Pique your Interest Thursday

WE ARE FINISHED COMBINING!!!!! I can blog play again!!! This is the first year in about 10 years that we have been finished in September! So I am back to taking pictures of my outfits, making crafty goodness, and playing along with some of my other favorite bloggers.

I have to work at the library today, and plan on wearing an outfit inspired from Pinterest

I very rarely wear my wedding rings, my MIL lost her diamond here on the farm, and I am NOT going to let that happen to mine, I wear my rings when I am going to the city or other such things, so I LOVE this idea, just a nice little tattoo, not big and screaming for attention, just for us to know about!

now isn't this just the truth!!

Love this one too!!

I am linking with Kathleen, come along and join us!!

Happy Thursday

I Made it Monday #10

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Monday again, and what a beautiful Monday it is for September 26th, still able to wear shorts here on the farm. Just drained our pool and cleaned it all up yesterday.

Harvest is still going on, but my sister in law has come to drive the combine for a few days, but with any luck we will be finished today or tomorrow

We got a little rain shower last weekend, and it gave me a day to go get groceries, and then a morning to do a little baking.

I decided to make Cinnamon Twists, or Scuffles some people call them
5 Cups of Flour
2 Cups of margarine
1 Cup of Milk
2 eggs, beaten
2 tsp Baking Powder

Cut margarine into flour and baking powder, add milk and eggs

Instead of using flour to roll out the dough, use a mixture of 1 cup sugar and 2 tbsp of cinnamon

roll out dough as you would for a pie crust

I use a plate and a pizza cutter to 'cheat' to get perfect circles

use the pizza cutter and cut the circle into 8 triangles

roll the wedges from the wide end to the narrow end, and place on cookie sheet

bake at 375 for 20 minutes, let cool and enjoy!

my family loves these, I made them Saturday morning, and they were half gone by Sunday morning!!

I make these at holidays and they freeze well too

What did you make this week??
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One year ago today...

a year ago today, turned into almost the worst week of our lives.


One Tuesday morning in September 2010 we woke up to the sound of Cody screaming and running upstairs, he came running into our room screaming, “there is a snake is Steph’s room” He then proceeded to tell us there was a snake is Steph dresser drawer, he was followed close behind by Steph who confirmed his story. The neighbour was called and the snake was caught and taken outside.

Later that day while cleaning the basement, Cody swears he seen another snake. We got Wilf over to help us find and capture. While looking for the snake we see one coming down from the ceiling tiles in Steph’s room. Wilf grabs him, puts him in a pail and decided he is going to move ceiling tiles to look for more, he finds 3 more. When Darc came home, he went outside to find where they were getting into the house, and finds a hole right at ground level, perfect for a snake to get in, and with the cold weather we had, had they must have been looking for somewhere warm to go. Darc filled the whole with spray foam, silicone, and put salt around to deter anymore snakes from getting in.

Needed less to say the kids moved upstairs, and the stairway was blocked off. The next afternoon Wilf came over to check and see if there are anymore, and finds 3 more up in the ceiling tiles again. We put out sticky traps that day as well.

Saturday night, after a day in the combine, Steph, Josh and I had just gotten home, and the kids were in bed in Josh’s room. I was sitting in the living room watching tv, when a snake slithered into the living room, looked right at me, and slithered back out, I didn’t know what to do, scream, cry, run... I called Wilf asked him to come, called Darc at the farm and told him, and in the time it took Wilf to find the snake, Steph and I had the van packed up and we headed to the farm.

Our new house was not ready so we camped out at Grandpa Eddies little house. Steph slept on the couch, Cody on a mattress on the living room floor, Josh on a mattress in the spare room floor, and Darc & I in the other room. We lived out of laundry baskets for a month.

When a mouse decided to come eat cinnamon toast crunch right beside Cody’s head early one morning, we decided enough was enough, and moved into the new house, even though it was not quite ready.

All in all 11 snakes were found in the house!

I still get goosebumps when I think about it, wake up from a dead sleep all creeped out. I will never forget the sound of a snake slithering on a ceiling tile, and I will probably ask my husband 100000000 times, "are you sure no snakes can get in this house"

Wednesday

Well it is Wednesday, the day I love to blog hop and see what everybody wore last week, love it! I get so many ideas for outfits, and so much inspiration. Sadly my wardrobe in the last few weeks, has been my Wrangler jeans, the tops vary, tanks tops on the warmer days, t-shirts for the others, and even hoodies for the cooler ones. I did not feel the need to photo these outfits.

