I'm so excited to share that I'm not sick with the flu!  I've been down with morning sickness LOL Yup we are expecting another sweet little one!    Looks like we are due mid Nov.

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I saw this on the news last night.  Baby/toddler pear juice is being recalled because there might be arsenic in it!   This is for the PC organics brand and Beach Nut brand.

Here is a link to more info.

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I've been knocked out with the flu for the last week or so.  I'm just starting to feel half human again LOL.  So now I'm working at getting caught up with all my chores!  Dh and the kids have kept most of the laundry done so I just have a few loads of that.  But we have a huge pile of clean to put a way.  That will be tackled this afternoon.  But I just finished washing just about every dish I think I own LOL!!

Our kittens are doing grate and I'll be posting more photos soon.  There eyes are open now and they are crawling around their box.

We were hit by a good winter storm on Sat.  It took dh a long time on Sunday to dig out.  I'm so ready for spring!!  But we didn't get the storm as bad as the people south and east of us.  They got 2 to 3 times as much snow eeeks!!

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Pumpkin had her kittens last night!  3 sweet little ones have been added to our house.  2 orange ones like their Momma and one beige one.

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Our sweet Manx cat Pumpkin came into labor this afternoon.  I'll hopefully be sharing photos of happy and healthy mom and babies soon!

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Well we have been working on the hallway this week.  Yesterday dh ripped down the old ceiling.  Instead of plaster most of it had been replaced at one time by flattened cardboard boxes LOL!  We found this in one bedroom we did last year also.  They look like they are at least 50 year old bear boxes.

This pic dh took after getting one sheet of drywall up.  Forgot to get some shots before he started to work lol.  The ceiling was slightly unleval so to avoid bumps he added a layer of strapping.

Then we found THIS!

Yup  it's a yellow jacket nest at least the size of a basketball, up in the attic.  This WHY we did NOT do this renovation in the summer LOL.   Can you just imagine if dh had started ripping down the ceiling in the summer and found a live nest this big???  YIKES!

This is one side of the hallway ceiling.  We drywalled yesterday afternoon. 

Yup that's REAL horse hair LOL.  Dh was surprised when I showed him the old plaster really had horse hair in it.   He's seen plaster houses before but never one that actually had horse hair.

Dh also ripped the plaster off the walls yesterday.  Today we are putting up new drywall and wood on the bottom.

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Well we've been pretty busy.  Starting to renovate our hallway now.  Still a little left to do in the kitchen but the biggest jobs are done.  Except for the floor that is but we still need to get that.  Dh is cutting the wood for the  wainscoting in the hall.  He's already cleared everything out of it.  It became a catch all for the other rooms that were being renovated LOL.  We need to rip down the old plaster and cardboard stuff they used on the walls and ceiling. 

We've had more crazy weather to.  Rain and wind most of Sunday then back to the deep freeze yesterday and today.  We were going to go shopping today but with wind and snow squall warnings out we decided to wait.  LOL

I ordered a bag of sorghum from the health food store that should be in this week.  I hope so!  It's the only store I can find it in and I like it much better then rice flour for most things.

DD3's collar bone is all healed up.  We took her sling off last week.  And things with Revenue seem to have been sorted out.  We are still waiting on some of the paper trail to get caught up but it's in process finally. 

So now that some of the crazy are slowing down we can get back on track a little.  LOL

Well I'll be back latter to post a yummy Buttermilk Biscuit recipe I've been playing with, and yes gluten free and yummy!

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I found this little "test" on a friend blog, though it was interesting.

You Are 63% Non Conformist

You are a pretty serious non conformist. You live a life hardly anyone understands. And while some may call you a freak, you're happy with who you are.

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Yup we are getting it again!  We had a good cold front go through last night.  It dropped the temps down from around 0 C to a -26 C windchill. Burrrrrrr  The snow started up heavy this morning and winds to.  All the roads are shut down AGAIN.  Praying for all thoughts stuck out some were.  We are  suppose to get 20 to 30 cm today and the high winds are making it white out badly.

Our power was off for a while this morning.  It was a planned outage though not storm related.  It was suppose to be off for 3 hours but it came back on early.  I guess with the bad weather they didn't have time to do there normal matinace...

It sure was QUIET with it off though!  You don't realize how much NOISE the fridge, clocks etc. make!  We really miss the quiet of having no hydro in the house.  In many ways I'm looking forward to having that season again in our lives.

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Well the storm I was talking about the other night sure dumped on us!  We woke up to at least a food and a half of snow.  It took dh almost 2 hours to blow out our very very long driveway.  We were so glad that he had fixed the snowblower just a few days before!

This is a pic of our bathroom window (bathroom still under renos).  The snow packed down on the roof beneath and came almost to the top of the window!

And this is the dog house.  It was buried and had more then a foot of snow sitting on top!  Don't worry our dog was in the house LOL.

That trucker that was stuck finally got out and another one got stuck going up the huge hill in town.  Eventually they just shut all the roads down until the next morning when the storm cleared.

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Well dh just came in and said we are finally getting some good snowfall.  4 cm in the last hour. 

There is a trucker stuck at the community hall, dh went over to give him the local tow truck's card.  Hopefully they will have him out soon, before the weather gets worse.

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I'm having a sleepy day today!  We woke up this morning to no new snow lol.  South of us was hit with freezing rain though.  It finally started to snow around 10am here.  We are suppose to get up to 15 cm by tonight.  But south of here quite a bit more 30cm.  It is pretty though.

