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After a loooooong chat on AIM with Shotzie831 i made a lentil and pea soup. i made it the same way as i made my simple lentil soup just added a cup of split peas. so i had some garlic and half an onion from last time i did lentil soup, which i regret i puked up because of excess drinking....., i just used that to the split pea and lentil soup. what i had was an excess of garlic left over that wouldn't be used because I would still need more material for another time. so what did i do? I sauteed about 7 to 10  cloves of garlic in butter and light salt. I ate most of it but I couldn't eat the last 2. i don't know but it was super funky.


On a side note I ate gravel on my bike and got me some road rash. Shucks. it hurts to get out of bed, in and out of a car. i'm waiting, i'll tell all of you that epic tale later.

The first three pictures are of the Forrest Mushrooms my mom bought for us (I paid her back:P).  They are smaller then the other type of shrooms we normally eat from the wild and aren't as buttery tasting but still GOOOOOOOOD! 

 

The first picture is of them soaking all day in salt water.  Salt water kills all the lil bugs and such off of them.  The second picture is of them nice and cleaned off (part of them anyway) and ready to be dipped in batter!

The third picture is of them deep fried and yummy tasting.

 

I used crackers for this go around of breading.  The kids perfer that over flour.  But I perfer the flour breading mixed with a lil corn meal myself!:D

 

The next round of pictures if of the tree that came down in that big thunder storm that rolled through our area of NE in the middle of May.  We had no clue that it came down!  And our bedroom window is on that side of the house! The top window showing is Colt's window.  Our window on that side of the house isn't showing.  Colt didn't even hear the tree coming down.  And it had to hit hard!  Randy had to hook the big truck up with his chains to pull out some of the bigger branches from my yard, they were embedded into the ground! The lil dog kept waking us up that night and we kept getting after the poor thing for barking!  She was just trying to warn us the tree was falling was all!

It is brutal outside today.  I do not so much mind the cold, or the snow or rain or any other weather discomfort that most people who live in the northeast bitch about.  Yeah, the same people that know it is coming and can goddamn move if they hate it so much as opposed to complaining about things they can't control.  However, this wind today is ridiculous.  It is making it feel way colder than it really is, and all this sand and salt from the winter roads is blowing all over the place and getting in my eyes whenever I get out of my truck.  I almost lost my hat as well.  Screw you wind, I'm sick and tired to be sick and tired.  30 miles per hour.  if you're gonna blow, blow hard or don't blow at all.  Come back when you can top 70 or more, or else just go home.  I wonder where all this sand and salt goes; do they just sweep it into the sewers.  I should look into this.  I wonder if they are screwing up the salinity of these salted areas.  Have they dont long term pH testing on the environment?  Probably have.  Someone (Tim) will probably scold me on my ignorance of this subject.  It is what it is. 

Oops I used the word that is getting Santa in trouble!  Get over it!  If your a ho, not my problem, My title is in reference to the Seven Dwarfs going off to work!:D:P

 

Well things are slowly settling down around here-knock on wood, throw salt over my shoulder, cover all the mirrors with bubble wrap, find a 4 leaf clover, and allow a black cat to cross my path (in the old days it was the White Cat that was bad luck not the black cat!-Tis why I make sure I have at least 1 to 2 black cats as companions at all times!  Got three now!)

 

So Daddy O Grump is on his second day of treatments!  Yay!  He is tolerating the blood treatments.  Still not out of the woods because we won't know for a while if the treatments took.  Mom is still staying home because Daddy O Grump is still staggering around like a Sailor on Shore Leave.  Thank Macha, that my Moms is a gov't worker of 20 plus years and has all that leave time she has problems using up normally!

 

The kids are so happy to have started Taekwondo again.  We are even learning the form we missed this last go around on top of doing the very first form we learned.  We are going to be tested on different things on the old form and since we are taking the time to learn the form we missed before we come back around to it with more things, Mr. Johnson said he might let us test on that form also when the time comes.  I am actually glad we took the time off because it got a lil boy by the name of Kobe into the next rank.  He had some massive issues with Coltin over DeLaney.  Kobe is the same age as DeLaney and has a crush on her, Coltin is already showign the signs of being one of these brother's that if he likes ya, you can tease his sister, but if he doesn't then he is going to make your life a living hell.  On top of that Kobe, ALWAYS tried showing Coltin up on everything and no matter what Mr. Johnson, Kobe's grandfather or Mr. Jones said to him about him being older then Coltin didn't take.  Mr. Johnson had to go out of his way to give Kobe attention over the other kids because if he didn't get picked for something he made Coltin's life hell right back.  For some odd reason, Kobe actually listened to me and LOVED talking to me, so I was usually paired with Kobe and ended up doing a lot of things on my knees so we were the same heigth.  Now that he is in the next ranking class we won't have to deal with him until next testing.  And then when we get up there, a lil boy from the school district we go to is in there and is very protective of Coltin and DeLaney.

