Good late morning again, from the second or third day of steady rain. We need it, and it's a necessary part of August's prelude to winter, but not an enjoyable one. If September goes as usual, it should be cooler, with crisp beauty.

Jane, last week, I gathered, chopped, and bagged a good amount of vegetables to freeze and processed, cooked, and bagged dried yellow peas, green peas, and two types of dried beans. This morning, I finished bringing my kitchen back to normal.

 Except for that, today or tomorrow, I have plans to separate various types of meat for the freezer and to cook a pork roast and a whole chicken ; bone, section the meat, and freeze the majority of it. My kitchen's tidiness is always a work in progress.

Sometimes I feel squirrely, scouting for nuts.

So concerning about the flooding caused by Hilary....what a terrifying storm.

So good to see your post, DON.  I loved the picture of you with your sons🥰 I am so sorry I set off a stir regarding you still being with us.....but I was concerned and knew others would be as well.  HAPPY to see you are alive and WELL‼️ I even sent a message to the lady that posted on FB about you that started this whole question....sadly, I never heard from her.  The post was taken down immediately.

AMY, I appreciate the info on how to freeze fruit.  I am going to try to do it.  Thanks.  I originally gave you credit for posting it, but then looking back it appeared to be Jane.  No foul, no harm🤪🤪

JANE, it is GREAT to see the littles as they grow up, however I would like to slow the process down a bit🤪🤪 Thank you for the kind welcome for sticking my head in‼️‼️🤪🤪🤪. Our oldest grandson will be turning 18  tomorrow 🤪‼️🤪‼️

PATRICIA, wonderful memories you shared about times with Donna and her husband.  These "falls" that we have are indeed game changers for us😩😩. I love when you go in to see any doctor that they ask you if you are afraid of falling......ABSOLUTELY is my answer.  I am petrified to be honest😩

Have a good Monday EVERYFRIEND❣️❣️

Jenn

Supper's in the oven and I'm waiting for Mannix to come on so I can eat it.  It's fish filets, scalloped potatoes and baked beans!

My trip to the dr. was a good one.  She's a dermatoligist and is working on my "itchies".  The stuff she told me about on my last visit, seems to be working out!  She said a lot of the redness in certain places is gone and that's good.

JENN, my oldest grandson just celebrated 40 years and it just seems like yesterday that he was born!  I'm very proud of him.  He met some obstacles in his life but he's made an excellent life for himself and his family!

Now I'm going to put everything on hold and take a short walk before I sit down to eat my dinner! Keep on keeping on, Everyfriend!  Who would have thought back in the 50s and 60s that I'd have friends all over the country and all over the WORLD (have to include Bubble!  She's definitely a friend!)

Floors are washed, trip into town to get Babe's nails cut, then home to wash the van.

Phyllis, it most certainly did make sense...now can you stop the weeks from flying by?

Patricia, our weather is a bit cooler also. Rain now on Thur with the possibility of a storm.

Jane, your supper sounds delicious!! Comfort food!  I need to make some pastry and use up some peaches, peach pie sounds good.

Jenny, with the price of grocereies/fruit any bit you can freeze is going to taste good come winter.

This part of the Interior is close to farming country. I say close because it's one hundred miles north of the Mennonites and other mainstream farmers. That's close in Alaskan terms.

Locally we have what's termed boutique farms. These are the ones that grow and export peonies, one of our state's largest exports worldwide; honey, birch syrups, and other foods; woven garments and items from sheep, goats, alpacas, llamas, and Icelandic ponies. Products, hair, soaps, creams, yougart, cream bases for cosmetic products, etc., from goats, are beginning to rival peonies in sale volume.

However, the few local farms growing food are small and generally operate on purchased shares, pay to pick your own, or promise a certain number of hours for a guaranteed amount of that farm's harvest. The volume of food is significant due to black glacial soil, cabbages weighing sixty-six pounds, etc., and often only a few miles from the city.

We don't have a local food stand similar to Jane's Amish, but we do have two sprawling summer outdoor markets plus an indoor one that switches to organics in the winter.

The issue for me is transportation to and from. Plus, I wish we had places that sold pottery, furniture, and other crafts. That makes up a large portion of our yearly fair, but that's only one week out of the year.

I have one complaint about Grammarly, which checks my posts, grammar, etc., across the web. They seem to have started using a new IE, and I have to be doubly careful as it arbitrarily changes my subject in some odd ways. For example, in one post, I spoke of cutting up meat, and it kept trying to change meat to heart!

