Friday, March 15, 2024

Never Bored, Kind of Tired, but Never Bored Kind of Week 3/15/24!

It's beens so warm this week I actually talked to a neighbor!  You know how it is in the winter when you see each other in the driveway and your so cold you just wave to each other and run in the house.  It was nice to be able to catch up on the happenings in our neighbor's life (it was all good). 


Husband even grilled out a couple of dinners.  Steak and grilled rosemary pork chops.   Now we are living easy
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This week has mainly been about keeping animals and plants alive.  I feed the chickens and chicks plus I watered and sowed more plants.  Actually it's been fun!  Never bored, kind of tired, but never bored.


I love rain because you have an excuse to be still and relax inside your house.  It rained yesterday, I ignored a lot of inside work, and read a free book from Kathleen Ball called Alanna: Christian Historical Romance (Mail Order Brides of Pine Crossing Book 1)It was still free this morning 3/15/24 (check the price). At 144 pages it was perfect for my time off and had a wonderful and thoughtful story line. 

How is it been going at your house?

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

What I'm Growing This Week 3/12/24

 

I'm getting excited for Spring and have started a lot of seeds inside.  Marigolds are growing in the small cell trays.  I have so many coming up that I'll make another tray with the extras when I can this week.  The pots are Brandy wine Tomato's -I watched a couple of youtube videos on how to grow them in bigger pots right from the start.  The little cells in front of them are peppers.


The greenhouse is a learning curve for sure.   It can get down to twenty at night and 110 during the day.  You had better open it up as soon as it warms up.  I open up the little window on top and the door is wide open.


Right now, I just have early and late cabbage growing in there.  You can see my gallon milk jugs under the shelf.  I spray painted them black to see if they will help the heat at night.  I have more to spray paint today.


I'm also growing a couple of chicks!  Isa browns are my favorite layers.  

How's everything at your house? 

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Friday, March 8, 2024

Good deals, Finished project, and Exhausting Work!

This week there was a great deal for garden seeds at Menards.  A package was 10 cents!  9 cents if you sent in for the rebate.  Did I really need any?  No..but you know how that goes.


I bought a bag of clothes for 5 dollars at a church sale for me and grandkids.  

We took the grandkids one day to the A&W to get hotdogs, cheese curds, and root beer of course that comes in the famous big mug.  As we left and got quite aways down the road, granddaughter pointed at a mug left behind and said we had stolen the mug.  So, a couple of days later we took it back (we don't want to be thieves) and they said no one has done that before.  They gave me a free meal ticket.  



I finished a harry potter scarf for my youngest daughter.


This is what we have been up to for 3 days when we had beautiful weather -putting together a small green house. Husband got it for me for Christmas and my birthday present.   It was not fun but we did it.  Funny thing is I picked this one because they said it was easy.  It was exhausting work!



I moved in as soon as we finally got done!  We already had the potting bench (from a sale a couple of years ago), the chair was given to us by my neice, and the greenstalk from my daughter for Christmas.  Now. I'm looking for shelves.

Just a little FYI..we knew that the potting bench would not fit in the door when we finished, so we built around it.  I guess we will have to take it apart to get it out.  Hopefully not anytime soon!

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Friday, March 1, 2024

Then there was a Tornado .....

Thinking back we should have known something would happen when we had such unusual Spring like weather.  We had a couple of days around 70 degrees.  Then we had a wild night on Tuesday with tornado sirens blasting off around 2 a.m.  Husband had heard a loud wind noise before the sirens went off.  Two tornadoes hit one tornado was around 10 miles from us.  A tornado in Febuary in Michigan is just unbelievable!  No one was hurt thank God but there was damage to a lot of homes and businesses.  We had snow flurries the next day when we dropped 50 degrees.  



School was out and I kept the grand daughter a little busy find art crafts on youtube.  She showed me how to make eyes so I wouldn't have to use the googly eyes.  The little ones will show the way!  

Grandchildren came first this week and many things didn't get done.  They are worth every moment and are most important things in our life at this moment.  

Now to clean the house!  

Out my window:  


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Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Movie Review: Cabrini Plus a $10 Amazon Giftcard Giveaway! #CabriniMIN #MomentumInfluencerNetwork

 


Based on the true story of one woman’s fight for the equality, health, and happiness of immigrant orphans.

From Alejandro Monteverde, award-winning director of 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮, comes the powerful epic of Francesca Cabrini, an Italian immigrant who arrives in New York City in 1889 and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.

