Freezing Rain

Good morning. It has been a whole week since I last blogged, but I have good reasoning for this. We have been super busy here with snow days, working at the studio,and building the new Master bedroom.

Last Wednesday the weeones had yet another snow day that turned out to be a beautiful day. We spent the day with HB as it was his day off as well. We had breakfast as a family, and worked around the house.
Thursday I worked in the studio most of the day. I was open and had a couple of classes going on by the time I finished up the weeones were home from school and we had supper and got ready for the evening and next morning.
Friday HB and I worked on the new Master bedroom. (YES it is finally happening) He framed my new walk in closet 4x8 and we went into town Friday night to get our new closet doors, and to order my new floors.
Saturday was spent working in the room and trying to pack my room up. The weeones and I cleaned all the upstairs including all 4 bedrooms. I packed up all my crafting supplies into boxes as my room had all kinds of it in there.
Sunday again was spent in the new room framing the doors,and working at the kitchen table on my sewing machine making valences for the new big windows in the living room to match those I made awhile back for the other side.

I need to run into town tomorrow and pick up the rods like these ones to finish up in the new living room.
I decided on plain Black panels for the patio door in the room as it will go with the new bedroom set and also keep it a lot darken in the day when HB is sleeping from night shift.
I 'll show all those new pics as so as I get them up.

I am getting very excited about he new Master bedroom. It is just what I wanted.
Sunday evening we settled in early with our family night and watched Heartland and had wings for a treat.
Monday was spent cleaning,working in the room,laundry, dishes, and all that stuff I have neglected over the weekend.
Today the weeones are home again due to a freezing rain storm. It is suppose to go as high as 7 today.(which is so funny for this time of year here) yesterday it was -21 (one extreme to another)
The weeones are super excited to have another day off.
Well I hear my laundry pile calling my name. Take care and I hope to be back tomorrow with some pictures of the the nee bedroom.

Tuesday Tibbits

The calm before the storm has hit,as it is a beautiful day outdoors. We are at a high of -8 right now and although that might seem cold to you it is a lot warmer then it has been here. Tonight we are expecting snow and tomorrow morning freezing rain. (Making us hope for another snow day)
Last evening I worked on Jayne's socks and again this morning as I finished them up.

She will be so happy when she gets home from school. I loved the colors she chose as well. They both picked out nice ones.

I made bread this morning and cleaned up. I spent a little more time out doors enjoying this beautiful day.
I think when Justin gets home I am going to go back out with him, and take Franny for a walk in her coat.
Suppers in the oven and the house smells wonderful.
Have a wonderful day everyone.

Donair Recipe

Good morning. I was so amazed at how many people have never heard of Donairs. I guess I took for granted that everyone knew about them.
We get donairs here at most pizza places. They consist of pita bread topped with donair meat, then the trimming which is usually lettuce, tomatoes(chopped), chopped onions(raw) cheese and donair sauce.
The meat is served heated and along with the bread and sauce.

usually wrapped up in foil.

Over the years people discovered that it was also great made into a Donair pizza. Which just had pizza dough,donair sauce, meat,tomatoes,onions and cheese. Some add peperoni to both the donairs,and pizzas as well.

So that's a little bit about donairs. I use a old family recipe for my donair meat that was passed down from 3 generations of my old friends grandparents pizza place.

Donair Meat

5lbs of ground beef
1/2 t. pepper
1t. cayenne pepper
1t. oregano
1T. MSG
1c. dry bread crumbs
2t. paprika
2t. onion powder
pinch of garlic powder

Mix in large bowl.
Take mixture and mix together well. Place in 2 containers and press all the meat inside until very firm. Remove from container and place in 300 degree oven. Cook for 2 1/2 hours. Make sure the meat is in a drip pan for cooking. Afterwards, slice with chopped tomatoes,lettuce,and onions. Meat can be frozen.


Donair Sauce

6 oz can of evaporated milk
1/3c. white sugar
1/2t. garlic powder
2T vinegar
Mix milk and vinegar.Let it thicken add sugar and garlic powder. whip with electric mixer until thick.

The Girls Are Back Blogging

My girls have returned to their Adventures Blog.

They have missed it so much,and are ready for a new year of blogging.
So if you have little ones send them over to the girls blog and see what's happening over there. They will be so excited you stopped by.

http://jayneandjilladventures.blogspot.com/


I will be back later today with my new post for the day with a exciting recipe.

Saturday Stuff

Good morning. We had a little break for a few days from the cold, but now are back to freezing temps again. -31 when I got up this morning.
HB left for work early and stocked the fires, so when I got up it was toasty warm and I just had to add wood. I had my morning coffee and sat in the living room and enjoyed the view. I wanted to be quite so the girls could sleep. I finished up a pair of wool socks for Jill and started on Jayne's.

Jill picked the colors out for hers.

These took me a little longer,they are such small stitches.
But were well worth the turn out.

Yesterday morning the girls went to there Kids Scrap. They had a ball doing their Christmas layouts.

Jayne is missing one picture in her squares and asked me to print off one more of her Monster high dolls to put there.

Jill already put hers in her album.

They are going to take them to show Nanny at the hospital today.

When I went to pick them up we found some pretty Valentines paper we just had to have to make Valentines with.

We got 2 of each and the girls are super excited to work on valentines this coming week.

