people wonder why everyone is sick from eating fast food. My neighbors eat nothing but fast food, the woman that lives there doesn't cook at all, and they eat nothing but fast food, and I'm quite sure they spend a small fortune in fast food every week. They make very little income and its all spent on take out and soda.
I offered one time to teach her cooking skills and she looked at me like I lost my mind, and she told me she doesn't cook at all and never will. OK, that's fine, starve when we have an upheaval in the economy. I won't share my stash.
Anyway, I'd better quit ranting, can't change anything or anyone anyway.
So, everyone please have a great hump day, and up coming weekend. I'll keep you posted on the snow situation if we get any.
Bye
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