Veteran's Day

  Wishing all of those that have served in the military a happy Veteran's Day

  (photo found online)

Brrrr A Fall Day is Upon Us

   Good Afternoon Saturday,

        Lots of rain last night, Missouri does need rain though. Since this is also a windy chilly day soup is just the perfect meal for us today. I am making us a beef soup from scratch-no salt beef broth, a can of USA canned beef, and I will also add potatoes, fresh green beans and some peas, a can of diced tomatoes with garlic, and a big handful of dried soup mix that I get from the Amish store.  I usually make chicken soup so I will need to adjust spices on this one..

   I so need to go through my kitchen cabinets as the spice cabinets are packed and I can't find what I am looking for-ugh.  It needs to be done. I bought some organic dried soup mixes that include most everything but the meat but can't locate them any where sigh. Oh well I have decided this month to really clean house here-going through cabinets is my first priority before winter.

  The other day I went through buckets (with tight lids) of  my rice and beans.  I don't have the extra freezer space any more to keep everything in there so these buckets have been in the basement since we moved to the lake.  I brought up 4 buckets so I can get to them easier. All sorts of different rice and beans.  Yep I am just used to always storing foods that I can make into dishes. and if the weather is really bad and I can not get to the food store I can always make us something.

  I still have fresh apples and I bought a bag of fresh cranberries recently so I think I will bake us up a crisp-have not done that in awhile Larry and a friend that comes by to visit us love this too.

    I did just order a digital camera this morning so I can post photos again. Hoping this one will work out as I upped the price a bit on this camera Supposed to be here on  Thursday

  Recently I was not happy that another wind up kitchen timer stopped working  I was telling Larry these always lasted at least 10 years or more-not now. So he says why don't you check out the digital timers. Me-"what??"  So I chose one-and I Love it! A simple thing but never knew of these before. They are more accurate and very loud.  Do you have one of these? You can tell I don't get out and about much any more smiles.

  I have started sewing my slow stitch piece into a bag. Doing this by hand as well and it is slow go with the thickness of the muslin fabric I put behind the stitches. I need to look in my stash for a thinner needle I think.

  That's about it for me. I am hoping to find the Notre Dame game on the tv later today

I found this Snoopy soup mug online

Oh and my author friend that lives near Yellowstone Park posted this video about Yellowstone Park with soothing music in the background. It is not hers but I really enjoyed the scenery and the music so wanted to share as well

Have a good weekend

It's a New Day (political thoughts)

   I took the duck out of the smoker yesterday morning. I was really pleased with it. This ended up being pretty expensive though The duck was around $20.00 plus the brine ingredients and we did still have the smoking wood chips. When you smoke -- the meat really shrinks- a lot and there is not a lot of meat on a duck to begin with-but I was happy with the result.

  I know most of my American friends here on my blog are on the far left liberal side but I hope every American comes together as one nation. 

   As soon as the winner was announced--  Hamas says they are ending their wars. Putin called Trump to talk about ending his war with Ukraine.  I think the biggest problem in our country is the lies from main stream media. Once people stop listening to the main news networks or at least compare them to the honest networks and compare information and then make a decision for yourself as to what is the truth everyone will be better informed.  The meltdown of the mainstream media was something to watch-and the big movie stars and singers-why should anyone care about what they think??

  Common sense, ranchers, farmers, the Amish communities, our younger generation, legal immigrants that fled communist countries gave Trump the win. Looking at the map pretty much only areas of blue were the large cities. I am happy common sense prevailed to save our country.. Also Trump donates his salary back-he does Not line his pockets with money during his Presidency as so many have done in the past.   Trump loves America and doesn't need the money-too many in the past get richer being President.

  Before Obama,  Americans came together after Presidential elections  I hope we can again and be one nation. Why does anyone want an open border for the world to come in unvetted??  Right now they are pouring in-none of us are safe with this going on.  Not fair to all of those that came in legally and went through  the long process to become Americans. Biden is using our Social Security and Medicare to pay these non Americans.

and Wow I saw last night that Harris copied Hillary's speech pretty much word for word in the beginning of it.. She has plagiarized in the past as well.

  I am deciding if I want to keep my blog or not, I have enjoyed sharing my crafts etc in the past but not sure about going forward  Perhaps a blog break just not sure yet.  I need to decide what to do about a camera-as I don't have a working camera any more.  

