I just took a couple of photos and I had some friends ask me what a gas hob was, we had one fitted this morning.  We had wedding gift vouchers from a store called John Lewis over here which is an upmarket department store in the U.K. We had to get a new gas hob we were able to get a stainless steel one in the sale at the above store.

Below are photos of our cat Bizkit, canning/bottling I have done in the last few weeks. Last but not least socks that my DH bought home for me yesterday - aren't they just too cute :)

I have a beef casserole cooking in the crockpot which should be ready within an hour.  I finish work at 6pm so will go and peel & cook potatoes - so we will have mashed potatoes with our stew.

The weather today has been just delightful and so warm

DH & I are going to have supper and watch Strictly Come Dancing, just basically have a nice relaxing evening.

 

 

I need to ask that readers leaving comments on my blog re: Candy at Keeping The Home, need to stop as I will not tolerate this any further. 

Everyone has a free will and a right to express their opinions on the internet as long as both blogs and comments do not offend anyone else.

Tell me, what is the purpose to putting anti blogs against a fellow blogger on the internet? What are you trying to achieve? Don't you also realise that posting/putting up "anti"blogs or anything similar for this matter is upsetting Jesus - has this crossed your mind?

By posting statements/blogs against someone is not only upsetting for that person but upsetting for friends, family and more importantly Our Father...............

If you have something to say then you need to tell the person directly to do other than this is not only very offensive but also childish and it is about time frankly that you guys out there grew up and fast and to think about what you are doing........

I will also add here that I enjoy Candy's blogs and besides which she speaks as she sees fit - not only that this woman speaks her mind and she makes it clear that she is not offending anyone but she is trying her best to reach out to the lost out there and those that do not know the Lord.

Candy like all of us is not perfect but she has a lot to offer all of us and I certainly am learning a lot from her.  Candy also does not spend "all her time" on the computer but posts once maybe twice a day. Candy moderates all her comments of which I am not surprised and quite frankly don't blame her for doing so considering the anti Candy blogs out there.  This very Godly woman is very much within her rights to post the kind of posts she does and has experience.  Ok, this lady may only be in her early 30's but she is a lady who can reach out to younger women and teach them.  Give her a break and get a life.

I will finally say here that I also may not agree with everything that Candy writes but on the whole I do agree with her posts and this lady follows the bible through and through and does her utmost to live a very Godly life (and yes this lady makes mistakes like all of us). She does her utmost to serve her husband and to teach her children the correct way to live - good for her but everything she does is is for the Lord and if you have a problem and/or fail to see that then go to your maker our Father.

I am not going to apologise for the harshness of this post but quite frankly I can not and will not deal with childishness especially in Adults.  Oh and for my comment from my last post you also have no right whatsoever to put up a blog in the manner you are doing and if you fail to see the hurt etc you are causing then perhaps you need to go back to the Word of God and to back off completely.

If any more childish or anti comments are left against Candy or anyone else then these will be deleted straight away without fail.  For goodness sake get a life and grow up.

I also pray that the Lord will bring your destructive ways to your attention and that you pray for forgiveness and move forward from what you are doing -

I have said my piece and that is that!

 

After losing 12 chickens in a few days time we think the madness has stopped.  We borrowed a couple of live traps and set them the night following the last episode.  Next morning there was a coon in it.  We still can't figure out how he squeezed his body into such a small space but I guess he was determined.  Hubby took him way far away and turned him loose in the woods yesterday.  Last night he set the traps again and we didn't catch a thing so I think we probably got the guilty critter.  We plan to keep setting the traps for a while to be on the safe side plus the spaces are now boarded up and I dare say nothing can get in to hurt the chickens now. 

I go to a ladies Breakfast once a month which is held in a local town. A friend of mine and her team hold these breakfasts once a week in three different town/villages. They are Christian based and are to reach out to both Christians and non-Christians.

We have breakfast which is normally fruit salad, yoghurt followed by croissants, rolls, various meats, boiled eggs, cheese, grapes etc plus coffee, tea and orange juice. These up until the last week have been for ladies. We all normally recieve a rose with a scripture verse attached.

From now on the men are invited too and there is a special talk tomorrow so please please would you mind praying that the breakfast and esp the talk reaches out to Andrew and speaks to his heart.

I will take some photos and post these on here tomorrow or Wednesday and let you know about the talk.

We have a Christmas one coming up in December and last year was lovely.

I noticed Andrew earlier listening to my ipod and there is nothing but sermons on there and I noticed Andrew was flicking through the five or six sermons on there and listening for a good few minutes - interesting............


