Last week I looked in the fridge before I went grocery shopping to check our supply of milk.  I seen only 1 1/2 gallons left so I bought 2 more gallons.  UGH!  When I got home I discovered that there was a gallon hiding in the back so I had more than enough.  Plus I forgot that the girls were going off to camp for a week this week!  DH & I hardly ever drink milk!  I didn't want it to spoil so I pulled out a favorite recipe for Koolaid Sherbet!  Now after making 2 ice cream pails of it I am now down to 1 gallon of milk! I think I'll make up some pudding & pudding pops with that.

Here's the recipe:

Koolaid Sherbet

1 c. sugar

1 envelope unsweetened Koolaid (your choice of flavor. I used strawberry & orange)

3 c. milk

In a bowl, stir sugar, koolaid mix and milk until sugar is dissolved.  Pour into a shallow freezer container; cover and freeze for 1 hour or until slightly thickened.  Transfer to a mixing bowl; beat until smooth.  Return to freezer container; cover & freeze until firm.  Remove from the freezer 20 mins. before serving. 

Yield: about 3 cups.

I made a double batch of strawberry & a double batch of orange. I used up 8 pkgs. of koolaid mix in the process.  We have an over abundance of koolaid lately since they have been on sale at 20/$2.  I always stock up during the summer for the winter days ahead so I don't have to pay full price!

So yummy on a hot summer day!

Enjoy!

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June 22, 2009  THE AMISH COOK By  Lovina Eicher This is a daily diary of a recent Saturday here at the Eicher home: 7 a.m.  It is Saturday so we slept later this morning.  After getting up all week at 3 a.m.  my husband Joe is glad to get caught up on his sleep.  It is another cool morning. It sure makes for nice sleeping at night.  Our rain gauge shows we have received 3. 5 inches in the last few days. It sure has given everything in the garden a boost.  We have been enjoying fresh red potatoes and peas from the garden along with radishes, lettuce, green onions, and strawberries. 8:15 a.m. We eat breakfast which is eggs, fried potatoes (fresh from the garden), bacon, cheese, toast, rhubarb jam, milk, juice, and coffee.  9 a.m.  Joe and the boys are hauling manure.  The girls washed the dishes while I sort through some clothes that the two oldest have outgrown.  I will hand them over to sister Emma for her daughters. 9:45 a.m.  My oldest daughter, Elizabeth, 15, mows the grass while Susan, Verena, Loretta, and I wash off walls in the kitchen, dining room, and living room areas. It sure needed it after a long winter. 12:30 p.m. We all stop for a break to eat lunch which consists of vegetable soup and sandwiches. It is a very warm day which is different from the 60 degree weather we had a lot of the spring. 1:30 p.m.  Joe and the boys go back to hauling manure and Elizabeth goes back to mowing grass. The girls and I finish with the walls and then sweep and mop all the floors.  We also wash off the kitchen cabinets and dust the furniture.  Everything looks very refreshed.  Monday we will wash the windows and curtains if weather permits. 4:30 p.m. Joe and the boys quit hauling manure. With church being tomorrow Joe didn’t want to work too late.  Elizabeth keeps mowing and is nearly finished.  The girls start giving the younger children their baths.  I pop some popcorn for a neighbor lady to serve after services tomorrow.  The children take the popcorn over to the neighbor lady with our pony, Stormy, and buggy. 7:30 p.m. Everyone is cleaned up and Joe starts a fire in the fire pit so the children can roast marshmallows and hot dogs. We all enjoy sitting around the fire after a long days’ work. 9:15 p.m.  Bedtime. The children want to stay up later but morning will be here before we know it. We have plans to go to a neighboring church district tomorrow so we need to start out a little earlier in the buggy.  Tomorrow is Father’s Day so the children gave Joe a volleyball set which is something he has always wanted.  We will all enjoy it though.  COUNTRY POTATO SOUP 3 cups diced potatoes 1 /2 cup carrots or celery 1 /2 cup onions, diced 2 chicken bouillon cubes 1 teaspoon chopped chives 1 /2 teaspoon salt 1 cup sour  cream 2 1 /2 tablespoons flour 2 cups milk Combine potatoes, carrots, onions, and water (just enough to cover everything) bouillon cubes and salt in large saucepan.  Cover and cook for 20 minutes on medium heat or until potatoes are tender but not mushy.  Add 1 cup milk and continue to heat. In a separate, medium mixing bowl, combine sour cream, flour, chives and remaining milk.  Stir mixture gradually into the soup base.  Cook over low heat stirring constantly until thickened.  Serve immediately.