I'm slowly working on the dishes and laundry today.  Lessons are done for the day and went well. 

I have some tomato sauce and hamburger in the fridge to use up.  So tonight I'm going to make a casserole for supper.  One of the biggest budget helpers you can do is to never waist left overs!  Always use them in  a new meal. 

I have a quart of seasoned tomato sauce, 2 pounds of ground beef to use up.  I will fry the meat with some onion and seasonings.  Then add some frozen corn and the tomato sauce.  Cook until hot and bubbly.  Then place in a casserole dish layering with corn tortillas and top with some shredded cheese.  I like cheddar but we are out of that so mozzarella will be used tonight.  Cook until heated through.  Since I have so much meat thawed I'll make a double batch for another meal this week. 

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I forgot...Dh also got the snowblower fixed yesterday.    Just in time for our storm tonight/tomorrow!  He was able to bend the two bent bars back...Just hoping the motor doesn't give any more problems to!

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Well at least for yesterday and today.    Yesterday it was raining and we lost a lot of snow.  Today was nicer up to 7C.  We decided to play "hookie" from our work and take the kids to the park.  It was a little to chilly for baby girl so I cuddled with her in the van while dh and the other girls ran themselves out.  LOL  Did a little shopping and came home.  By the time I got home I was feeling awful.  I'm hoping to get to bed earlier tonight.  I always feel sick if I don't get enough sleep.

Yesterday we picked up 2 new buck rabbits.  Some of ours are getting a bit old.  Dh got another New Zealand and a Californian cross.  On our way home we saw a little possum run out in front of us.  Luckily we were going slow enough to stop.  Even the little animals think it's spring already...

Also he's almost done the drywall work in the kitchen.  He just had a small wall by the back door to do and the trim around the windows.  We are hoping to get our new floor ordered soon to!

Saturday we were busy working around here.  I'm almost caught up with mount washmore LOL.

Sunday, we had a huge supper of Sheppard's pie and coleslaw.  Yummy!  I love making big batches and getting to eat "free" meals.  By free I mean in time wise.  The next day we had lots left over to reheat with biscuits.

I've been doing some recipe experiments.  On the weekend I made a gluten free pizza using the french bread recipe for the crust.  The kids loved it!  I liked it hot, but not so much the next day.

Yesterday I was playing trying to make some gluten free buttermilk biscuits.  They were ok and everyone gobbled them up at supper.  LOL But I think I can still make them better!  I may try sorghum with the next batch.

I also tried making some gluten free banana cake.  Yummy!  I thought it just a wee bit dry so I have a few changes for my next attempt...Probaly tomorrow I'll be retrying some of these. 

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Hmmm...Is this winter or spring? LOL  We started getting warmer weather moving in today.  The next few weeks look warmish to.  That is good news, since our snowblower broke down!  Dh was blowing out the driveway yesterday and have much trouble with the old beast.  He had two passes left and BANG!  I could hear it all the way in the house.  Turned out a small piece of firewood  had been dropped in the driveway...At first dh though the shear pins had failed and the drive shaft broken.  This would have meant the end of the snowblower because combined with the engine problems it wouldn't have been worth fixed.  But latter inspection showed it was one of the grinding bars (??) inside was bent.  So he's going to bend it back into position and hopefully it will limp along for the rest of the winter. 

I'm also excited that our Manx cat Pumpkin is expecting her first litter!  I'm guessing in the next few weeks.    I can't wait to see what colors come out.  Our male is a burnt chocolate and she is orange.

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Well I could hear the wind howling all night.  We are still under the wind, freezing rain, blowing snow and snow squall warnings.  They have now closed ALL the roads in our county and two neighboring ones.  Also many other roads south and east of here. The police are telling everyone to stay off the roads.  Unfortunately many will not listen (sigh).   Many power outages also.  Thankfully ours hasn't gone off.    The temps are dropping though, a -23 C wind chill for to day.  Burrrr  Very thankful for a wood stove!

I'll post some weather photos latter!

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Just wanted to say thank you for everyone praying for dd3.  She is doing wonderfully.  Her shoulder hardly bothers her at all.  She just gets a little fussy if she's over tired.  Looks like she'll be good as new soon. 

Also we received a phone call from the local MP's office today.  It appearers our tax problems have been fixed.  Now we wont fully believe this until the checks are in our hand LOL.  We have been told this TWICE before and it wasn't.  But if it is, this will be wonderful.  

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Burrr...We are headed into some cold weather for the next few days.  Right now we have a wind warning, freezing rain warning, flash freeze warning and a blowing snow warning up.  LOL  I think that's the most I've ever seen at one time.    Might be an interesting night!

We headed out early this morning to pick up the grain dh ordered and get a few groceries.  Since we had freezing rain for much of last night most of the schools in the area had canceled the busses or closed down.  By the time we headed out the roads were salted and in OK shape.  But we wanted to beat the storm coming in latter. 

Picked up the feed, couldn't fit it all in the van though LOL.  So we will go back for the last few bags latter.  Then picked up a few things we were running low on.  We were running really late, dh bought us a light lunch.    The rain started back up on the way home.

Still working on the reno's.  DD's lessons are going very well this week.  We took a little break and a fresh start always does so well.

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I just wanted to thank everyone for praying for our dd.   She is doing much better!  Its been a challenge to keep her from running around the house LOL.  He shoulder is only hurting a little bit and not bothering her much today.  Praise the Lord!  I hope and pray she continues to heal quickly.

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