Random Rant...

I don’t get it…

What is the big appeal of Texting? Is it so wonderful that you are able to type a message on a little tinny key pad that you have to hit the 7 three times to get a letter R ?!?!

I find it hard to believe that a person would rather do this than dial a number state your business say goodbye and hang up. I ask this question to everyone I see texting and I get the same answer. A round about himming and hawing and not one person gives me a definitive answer.

“Its easier than talking…” or
“You don’t have to answer questions right away,”
“You can get messages without disturbing anyone.”

That last one is a bigger load of horse poo than the first two.

I state my case.

Yesterday in the mall got hit on the back of my heels with a stroller because the girl driving it was texting and walking at the same time… That text message she sent disturbed me.

The text message the guy in Wal -Mart was sending while he didn’t pay for his bill affected me.

The fact that I cant get anyone in my house to take out the trash, do the dishes, make there beds, FUNCTION at all affects me!!!!

Ok I feel better, have a nice day.

Zucchini, I love it!

Funny thing about zucchini, in the summer when it's coming out my ears and I try and find 101 way to make it interesting I get tired of it but in a few short months I will miss it when its in the market at 98 cents a pound!

My sister in law tells me to chunk it up and freeze it for soups, I have also grated it and froze it in zip bags to use for breads and cakes. A friend of mine said she drys hers and adds it to everything.

I came up with a new recipe and its lovely. I call it:

Zucchini Fritters

Grate about 3 cups zucchini (I used a large one )
Garlic salt & Pepper to taste
2 eggs
1 cup self-rising flour
Grease for frying (I used bacon grease, not healthy but so yummy)

Get your skillet ready, I use my electric skillet (it already had grease in it from frying bacon)

In a mixing bowl place your squash and season to your liking. Crack in your eggs and mix well. I use my hand but I guess a spoon would work well also. Add your flour and mix making sure there are no lumps.

Drop spoonfuls of batter mixture in the hot grease. I make mine about 2 -3 inches in diameter. Cook them like you would pancakes.

Put onto paper toweling to absorb any extra grease.

I served them with ranch dressing at dinner time and the leftovers where great at breakfast just by themselves.

Try this recipe & let me know if ya liked em.

Oh my gosh we have a lot of peaches!!!

I have canned 23 quart jars & 13 pints of jam and we still have fruit on the tree and another tree that is still green! If I get all this fruit put up it will be a miracle. I am just glad that the entire family loves peaches!

That may change by this time next year, but it sure will be nice to have fruit with good flavor this winter.

I think I will do a Google search and see what else can be done with peaches.

The ant and the grasshopper

We all know the story if not here ya go.

In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant walked by, grunting as he carried a plump kernel of corn.
"Where are you off to with that heavy thing?" asked the Grasshopper.
Without stopping, the Ant replied, "To our ant hill. This is the third kernel I've delivered today."
"Why not come and sing with me," said the Grasshopper, "instead of working so hard?" "I am helping to store food for the winter," said the Ant, "and think you should do the same."
"Why bother about winter?" said the Grasshopper; "we have plenty of food right now."
But the Ant went on its way and continued its work.The weather soon turned cold. All the food lying in the field was covered with a thick white blanket of snow that even the grasshopper could not dig through. Soon the Grasshopper found itself dying of hunger.
He staggered to the ants' hill and saw them handing out corn from the stores they had collected in the summer.
Then the Grasshopper knew:
It is best to prepare for the days of necessity.



I relate to this story because it seams these days I am the ant...

I made apricot jam and canned a few jars for pies from the two trees we have.( I did loose almost half the crop to birds.) Then I gathered some wild figs and made another batch of jam. Now I am getting ready to can the peaches that are coming on. When the tomatoes come into full production I plan on canning as many jars as I can because we use a lot of tomatoes.

Most of my summer has been spent working in the garden, building animal pens, or checking the wild trees, and berry bushes for fruit. I keep telling myself the more I do now (food wise) the less I will have to worry come winter.

"It is best to prepare for the days of necessity..."

The debt cycle and how we are trying to get out.

Where to begin...It all started years ago when we where under the false illusion that by having things you where successful. We found ourselves living in a credit card world and we where doing OK, but like most people these days we where living paycheck to paycheck, making the minimum payments and everyone wanted to give us credit so we must be doing fine. Why else would we keep getting offers for more credit right??? Well when the bottom fell out we fell hard.
2006 was a crazy year for us. In January we had a baby, a wonderful surprise but with a huge insurance deductible, it left us feeling the financial pinch. Then in September, I had a life saving bypass surgery witch was another expense that pulled from the finances.
In late November the construction job my husband was working on finished early and left us with no job. A huge hit right before the holidays. He did find work, but it was at half the income we had been making.

We tried to keep up with the bills, but with only enough money to pay the mortgage, power and food we quickly used up any savings we had, and found ourselves falling further and further behind. The late fees began piling up and we found ourselves drowning in a sea of debt. We couldn't pull ourselves out of the huge hole we found ourselves in and so we decided we had to do something and we didn't know what to do so we went with a Debit Settlement Company. To sum it up they are the middle man between us and the debit collectors. Slowly, (2 years now) we have been paying off our debt, we have paid off 6 of the 13 creditors we owe.

Ever since we hit our financial rock bottom so to speak I have been rubbing every pinny trying to make it a nickle just to get this debit paid off. Now comes the rising costs in food and fuel, it never ends!

The Newbee Is In The House

Oh my gosh I can't believe I have jumped into the big ol' world of Blogging!

For years now I have done a terrible job of creating a web page, ya know those things we spent hours on back in the 90's. But now it's time to jump into the 21'st century and start blogging!

My intentions in creating this blog are to share the day to day experences of a Stay at home mommy living in rureal Northern California, rasing 3 girls and helping my husband with our business.