Comments on: Wind-bitten, Home-smitten http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:31:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Mary http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9563 Mary Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:35:32 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9563 Thanks, Laura. Using a pasta machine really takes the hard work out of rolling the dough thin enough...it's a pretty dense dough. We're addicted, and have it at least once a week...probably won't have it so often once we're over these colds! Thanks, Laura. Using a pasta machine really takes the hard work out of rolling the dough thin enough…it’s a pretty dense dough. We’re addicted, and have it at least once a week…probably won’t have it so often once we’re over these colds!

]]> By: laura http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9529 laura Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:49:45 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9529 Mary, your recipe for homemade chicken and noodles sounds wonderful! I have never made homemade noodles before, but you make me want to try it! Maybe I can find a past machine somewhere this weekend... Mary, your recipe for homemade chicken and noodles sounds wonderful! I have never made homemade noodles before, but you make me want to try it! Maybe I can find a past machine somewhere this weekend…

]]> By: Mary http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9469 Mary Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:15:13 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9469 They are a beautiful and special animal to have around, I'm grateful for ours. When dh and I first married, he had a herd of 20. This was back when you could sell a good horse for $1000 easily. Now we consider $450 a decent price. It's sad! Plus, around here, prairie hay sells for $83 a ton. With our two ponies and 6 horses, we go through a little more than that each week. :( Your neighbor was super generous! Alfalfa is the candy for horses...except it's really good for them too! It goes much higher around here than prairie hay. My hubby is so attached to the horses we still have, he just can't bear to sell them for whatever they'll bring (at an auction for instance)...and everyone else around here is horse poor as well, so not in the market. I try not to think about their drain on our budget too much, otherwise I get pretty resentful! They are dh's babies...so I choose to appreciate the beauty they bring to our country life! They are a beautiful and special animal to have around, I’m grateful for ours. When dh and I first married, he had a herd of 20. This was back when you could sell a good horse for $1000 easily. Now we consider $450 a decent price. It’s sad! Plus, around here, prairie hay sells for $83 a ton. With our two ponies and 6 horses, we go through a little more than that each week. :(

Your neighbor was super generous! Alfalfa is the candy for horses…except it’s really good for them too! It goes much higher around here than prairie hay.

My hubby is so attached to the horses we still have, he just can’t bear to sell them for whatever they’ll bring (at an auction for instance)…and everyone else around here is horse poor as well, so not in the market. I try not to think about their drain on our budget too much, otherwise I get pretty resentful! They are dh’s babies…so I choose to appreciate the beauty they bring to our country life!

]]> By: Cena http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9465 Cena Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:42:53 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9465 Horses note: We rent 20 acres out to a farmer who has had alfalfa here for 5 years. He saw we had the horses and gave us 36 bales when he last baled! So far it hasn't cost much to feed em...The first one was a rescue, he's fattening up and such a sweetie. The new one is from a friend who has too many, so now the kids can ride together. It's safer...Neither my husband nor I have ever had horses. Horses note: We rent 20 acres out to a farmer who has had alfalfa here for 5 years. He saw we had the horses and gave us 36 bales when he last baled! So far it hasn’t cost much to feed em…The first one was a rescue, he’s fattening up and such a sweetie. The new one is from a friend who has too many, so now the kids can ride together. It’s safer…Neither my husband nor I have ever had horses.

]]> By: Mary http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9442 Mary Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:50:56 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9442 Geri, I have nothing to complain about...I can honestly not IMAGINE having that much snow...halfway up my house! Whew, you are probably sick of snow shoveling! And I'm so glad the homeschooling bug has bitten you...at least you have a few years to convince (pray!) hubby that it's a good idea! Good luck finding the perfect home place, how exciting, to know and move forward with it! Colleen, I understand! Hoping for good health for you and AR! MIn, are you saying that your home is up for grabs again? ;) Or that there aren't any old fixer-uppers available in your area?!? Lol. Now if you'd mentioned sunshine...that would have clinched the deal! Geri, I have nothing to complain about…I can honestly not IMAGINE having that much snow…halfway up my house! Whew, you are probably sick of snow shoveling! And I’m so glad the homeschooling bug has bitten you…at least you have a few years to convince (pray!) hubby that it’s a good idea! Good luck finding the perfect home place, how exciting, to know and move forward with it!

Colleen, I understand! Hoping for good health for you and AR!

MIn, are you saying that your home is up for grabs again? ;) Or that there aren’t any old fixer-uppers available in your area?!? Lol. Now if you’d mentioned sunshine…that would have clinched the deal!

]]> By: MInTheGap http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9440 MInTheGap Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:56:28 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9440 Weather is downright cold, with lots of snow piling up. Mary, you can head up here and enjoy newer windows, sliding in the snow, and fewer chores, if you'd like? <em>MInTheGap's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WeekendKindness/~3/241797769/'>Godly Family Carnival</a></em> Weather is downright cold, with lots of snow piling up. Mary, you can head up here and enjoy newer windows, sliding in the snow, and fewer chores, if you’d like?