Quote from: patricia19 on August 21, 2023, 07:37:45 PMI spoke of cutting up meat, and it kept trying to change meat to heart!

Must have failed AI School.

Supper was DEEEElicious!  And now I'm heading for the haystack!  Cooper will be arriving around 6:45 and I try to be up, dressed and have my breakfast before he gets here.  I wish you all a peaceful night's sleep and a happy tomorrow!  Bless you, one and all!

Thanks, Rick...I, myself, failed at acronyms, trying to spell it as IE.

I spend almost as much time correcting its grammar as it does mine.

Good morning.

Starting off at 44° and overcast here.My mission today, should I accept is to make some windows laugh (clean). I use paper towels to clean them and it sounds as if they are laughing.

Patricia, we have a Mennonite Market just on the other side of town. plus there is a vegetable stand in town and on Sat there is a market behind the post office. Lots to choose from if one needs anything.

Jane. the young girl that cuts Babes nails is so good at it that I don't need to give her the Rescue Remedy. She talks awa to Babe while I hold her and she may shiver a bit but it is soon done as the girls goes about clipping. I would get a fight with Babe, while she behaves not to bad for the young lady.

Better get ready to meet the day, I think my attem actually got up with me.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Quote from: patricia19 on August 21, 2023, 11:13:02 PMtrying to spell it as IE.

I missed that. It is my feeling that on this relaxed site we are not heavily into being correct all the time. So --- just let it flow.

Good Morning Everyfriend!  I've been up, had breakfast, met Cooper's arrival, fed him and he took me for a walk!  Now he's out front challenging anything that moves and I'm back on the computer.

RICK, I'm with you that this is a place to "be ourselves"!  We don't have to make corrections because everyone who reads in here is smart enough to figure out what we meant to say!

I think I'm going to go to Wenger's (the Mennonite Store) with Cathy later this morning.  I don't need a lot of stuff but I always like to look around in there.  And they always seem to have something I never saw in there before and I really need.  And their prices are good!

I hope you all have a great day...better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

I agree.  We can usually figure out what was meant and I don't think anyone here judges us on our grammar, spelling, sentence construction, etc.  If I can't figure out what someone is saying, I will ask.

Hot, really muggy here today.  Supposed to have some better weather move in on Thurs.  I sincerely hope that they will be right.

I cleaned out the fridge yesterday, threw everything in the crockpot, cooked it for a couple of hours and will have soup for dinner tonight.  I don't know what to call it because I didn't use a recipe.  Maybe just call it Surprise Soup.  If it is not good I'll just wave it goodbye.

Good morning 💐

JANE I sure wish I could go to the Wenger's with you and Cathy today.  Belated Happy 40th Birthday to your grandson‼️ I had my own little pity party this morning as I thought how much I wish that Michele could be here with her first born son on his 18th Birthday 😩🙏 Your dinner sounded YUMMY last night....so glad you enjoyed it❣️

AMY, glad you got Babe's nail's cut.  So nice that you have someone to do it so it goes smoother for her🥰. Bob cuts our  Smokey's nails.....he just lays back on Bob and lets him do it.....but he does EXPECT the treat when he is done🤣🤣 We do not have any nice markets to buy fresh veggies or fruit from.....our local farmers markets are a joke as far as I am concerned.  It looks like someone went to Walmart and shopped to bring them to the market to sell at triple the price😩😩

PHYLLIS, I hope your special concoction out of the fridge was delicious.  I love soup of any kind. 

PATRICIA, I really enjoyed reading you descriptions of the local boutique markets. 

We will have a little late birthday dinner for Grandson Matt tonight.....he has his first Lacrosse practice to go to before we can have dinner🥰🥰 He has lettered every year of high school and will again this yesr🥰🥰

Have a wonderful day EVERY 💐 FRIEND.

Jenn

I thought this was an excellent read and it did me good to read it today.  I hope it is OK to share it here‼️

"He may not be able to stand anymore and suffering has shaped his character but this speech from Pope Francis yesterday was just INCREDIBLE!"     

