AHHH! THAT REALLY HITS THE SPOT!
No she's not really drinking my pop. I was snacking on a piece of my quick bread this
morning with powdered sugar on top. I put a little piece on the straw to make it
look like she was drinking out of my cup, LOL! See the powdered sugar on the table?
Kitty has a sweet tooth and was lured by the sugar. Had to do this a couple times to get the right shot. She tried to bite the straw to get at the small piece of bread.
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I made up my sausage last night for jerky and it's marinating in the fridge.
I used 2 pounds of it.
It's 1:39pm and I just got the sausage pressed out onto the dehydrator. It smells
good! My jerky press has 3 different attachments, flat, and 2 round ones, so I used all three to experiment with them.
Today's supper will be ham and bean soup.
And here it is ready to go at 4:16pm:
Found this recipe off Bigoven.com and might give it a try or use what I have on hand for it. I'm gonna throw it altogether in the crock pot instead of using the stove top. Precook potatoes ahead of time as I haven't had much luck with getting raw potatoes to cook through in a crock.
Oh everyone, especially Tony, loved last nights leftover supper.
Sometimes I get more comments on things I make with leftovers
than the suppers I make normally, lol. Some things seem better
the second time around.
Best Ham and Bean Soup
When I was a cook in a restaurant years ago, this was our best-selling soup. One taste and your family will agree it's a winner! --- Mary Detweiler, West Farmington, Ohio
Ingredients
* 3/4 pound fully cooked ham cubed
* 1 medium onion chopped
* 2 cloves garlic minced
* 2 Tablespoons Butter
* 2 cans (16 ounces) great northern beans, rinsed and; drained
(I have a large jar of a mixture of 7 beans)
* 3 cups chicken broth
* 2 cups water
* 1 cup peeled diced potatoes
* 3/4 cup diced carrots
(I have a can of slice carrots to use)
* 3/4 cup diced celery
* 1/4 teaspoon pepper
* 1/2 cup frozen peas
(I'll probably leave these out)
* 2 Tablespoons minced fresh parsley
Preparation
In a 3 quart saucepan, saute ham, onion and garlic in butter until onion is tender.
Add the next seven ingredients; cover and simmer for 30 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
Add peas and cook for 5 minutes. Add parsley and serve.
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My friend Kendra and her husband Dewaine stopped in today.
I gave them their Christmas gifts. She and hubby are into
Tigger, Eeyore and Teddy Bears so I have been collecting
them throughout the year. I also found her a pasta roller
that's she been wanting ;0)
They also brought me a baseball fan. We both saw it come across
Freecycle today and she lived closer to where it was and
got it for me. She is sooo nice! Jonathan was all smiles
when he saw it! CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS WAS FREE! I LOVE FREEBIES
OFF OF FREECYCLE!
I priced this thing online between $128
and $144.00!!!!!!!!!
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Everyone has been favoring my homemade Snuggie robe that has no sleeves. I'm
guilty of wearing it a few times when Jonathan doesn't. Now today I see Damien wearing it while lounging on the couch trying to be cute. I fanned the front of
it out to show everyone how much fabric is on the front. It's just like having a blanket on. The backside is the same way. Still thinking of a name for it.
What about a RONCHO. Sound funny but it combines the word Robe and Poncho.
Wouldn't you know it late last night while stopping in the gas station for gas
we see two girls leaving the store wearing Snuggies. That's a little much. But
now that I think of it those would be great to store in your car for emergencies in
case you broke down in the Winter time.
Woops Jonathan busted me wearing his robe poncho, lol.
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Tonight we ended up purchasing a 1999 Chevy Suburban 4x4.
This sucker is BIG! I think you could put a full size couch in the back of
it with no problem and close the doors! We took it through a car wash as it was dirty with salt. Can't wait til tomorrow when I can see the truck for the first time
in daylight. I usually don't recommend buy a vehicle in the dark but we had no other time option since it gets dark around 5pm. We did our best to take the truck
to a lit parking lot to look it over and also carried flashlights to look under the hood.
No pics yet as it is dark. This pic below is not ours but looks just like it.
Typically you don't get these extra items when purchasing a vehicle from
a private seller so these things were a bonus when we got this truck...
