20 pounds by Easter challenge

CALIECAT wrote: »

Becky you pop in while I was posting . so good morning to you.
Your lot sounds really nice. Do you have wild animals around you. My daughter does My son in law set up a camera and got some pictures of some critters at night. quite interesting to see what roam you land at night. I would not want to go out at night there. Mostly wild dogs.
I am doing pretty good on my plan. My #1 enemy is nuts I love Pecans and cashew and can't keep my cotton picking hands out of the till they are all gone.. maybe I better quilt buying them..
Make this a greater day than the one before

Marie

Marie, At least the nuts are good for you. :-) They are so yummy and also help lower your cholesterol. We have lots of opossum, raccoon, skunk, deer, fox, ground hogs, bald Eagle, Osprey, and lovely water birds being between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Wild dogs would make me nervous, too!

Enjoy your day out with Alice!

Becky

Steph.....and anyone else who is curious. Raspberry moonshine is raspberries, sugar, yeast, water. Let it sit a few weeks and run it through a still. Not much to it. The hardest part is the patience while it is cooking. It can't be cooked too hot so it takes a while

Esther

Good afternoon ladies, I just had a long post, I lost when I was going to post a picture with it. I hate when that happens, its getting ready to storm here and I was hurrying up, in case my power went out.

Becky-I like the new pond alot and the set up you have and the garden too. Our tomatoes are starting to get red, we havent had one to eat yet, they are not ripe yet. Its nice having family over, I am sure the kids had fun with the new pond.

My daughter and I went over to my sons, this Saturday for his 33rd birthday. We also went shopping alittle, she broke up with her finance earlier this week, so I asked her to come over and hang out Saturday night, I didnt want her to be alone this weekend,even though she was glad about the break up and me too, her son was at his Dads. She spent the night we had a good time.

Connie-Good luck on your lot looking, that is fun trying to imagine living in different areas. Its hard to believeits been almost 20yrs in November, we moved in the house we built. I wish I woulded added a nice big jaccuzi type tub. But at the time my kids were still young so the tub wasnt a big priority. I was very involved in all the decision making and did get everything I wanted at the time. But now its just my husband and I here and it would definitely be a different house now bigger kitchen, bigger master bedroom, bigger great room, I guess bigger and a nice tub, we have a fireplace already.

Marie-You would love my field, it has rabbits, all sizes , even baby ones, we watch while we're in our pool, also an occassional deer, not as much as years ago. We also get geese, I have a picture I will post later, a couple a months ago there was several, not the norm, that were all in the field, so I took a picture.
Well I need to go, have a good day everyone Janice

Ha ha Becky - you are practically pushing my ideal body weight with your legs!! That's pretty impressive!!

Marie help jog your memory - I'm faye ;-) you got my location spot on

Singapore is very hot today - buts it's the same all the time here so I am pretty use to it now. Luckily every time you step inside anywhere the aircon is on! Singapore is the only place you need to wear a coat indoors and take it off to go outside ;-)

Have a good day everyone

Faye

You all have been super busy! And I love, love, love all the pictures!

Becky, your new pond and yard setup is so beautiful! And I need one of those swings for my back yard!

Janice, that's a good idea putting your tomato plants on the side like that. Does it not cause extra moisture around your foundation? We're going to have power line poles in our backyard, and I'm thinking we should plant tomato plants around those. Worst case scenario the electric company has us dig them up.
I'm glad you got to spend time with your daughter, and I'm glad she moved on from her fiance. I know how worried you were when they got engaged.

Connie, you're making fast progress on your house! I'm super excited for you.

Esther, I want some of your flavored moonshines! Also the deer story is so cool.
We have a ton of rabbits at our apartment complex. It's nice to have some somewhat "wild" animals in the city, haha. I'm curios to find out if we'll have any animals at our house(besides all the kitties).

My sweet kittens are piled in my lap, napping and purring, though one won't stop trying to get at my keyboard. And now he just sat on his brother's face and woke him up. And now back to sleep. Haha. They're so cute.

Marie, I'm glad your eyes have improved! I need to make appointments for our eyes, I think my glasses are a little out of prescription already. I'm assuming my eyes have not improved. I never realized how bad my vision really was until I started wearing my reading glasses all the time. I'm farsighted.

At this point we're just waiting for the bank to send their appraiser out to the house. The payment finally cleared(the bank flagged it the first time as fraud) today, so hopefully they get on it soon. Whatever value it comes back as, I just hope the sellers agree to it and we get the house. I want to get this finalized soon!

I know I've missed commenting on someone, I was behind a couple of days. I was able to read everybody's posts though. It was nice reading about everyone's busy weekend.

-Rachel

Marie-So glad your eyes are better, I know you were having alittle trouble before. I am glad you liked my pictures. I need some cute bunny pictures. You have done so good with your food plan and staying vegan. We are getting some red ones, I cant wait to o eat one, maybe tommorrow, I have one on the table that is ready now. My Angel is so pretty , she is 11 yrs old. I need to post one of Cody, he is 7 1/2 and a lover.

Becky-The tomatoes get lots of sunlight there, its more out of neccessity, if they were in the field the rabbits and deer would eat them, we make salsa with our tomatoes too, we have another area of tomatoes at the back of deck, they dont get as much sunlight, but they are growing. We started in early May with small plants, but thats a good idea to buy plants with small tomatoes on them, just dont know who would have those. I love my fur babies too, they have brought so much joy to me and my husband, since kids are grown.

Shirley-Isaac is sooo cute, he is really growing, I know you are loving having a sleepover with him.

Connie-I hope you find the floor plan and area you love, dont settle.

Rachel-Remember Shepherdsville is already really wet, not worried about it, we have planted there several times and no added problems. I am glad Sarah and I spent time together, she works over 50hrs a week and has shared custody of Mason, thats the new way, no child support involved. I am surprised you remember I wasnt thrilled about engagement, I did give him a chance and he was nice to us, just not wanting to work or be responsible, he would rather fish. You need to post a pic of your kit to ies and your new house soon.

Nancy-You are such a hard worker, putting in windows and doors with your husband, I cant wait to see the finished product of your porch. By the way, how is your son and hand doing? I hope he healed up good.

Gotfa go Janice

Hi gang. Just have to vent........ I got a phone call from my teenage daughters best friend tonight. She was in tears and I couldn't understand what she was saying. She ended up coming over at 10:45 pm. Her sister tried to commit suicide by overdosing on over the counter meds. We are having the friend stay with us while her mom is in the ICU with her sister. I so badly want to go to my kitchen........... It is taking everything I have in me to not go pig out right now. I will be better I the morning if I can get to sleep....... So I shall try to do that. See you all tomorrow.

Esther