 

I am dealign with my water pressure being almost none existant.  The joys of haivng Tribal water and the Tribe only having a few guys on the utility crews.  My girl Tab came out to help me with some things around the house and she is also having issue with Tribal water at her house in town.  She had the choice of town water or Tribal water and she choice tribal water much to her disgust!  So when she couldn't get a hold of anyone on the phone at my place, she called her dad at home.  Her dad is one of the guys on the utility crew and had the day off.  There was two Elder tribal deaths with in two days which means the majority of the Omaha Tribal members wont' be at work due to funerals, but Daddy Rudy was going to call Millard the main guy and let him know after getting done at Tab's place to get out to the water tower because it sounds like they either have a main line broke thus why I have no pressure or the electrical is acting up again on the pump!  Daddy Rudy doesn't like any of us girls going with out, especially as he says we got his Grandbabies at home and my man is gone and Tab's man is usless with "guy" things!

 

After we ate some breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast, we tried pushing my van out of the car port to no avail.  So we backed the truck up and crawled on the ground and hooked up one of the tow straps to the van and with Tab in the Van guiding it and me in the truck pulling on the van, we got it out of the car port.  Then we took a half hour trying to get the hood open to jump the van so I could get it in to the mechanic.  Yay.  We couldn't doit.  Not with the screw driver, the pilers, or the hammer.  So I said fuck it!  I called Kramer's another mechanic but also the main tower and had Sonny come out and tow my van into my mechanic.  He was laughing at me because I was cursing that Van like a sailor on shore leave!:D:P  Thank GODS!  I use to drink and party with his boys and went out with one of them!  He only charged me 30 bucks to tow it into town!  I felt bad though he had to go get his rollback truck which just got out of the painters to come get my van!  Oh well at least my van is now getting the doors fixed and now the hood fixed so I can get it licensed.  The truck is going on the fritz now!  The coolant tank is leaking, it needs an oil change, i have the parts for the fuel filter and air filter.  And once I get that shit fixed on the truck, I have to have a new vaccum pump put in for the brakes and have my Randy or my mechanic Randy order in blow plugs get them paid for and have the blow plugs replaced!  If it isn't one thing or another on vechiles this year it is another!  The problem is the weather guys are saying snow either Sunday or Tuesday.  Either way if I dont' have a decent working vechile I am farkered!

 

Well I started taking my sugars again.  My A1C's were still decent but they did go higher.  I am sitting at a 6.1 so I can stay on my same dosage of meds.  I was a very good girl.  While Tab was here, I loaded her up with one cloths basket of food and two HUGE walmart bags of food.  I left enough food in my freezer and cupboards to get me through till Thanksgiving and all my Thanksgiving supplies.  So I can start the low fat, carbs, and basically NO taste diet for Alli!  I joined www.myalli.com and got all my items set up so when I start the program after Thanksgiving I am ready to go.  I have my menus printed out and a shopping list prepared so when I go grociery shopping tonight after takwondo I can buy up the foods for the menus.  This should be interesting.  I am sure not having what junk I did put in my body cleansed out will make me one irritable than normal bitch from hades!  DeLaney and Coltin already asked if they could go spend the night at the grandparental units for the first week or two!  Smart ass kids!

 

I am working on laundry today because this weekend the kids and I are preparing the dinning room for 11 adults and 9 kids to come eat at our house Thanksgiving.  I have all the ingredents to make home made white and wheat dinner rolls, 1 choco pie (diabetic version thank you very much!), a couple of pumpkin pies, and deviled eggs.  I will make everything but the deviled eggs this weekend that I listed and can put in the freezer or fridge till Thanksgiving.  All I have left to buy for the foods I am making are the taters, milk, veggies to put in my stuffing and a few other added in to cooking items! 

 

I can also get my hallway completely painted now that both coats of primer are on and I can also get my newly sewen kitchen curtains put up.  I have to finish out the kids blankets for Winter Solistice and sew together their pillows and then stuff them.  Since my mom is so board being home babysitting the Daddy O Grump, I am giving her teh pillow material and having her sew and stuff the kids' pillows!

 

So now I am off to do some more picking up and dusting around the house!  Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Hooooooooooooooooo It's off to work I go!

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Love and Laughter,

Dawn