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cheeseballs, potatoes and bells

Ok, I managed to mop, workout, vacuum and shower. I attempted to try and clean the kitchen chairs, but it's useless. We'll just recover them this winter.

I also got the cheeseball made for Saturday. I ground up enuf green onions and beef to make 2 more next week. I have the cream cheese and just need to get a box of crackers. We're giving one to horseman. I even have a fall paper plate to give them to serve them on. I also have the potatoes sliced and waiting to boil for au gratin potatoes. I'm desperately trying to use all the potatoes before they go bad. They are not lasting nearly as long as they did last year. They were good until Feb, but taht doesn't appear to be the case. So we're having pork chops and potatoes for supper. I can just throw them in the oven when we get back from Joey playing bells.

I also got the rugs washed.

Garden Jobs by the Month

I really enjoy my Old Farmer's Almanac newsletter and I have learned so much from it.  Today's newsletter offered and link to "Gardening Jobs by the Month," which is of interest to me as a novice gardener.  So many of those of you that I've spoken to lately are considering either planting a kitchen garden next year or expanding the one you already keep, so I thought you might benfit from this information, too.  Here's the link:

http://www.almanac.com/garden/jobs/index.php

Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><

does anyone sell on ebay

I am thinking about selling on ebay for extra income. My husband just started a job about 4 weeks ago after being without one for about 7 months. His income is about half of what we are used to. I need to find a way to make money but still be at home with our two youngest. We also have a 13 year old who misses more school than she is able to attend due to uncontrolled diabetes. Does anyone sell on ebay and have any success?  I have sold a couple of things on there but I have never tried to make much money, it was just to get rid of things we no longer used.

tired;)

At any rate, I'm dead. I got up and started the food and worked out and got us and everything I needed out the door. Our MOMS group made checkbook covers and a bunch of bday and anniversary cards since we were almost out. I made them legal size so envies will be cheap. We had 2 cricuts going so it went quickly. From there, I went to the pie place and scored big w/pies. Mat's youth is hosting a Thanksgiving meal on Tday so he can't help, but I offered to get 10 pies. Thankfully, they had sugar cream, pumpkin chess and german chocolate 2nds and I got 7 for $12.50. I'll get the others elsewhere. Then to the grocery for our Tday foods and then to Walmart for waht was left. Then to pizza hut for lunch (We got 2 personal pans, salad, and breadsticks for $3.20!) and finally to library. We got home about 3:40 and unloaded and I dusted and cleaned the bathrooms. Then we read a chapter in the Plymouth book. Supper is easy and I need to get it int he oven.

TOmorrow is cleaning floors, probalby seeing if I can clean the kitchen chair upholestry and making cheeseballs.;)

Abe Lincoln, Thanksgiving and Divine Intervention

Here's something I found and thought it would be a great lesson for our children with Thanksgiving coming... {KW<><}...

In the White House, Abe Lincoln was pacing the floor of his office.  He felt more troubeld than he had ever felt before.  The fate of the Union was at stake.  He felt as if he were almost alone in his concern for the outcome.  Friends and aides appeared to be almost panic-stricken.  Abe felt that this was the most critical hour of the [Civil] war, perhaps the most critical hour in the entire history of the United States.

In desperation he left his office, went into this room and locked the door.  There he fell before a chair.  With his head in his hands, he wept and prayed.

Now, more than at any other time in his life he turned to God.  In deep anguish he told God that he had done all he could.  He pleaded for help.  There was nothing more that he could do.  He must leave the result of the battle in the hands of God.  He now knew that if his country was to be saved, it would be only because God willed it.

It was a heartbreaking hour of prayer.

When he unlocked the door and came out of his room he felt that a great burden had suddenly been rolled off his shoulders.  His intense anxiety and torturing concern had been relieved.  He felt a quiet and calm trustfullness...

On his desk was a copy of the Thanksgiving Proclamation.  He had proclaimed the last Thursday in November as a day of national Thanksgiving.  The nation had never before had such an annual Thanksgiving Day and he had decided that it was time the nation remembered in a special day what God had done.

Now he read slowly the proclamation:

We have been the recipients of the choistest bounties of heaven; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.  But we have forgotten God.

We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.

We have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

Tears slipped down his cheeks as he read these words, for he believed in them deeply.  It was because of this belief that he ordered the Treasury Department to engrave the words, In God We Trust, on American coins.

As he was sitting at his desk, thinking about these things, an aide rushed in and excitedly exclaimed, "There's good news from the battle at Gettysburg, Sir..."

But in spite of this great victory, his days were filled, dealing with generals, listening to the problems of many citizens, and handling endless administrative details.  For help he turned to God through the Bible and in prayer.

Almost daily now, he felt the need to go to his room to pray.  More and more, he became conscious of the work of God in the affairs of men.

Writing to a friend, Byron Sutherland, one day, he said,

I believe we are all agents and instruments of Divine Providence.  I hold myself in my present position and with the authority invested in me, as an instrument of Providence.  I am conscious every moment that all I am and all that I have are subject to the control of a higher power, and that power can use me or not use me in any manner and at any time as in His wisdom might be pleasing to Him.

