I did! Our little IGA market has cheese on sale once a month so we buy a whole round, cut it up, seal it with a Food Saver and eat cheese to our hearts content. It is really good. It ranges from $2.49 to $2.89 which is what we paid last time. The meat manager told me that cheese as well as beef is expected to go sky high. We bought a bunch of chicken breasts for 99 a pound yesterday and some pork chops for $1.59 and ground chuck for $2.88 a pound. The bad thing is they limit you to 2 or 4 of each so Pa and I buy separately. When you shop once a month, that's what you have to do. We absolutely hate that stores offer one day sales since the major grocery stores are 60 miles away. Of course we can't take advantage of them so we pick out what we want the most and shop on that day. Walmart will price match everything except meat so we take advantage of that also.
Sorry I haven't updated the blog. February was such a cold month, we just hunkered down and burned a lot of firewood.
We started out with this which was 3 rows deep down to almost nothing. Pa and I have been cutting and stacking more as winter progresses. Altho February was cold, we only got a smattering of snow. January was also pretty dry. It was supposed to be 70 today. I bet the trees are totally confused about what time of the year it was.
Another reason I haven't been on the blog is because I've been working on a life changing family matter which I can't talk about right now to protect the innocent. If things work out like I think they will, I'll tell you all about it soon.
Robins have been hanging around most of the winter. We have 6 of them right now. We've had bluebirds
and a few other species.
Robins are one of my favorite birds along with humming birds and road runners.
We are so grateful that we live here and not back east. Can you believe the weather back there?
Other than being colder this year we've had very little snow and very little rain. We've had a few clouds which produce beautiful sunsets.
We've seen a lot of new people driving around at the ranch but took a drive a couple of days ago to see if we could find any new neighbors. We didn't see another soul! Where are all these people disappearing to?
Not much going on in our life at present. Here is a picture of the tomatoes that ate Saint Johns. They are growing pretty fast so I hope they don't take over the house before May when we can plant them outside.
Tom made a little hoop green house to put over his spinach and it has produced all winter long!
My computer has some kind of virus called Idle Rootkit. The only way to get rid of it is to open the computer in safe mode and removing it manually. So I guess that is my next project. Doing things manually when you are not a computer expert could lead to other problems. I had to repair the Start Up the other day but the computer did that on it's own. Always something going on.
I listed some of my rubber stamps on Ebay. Turns out they are collectors items and one of them went for $51.00 including shipping. Are people nuts? For that price, I'd be afraid to ink it up and use it.
Have any of you seen "The Legend of Mick Dodge" ? It is on Nat Geo channel on Tuesday and is so darned funny. It's about a guy who lives in the rain forest in Washington. He lives completely off the land and goes barefoot almost every where. He lives in a tree stump or a cave depending on the time of year. He is the third generation of his family who lives this way. He's quite the character and very entertaining. Be sure to check it out.
Sorry this is so short but I wanted to check in and let you know we are both alive and well. Stay tuned for the next chapter. Until then..........
