Hidden Haven Homestead
~~Another Week is Flying By~~
It seems like only yesterday I was remarking how we are spending more and more time on our little deck. I should have known I would eat those words! The past few days we've been so busy I've verily had the time to take Latte out to do her business. A quick update........
Friday was Jeni's dental appointment in Topeka so we left early and took in a few yard sales. Okay, a "few" isn't exactly true....So many areas were having their "city block sales" that we felt like we were in 'Yard Sale Heaven'. And the best part was, we could walk from sale to sale without even moving the car!!!! We came home with so many wonderful things, including two dirt bikes for the kids. One thing we didn't get was a rug for the deck. Not because we didn't find one but rather I didn't like the color. Yeah, I know...It's getting pretty bad when a person can be picky about finding the right 'color' of something at a yard sale! HA And remember how I said we would be buying our annual expensive "toy" for the pool? Well, we really lucked out there. We got a brand new raft with oars and pump for $5!!! Talk about a steal that saved us tons of money!
After the dental appointment we headed for our monthly "Sam's Club Run". By this time we were all exhausted but I still managed to get everything on my list and more. It's so nice having two refrigerators and all the deep freezes full of food. Makes cooking so much easier!
Saturday Seth and one of his old college friends came for lunch and helped out around the farm. Sunday we had planned to spend the day doing nothing since Jeni was to have surgery on her nose bright and early Monday morning. Around noon my sister called saying Daddy was back in the hospital....Around his heart had filled up with fluid and he was having shortness of breath. The doctors had him stabilized and they thought he was going to be okay but we still felt one of us should be with him on Monday in case things changed. Sindy had a meeting at work and I had Jeni's surgery. Thankfully my oldest daughter and her guy came down and stayed with him.
Sunday night we had another storm and we ended up being up all night. By the time we got to that hospital I was a nervous wreck from worry over Jeni and Daddy and from lack of sleep. Thankfully Jeni came through the surgery just fine. The doctor said she never would have quit having nose bleeds on her own and he's not even sure this will work. For now we can only pray.
Tuesday we stayed home (My sister was meeting with the doctor over Daddy) and I'm so thankful we did. We had a terrible wind/rain storm come through.~~~ Had two and half inches of rain in twenty minutes and lost power! What I didn't know was my mother was coming home from the hospital and got caught in this mess. She said that car was all over the road and she was afraid to pull over for fear it would flip. By the time she got home she said she just sat down and cried. I had tried to call her when the storm hit to see if she was home and was praying she had stayed at the hospital until it passed. (Dad said the hospital staff moved them to the hall twice.)
Daddy came home from the hospital yesterday and we've got a long road ahead of us. They have cut his liquid in-take waaaaayyyyyy down and taken him completely off salt. I know he'll never stick to this and he's going to make Mom miserable. I swear, having elderly parents is worse than having teenagers.
Today I helped Keith work on an area of our farm were in the process of cleaning up. I think we could have picked a cooler day to do it...Almost had a heat stroke out there! It's looking 100% better and hopefully by tomorrow evening we'll have it completely done....Just in time for more rain to move in! GROAN
Last post someone asked about the wool I had dyed for my newest hooking project. Here's a quick peek at how it's hooking up............
Don't you just love the colors??? There so different from what I usually hook with.
Well, night is starting to fall here on the farm so I think I'll get everyone bathed and then I can head to bed and finish up a book I started earlier this week. I pray everyone is having a great week and your all staying safe and avoiding the storms. Blessings, Sher
Make Your Own Salad Dressings
I use to buy all my salad dressing from the grocery store. I thought that was how everyone did it. I felt like making salad dressing myself would just be one more kitchen job to do and I wanted the convenience of store bought dressing… Then I became health conscious and started reading labels and well, most of the dressings I found, were, well, yuck as far as ingredients go. Sugar, bad oils, hydrogenated oils, MSG, fillers, thickeners, etc.. When I try and find better quality dressings (which I can find at health food stores and through Azure) I find them to be very expensive, especially considering the rate at which we consume salad in this house (we eat fresh green salad every day).
Sometimes our perception that something is going to be hard or time consuming is just that, a perception. I eventually began making my own salad dressings and found that not only are they a frugal and healthy, they don’t take any time at all to put together. Last night I made a batch of Oriental Salad Dressing and timed myself.. it took less than 5 minutes for me to mix up the recipe and it yielded about 2 cups of dressing. Our favorite dressing of all time is still Ranch. But we also make Italian and a few others when we are in the mood for variety.
Here are my favorite recipes:
Ranch Salad Dressing
Bleu Cheese Salad Dressing
Catalina Salad Dressing
Italian Salad Dressing
Oriental Salad Dressing
Garden Tour May 21st Part 3
Garden Tour May 21st 2009 Part 2 of 3
It's still very early in our gardening season. Taking a walk around our property looking at garden beds, whats coming up and new projects.Garden Tour May 21st 2009 Part 1 of 3
It's still very early in our gardening season. Taking a walk around our property looking at garden beds, whats coming up and new projects.First Rainbow Of The Season
May 30th After the worst of the storm passed yesterday, the sun came out while it was still raining. We had a beautiful double rainbow out the front of our house.Homestead Series Building A Potato hiller
While tilling the potato patch today dh had an idea on how to build a tool to hill potatoes. It easy to build and works well. Much faster then hilling with a hoe.If you have problems view this video, you can also see it on our YouTube channel HERE.
Expanding our gardens
Recorded May 27We finally got a break in our dry weather. After 2 days of good rain we took some time to wonder around the garden. Huge earthworms everywhere.
Looking at our new garden plot. And our tractor.
If you have problems view this video, you can also see it on our YouTube channel HERE.
Lots of worms in the garden
Recorded May 27 We finally got a break in our dry weather. After 2 days of good rain we took some time to wonder around the garden. Huge earthworms everywhere.If you have problems seeing this video, you can also watch it on our YouTube channel HERE.
Homestead Series Planting Strawberries
We are putting in a new strawberry bed. Sharing some info on how to grow strawberry's, planting root stock, spacing, mulch etc.If you have problems watching this video, you can also see it on our YouTube channel HERE.
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