SSDreamin Blessings and curses

[SSDreamin]

So far, I have planted 96 tomato plants (32 Amish paste, 24 mortgage lifter, 2 grape, 20 Roma's, and the rest were some early girl's DH's friend gave him), 22 hot pepper plants (jalapeno, thai, habanero, cayenne, and super hot chili). The guys have 'decided' that I have to make all the spaghetti sauce, hot sauce, ketchup, tomato paste and chili starter from now on, so I need LOTS of tomatoes! I am also tired of DH saying "Can you make the hot sauce a little hotter next time (and not too thick, but not too runny either, and not chunky but smooth )" so I am planting enough varieties of hot peppers to set his hair on fire (if he had hair!)
I also got the watermelons, cukes, pickles, green beans and a long list of experimentals in the ground too! :bun

Finished building the composter today, and helped hubby a little with the barn. He and DS#2 are working on it together, but DS is afraid of heights, so I fill in for him as needed. I cleaned out the cow's pen again today, so I could through fresh 'stuff' in the composter and pulled a mess of weeds to throw in there too.

DH had to run to Menards for some forgotten parts/pieces today, and brought me home a cordless weed eater (yay!) and a greenhouse!! It was almost half off, and the exact one I have been over for almost three years now!! Now I just need to decide where to put it

Washing clothes, cleaning up the house right now (well, after I quit playing on here!), then it's back out to kill some bushes that are growing like weeds all over my yard where I DON'T want them! I need to bake DH's bread for the week too, but that will have to wait until later, we are at 85 and still climbing.

 

[Bettacreek]

Ha! That's too funny about the hot sauce setting his hair on fire. Do you mind sharing some recipes? I've never made hot sauce or any tomato sauces before. Mayo is actually next on my list, but dang if I don't keep seeing lemon juice at the store, wanting to buy it, but forgetting what the heck I want it for, thus passing it by!

 

[Wannabefree]

SSD if you REALLY wanna "set his hair on fire" look into Tabasco peppers. They are FIRE...they'll make him look like this -----> only without the mad eyebrows...in fact he may not have eyebrows after that stuff. DH loves it, I make all hot sauce from them. Nothing else is hot enough for hubster. Homegrown seems a lot hotter than the storebought pepper sauce. We call it hellfire sauce around here. My guy can't get enough of it. He likes to just sink some fresh ones in vinegar and let them sit, then use the vinegar over every vegetable I cook. It only takes a few days for the vinegar to heat up enough I won't touch it, and I love hot food, but those are just too much for me. DD ate one on a dare, and she swears it made her ear go numb for a half hour It was realy bright red for a bit. Kinda funny, but pitiful at the same time. You can get seed on Ebay pretty cheap if you want some.

 

[Bettacreek]

We've had ornamental peppers that would make your tush pucker when you tasted one. My mother used to take them in to work, along with red M&M's, and she'd pop an M&M in her mouth to show that they weren't hot, then the people would eat em and just about die from the heat. Of course, the purple variety and the chili's weren't as hot as the "x-mas lights" one. And, they're only about an inch long, but possibly they could help spice some other peppers up.

 

[SSDreamin]

If he complains this year, tabasco peppers are a definite next year WBF!

Well, this weekend was a hit and miss. DH is disappointed, he only fished 2/3 of the barn. DS gave up helping by Sunday and hid in the house. I fawned serious injury. Still, he worked on it right up until the storm clouds rolled in yesterday. Standing on the steel roof of a barn, running power tools, as lightning starts flashing all around you, seemed to indicate quitting time to him for some strange reason

I side dressed the peppers in the big garden, cleaned out the 'flower bed' and planting area by the front door, tested my new weed eater ( :/ May not work. DH has a monster one, gas powered, that I can barely lift and that vibrates my arms off, so he says I have to make do with the one I got or learn to use his. ). DH trimmed up several trees in the front yard, so I don't have to limbo dance every time I mow now! He also got the flagpole up in plenty of time. Got plenty of honks from people driving by, even though we are set back from the road a bit. Don't know if it was the American flag we had up, or the 'interesting' one DH insisted on flying underneath it

Ended up having to bake bread yesterday. Yesterday it hit 95. We have no A/C. I was just too wore out Saturday to do it, and was fearful I'd pay the price for my foolishness. Even with the oven going for the time it took, top temp. in the kitchen was 83.2! I bought a floor fan/air mover thing for the kitchen. I set it in the entrance, direct to the only window we can open in there right now (no screens, must be custom built to 'match' the window style, and they're on his list! ). It worked great! It blows right through the kitchen, past the stove (a ways away, as gas stoves don't like direct breezes ) and out the open window! The rest of the house never got above 82! That is also because we have to circulating fans, and a ceiling fan in each bedroom. Not sure how it would be without electricity though. We were fortunate too because, even though it was so hot, there was a steady breeze outside.

Unfortunately, DH didn't have time to put in my grape arbor. He has promised to try to do it tomorrow, after court. Can't have my clothesline until we move the cow to her new digs. Guess it is my fault, I'm the one who said "It really would work best right there (picture me, pointing at Ice Creams pen. Bet ya didn't know hippos could point, did ya? Well, I do it all the time! )"

Yes, the trial is tomorrow. I have all our ducks in a row, just need to go over some paperwork with a highlighter, so the judge doesn't have to search for stuff. We made note of all their lies they fed the judge during the hearing, and have signed statements, along with documents from three different sources showing that A) They did indeed lie and B) We didn't (basically, their lies made us look bad, and we had to prove we were telling the truth ) Did I mention I detest scam artists? Well, I do. Thankfully, this is a bench trial. DH was in a panic because he thought we'd have to go through jury selection and the whole nine yards, without a lawyer! Nope. Just have to state our case, to the same judge we had the hearing in front of, and have all the paperwork needed to back it up. I plan to let DH do most of the talking though. I am an extremely emotional person, and I'm sure I will either start crying or lose my temper at those idiots. Then we'll lose by default, because we'll be thrown out of the court room Poor DH. He left for work at 3:30 am today, will work 12 hours, then has to make the 3 1/2 hour trip home - not to mention, his boss is insisting he 'Do his best to come back the same day, if at all possible'

 

[Denim Deb]

Ugh, hope everything works out for you and it's over tomorrow.

Oh, and how do you fish a barn?

DH is disappointed, he only fished 2/3 of the barn

 

[SSDreamin]

Deb, you just need the right bait!

 

[BarredBuff]

No ac?????????????????????????????? I'd fall dead, more power to you SSD! Oh and about the tomato products above, we are zapped in the pantry for them. So it is essential we have them, 125 plants I believe we set out. They are loaded with blooms and healthy! Go maters!

 

[Denim Deb]

Deb, you just need the right bait!

What was he trying to catch?

 

[SSDreamin]

Deb, you just need the right bait!

What was he trying to catch?

Must've been a hippo, he was dangling a apple fritter from that hook!