Over the course of 34 years Cabrini established an astonishing 67 hospitals, orphanages, and schools. Her energy was fueled by an intense focus on serving Jesus in whatever he asked of her and her legacy still stands today.

Cabrini was canonized in 1946 by Pope Pius XII and became the first American citizen to be named a saint. Four years later she was given the title of Patroness of Immigrants.

 

 My Review:

My first thoughts of Cabrini was how strong and brave she was despite her illness.  She worked hard to find a way to help children and she put her heart and soul into every assignment she was given.  She found a way and the strength to carry it out.

This movie took me through a lot of emotions and at times I found myself crying pitifully but other times I found myself wanting to shout yes, take that archibishop, ha ha mayor.   Cabrini was a force to be reckoned with. 

Unfortunately, I learned some language I didn't know in this movie and had to look up some names people called Italian immigrants during those times.  

My favorite sayings from Cabrini:  put your armour on, men cannot do what a woman can do, and my favorite of all; what kind of world do we want and what will we do to achieve it.

A true wonderful inspiring movie that you will always remember!


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Many thanks to Angel Studios for providing a sample of the product for this review. Opinions are 100% my own.

Friday, February 23, 2024

Sewing, Gardening, and Grocery Shopping Lessons 2/23/24!

This week I made a couple of bowl covers.  Why two?   Well the first one didn't fit ha ha.   There is a sewing tutorial for bowls covers by Jane on the Bluebirds are Nesting blog and a thankyou to Rhonda at If you do stuff, stuff gets done who gave me the idea to use a pizza pan for the pattern.  

I started some seeds the previous week or so.  I'm so over winter and excited for Spring. Even if it's too early, this made me happy.  Cabbages and pepper plants were started.  Yesterday, I started a few tomato plants.  I hope to plant some flower seeds soon but I need a bigger space.

Yesterday, I went to Meijer real quick in the morning.  

My green pepper was free (MPERKS)  (reg.99)

3 Prego Spaghetti Sauces $1.33 each for 3 and one at $1.55 after sales and coupons

Bananas $1.32

4 chicken noodle soups $1.00 each after coupons

2 Tomatoes-$2.82

**I succumbed to a cold pop in the freezer and made a promise to never do that again.  At the awful price of $2.45 plus .10 for bottle refund I could have survived without one.  I need more willpower! 

two Little Debbie cake boxes for $2.79 (request from grand kids)

2 gallons of milk $2.78 each

2 half and half $2.99 each qt

$32.70

This was just for the sale items and other things we needed.  Money goes fast!  

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

When There is No Water...

 



When I woke up Sunday morning everything was fine.  I finished putting dirty dishes in the dishwasher from the night before, started it, fixed bacon for BLT's, and  then went about cleaning the rest of the house.  I also watered my plants, filled up the coffee pot, and fed and gave water to the chickens. After all that I saw our household lights blink a couple of times.   I went and told my sleeping husband about it and he said hmm.  He got up and fixed his coffee and we discussed what would cause the lights blinking.  Maybe the tree service down the street hit a line or something.

Then the grandboy got up to take a shower and there was no water.  Well, now we know.  Husband cleaned the well points...I don't know what that means but it didn't work.  Then he figured out the pump wasn't working. 

Where did we get our water? 

I grabbed the two gallon jugs full of water I keep in the kitchen floor in case I need them to fill up the chicken water when the outside faucet is frozen, and washed the dishes (warming up the water on the stove).  Our go to well man wasn't opened till 10 so before he took our boy home he went to the garage and pulled out two big 5 gallon water jugs, one was empty and the other was frozen solid .  The grandboy took the frozen one inside to thaw and they took the other one to my daughter's to fill up.  She had two more so she filled up those for him too.  She was a blessing for sure!  



So four big five gallon jugs and two gallons of water...how did we use them?   I washed dishes twice (once after breakfast and dinner), we flushed the toilet a couple of times, and of course we washed out hands.  It goes fast.

What was amazing to me was the amout of water it takes to flush a toilet...2 1/2 gallons!  

Hints for the toilet:  Filling up the tank with water instead of the bowl seems to work the best.  If you have hard water like us fill it up to the rust line you see in the tank.  It will not flush without enough water.  I wasted a lot of the water figuring this out while he was gone.


It was fixed by Monday afternoon, for $1300 and $20 for our family of 3 with coupons for Arby's Roast Beef (ha ha).  We are so proud to have water again!  

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