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Yesterday, to my horror, I found 3 dead chickens in their pen.  This morning hubby found 6.  We have thought and thought and looked and checked over the chicken yard high and low. No signs of entry whatsoever.  The only clue is that hubby says he's smelled the faintest hint of a skunk late at night and early in the morning for a few days.  So we started looking at how a skunk might could get in.  There was a small space around the top between the roof and the top of the coop wall that we boarded up.  The only chickens that have been killed are the little bitty bantam Mille Fleurs.  We only have 3 hens and 2 roosters left.  Only 1 of those is from the new batch we hatched last spring.  I'm sad and so mad I could cry and then cuss.  11 chickens total dead within a few days.  I don't think a dinner out on the town is gonna make me feel any better. 

 

Day before yesterday I had some chickens get out of their gate and I caught all but 2.  Hubby had to work late and it was after dark before he made it home and went down there to see what he could do.   He couldn't catch them without waking up all the others who had already roosted for the night so we waited to try together yesterday morning after light.  (You know where this story is heading.) 

Sadly something had gotten to the 2 hens before we did and killed them and we found them in the pasture.  Not a good way to start the day out here in the country yesterday.   I'd been sad and mopey all day afterwards and felt to blame for the fate of my sweet hens.  ~~~~~~~changing the subject real quick:

The weather has been so nice.  I've not been running the air conditioner much at all.  Yesterday I didn't have to turn it on and I've even worn houseshoes inside instead of going barefooted as usual. 

Other than doing some wash and hanging it out to dry it was a quiet day of reading for me.  I can hardly believe October is here!  This month is my mother's, oldest daughter's and grandson's Birthday month.  I'm also anxiously looking forward to a big annual flea market and craft fair thats fast approaching!

My hubby  called on his way home from work yesterday afternoon and might've picked up on my mood though I really did try to hide it.  Then again he'd already seen me cry a little in the pasture.    He told me to get dressed and that we were going to drive to our favorite seafood restauraunt for supper.  I said, "Really?" kinda feeling my frown try to turn upside down just a bit.  We hung up and I did cry some final tears in the shower for my red and white hens and let the water wash them down the drain.  Once we were out and driving to the restaurant on the lake I began feeling almost 100% better.  It's a long but not too long drive over there and I love it when we are in the SUV or pick up truck together.  I have a captive audience.  So does he.  The conversation about this and that, who remembers... was just what I needed.  By the time I was finishing off that delicious seafood platter I wasn't even thinking about.......hmmm....well, I lost my train of thought I guess. 

By the way!  Go here for a nice Christmas giveaway contest! 

This was the largest re-enlistment ceremony ever held in military history.   The ceremony was held on the 4th of July, 2008 at Al Faw Palace, Baghdad, Iraq . General David Petraeus officiated. This amazing story was ignored by the 'mainstream' media.

When I blogged here about an Italian themed dinner I helped host recently, I mentioned that "Popover Pizza" was one thing on the menu for the night.  A friend  made it and it was so good and the recipe can easily be doubled.   I had some of you ask for the recipe and last Sunday she brought it to me.  So here it is:

POPOVER PIZZA

1 lb. ground chuck

1 large onion, chopped

1 envelope spaghetti sauce mix

1 large can tomato sauce

1/2 cup water

shredded mozzarella cheese

1/2 cup parmesan cheese

TOP LAYER:

2 eggs

1 cup milk

1 tbs. oil

1 cup flour

Preheat oven to 400*.  Grease a square casserole dish.

Brown meat with onion; drain.  Stir in sauce mix, tomato sauce and water, simmering 10 minutes.  Spoon meat mixture into dish and top with cheese.  {Optional:  Before topping with cheese you could add bell peppers, mushrooms, pepperoni slices, etc.)  Place in the oven to keep hot.

Beat eggs, milk and oil in small bowl until foamy.  Beat in flour until batter is smooth.  Pour batter over meat mixture, spreading evenly.  Place mozzarella on top of batter then sprinkle with parmesan cheese.  Bake @ 400* for 30 minutes or until golden brown.

If I didn't know any better I would think from the looks of him, " That sure must be a mean old rooster!"  But I do know better and I love him and all the rest of the roosters we raised from day old chicks this past Spring.  Somewhere buried in my archives is probably a story of how I got spurred by a mean little rooster that someone gave us and was scared all roosters would be like him.  But so far so good and they all seem to just love me too and they expect me to sing to them every day.  And I do. 

I shocked the roosters and hens alike this past week when I walked in their coops sporting my brand new rubber boots. Though reliable my pink flip flops and hot pink Crocks just weren't sufficient enough and my hubby and I found these on our way back into town last week when we stopped by a feed and seed store we'd not been in before.  These are the first white boots I've had since I was about 9 or 10 after begging Santa Claus to bring me some white "Go-Go Boots"!    My hubby teases me and got out little 2 year old grandson to call them Mamaw's Go-Go Chicken Boots. 

Well, I like 'em and believe me or not, but I know I had a couple of roosters giving me a double take when I walked in the coop wearing them.