Homesteading With katlupe

Relief From The Heat!

Finally had real relief from the heat last night. It was 54 degrees when I got up this morning and since all our windows and sliding glass doors in the kitchen were open, it was chilly in here! I did not care.......loved it. So this morning I am working upstairs in my house going through two big piles of paper. Where does it come from? Most of it ends up in my box behind the wood cookstove as I use it to start fires. So I guess it's worth something.

Last night for dinner we had pizza that we buy from our local convenience store. We buy it there as it really is the best pizza we can buy locally. I like making it myself, but the heat has been keeping me out of the kitchen. I usually buy three and save the leftovers for the next morning. The store gives you a card and punches it every time you buy a pizza and after you buy your tenth pizza you get a free one. They do that with milk too. So yesterday, we got one free pizza. Good thing too, as they used to have pizzas for $5.99 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Stopped that little deal last month due to high cost of everything. Hope they don't stop the free deal on the cards.

We have been cutting down on as much meat meals as we can. I have two friends who are vegetarians and they, plus the health concerns of eating meat, has been partly my reasoning. Till now. The cost is also helping me change our meals to more vegetarian type meals. I like it myself. I figure if you don't eat meat as much, you can take the same amount of money I used to spend on the meat portion of my grocery budget and buy a really good cut of meat that I wouldn't normally buy. Or puchase some top grade meat from local farmers and homesteaders. I don't raise any livestock that would have to be killed. It's just not something I want to do.  Animal care is a lot of work on a homestead. The only ones I plan on getting in the near future is poultry.

Last night we had a scare as a big, old type airplane flew over our house and seemed too close to the tops of the trees. Scared all of us.......even my husband who does not scare easily. My son was outside and he saw it and thought it was coming down. He said it wavered and seemed very shakey and maybe had a problem. All I know is that it sounded like it was going to hit the trees or our house or both. I protect our house and property surrounding our home, including the state forest and us and all our animals with the Blood Of Jesus  every day, so I should have known better. Maybe he would have crashed into us, if that protection wasn't there. I remembered to thank God for that protection afterward and again before I went to sleep.

If you leave a comment on here and I am supposed to respond to it and don't, please don't take offense. I am still figuring out this site. It took me awhile yesterday just to go to the blogs of the people who commented. I am not new at computers, pretty savvy at that. It's just the new site takes some time for me as I am also working on other things while I am on the computer. I have several windows up on the computer, and also I am working around my house or running out to the garden or to work on another tub of laundry.

The Lord has given us  another beautiful day here today. Lots of power coming in too. Very peaceful as not many cars drive by our house all day. All I can hear right now is the birds and the sound of my dog, Nikita dreaming as she sleeps.

Happy homesteading to all who read my blog!

katlupe