Posted in I am Creating
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small ripple BIG afghan.. I mixed up the weights but seems to work for this....Hope to have it finished by the new year. I started in July
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Posted in I am Creating
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I've been asked to share more pictures of other cakes and cookies I've made, So here ya go... Please be kind to me..lol |
Posted in From the Kitchen
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I really can't explain the smell but ...MMMMMMMMMMMMM I buy the big family pack of chicken legs at my local grocery store then make a BBQ sauce out of Ketchup, Brown sugar and vinegar. I mix it and pour over the chicken legs then I add a hand full of fresh cut large basil to the top and put the lid on it. Start at noon have for dinner. |
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As part of our weekly music experience this week it's John Lee Hooker: Heres a bite but you can get the rest on wikki.. Hooker was born on August 22, 1917[1] in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA[2] the youngest of the eleven children of William Hooker (1871–1923), a sharecropper and Baptist Preacher, and Minnie Ramsey (born 1875). Hooker and his siblings were home-schooled. They were permitted to listen only to religious songs, with his earliest musical exposure being the spirituals sung in church. In 1921, his parents separated. The next year, his mother married William Moore, a blues singer who provided Hooker with his first introduction to the guitar (and whom John would later credit for his distinctive playing style).[3] Because of this, it can be said that Hooker was raised in a musical family. He was cousin to Earl Hooker. Hooker was also influenced by his stepfather, a local blues guitarist, who learned in Shreveport, Louisiana to play a droning, one-chord blues that was strikingly different from the Delta blues of the time.[2] The year after that (1923), John's natural father died; and at age 15, John ran away from home, never to see his mother and stepfather again.[4] Throughout the 1930s, Hooker lived in Memphis where he worked on Beale Street at the New Daisy Theatre and occasionally performed at house parties.[2] He worked in factories in various cities during World War II, drifting until he found himself in Detroit in 1948 working at Ford Motor Company. He felt right at home near the blues venues and saloons on Hastings Street, the heart of black entertainment on Detroit's east side. In a city noted for its pianists, guitar players were scarce. Performing in Detroit clubs, his popularity grew quickly, and seeking a louder instrument than his crude acoustic guitar, he bought his first electric guitar.[5] Boom boom boom boom I love to see you strut, When she walk that walk, by John Lee Hooker |
Posted in A Few Plans for the Rest of the Week
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This week I have BIG plans to organize my new sewing room. This is really the first time in 10 or so years that I have had a place to call my own.... well a place that all my sewing stuff can be together anyway. Usually I just set up camp in the non-living, living room or my everything including the bathroom sink bedroom ...I would squat for days at a time working on someones alterations or when prom rolls around I would squat for weeks...but not now...I have a small room with a door I can shut.. Of course I have this never ending need to organize, I'm plauged with it. So this coming week I will tackle the task of organizing threads, fabrics and notions..This year I have invested in some prom dresses of my own to sell. Hopefully that will go well. |
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Happy 13th Birthday Amanda!!!! |
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Posted in Backyard Critters
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All though i've never been able to get the coop pic to stay where I put it, the coop it self is working out wonderfully. The hens are litte Egg machines, I'm tellin ya! We get about a dozen a day little brown and white perfectly shaped, perfect tasteing eggs. It's amazing!!! |
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Posted in Backyard Critters
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Been working on the coop since June 16th..still lots of work to be been done. But lots of work has already been done. The door my dh and I made ourselves as with the rest of the project.. Check out the brackets on this thing. A little bit about this project: It started out as an old swing set you know the very large wooden expensive ones. It had 3 layered stairs that went out to a slide (the one you see here) and was covered with a canopy. It held 3 swings and a couple of ring swings. There was wooden monkey bars and a climbing rope on it also. There was alot of wood that could be recycled..My plan is to recycle at least 90% of it. The girls are wanting more to do around the coop than just a slide....maybe a playhouse is in the works? |
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The ability to homeschool for me has been just about my biggest blessing right after my husband and the girls of course. Homeschooling fell flat in my lap about 2 years ago and since then it has been just one big experiment, what to buy, what to use, in what manner I was going to construct our learning, WOW it's been one huge puzzle and I'm misrable at puzzles. As a child puzzles were very hard for me they never lined up and took so long to work but everyone seem to wont me to put them together so one day I got out the scissors and glue and I worked the puzzle. Needless to say that it didn't quit look like the picture on the box but I finished it and I was thrilled. I think this was one of those life changing moment for me, one of those I can get thru it ones. Homeschooling here in Missouri is very easy to accomplish anyway one might see fit which works great for me, because if the puzzle wont line up then I can get out the scissors and glue and start to redesign it for each child. I homeschool my 8 year old and 4 year old on a full time basis. |
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Living simple I know, I know its a term heard often anymore, you even see wooden signs sold with these words. When you say the words living simple what comes to your mind, your childhood or maybe homemade soap and bread or how about that scene in the Grapes of Wrath when Maw and Paw and everyone else up and leave the old homestead and head for California? Anyway whats living simple mean and feel to you? Now you wont see me without my Moto Q cell and you sure wont see me mow my yard without my video ipod, but there is alot of ways to living simple. This blog is about our Homeschooling adventures, and our home life.. |