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Potatoes and Ham – YUMMY!

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feedI set out to make some Macaroni and Cheese on Wednesday, but it just so happens that I was woefully low on cheese. New plan needed. And what with all the green, hairy STRESS from Rowdy gettin’ all hurt I really had a [...]

My Dog Loves…

ME!!! Really, she does.  Sometimes I wonder if I’m about to have a seizure or something and she’s trying to warn me about it.  She sticks to me like glue!  I have to know all the parts of my house that I can grab in case she gets too much underfoot and I trip.  She [...]

The Bunnies are Here!!!

We got our meat rabbits Saturday afternoon.  They’re beautiful! We got a young group and a breeding age group.  Each group having one buck and two does.  The breeding age group all were champions in live stock shows last Winter. We are learning tons about the larger rabbits.  We have lots of experience with the [...]

Homemade Dog Food

Question Everything Point #1 Folks selling stuff do not have your best intrest at heart.  They have your money at heart.  How to get your money into their wallet, that is. Point #2 I have my doubts about the quality of ANY factory produced dog and cat food.  (think China) Point #3 My hubs’ mom [...]

Elvis and Bijou

Elvis and Bijou have a brand spankin’ new baby!  Just hatched today. Baby cockatiels are ugly.   Ugly.  And it won’t even get cute for a few weeks.  Good thing I don’t have to take care of it.  Although, I’m sure if I had to feed it and clean it I might find some beauty [...]

Lyrical Life Science Giveaway

My real life friend @Mama Archer’s Blog is having a giveaway.  Lyrical Life Science Volume 2,  the whole shebang including an extra student book.  That is so cool, because that’s how us big families roll, ya know. So go check out her blog and think about entering her giveaway, then change your mind, k?  Because [...]

Part of the plan…

Help for Growing Families is on hold for now.  I haven’t decided what I want to do with that, yet. Homemade Thursday will continue, so run cook something, or crochet something, or plant something and take a picture, write a post, be ready this Thursday. Weekend Fun Food is also on hold.  Partly because I [...]

…jingle, jangle, jingle…

Laundry isn’t supposed to clunk or jingle as you transfer it from the basket to the washer, is it? You’d think I’d be all done with “firsts” in my laundry basket, but I believe this is a first in all my many and varied laundry experiences.  But when you think about it, it makes more [...]

A Walk and a Chuckle

In our neighborhood we have wooden privacy fences around every yard.  Ours being an older neighborhood, many of the fences have gaps through which the inhabitants of each yard bark and growl and throw fits when ANY dog passes by on the outside.  They do all this even without the gaps, but the gaps make [...]

Walkin’ th’ Dog

No, I do not own a yo-yo.  I own an actual dog.  And her name is Trixie-the-Wonder-Dog.  And she’s running for president. Please look in the left side-bar and locate the Trixie for President button.  That’ll look so good in the side-bar of your blog, won’t it? Now, Trixie is a wonderful girl.  We truly [...]