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Well, the tooth is gone.  That was very nerve racking to say the least.  When I first got in there they put a blood pressure cuff on me to take my blood pressure.  I've never had that happen in a dentist office before.  My blood pressure was very good.  Better than it's ever been before.  It used to be 120/80 which is good but now it's registering at 113/67!  I think that has alot to do with me working out & losing 22 lbs.  So many good benefits of working out & losing weight!  So the dentist comes in & introduces himself.  He then precedes to numb me up.  OUCH!  That is SO painful!  I cried!  Especially on the last shot that was given to me in the roof of my mouth.  So he lets it get good & numb then he comes back into the room to start the pulling.  He pulls & tugs & wiggles the molar.  Then all of a sudden there is this extremely loud POP!  I yelled.  It didn't hurt but it scared me.  This went on for about an hour.  When he was FINALLY done he told me that he had to take the tooth out in 3 pieces & now he was going to put in a few stitches.  ::shudder::  I'm thinking to myself, "does he HAVE to tell me what he is going to do next? Can't he just get on with it & get it over? I really don't want to know!".  So he puts a few stitches in & I can't feel the stitches being put in but I can feel the "thread" being pulled because it's tickling over my lip.  The hygentist sits me up & takes my blood pressure again.  It's still normal but a little higher than it was before.  I will say this, if I EVER have to get teeth pulled again (which I more than likely will) I will request to be totally knocked out!  The tugging & pulling & sounds are too much to handle.  Before I leave they give me this little 'goodie' bag of chap stick, gauze, directions for eating, drinking, brushing, etc. & a prescription for some vicodin.  DH came during work & waited in the waiting room during the procedure to make sure I could get home.  I told him that I was fine & could drive myself home.  On the way home I was completely numb & feeling fine so I figured I would sing all the way home as I always do while driving....out of 1 side of my mouth.  BIG MISTAKE!!!  About halfway home the pain started!  Later as I read the directions it said to avoid any unnecessary talking, drinking, & eating for the first 2 hours.  OOPS!  Lesson learned!  I wasn't going to fill the prescription b/c I don't like to take pills unless I absolutely HAVE to.  By the time I got back in my own town & to CVS I was dying!  The pharmacist asked when I wanted this filled & I said (in the best way I could out of 1 side of my mouth in pain) AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!  She could tell I was in pain & she said, "Okay how's 15 mins?"  I went home, which is right across the street, & went back as soon as 15 mins was over.  Came home, popped a pill & told the girls that I was going to bed.  AHHH vicodin is WONDERFUL!!!  It took away the pain & that was it.  It didn't make me sleepy or anything.  The dentist gave me the prescription with 1 refill.  I only took 1 pill but I am saving the rest b/c I have more work that needs done.  The next day was Sat. & I felt fine.  We went shopping then we went to the lake.  So all in all it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. 

Fast forward to today (5 days later). 

I still feel fine.  They said the stitches would come out on their own between 2 & 5 days.  Well, they are still in there. I am not chewing on that side at all.  I'm kind of scared to.  It is still a little sore.  On July 15 I have an appointment with my regular dentist to get a full set of X-rays & to talk about what else needs to be done.  I'm thinking about just pulling all the back molars & the wisdom teeth & getting partials.  What good is it gonna do to sink thousands of dollars into fixing the teeth when they are gonna eventually get worse anyways?  Doesn't make sense!  I'm gonna get me some shiny white store-bought teeth!  lol

So there you have it, my story of getting a tooth pulled.

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Last Friday I sat down to eat a snack of Crunch & Munch.  On the first bite I broke a molar on upper left of my mouth!  It went straight up through the middle!  OUCH!  About a week before I broke another molar on the bottom right.  It had been cracked for some time & was hurting so I just chewed everything on the left side.  When the bottom right molar finally broke in two it quit hurting.  So I have been eating a diet of mushy food since last Friday.  Cheerios, yogurt, pudding, crackers, popcorn puffs, & cheese puffs.

Yesterday I went to the dentist & he scheduled me an appointment with an oral surgeon for Friday.  I have to get the upper left molar extracted.  There's no way he can fix it b/c it already had a root canal done on it years ago.  He also tells me that I have to have my wisdom teeth (only 2) extracted & possibly other molars as well.  UGH! 

So this Friday I will be getting my first tooth pulled!

Here are a few pics the dentist gave me of my teeth:

This is the one that is being pulled.

And here is the molar on the bottom right:

Nice, huh?

So it looks like I will be getting some partials in my immediate future.  MAN!  I'm only 34 & have to get partials already!?!?!?  Guess dentures aren't too far off!  Wonderful!

Please pray for me on Friday morning.  I've never had a tooth pulled before so this is all new to me.

Thanks!

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Okay here are the pics from our trip to Hawai'i along with the story!

We left home to drive to Indy at 2 am on Sun. May 17.  We get to the airport & have to go through security. As I go through I set off the alarm b/c I had my hair up in a bun with lots of bobby pins in it.  So they make me go into this circular tube that scans your body. Then you exit the tube & have to stand on a mat until they get a green light that you are safe. I was harmless!

We flew out of Indy around 6-6:30 am.

Our first stop is Phoenix, Arizona. It took about 3 1/2 hrs to fly there. Then we had a lay over of about 2 hrs.  Then it's off to Maui! It takes about 6 hours flying time to get from Phoenix to Maui.  That is a long time to be in an airplane!  Next time....FIRST CLASS!!!  I can't stand being squished in those itty bitty seats for 6 hrs. like sardines again!

