Showing posts with label Salsa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Salsa. Show all posts

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. - Babe Ruth

HA! Surprise!
It's less than a week since I posted last!

I DID make a few cards! They went together pretty darn easy, cause I'm determined to use up some scraps!
These are going to go to SAS4K's, if I can get my S&!% together and make some more!


 
In other news, I told my boss I was like the hair dresser or bartender!
His people confide in me!
We then had thee oddest conversation I think I've ever had!
I told him some stuff that needed to be addressed, and some of the complaints the guys had, and then I blurted out, "I want a raise."
He told me that they'd had a family meeting, and discussed that very thing,
and we could do it several ways.
He says: "What were you thinking?"
I said: "I'd like a dollar an hour more."
He said: " We would give you $1.50."
I said: "I'll take the $1.50!"
And that was that!
That should keep me on my cloud for a minute!
 
Here are some of the tomatoes I picked Monday night, cause the temperature was single digits!
Of course today was tropical!
 

 
I cleaned them, took off the ends, squashed them into freezer bags, and tossed them in the freezer!
 
We also got our water hooked up Monday!
I'm happy I was home, so the meter and ugly stuff is all enclosed with the hot water heater!
First thing I did was scrub toilets, and wash a load of clothes,
because, as I told Vanessa, "I have REAL water!"
 
I made this salsa on Sunday out of last years tomatoes I had froze!
WAAAAAYYYYYY easier to pop them out of their skins when they're thawed!
I may never scald another tomato!

 
Tonight I made Rhubarb Relish.
(Cause I had nuthin better to do!)
It's an awesome condiment for meat, or hot dogs, hamburgers etc.!
Looks terrrible (it's brown) but is amazing!

 
These are the funky scarves I've been knitting in my spare time!
There's 7 there, I'm on the 8th, but haven't sat down!
It takes 2 hours to knit one!
 


I've got to do some serious shoe shopping when I get a minute!
Don't know if I told you, I have a pin and a screw in my foot from the surgery, and TODAY I finally took a pair of shoes to work I can wear!
Everything (where my shoes crease) seems to hit the pin (it's under the big toe), and is extremely painful!
I was even thinking of taking my slippers!
I'd have been laughed at; but pretty sure the comfort would have been worth it!

That's all I got!

Hopefully the gf's come out for beer and a chat around the fire pit tomorrow night!

Gonna be another fun filled weekend of chores!
Gotta clean out one garden, and put some of the furniture & stuff away, get out the bird feeders etc.!

Have a great weekend folks!
Hope you're all well!
Ta ta for now!

Sunday, September 9, 2012

He who laughs, lasts. --Mary Pettibone Poole

I don't know what to tell you!

Fall is here, and that puts me in panic mode!
Summer's too short for everything I want to get done!
Work's been busy....only the POTD (hahaha/thanks Myrna), seems to stay the same!
I've been going early to make up for having to come home & have a nap after my surgery!
I'm ahead of the game now, but it won't last, cause I work the casino next month, and drive the handi van again at the end of October, beginning of November!
The refinishing of the wood adirondack chairs by the fire pit are now next years project!
Window washing needs to commence sometime in the next few weeks!
Everything needs to come out of the garden, including the potatoes!
I need a piece of wood, yeah I even measured it out, to modify one of my storage pieces in my craft room, and it'll have to be done on the deck, cause it might get messy with the painting, and screwing in.....but I'll gitter done!

I DID book my flight to see my boy in beautiful British Columbia in November, and if I'm really good, will be going to Phoenix, Arizona for a wedding in March!

On the list for today is SALSA!
And maybe putting the lawn mower in the shed, and getting the snow blower out (shudder!)!
I need to fix my BIG bird feeder too!

Yesterday I baked muffins using some of the cherries I strained out of the Cherry Brandy I'm making.......YUMMO!
I vacumed, did laundry, split wood, and pumped out the sewer forpetessake!
Ray better fix that this morning before he goes to work!
Think the pump fell off its bricks, or tipped over or something!

I HAVE been crafty when I have a minute....just not card making or scrapbooking!
I DID need 4 cards when I came home from holidays,  just dug them out of the stash!
I'll have you know I didn't even go to a craft store on my holidays, OR when I went to GP a week & a half ago!
HONESTLY......there is NOTHING I NEED!
Now having said that, I WILL be ordering some SU stuff by Friday........that's when the demonstrator places an order! It's always fun, she takes the orders, then draws for the Hostess stuff etc.!

There are some challenges I want to do this month though....we'll see what happens!
I have been reading blogs & stuff, and DID find this card I want to try!
I've been knitting funky scarves.........all the gf's are getting one for Christsmas.....
I'm not worried, they don't hang out here! (I'm on scarf # 7)

I DID find a card I made before I left on holidays and didn't show you!
Just a Thinking of You!

 
Hahaha, those pearls look like eyeballs,
 I assure you they are stolen out of the Halloween stash, and are BLACK!
 
 Better carry on here, and get started on something!
Hope you're all well!
 
Talk to ya later!
Ta ta for now!