MInTheGap’s last blog post..Godly Family Carnival

]]> By: Mary http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9407 Mary Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:11:18 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9407 Well, we have our days, good and bad, like everyone! ;) But thanks! I'm glad you warned me about this sickness and how it seems to keep coming around...I was just thinking I was over the hump and now my sore throat and coughing is back. My mil and two sil's both had theirs come back also, and they were even on antibiotic for their first round. Icky stuff. Well, we have our days, good and bad, like everyone! ;) But thanks!

I’m glad you warned me about this sickness and how it seems to keep coming around…I was just thinking I was over the hump and now my sore throat and coughing is back. My mil and two sil’s both had theirs come back also, and they were even on antibiotic for their first round. Icky stuff.

]]> By: Juli Green-Birdsall http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9399 Juli Green-Birdsall Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:37:02 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9399 It sounds like you all made the best of a very cold day! I really appriciate my cozy warm home on days like that! Yummmmm the bread sounds good too! Your children are so lucky to have such a wonderful and neat Mommy. It sounds like you all made the best of a very cold day! I really appriciate my cozy warm home on days like that! Yummmmm the bread sounds good too! Your children are so lucky to have such a wonderful and neat Mommy.

]]> By: Colleen http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9395 Colleen Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:43:07 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9395 It's cold and windy! AR and I tend to have cold like symptoms periodically, so hopefully we warm up soon around here! It’s cold and windy! AR and I tend to have cold like symptoms periodically, so hopefully we warm up soon around here!

]]> By: Geri http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9371 Geri Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:57:19 +0000 http://homesteepedhope.com/2008/02/25/wind-bitten-home-smitten/#comment-9371 Us too...we had been having glorious sunny days, so the snow was able to melt so it now only covers halfway up our house :)...and then lo and behold yesterday it was snowing again! Like you I enjoy the snug coziness of being inside in the winter, but I am ready for Spring now! Mmmm....I am going to make bread in my bread machine now because that sounds so yummy...fresh bread and butter is the absolute best! I was scared; I made a pizza dough last night in our bread machine and it was "clunking" and not stirring properly. Then, when I took it out it appeared to have gotten flour underneath it (I have no idea how!) and so now it is working fine. Luckily, after reading this post I don't know what I would have done, seeing as I am a dummy when it comes to making bread by hand. I don't know why but no matter how many times I make it it never has worked. I just get a stale little lump that weighs a ton lol. We luckily have had the last 2 days at home. We spent the majority of last week out and about, picking up a cold from my little brother in the process. So I was happy to be home the last couple days to relax and try and get rid of it. We decided to sell this house and so between that and birthday parties (my brothers and FIL's) we have been gone mostly. I had spent all day, plus the previous evening, last Thursday cleaning in prep for the realtor to come take pics...she came an hour late (which is fine...I just had to keep LO in his high chair colouring to keep him from messing things up) and without the camera. The place was immaculate!!! LOL so she said she would come back yesterday (the place was no longer immaculate!) and take the pics then. Anyways I am hoping that in doing all this we can 1)get closer to DH's work and 2)find a house in the country along the lines of what me and DH would be happy to live in for awhile-we both would like to have some land. Anyways that is what we have been up to! Sounds like you are back in health Mary...glad to hear it! PS-I have been working on DH about homeschooling...the more I hear stories like these the more I can't bear the thought of sending my Lil Man out for over 8 hrs a day...I would miss him terribly! Us too…we had been having glorious sunny days, so the snow was able to melt so it now only covers halfway up our house :)…and then lo and behold yesterday it was snowing again! Like you I enjoy the snug coziness of being inside in the winter, but I am ready for Spring now!

Mmmm….I am going to make bread in my bread machine now because that sounds so yummy…fresh bread and butter is the absolute best! I was scared; I made a pizza dough last night in our bread machine and it was “clunking” and not stirring properly. Then, when I took it out it appeared to have gotten flour underneath it (I have no idea how!) and so now it is working fine. Luckily, after reading this post I don’t know what I would have done, seeing as I am a dummy when it comes to making bread by hand. I don’t know why but no matter how many times I make it it never has worked. I just get a stale little lump that weighs a ton lol.

We luckily have had the last 2 days at home. We spent the majority of last week out and about, picking up a cold from my little brother in the process. So I was happy to be home the last couple days to relax and try and get rid of it. We decided to sell this house and so between that and birthday parties (my brothers and FIL’s) we have been gone mostly. I had spent all day, plus the previous evening, last Thursday cleaning in prep for the realtor to come take pics…she came an hour late (which is fine…I just had to keep LO in his high chair colouring to keep him from messing things up) and without the camera. The place was immaculate!!! LOL so she said she would come back yesterday (the place was no longer immaculate!) and take the pics then. Anyways I am hoping that in doing all this we can 1)get closer to DH’s work and 2)find a house in the country along the lines of what me and DH would be happy to live in for awhile-we both would like to have some land. Anyways that is what we have been up to!

Sounds like you are back in health Mary…glad to hear it!

PS-I have been working on DH about homeschooling…the more I hear stories like these the more I can’t bear the thought of sending my Lil Man out for over 8 hrs a day…I would miss him terribly!

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