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I posted it in the recipe section. Now try to get some on the cake!
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Icu4dzs
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sunsaver said:
What else are you up to in Louisiana, there SS? How do you get those widows to let you leave the doors wide open?
I know, I'm going to go to H**l for that one...
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Icu4dzs said:sunsaver said:
What else are you up to in Louisiana, there SS? How do you get those widows to let you leave the doors wide open?
I know, I'm going to go to H**l for that one...
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And he tries to get us to believe he stays away from ladies!
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That was a clerical error. I meant to say "windows" open. I'd be more afraid of widows than burglars. "So tell me again, just exactly how did your husband die? And you had just taken out a life insurance policy for how much?" 
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You guys crack me up!
My mother-in-law is in winterhaven and her neighborhood is going to heck in a handbasket quick. We want her to go to an assisted living facility because her memory is going, but she is stubborn. Darn germans!
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Geesh! My husband just read online that a home 2 blocks from our cabin (2 BLOCKS!!!! 
) was the victim of an ARMED home invasion last night. A couple in their 80s. The thief stole money and prescription meds. I guess 50 miles from the city, in a teeny tiny little town in the National Forest that doesn't even have a traffic light is still not far enough out in the boonies. 
) was the victim of an ARMED home invasion last night. A couple in their 80s. The thief stole money and prescription meds. I guess 50 miles from the city, in a teeny tiny little town in the National Forest that doesn't even have a traffic light is still not far enough out in the boonies. 
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It sounds as if it actually worked in the thief's favor. Such a sad thing. Perhaps a person local to the area who knew the older couple were defenceless?
It the guy still on the loose??
Be safe.
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It the guy still on the loose??
Be safe.
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Honestly I feel much safer living in a populated area than I did when I lived in the boonies with nobody to hear me scream. Bad guys can and do take advantage of people who are isolated.
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...when you have friends. 
(subtitled: Oh Woe Is Me!)
I feel like all I have done in this journal lately is complain, so I'll make this brief and then talk about something positive.
Went to the cabin on Friday afternoon (hadn't been there in 3 weeks). The first thing I always do is turn on the fan on the screened porch and get some air moving. The fan wouldn't turn on, neither would the lights.... checked the breaker box and the breaker for the porch was thrown. Just that one breaker. The only thing on that circuit is the lights, the fan, one electrical outlet, and the big side-by-side refrigerator/freezer. I flipped the breaker on and the refrigerator started humming and lights came on. By this time I noticed a rank odor. Opened the freezer door and everything, EVERYTHING, was a ruined mess of goo and writhing with literally millions of maggots.
Called my husband in town to get his opinion about what would have caused just the one breaker to trip. We ruled out a storm. I could tell the power had not been off (clocks still had the correct time). I think we all know how a breaker gets tripped... an overload on that circuit. So how would the circuit overload when we weren't there? The compressor on the refrigerator/freezer had never tripped it before. A mystery.
Later I was out in the yard and what do I see? An extension cord, trailing from the house next door right up to our fence. Some friends of ours bought the place next door which has been abandoned since the mid 70s and have been slowly cleaning it up (It's a mess, needs a new roof, new flooring, new everything. The electricity is not on at the house.)
Mystery solved. Now, I don't mind one bit that our friends would "borrow" our electricity. They have a key to our cabin, and they are welcome to use whatever the need. BUT.... (and I learned this later) they were using a big wet/dry vac 2 weeks ago and it suddenly quit. So they just unplugged from our outlet and went on their way. It never even crossed their minds to wonder "why" the vacuum quit working. They didn't even admit until Sunday afternoon that they had plugged in and caused the problem.
So, as near as I can figure, I lost at least $100 worth of meat and condiments. The worst part, however, is all the produce from the garden that I had froze. Tomatoes, blackeye peas, hot peppers... plus homemade chicken and vegetable stock and homemade bread. Spent ALL weekend cleaning the refrigerator/freezer (hope I don't have to smell bleach again for a LONG time!), plus the cement floor where all that goo had leaked out and dried.
Okay, enough crying over spilled milk. Things I am thankful for... Irene missed us (hope everyone in New England is okay!!), I canned a lot of my summer garden so I still have that, the refrigerator/freezer here in town is packed with food so we won't go hungry, it's almost time to plant my fall/winter garden, I don't have to hire an electrician, the scent didn't attract bears onto my porch, I didn't throw up even once while cleaning up the mess and I took the dogs into the woods twice and they had a great time running around and hunting critters (and they didn't get stuck in the gopher hole!).
My husband stayed in town this weekend and remembered to water my herbs, so that's another good thing. I'm looking forward to next weekend so I can just RELAX! Oh wait, nope, I'll be getting my garden in shape for planting again.
(subtitled: Oh Woe Is Me!)I feel like all I have done in this journal lately is complain, so I'll make this brief and then talk about something positive.
Went to the cabin on Friday afternoon (hadn't been there in 3 weeks). The first thing I always do is turn on the fan on the screened porch and get some air moving. The fan wouldn't turn on, neither would the lights.... checked the breaker box and the breaker for the porch was thrown. Just that one breaker. The only thing on that circuit is the lights, the fan, one electrical outlet, and the big side-by-side refrigerator/freezer. I flipped the breaker on and the refrigerator started humming and lights came on. By this time I noticed a rank odor. Opened the freezer door and everything, EVERYTHING, was a ruined mess of goo and writhing with literally millions of maggots.
Called my husband in town to get his opinion about what would have caused just the one breaker to trip. We ruled out a storm. I could tell the power had not been off (clocks still had the correct time). I think we all know how a breaker gets tripped... an overload on that circuit. So how would the circuit overload when we weren't there? The compressor on the refrigerator/freezer had never tripped it before. A mystery.
Later I was out in the yard and what do I see? An extension cord, trailing from the house next door right up to our fence. Some friends of ours bought the place next door which has been abandoned since the mid 70s and have been slowly cleaning it up (It's a mess, needs a new roof, new flooring, new everything. The electricity is not on at the house.)
Mystery solved. Now, I don't mind one bit that our friends would "borrow" our electricity. They have a key to our cabin, and they are welcome to use whatever the need. BUT.... (and I learned this later) they were using a big wet/dry vac 2 weeks ago and it suddenly quit. So they just unplugged from our outlet and went on their way. It never even crossed their minds to wonder "why" the vacuum quit working. They didn't even admit until Sunday afternoon that they had plugged in and caused the problem.
So, as near as I can figure, I lost at least $100 worth of meat and condiments. The worst part, however, is all the produce from the garden that I had froze.
Tomatoes, blackeye peas, hot peppers... plus homemade chicken and vegetable stock and homemade bread. Spent ALL weekend cleaning the refrigerator/freezer (hope I don't have to smell bleach again for a LONG time!), plus the cement floor where all that goo had leaked out and dried.Okay, enough crying over spilled milk. Things I am thankful for... Irene missed us (hope everyone in New England is okay!!), I canned a lot of my summer garden so I still have that, the refrigerator/freezer here in town is packed with food so we won't go hungry, it's almost time to plant my fall/winter garden, I don't have to hire an electrician, the scent didn't attract bears onto my porch, I didn't throw up even once while cleaning up the mess
and I took the dogs into the woods twice and they had a great time running around and hunting critters (and they didn't get stuck in the gopher hole!).My husband stayed in town this weekend and remembered to water my herbs, so that's another good thing. I'm looking forward to next weekend so I can just RELAX! Oh wait, nope, I'll be getting my garden in shape for planting again.
