Happy Sunday! lovin' my 'surprise' weekend off!

Katie woke me up with a text wanting breakfast in bed....a nice leisurely shower in my own bathroom.....sitting around in my bathrobe...life is good!

grown men playing Batman Monopoly....love my Saturday nights!

World Series Update:

Royals leading 2-1: game 4 bottom of 5th Royals 4-Giants 3

Katie went to a haunted house with Kale.

Bubster has friends over. My husband is angry at me for letting my hooligan son smoke weed in the basement(like this is the set of Grandma's Boy) and my daughter spend the night at a boys house. I should've driven up there to get her. Or called him and he would've left work and took a point to pick her up. (sigh.) I made another batch of laundry soap, made breakfast, made lunch, drank wine and read in the courtyard. caught up on Amish Haunting.

I already told Katie this, but I don't think she ever listens to me. sooo.....

watching Amish Haunting, I have learned if you have sex before marriage and get pregnant, then get married real fast and say you got pregnant on your honeymoon, you will deliver a goat baby. if you are a (Pennysvlania Dutch word with a B...something like Broujah?) witch, when you die they will plant a tree over your grave to keep your witchcraft contained. but if a storm damages or kills the tree....YOU COME BACK! so, someone should probably plant a tree over my grave. if an enterprising Amish dude builds handcrafted furniture out of this wood instead of burning it like the Bishop said, anyone who has contact with this wood will be possessed by said Amish witch. You can and will by shunned. even if you are a blind young Amish witch. and you will drown in a reservoir. The Devil is always out to get you if you're Amish. If you buy a house with electricity and just pretend like you removed all the wiring and use it secretly.....SHUNNED. if you move to another Amish community after being shunned because your husband is dying and you want him to go to Heaven, so he dies there and they don't know and bury him in Amish custom, the dead will rise from the cemetery and tell everyone he is unholy and they will dig him up and remove him outside the cemetery confines. SHUNNING is apparently forever. and if you are an English who kindly gives a doll with a face to an Amish girl? she will be possessed. the doll will be burned, the house will be exorcised, you will have no contact with the girl again. Amish dolls can have no faces. The Bishop can come to your house whenever. He is the law. Pray all you want. He tells you what to do, and everyone listens to him. if he thinks someone is possessed....PRAYER CAMP. if you die shunned....you go to HELL. The Bishop is the ultimate authority on everything. buried in black/buried outside the cemetery: going to HELL. buried in white: going to HEAVEN. buried without confessing your sins to the church? you're going to be buried in black outside the cemetery and going to HELL. your family is disgraced.

so, to sum it up. If I die first and Kevin insists on planting me instead of cremating me...best plant a tree. just for the safety of humanity. just sharin' the knowledge.

could you stomach these Great Depression meals?

found this on facebook. some of these I ate as a kid (marked with *) Moms back then did what they had to do to get their families fed. everyone was probably hungry enough not to be picky.

Milk toast (mom said Grandma Grace made this when they didn't feel good.)

*Chipped beef on toast

Cucumber and mustard sandwiches

Mayonnaise sandwiches

Ketchup sandwiches

Hot milk and rice

Turtle/tortoise

Gopher

Potato soup – water base, not milk

Dandelion salad

Lard sandwiches

Bacon grease sandwiches

Sugar sandwiches

Hot dogs and baked beans

Road kill

*One eyed Sam – piece of bread with an easy over egg in the center (my mom called this Bird's Nest or something....I make it all the time! deb)

Oatmeal mixed with lard

Fried potatoes and hot dogs

Onion sandwich – slices of onion between bread

Tomato gravy and biscuits

Deep fried chicken skin

Cornbread in milk (my dad used to eat this for breakfast!)

Gravy and bread – as a main dish

Toast with mashed potatoes on top with gravy

Creamed corn on toast

Corn mush with milk for breakfast, fried corn mush for dinner

Squirrel

*Rice in milk with some sugar (my mom called this sweet rice.)

Beans

Fried potato peel sandwiches

Banana slices with powdered sugar and milk

Boiled cabbage

Hamburger mixed with oatmeal

*American cheese sandwich: ‘American’ cheese was invented because it was cheap to make, and didn’t require refrigeration that may or may not exist back then.

Tomato gravy on rice

Toast with milk gravy

Water fried pancakes

Chicken feet in broth

*Fried bologna (YUM!)

Warm canned tomatoes with bread

Butter and sugar sandwiches

Fried potato and bread cubes

*Bean soup

Runny eggs with grits

Butter and grits with sugar and milk

Baked apples

Sliced boiled pork liver on buttered toast (slice liver with potato peeler)

Corn meal mush

Spaghetti with tomato juice and navy beans

Whatever fish or game you could catch/hunt

Tomato sandwiches

Hard boiled eggs in white sauce over rice

Spam and noodles with cream of mushroom soup

Rag soup: spinach, broth and lots of macaroni

Garbanzo beans fried in chicken fat or lard, salted, and eaten cold

Popcorn with milk and sugar – ate it like cereal

Lessons learned from this list? Stock up on ingredients for bread, including buckets of wheat. Bread, in some form, is one of the main ingredients for many of these meals. Second, know how to make different types of bread. Next, have chickens around as a source for meat and eggs, and if possible, have a cow or goat for milk. Another lesson is to have a garden that will provide at least some fresh produce, and plant fruit trees and bushes. Finally, don’t waste anything, even chicken feet! could

Ross Mill Farm & Piggy Camp

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"Elson has some of the dreamiest eyes at the farm. Go ahead and get lost in them... you won't be sorry."

I don't really hate pigs, per se, I hate the whole farm environment. I could see myself with a couple of dreamy eyed pigs living out on the grass. I could spend my days taking pics of them with cute captions. maybe I just work at the wrong kind of hog farm. but a gal has to pay bills....