We land in Maui around 2 pm their time. Which is around 8 pm Indiana time.  That is a BIG time difference!  Especially when you haven't slept but 2 hrs. sice Friday night!

Here are some pics of our drive to the condo:

Palm trees! You won't see those in Indiana!

No such thing as a straight road in Hawai'i!

Ahh...blue, blue water!

Ya just gotta love those chain covered rock walls!

YAY! We're here!

This is called a Monkey Pod tree. There is some kind of bird on the island that sounds alot like a monkey but I was told that there were no monkeys on the island.

Our condo. Complete with a kitchenette & washer & dryer. The wall on the right hand side is all mirrors & behind the chairs is a huge window that faces the ocean with an island off to the right & another off to the left.

The bedroom with a sliding door that goes out to the lanai.

On Mon. morning we left the condo at 2 to watch the sunrise over the crater. First we stopped at the Maui Downhill bike tour place to gear up b/c after seeing the sunrise from 10,000 ft. up they take you back down to 6500 ft. & you bike the rest of the way down the volcano. It was very cold up there & the wind was blowing about 35 mi/ hr. It was like 5* up there! Thank goodness for the wind gear from the bike tour place!

This was probably the most fun! Riding the bikes! We were going about 30 mi./ hr down those roads in the bike lanes along side the traffic. We stopped so everyone could get their pics taken & eat some lunch.

A smiling chameleon. These are all over! You can just pick them off of the trees or bushes.

A few pics from our lanai/ condo window:

Tuesday:

We went on the road to Hana which is about a 51 mi. trip. There are many places along the way to stop & take pics of waterfalls & scenery.

Right before this was taken I was standing in about the same exact place when a huge wave came up behind me & soaked my backside from my hair down. There wasn't anything that I could do but stand there & scream b/c I was standing on wet rocks.

This was carved into one of the steps on the way down to the water.

A pineapple in a pineapple field.

Someone offered to take our pic. This one turned out pretty good!

Along the road to Hana we happened upon this place called "The Garden of Eden".  It was like a drive-thru thing with lots of different trees from all around the world & a bunch of peacocks. We stopped to have lunch. Then on the way out we stopped at this little hut with a bunch of parrots.  The guy wouldn't let you take pics of his birds & he would get right up in your face so that you couldn't get pics. But he would offer to take your pic with his birds for $20 with your camera.  So we got our pics taken with the birds.

Aww...love birds!

I'm not too sure about this....can you tell? lol

For some reason the bird in laying in the front always bit his foot when getting a pic taken.

Wed. we took a commuter flight from Maui to Oahu to see Pearl Harbor.  When we left the condo I wasn't even thinking & ended up not having my i.d with me when we got to the airport.  UGH! Let the searching begin!!  They were really friendly about it but to & from I got patted down. I was patted down about 5-6 times during the whole vacation!  I was about to start charging money! LOL

Some aerial pics that DH took flying from Maui to Oahu:

Pearl Harbor:

This is one of the boats that takes you across the water to the Arizona Memorial.

The names of all the men that died on the USS Arizona when it went down.

Our commuter plane.

DH took this pic. This is actually our plane in the sky! Isn't that cool?

After a long day in Honolulu we get back to the condo & find this on our doorknob:

And this on our floor in the kitchen:

EWWWWWWWW!!!!! This is the only one that we seen....THANK GOD!

Thur. DH went snorkeling

And since I can't swim I wrote in the sand & took some pics!

Isn't this cool? These are my footprints!

Mike & his friend/former co-worker, Shawn.

HANG LOOSE! Everyone does this sign with their hands over there!

Hand in hand on the beach.

At the luau:

He was weaving things out of these leaves for a donation. He made us a fish.

The pig for tomorrow's luau is in there.

I took alot of pics of the dancers but they move so fast that most of them turned out blurry. This one isn't too bad.

Me & our waiter, Randy.

DH & the hula girls.

Me & the guys! What's good for the goose is also good for the gander!

Friday we went to the aquarium:

A sea turtle

Not our child but it made a good pic!

A sting ray.

Ahh...relaxing!

Ever seen the commercial?

Sat. we went horseback riding:

The "Lazy Man's Hana".

My cowboy, DH. That's the guide girl in the front.

That's me holding on for dear life! As you can see, I had the slow horse. He should have had an orange triangle on his butt!

My horse, Kip, AKA "Nippy Kippy". He likes to bite other horses & also people's feet! He tried to take a nip at mine! Stupid horse!

Mike's horse, Shaka. He was the lead horse on the trails.

 2 homeless people on the beach. We had to check out of the hotel before our horseback ride @ 10 am & our plane didn't leave until 11 pm.

Heaven?

Sunday.

Aerial shots on the way home:

The quilted earth.

Are we there yet? Me on the plane flying from Phoenix to Indy.

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Just after the Indy 500 was over.

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