We went and picked up Justin at my inlaws and he got a lot of beef jerky made. He had a great time and then decided to spend the night away again at my Dad's. They spent there night eating jerky and watching hunting shows.

I made Nachos for super last night and the girls and I watched TV till HB got home. He brought in wood and settled in the living room with us. It was a early evening as we were all pretty tired.

Today we are going up to the hospital to visit with Mom. I took some chicken out for super and will have it with baked potatoes and green salad for supper.
Tonight is our Heartland TV show, We will have some popcorn for a treat.
I sat this morning and decided on my menu for the week.

Monday   lasagna with garlic bread. poor mans pudding for desert.

Tuesday   pork roast and potatoes, veggies, and lemon pie for desert.

Wednesday  meatballs and rice with honey garlic noodles, brownies for desert.

Thursday    Pot roast. desert????

Friday  Hamburgers,homemade fries,and ice cream for desert.


Time to go and fill the wood stoves again. take care and enjoy your Sunday.

Finally Friday

Good morning. It feels great to be back into a routine. HB and I got up around 4ish this morning, checked the fires,checked outdoors as we were expecting snow last night. We only got a couple of inches and checked on the animals. I got the lunches done up for the day and HB had breakfast and was on his way to work. I got the weeones satchels packed as well, topped off the fire and sat with my java to read all those daily bogs(on of my favorite things to do)
I did not get to blog yesterday as I was very busy cleaning and preparing the studio for a day full of wool. I am open today and have a spinning class for the most part of it.

Some of the sheep were out in the snow yesterday enjoying a little warmer temps.

The weeones are going to be disappointed this morning when they wake up as they were so hoping for a snow day. (Yep even after only a three day week)
It might have been only a three day week, but it seemed like a very long one being off for three weeks. I found the weeones a bit tired and just not themselves this week. I am so happy they will have the weekend to relax.
HB works the weekend so I am going to spend mine cleaning out my bedroom. I have a very tiny room (thus for the decision for the new addition master bedroom) and it is piled to the ceiling with boxes of cloths, piles of cloths, baskets of cloths, and craft stuff,and bedding,and toys, did I  mention all the cloths,and I think there might even be a couple of suitcases in there as well. So I need to finish the job I started before Christmas packing off Season cloths in the boxes and make room.
The girls have there monthly kids scrap class tomorrow as well, from 10 to 12:30 this will give me time to go and see my Mom. She is doing really well and is back at physio. Her appetite  is also coming back and her legs as healing well from the operations.
Justin saved and bought another new skidoo on Monday.
You might remember last Winter when he worked on his other one.

I remember this one but he has graduated this one to a real seat cover now and not a trap. hehe!
he has his new one in the garage and has been doing some changes to it ever since and has been working on it every night this week. He is taking a little break from it this weekend and is going to spend the weekend with my Mother in law as they are making beef jerky and he always helps her with this. She moves into her green house and they put a fire on and do it in there.

*********** As I type this the radio has just announced  NO school today due to a freezing rain warning in effect for this morning************
The weeones are going to be sooooooo excited......
I will be extra quite this morning so they can sleep in and make them some waffles for breakfast when they awake.
 I will have a couple of little helpers in the studio with me today. I always love having them in there with me.
We decided to take out some donair meat out of the freezer yesterday and make  donairs for supper tonight as a change.
Well I wish you all a great weekend and if you don't here from me in a few days it is probably because I got buried in cloths.
Take care and have a great family weekend everyone.

Back To School

Well I guess I can not say good morning, but yet good afternoon. I am late with my daily post today. I have had a busy morning. Beginning with the weeones heading back to school this morning. I was up early and made a ham, cheese and veggie quiche. We had toast made from homemade bread and raspberry jam. Yum! The lunch boxes were packed with loads of treats made with love to help them get through there day. After they left I cleaned up and HB got the barn work done.

Then HB and I with the help from a friend got the last cow butchered and put to hang in the cooler. We were also give 6 meat birds about 2 weeks ago from a person who could not bare to butcher them, we did this at the same time. The only problem with doing all this this morning was that it was a bitter -28 out there. It sure felt good to take breaks and come and warm up by the stove. 

We finished shortly after lunch and came in and I made up sandwiches,and left over pasta salad. I think I am beginning to warm up now. 

Yesterday the girls and I went into the town to pick our grocery items for the next couple of months. Yes I said months. With the cold weather here, it is almost impossible to leave the house for more then a couple of hours. The roads have become hard to drive on and very slippery. The plows go only once to twice a day now for the bus. So we try not to go out as much. 

We do go out just not as far into the town unless it is a really nice day and someone is around the house. 

While we were out getting grocery  we found a couple new kitchen items that I needed to have. the first was a new stock pot. This pot is great and I already used it today to cook the chicken in and pasta for the chicken spaghetti that I made for supper. 

I just love this pot as it has a little hole at the top to release steam and prevent over spilling. I got this for $17.

The other is a new juicer as my old one had stopped working a little while back and we all missed it so very very much.

This was a little more expensive then I thought it would be but it is what we wanted. This juice extractor was $60.

I try not to think of the price as we get so much good out of using this.

Like I said tonight's supper was chicken spaghetti, we are having green garden salad with garlic bread. 

The weeones will be home any moment now and they will be starving so I better go get things together. I missed them so much and can't wait to see them.

Take care and stay warm.