  Update: I do enjoy my blog and visiting friends, so I will be keeping my blog going forward. I just ordered a digital camera from online so hopefully this will work out well  if not I will send it back and try again

  Have a good Friday Hugs from the Lake

Duck in the Smoker

   We set up the duck I bought in the smoker early yesterday morning.  It was in the salt-brown sugar-pickling spice brine for several days.

  Some how we misplaced the racks that go into the smoker-have no idea where they could have gone-and I looked everywhere I could think of---so Larry turned a foil pan into a rack of sorts.

   Since I was up late last night I continued to add the smoking chips every 4-5 hours. We are using cherry and also Jack Daniels chips made from aged barrels

  I flipped the duck over early this morning.  Larry set up his cell phone so I could take a photo to share

This will need to go all day and perhaps tonight as well. I forgot that the smoking also really shrinks the meat-smells good

Gob Bless the USA (Thoughts Added to this Post)

 One Nation Under God 

   Americans of all races and religions have spoken and taken our country back at the polls. 

     Now is the time to unite as Americans and together bring back our country to it's former Glory.

   

  

When I was much younger (now 75) after an election we were all united as a country and with each other being fellow Americans.

   In my opinion this all changed with President Obama 

Since that time the far left ideology and lies by the media wants to change us to a far left socialist country. 

  When I was watching the stats from the election last night-the majority of voters that saved our great country were legal immigrants that became citizens because they fled a socialist-communist country to be free. Also the rural vote with farmers and the Amish came in to vote to save our Republic. 

Found this photo on facebook

  I saw today where a huge crowd of Harris supporters waited for hours and hours for Harris to appear-She never showed up-she didn't care enough. I feel for those Americans with their disappointment and loss. 

 All Americans are welcome in to the common sense Republican party. 

Over Reach of the Feds in New York

 This is another example of over reach by the present party in power right now.  I am sharing this story as it is heart wrenching and un excusable 

   This was a beloved squirrel that made  millions of followers happy and entertained. This couple rehabs and helps animals and "Peanut" was happier indoors as a pet then being turned back into the wild.  He was a family fur friend for 7 years.        

   A few day ago the Feds showed up and treated them like criminals or drug dealers and  took Peanuts and a raccoon and murdered them  Can you even imagine having this happen to You??    

  Our country is pretty evil right now but tomorrow is our Liberation Day  

Here is an article from a newspaper

And below is a video about this

 

  I do allow comments-but if they are full of hatred for our country they will not be published  

    I try not to publish too much politics as the majority of my online friends are far left liberal-which in the past was never an issue, so why is this even an issue now???  Those of us that are American citizens-we are Americans and One nation under God. Period and we need to get back to loving each other again. (end of rant)

Welcome November-Updated

 Wow we are closing in on the end of this year with holidays and soon to welcome in a new year-Wow is right Smiles

    This has been a long year for me being Larry's caregiver since October 2023 but it has also gone fast too.  I have just three more blocks on the bag handles to finish slow stitching-and then I can hand sew the bag together to see how it looks. I am looking forward to the finish to see how this will turn out.

  Today we will be much cooler-in the low '60's F We had gotten spoiled with a warm October Most of the leaves are down now do to a lot of windy days and we did get one night of hard rain this week.

  On a sad note:  it is good that I am still approving comments as I have been getting hate comments now for a few weeks-so if that person is reading this --your comments will Not be published-and I don't read them in their entirety   No reason for this hatred and you hide behind anonymous .  I am thinking this person is not reading my blog posts but decided to choose me for their hate speech-I needed to let this be known was happening.

  Oh and I wanted to also share that I just set up a duck-grown in the USA with nothing added-in a brine this morning-after this it will go into the smoker. Larry enjoys doing that, he'll need to show me how to work the smoker though. 

   The last few whole chickens and turkeys I have purchased are not worth eating any more unless you can find a local farmer that raises them.  I looked at the ingredients in the turkeys recently and the store brand had two lines of chemicals added, and the whole chickens are really horrible eats these days as well. This duck I found at Wal mart was raised in the USA nothing added but a low salt water solution. It looked really good out of the bag. .So now it is in the brine of water, canning salt, pickling spice, and organic brown sugar.  Will keep you posted how this turned out. 

   Welcome November Everyone