This morning when I first got up at 7, I could see for miles, the view at our house is awesome!! but within minutes the fog rolled in, and I can't even see the trees in out back yard, not good drying weather for harvest. We are close to finished, and would just like to be done already.

I thought I would play along with Mammarazzi & Alicia this week, for We Want to Know



1} What is your MUST SEE show?
Glee, Love Glee! Hawaii 5 O, Big Bang Theory all great shows

{2} What shows are you most excited to watch this season?
None of the new ones really appeal to me this fall, I am curious how Ashton Kutcher will be on 2 and a half men, the premier was, aaahhhhhh so so

{3} How many hours a week do you actually watch TV?
This has deffinatley changed since we moved to the farm, the tv in the old house used to get turned on in the morning when the kids were getting ready for school, now it stays off all the way until they get home from school. Hubby and I like to veg at night after supper, so many only a few hours a day. (I will even admit, I have not watched Young and the Restless ALL SUMMER, however will I know what is going in)

{4} Do you think TV has gotten too "racy" (vulgar, pushing the limit, etc) ?
???

{5} How many TVs do you have in your house? 4, Upstairs Living room, Downstairs, Cody's room, and our room

Now perhaps since I still can't see past the deck, maybe I will go crawl back into bed, yup sounds like a good plan

Happy Wednesday!

(p.s. when I write my blog post it is all nice and spaced properly, but when I post it, it is all smack together, I will try to fix this)

I Made it Monday #9

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We were at the lake when I gave it to her, and she didn't have her Kindle with her at the time, I hope it worked for her! What did you make this week?? Grab the button and use it in your post Leave a comment here, and on some of the participants Link back to your I Made it Monday post, not your own blog

I Made it Monday #8

I am still busy driving my combine, but we are over half done!!!! So I should be back to my regular blogging soon, I have another one of my blog friends helping me again this week, please welcome Kathleen from Simple Silly Life <center><a href="http://clfphoto.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1096.photobucket.com/albums/g328/OurDandelionWishes/mondaybutton1.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a></center> Hi! I’m Kathleen and I blog over at Simple Silly Life. My blog originally started out a few years ago as a journal about everyday happenings, but it’s morphed into a crafting/style outlet and a place where I’ve met some very cool people. I’m totally honored that Conni asked me to guest post today for I Made it Monday. I just love this weekly link up! It has encouraged me to pull out my glue gun, some fabric, paints, and scrapbook supplies and just be a little more creative than usual. Recently I made a scrapbook for a co-worker as her bridal shower gift. Usually when I make a scrapbook for a gift I have a template (well, I take pictures of the filled pages for all my albums and then pick the best layouts for the ten inner layouts). I use Recollection albums from Michael’s (bought with a 40% off coupon, of course) and use the couple’s initials as the cover.

This bride’s accent color was persimmon. Yes, I had to Google persimmon to make sure I even knew what that color was. Fortunately, I had some Cosmo Cricket paper from two years ago that was wedding themed and was loaded with persimmon goodness. I try to use bits of all the patterned paper on the title page that I’ll use for the rest of the book as a hint of what’s to come.

The inner layouts are embellished to be filled with photos later.

I hope the bride and groom can load it up with wedding and honeymoon memories. Can’t wait to see what you’ve created!

Wow, Thursday already, time flies when you are driving the combine, lol!! On the up side, 9 quarters done, 15 to go!!! The weather looks like we are good to go for the next week at least! I haven't had too much time to waste on Pinterest this week, but I did find a few things, mostly fall outfits, doesn't seem like fall, our temperatures have been in the 30s this week

Love this outfit, it is totally my style!!

another good one

a great card to make...when I have time to make cards again http://d30opm7hsgivgh.cloudfront.net/upload/163047663_XKqywsme_b.jpg Need to find a way to print this for my daughters room!! That is it for the week.

I Made it Monday # 7

Hi There, Monday again, time for I Made it Monday!!


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If you know me at all, you know I love to read. Books, books, books, big books little books, hard cover, paperback.....I think you get the hint.

So a few years ago when my hubby gave me a Sony e-reader for Christmas, I was so excited!!



too bad the cover had to be so boring and plain....but it gave me an idea, make my own cover for it.



complete with a pocket on the inside, for my list of books I want to read!




I used the same fabric from my Sunglasses case

So what did you make this week??

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