Love This Book!

Food Storage Made Easy by Crystal Godfrey

Just thought I'd put it out there that I found a really great book on how to use food storage. I learned quite a few new things from it...like that you can use powdered eggs to make scrambled eggs. I was skeptical, but tried it and they turned out well...they aren't too different from fresh eggs! Great book...too bad nobody else at my library has had a chance to find the book cuz I keep renewing it! Hah...

And here's her website...lots of good info.
http://everydayfoodstorage.net/

New Countertop

This is my first attempt at making a concrete countertop. It was so fun. I love, love, love the finished product even though I made quite a few mistakes on this first section. I'll redo this section later when I have more time...or maybe not. I have just unveiled my second section and it is much better than the first. I am glad I chose this option as it gives me the classiest look for the least amount of money. A 3 foot section of countertop (this would be about 6 square feet) cost me less than 15 dollars! What I love most is how "alive" the countertops feel and look. I can't walk by them without touching them!

Beehive Is Almost Done!

All I have left is to "paint" the exposed wood with some beeswax, and finish the bars that go inside. I think it's cute, and although it isn't perfect or beautiful...IT WAS FREE!!! Everything was scrounged from leftover past projects. My favorite part is the little observation window on the side, so we can satisfy our curiosity without bothering the bees.

Cute Kid

I just thought this was so funny. The other day I was in the kitchen and heard, from the next room, the kids playing a game...I think they were playing house. One of them said, "You get to have one baby, but I get to have two babies growing in my tummy." I yelled in to them, "Do you remember what it is called to have two babies growing at one time?" Since we had just talked about twins a few days earlier, I was expecting that answer. But Terra immediately responded with, "Yah, a PARTY!" I think she is probably right.

Baby Ziyel...er...Aila

Garrison drew this on Aila one day when they were playing. She was supposed to be half-Bjorn, half-Cardassian-Baby Ziyel. Guess you can tell that we watch too much Star Trek.

Guess I asked for It.

I guess I was tempting fate when I decided to take advantage of this beautiful day and hang laundry OUTSIDE. Just ten minutes after I got done hanging everything on the line I felt the wind shift directions, and I knew what that meant. Within about two hours it was blustery and snowing...again!

These are The Last Days!

Yah...what I mean is the "last days" of winter. We thought this would be the last we'd get to play outside in the snow...but now it's two weeks later, and it is colder, with the same snow. That's okay though...there's still so much to do before spring comes.