This saga is about to come to an end . . I hope. I'll believe it when I cook our first meal on the new stove. It's at the appliance store so I feel confident it's going to happen. In fact, Vince had to call the store this morning because the plumber wanted to know which side of the stove the gas line was on. Our salesmen went and looked at it. He physically looked at OUR gas stove! We passed the ...
Planners
The other day I mentioned that I had ordered the 2022 Book of Days for tracking my stitching. 2021 was the first year I had one . . because that's the first year I was cross stitching. I love it and I love tracking all the needlework in there but . . In late February, 2021 I ordered this planner and I love it and have already ordered one for 2022. A couple of times during the year, I ...
Plantar Fasciitis
I know . . no one comes here to read about my aching feet but this is something that might help someone else . . though I'm no doctor. A while back, a reader had recommended some inserts for my shoes. I ordered them and they helped some but after wearing them for a few months, I began having hip problems. Old age - one thing gets better and something else goes wrong, right? I stopped wearing ...
Pre-Freezing Food for the Freeze Dryer
A question was asked in the comments yesterday about pre-freezing foods for the freeze dryer. There are several reasons I do it and probably additional reasons that others do it. The freeze dryer freezes food at a much lower temp than our home freezers. According to Harvest Right, foods are frozen at -20 to -50 degrees F. Home freezers freeze things to about zero degrees. This has nothing to ...
Yesterday in Review – September 16, 2021
I was so happy with getting so much stitching done yesterday. Vince was gone for a couple of hours yesterday morning, then gone for a couple of hours last night - that was uninterrupted stitching time. Chad and Nicole are both busy with their lives so I don't talk to them as much as I'd like but Nicole called me after she got home from work and we talked about 20 minutes. Last night Chad was ...
Harvest Tina Progress
I've had an amazing lot of stitching time today, thanks to the rain and not being able to plant the flowers and not needing to water the garden this evening and having leftovers for our meal and having Vince go to town this morning (and the day before and the day before and the day before!) and Vince is going to the Old Men's Club meeting tonight so . . yes, lots of stitching time. I am so loving ...