Our 17 Grands............

Oh Baker Boy

Hey Baker Boy............................................

Oh Baker Boy can you hear me?????????????

Hey that's not Baker Boy............ But that's a heck of a lot of snow.
Keep it please...............................

Changing the house around.......again

We have been busy changing the house around...................tee heeee.

My favorite winter thing to do........

or summer thing......

or spring thing.

Driving Baker Boy crazy.         Maybe that's my favorite thing??? Mmmmmmmmm

We have been in a deep freeze and came out yesterday.... and now snow.

The snow is getting deeper

and deeper............but it does keep Baker Boy busy.... every day out there snow blowing. 

 He was beginning to look a tad like an ice cycle the other day.

 Or maybe a snowman...
Or maybe the tin man?




God is good.................................................all the time

A Boy Puppy

We had our puppy neutered yesterday. Boy oh boy wish I could jump back like that after surgery. He is a bundle of energy and the knife did not slow him down one min. He did enter the house and promptly walk over to his new bed and pee on it...................ahhhhhhhhhhhh Its like he said....."MMMM see I know what you tried to do..........didn't work. "
We have had such a struggle house training this little guy. Everyone said getting him fixed would do the trick.... well time will tell...

The vet did tell me it may take a month before he stops marking his territory. Which I feel is My territory not his.... the last time he did this well he did go to the bathroom and mark the toilet... 




he just did not raise the lid. :)

Well look out here the cold comes....

I hear by do declare no more complaining from me about the weather.... Well I will try. Guess if we didn't want winter we would live in FL My favorite statement this year to Baker Boy is .........."Why did we move here" remind me.... Just kidding... I found a cool site on Youtube.. this is such a cool thing to see. The Eben Ice Caves...... (especially in April when the sun is out) :)
The next few days will be a good time to pull out the electric blanket and snuggle..........

God is good................all the time

link to Eben Ice Caves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujf_oyzvZMo

Canning

We have been super busy here canning. We have canned some turkey and some chicken we found a good sale price. It is nice to have meat canned for a quick meal. Or for on short months when there is not that much money floating around.

Today we are canning dried beans. It has been my experience that it is better to can them to keep them dried. If they get old they are just way to hard to get them to soften up.. Sometimes impossible.

Then an ah ha moment hit me. I have four boxes of empty canning jars. Maybe more. What a waste to leave them empty. The next few weeks we will be buying more beans and meats to put in them. Why store empty jars???? We will can them now on the wood stove which will save resources. And also I love it cause it keeps the house so toasty warm. Must be all that steam.

I read on someones web site once that to keep water in your empty jars. So if you are not able to get water you would have it in empty jars. We were always thinking of doing that.........but it never went beyond the think stage.... We do keep a very big container with water in just in case we would need it.
This day and age one never knows.



But we do know

God is good........................all the time.

Now that is some snow....UP winter weather

Back Yard snow
Pretty deep for the first of Jan
Front yard snow
a cool iced branch

One of our granddaughters

Very cold out today way below zero this morning still -2 below and the wind chill is -17 good day to stay in a bake bread.....

Jan 02 canning Turkey

Well today Baker Boy and I pressure canned a cooked turkey breast. We put it up in 1/2 pints which I have never done before. We pressure cooked it at 10#s for 90 min and now I realize we could have went 75 min. Well it will sure be done..... (smile) Not sure a 1/2 pint is enough for a casserole but thought we would try it. We got it on sale and ended up getting 10 1/2 pints. Broth and turkey pieces for Turkey and homemade noodles. And a great big piece of turkey breast for Bboy a sandwich. So we canned it on the wood cook stove so no electric involved and it sure was nice and warm in here.

We have now had 25 straight days of snow. Every day since thanksgiving. It has broken all records ....and guess what??? Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeee a snow storm is on its way......

Tomorrow night is potluck at church it is Swedish theme this month. We are making Swedish Kringle. Which our son loves.. Dil and son are bringing Swedish meatballs and a Swedish dumplings. It should be a great evening.


God is good..................................all the time.....