"You can have flaws, be anxious and even be angry, but just remember that your life is the world's biggest contest." Only you can stop it from failing. You are appreciated, admired, and loved by so many. Remember that happiness is not having a sky without storms, a road without accidents, a job without effort, a relationship without disappointments.
"Being happy means finding strength in forgiveness, hope in battles, security in fear, love in discord." It's not only to enjoy the smile, but also to reflect on the sadness. It's not just about celebrating success it's about learning from failure It's not just about feeling happy with applause, it's about being happy anonymously. Being happy is not a fatality of destiny, but an achievement for those who can travel on their own.
"Being happy is to stop feeling victimized and become the author of your own destiny." "It is to walk through deserts, but to be able to find an oasis deep in one's soul. It's thanking God every morning for the miracle of life. To be happy is not to be afraid of your feelings and to be able to talk about yourself. Have the courage to hear a "no" and trust the criticism, even when it's unwarranted. It's about hugging your kids, hugging your parents, spending poetic moments with your friends, even when they hurt us.
"To be happy is to let the creature that lives in us live, free, joyful and simple." You are mature enough to say, "I made mistakes". Having the courage to say I'm sorry. It's the sense of saying "I need you". It's having the ability to say, "I love you". May your life become a garden of blissful opportunities that in spring is a lover of joy and in winter a lover of wisdom.
"And when you make a mistake, start over." Because only then will you be in love with life. You will find out that being happy isn't about having a perfect life. But use tears to irrigate the tolerance. Use your defeats to train your patience.
"Use your mistakes with serenity of the sculptor." Use the pain to connect to pleasure. Use obstacles to open the windows of intelligence. Never give up... Above all, never abandon the people who love you. Never stop being happy because life is an amazing show. ".
~ POPE FRANCIS

Jenny, I used to cut our Goldens nails and the neighbours dog's nail, both would just lay on the floor and let me trim them. The last time I cut Rexs nails he reached up and gave me a kiss on the cheek, something he had never done before. Less than two weeks he was gone, I do think he knew and was saying thank you.

Hope you don't mind but I am going to share your post. Pope Francis said it right. There are people in this life that no matter what one does they are never pleased and others are so thankful for the little things.

Denver,
Pope Francis is truly a Diamond in the rough
Best Pope for all people, all denominations
Most loved in my lifetime.
Mycheal

Mycheal  KEEP Cool ya all :O)

Good evening; I was gone most of this day to a Memory Breakfast for Donna that stretched to a Memory Day. She refused to have a funeral saying, "No gloomy gusses, please!" So we kept it light and full of our own reminiscences.

I don't worry about how others perceive me, but I watch how I put things, especially since Grammarly started this new plan.

The Mennonites sent some of their followers here, where they started a community and purchased land for their farms in the sixties. I believe they have scouts that rove about looking for new places.

In the mid-summer to late fall, they have roadside stands. There is some tension in the area because the farms shared by American farmers, Immigrant Russians from the post-war years, and Russian Old Believers don't share the same ideas or follow the same methods.

Delta Junction and Big Delta are small towns along the river that are surrounded by those farms one hundred miles from here.

Good Night Everyfriend!  I'm tired right down to my shoe strings and that's bad because I'm not wearing shoes!  I'm going to bed and try to sleep some of this off!  Cooper will be arriving early and I'm going out for lunch with old friends.  Don't know if I'll make it here in the morning.  Sleep well and have a good day!

Good morning..

I do love these cooler temps 56° at the moment and rain in the forecast.
Friends are stopping by and we are exchanging goodies then it is back to making windows giggle.

Baking sound be done, maybe a peach pie?? Will see what happens on how the day goes.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good Morning, AMY and anyone else who shows face this morning!

Cooper is here, had his breakfast and a walk and is out in the yard NOT barking at anything!  He loves the cooler weather!  When he comes over he lets me take him for a walk and then he spends most of the rest of his time out in the yard until I have to get him in because I'm leaving or the sun comes out!

I need to get a shower and get dressed for my pickup later this morning.  I have a few odds and ends to finish up....well, I have a LOT of odds and ends to finish up but some of them will need to wait!

Cathy and I decided to put off the Farmers market until next week.  All I need is tomatoes to mak sauce for recipes!  Then I'm done until pumpkins come in!  I'm hoping Shirley (my friend who picks me up for the scheduled lunch with friends) will want to stop at a store on the way home.  I keep forgetting milk!

Make today a good one...or just let it happen!  It'll be good that way, too!

Good morning to all. Nice and cool this morning, but overcast. Looks like no sun today.
Nothing happening, so nothing to say 

Empty house today. Everyone must be busy today. I'll shut off the lights and lock up.