2 extra tires, this does not include the full size spare tire. So I guess
a total of 3 extra 16" tires.
Then comes all the warranties with the new parts he put on.
He said to call him or write him via email if something goes wrong
with these parts. He appeared to be the manager of a repair shop in
Hilliard. Won't say which shop but it is well known around the US.
1 year for water pump
90 day for flywheel
2 year full replacement on battery
lifetime brake pad warranty. He said if they go bad we can bring them
to where he works to get for free.
1 year distributor
lifetime spark plugs
not sure on the ball joints but they were just replaced and have some
kind of warranty with them from Napa.
I'm thinking there was one on rotors also because he said he replaced them
with new.
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At bedtime I made Tony a cup of ham and bean soup. I jazzed it up with
some sharp shredded cheddar on top, added a little salt and pepper.
Well I thought it was pepper at the time. I have a McCormick
pepper grinder and the grinder I grabbed was cinnamon. I was grinding
away into his mug and was thinking, wow this pepper is a lot easier
to grind tonight. That's when it dawned on me I put a bunch
of ground cinnamon in his mug, LOL, WHOOPS. You can see the cinnamon
specks on the sides of the mug and in it. LOL!
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I am not a coffee drinker. I love my pop! Don't know what possessed me tonight
to get a toffee cappuccino at Speedway, it just sounded good. In my lifetime I've probably had 3-4 cappucinos, the first one ever drank was in New York about 12 years ago. It gave me a caffeine buzz. I recommend the toffee flavor. It was mild coffee flavored so it was just right for me. Now I sit here at 11:07pm just finishing my cappuccino, WHEEE!
Don't recommend drinking one just before bedtime, LOL. Hey maybe there will be some
more good movies on for me to watch.
Do you ever notice that in the middle of the night it seems they play the good movies, While You Are Asleep! Why is that??? Then during the day you can't find anything to watch on 100 channels to chose from! You get up in the morning and
can either choose from infomercials or news to watch. Those 'as seen on tv' ones are a joke! They never do what they claim.
Like magnetic arm wraps, lol. Who's gonna climb a ladder with a pipe wrench and hammer magnetized to their arm? I sure as heck ain't standing under them when they give way due to gravity! I told Tony I could imagine him walking through his maintenance shop with one on his arm and nut, bolts, razor blades,nails and screws all start darting towards him off the shelves like a full blown attack, LMAO.
Or what about these commercials to loose weight. Duh, if someone can't figure out the before and after photos then the jokes on them. Look at their shoulders in the before. They are droopy. Then the after photo they are sucking in their belly standing tall. Give me a break! Oh but I lost 10 pounds in one week. Yeah right. What'dyall do take a big ole crap, or should I say a $5.00 foot long as Jonathan puts it. The kids say the darndest things!
Let's see while I am on a roll what other as seen on tv things there are...
Oh yeah the ear audio amplifier that looks like a blue tooth. You can hear birds far away remember the lady strolling through the park and the guy eavesdropping on 3 women who think he's hot. So corny but great for the next stalker out there. Then they show it at a sporting event. Wonder how loud that thing sounds when the guy next to you is yelling or screaming when the team makes a score????
Here's another one that is a bunch of bull if you ask me. Buffalo bull that is.
They advertise a pure 24 karat buffalo gold piece. No such thing! If you fell for that you need to do your research! Think about it, you have 10kt, 14kt and 18kt gold jewelry. Never 24kt. Why??? Pure 24 karat pure gold is too soft to use it by itself!! Then notice in their advertisement it says CLAD. What is clad you say. When metal such as gold is bonded to another metal similar to gold plating. Soooo it's not pure 24K gold!! Be careful how they word things before buying anything!!
And pause the dvr and read those little itty bitty letters on the bottom of the screen for 2 seconds!! That's where they get ya!
I could go on and on about all the infomercial scams on tv but it's late
and I'm heading to bed to watch tv. If you really want to try something off of
tv wait for it to hit yard sales or thrift stores for a much cheaper price and you won't loose out on the original money someone spent on it to find out it didn't work!
Can ya tell the caffeine buzz is kicking in, lol, BLAH BLAH BLAH...BLAH...BLAH.
At least when my buzz crashes I'll be in bed ready for it.
Nighty Night.