One day, Mr. Chittenden, the register of the Treasury, asked him if he believed that God actually directed national affairs.  With a deep feeling of emotion, he replied,

The the Almighty does make use of human agencies, and directly intervenes in human affairs, is one of the plainest statements of the Bible...I have many evidences of His direction, many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannont doubt that this power comes from above.

~~~Reprinted from Honest Abe by Harry J. Albus.

cooking, cleaning adn WOW!

Yes, I've been at it this am. I worked out and folded the dry laundry and put that away. Then I got busy w/the woolite rug stick. It really doesnt' do a half bad job. My spots are 'old' so it's taking a few applications (making me glad that I bought the big can!), but they are either gone or faded for the most part. I'm debating on trying them on the kitchen chairs. Then I vacuumed the basement (we picked it up yesterday afternoon) and vacuumed upstairs. THEN I made the sausage casseroles and my sister gave me the recipe for the apple turnover so those are in the frig and ready to bake in the morning. I also gathered up alot of other things that I need to pack in the morning. Mat's got school done (for the most part--he needs to work on a project) and they are outside playing in the barn (the wind is wicked here). I'm also bound and determined to get this dishwasher issue cleared up. I can't find anything to 'clean' so I'm just running several empty loads. Yea, not good for the electric, but I don't care at this point. SOMETHING has got to give or I'm calling the repairman.

I finally managed to get a shower in.........LOL

But the best news is that I KNEW I hadn't gotten a paycheck from my 'job' (I use this term loosely as I"m a decoy mail agent and make $50/quarter!LOL). So I emailed them. They responded today that not only had I not gotten paid for the summer quarter, but that I also had not gotten paid for spring!LOL But the best part is that I"m to get the check in the next 10 days! This should be PLENTY of money for my Cricut that I want to get on Black Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hadn't figured out how to fund it (even tho this is my Christmas!LOL) and this is how! I can buy the carryig case and a cartridge or 2 for Christmas.

The Simple Woman's Daybook ~ #9 ~ 11/18/08

For Today...

Outside my window...beautiful sunshine shining on a very thin layer of snow.  Sparkling like glitter on the roofs of the house and out-buildings.  It's been a few days since the morning has begun with sunshine.

I am thinking...how silly I was to have forgotten to do my Daybook yesterday!

What a day!

I knew we'd be jammed and we were! I got up and worked out, got the roast on and decided to go ahead and toss int he potatoes. Then I decided to live on the edge and took a package of pork gravy (the powder stuff) and added maybe 1T of onion soup mix. I mixed that w/1.5 cups water and dumped it in. I'll tell you how it worked out when I eat it!LOL I put in carrots, but they are on top and hopefully not int he gravy.;)

Then we got ready and headed out. I was VERY glad I loaded the van yesterday since it was 35 and RAINY here today! We made it to the PO, bank and the recycling. While at the recycling, when I flipped the lid open a bunch of cold water ran down my arm. That was fun. Then to the cultural center. They had Harry and Digit from Cyberchase there. They also have an exhibit and it was really neat! JOey LOVED Harry (the real Harry!)! So we were there a couple of hours and ran into other HS families that we know.

Then to lunch, which was kind of funny cuz one of the other HS families went to LJS as well. They talked about going to Quoba so when Joey asked if he could sit w/these 2 girls and I said yes, thinking that we weren't going to the same restaurant. Oops!LOL Then to Goodwill, Miejer and ALdi. I did buy the new Woolite Rug stick. I'm not one for TV ads, but our carpets are disgusting and DH keeps saying not to have them cleaned cuz we'll get new. That's been 2 years.......LOL  I was expecting it to set me back about $15. I was VERY happy to see it marked down to $10 and I had a $3 off coupon! So I went ahead and bought the big cleaner (it can be used sans the stick if I didn't like it) since it was $3. Probably the plan, but it worked. It's 'drying' as I type.

So we made it home (Dh beat us!) and I tossed the carrots in the CP, scrubbed the carpets and got the checkbook updates. ANd SIL called about the rental condo in the Ozarks. We're still looking for a family vacation (For 13) and this place has 4 bedrooms/4ba and sleeps 12! Plus in the off season it's $1200/week so it'd be $300/family for 7 days! I thought that was a decent deal anyway. Gas getting there will be another issue......LOL

Ok, I"m off to vacuum and see about supper.

Don't You Just Love the Little Things?

Today started out so gloomy and cold as the rain brought in such frigid temperatures.  But I needed to go out to my favorite Old Order German Baptist farm dairy this morning to get some more whole milk and brown eggs.  Even on gloomy days, that little trip brings a smile to me face.  It's a nice 15-20 minute drive and I had my sweet little dog, Maggie, w/me and I put my CD of the music from PBS's "Frontier House" in the player and we were off. 

There was some sort of 'big doin's' at the Old Order meeting house this morning b/c I passed no fewer than 11 horses and buggies on my errand.  That's always such a wonderful sight.

When I got home, I fixed dh's favorite Saturday morning breakfast, Amish French Toast (http://www.homesteadblogger.com/wannabeone/105269/) and don't you know that 2 (TWO!!) of the eggs I cracked open had double yokes!! 

Then, about an hour later, the weather got cold enough that our rain turned to giant, fluffy snowflakes for about 2-1/2 hours.  What a lovely sight on a dark, quiet (except for the Ohio State Buckeye football game! ) Saturday.

It's the little things in life that mean the most.  PTL.

Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><

Quiet.........

Yes, I've been enjoying it! I worked outa nd started laundry. The boys both slept until about 9 and they needed it! I have a TON of laundry and had to improvise in order not to use the dryer. I'm sure I'll have to dry my jeans int he morning if I plan on wearing them, but they should mostly be dry anyway.

Both boys got school done. Mat finished his reading test w/100%.  Of course, I had to ask him about 3 of his answers cuz it made no sense!LOL I THOUGHT he was answering them correctly, but I wanted to make sure. I still have to grade 2 quizzes, but that's easy.

I got Sunday School prepped while JOey did school and made my list for tomorrow. I still need to load the van w/the box for teh PO (I need to get the label on it!LOL), goodwill and recycling.

We're having pizza for supper. It sounds good and I had dough int he freezer, browned sausage in the freezer so it's very little effort on my part.

This means that I finished reading my book and will probably read another one. After I grade quizzes, we'll read about the Mayflower.......