Gloria is having a hard time getting to S@F since she has to get used to her new IPad. With patience I am sure she will make it. We all miss her.

These touch screens can be most frustrating. Often I feel like sending my cellphone through the window when my thick fingers won't make it react!

Good morning..

Another storm that didn't happen to us last night, we didn't even get rain. I hope that means those that need the rain got it instead.

Picking up 30 lbs of beets this morning to put into pickles.  Friends didn't come down yesterday ,their tractor tire didn't come in but maybe today.

Rick thank you, for light and lock up. I did get the windows cleaned and a few other thing done also.

Bubble, thank you, for letting us know how Gloria is doing. Once she  masters the IPad as I am sure she will she will be here.

Better get ready for town ,want to get in and get out of the store before it gets busy.

Enjoy your day and stay safe.

Good Morning Everyfriend! 

BUBBLE, I sent GLORIA an email telling with your address and told her she needed to let you know how to reach her so you could help her get to SodaShoppe.  I got it back from her about 5 days later.  I'm keeping in touch with her, just in case but I really don't know what else to do to help her!

I'm sitting here in front of the computer in my jammies, eating my breakfast (one of Jim's Egg Thingys,) and having my morning coffee.  No Cooper today but Frankie is probably going to drop him by later while she does some grocery shopping!  Otherwise, my day is "unplanned".  (Is that a good word to take the place of "loafing"?



The weather is off today.  It rained during the night and more rain is predicted for today.  The temp is 64 degrees right now and only heading for a high of 72!  This has been the strangest August I can every remember.  It sounds like a good day for "not planning".

RICK, thanks for taking care of the lights.  I hope you also finished off the cookies and emptied the coffee pot!

I hope you all have a good day... better than yesterday but not as good as tomorrow!

P.S.  Good Morning AMY.  You slipped in while I was typing!

Just finished breakfast and will go upstairs as soon as I check in here.  Cloudy today and the humidity is back again.  Summer is still hanging around.

I have a handyman coming on Monday to repair soffits and siding that was damaged from the wild animals.  I hope he will show up and that he will do everything I contracted for.  Can only say that "time will tell".

Otherwise, it is just the same old routine and chores to be done.  Take care, All. 

After all these years I finally got around to seeing the movie Titanic. It was quite impressive, but what I liked was the documentary that preceded it.  I watch a lot of tv and wwhat I watch are mostly documentaries and there are 100s of them on Netflix

So far ,this has been a busy interesting day.  Was told by the girl at the store that the beets did not come in....maybe two weeks.  Well, I was giving a friend some pickles and waited for her to come out of the store when she hollered at me, the girl had found 20 lbs of beets. I hung nto them as if they were gold as others were after the same thing!  Now 27 pints are popping on the countertop. I still have the mess to clean up but after my cuppa.
While cleaning the beets, I looked out the window and there on the neighbours yard was a flock of geese. The sentinel had is neck stretched to make sure nothing was creeping up on his family and then all heck let loose. Out  of the house came a tiny dog, geese were bigger than it! That dog put the run on the geese making them take flight and giving me a good laugh!

Good to see you Don..

Patricia, are you hiding??

Good late morning at 10:27 and 57 degrees heading up into the mid-sixties. It has been cloudy and steady light rain for some days now, so much so that the increased humidity has brought some fog interspersed with clouds. This is our late usual August, signaling the end of summer weather.

No, I'm not hiding; I foolishly thought to get more chore backups done quickly and have been going down the list. It's not going as smoothly or as soon as I thought. Why do I always want to prepare for winter with a clean slate and new arrangements? Is this what those outside animals get into?

In between were the regular day-to-day stuff and then meets and greets, let alone Farrah's care. Oh...and a 21-dollar rent increase for December. More rent, less security, less maintenance, and more items are no longer working...but that yearly increase continues.

Well, I took today off!  I took a couple of walks, read the newspaper, played some word games on the computer, read several chapters of my book, visited with Frankie and went for a walk with Cooper while Frankie went for groceries.  Then tonight, I had a good supper, watched 2 episodes of "Perry Mason", one "Mannix" an Adam-12 and an episode of
Tales of Wells Fargo.  Now I'm heading for the bunkhouse!

I hope you all had a good day today and I wish you another one tomorrow!  And tomorrow will be a work day for me.  One day off is all we get in this house!  Good night to one and all!