January is over.

As January comes to an end, I was going back through my blogs posts. while I did a pretty good job with quantity this month. quality was a whole different story.
When I decided to renew my effort of blogging I had forgot there is kind of a rhythm to it. So my first posts were hard and I was scrambling to come up with anything to post.
The more I posted the more things I found to post about. Now I am finding that I am having fun posting again.
I hope to improve on the quality and not worry so much about the quantity!

Chile Verde.

Had the kids over for Sunday dinner yesterday.  We had,  you guessed it Chile Verde. Now I wish I could tell you that I made Verde from scratch and it was wonderful. But I didn't
Its not that I don't know how to make it, I just am not very good at it. It is one of those things that I know I should not make from scratch so I don't.
What  I make is Verde made with a jar sauce. My youngest daughter actually found it and then shared.
It is good, not great but good.
We take a pork roast and cube it. Brown it in a skillet, then put it in the slow cooker and let it cook all day.
We add the sauce about 2 hours before we are ready to eat. We have tried adding the sauce and letting it cook all day, but have found that the longer it cooks the hotter ( as in spicy hot) it gets.
Dinner was great.
The company was better.
Life is good!

Paper roses!

I fell in love with these paper roses made out of maps.

I found this on the net and wished I had the original poster but I never could find who posted it.

Since then I have been looking for map pages to make some. Finding pretty map pages is not as easy at it may seem.

But don't despair, While cleaning out DH junk drawer I came upon a Ashley national forest map and lo and behold its very pretty and just what I wanted to make roses.

Now to get DH to donate it for the sake of creating. lol. When I first brought it up to him he was more than a little reluctant. as he claimed to have paid 10 whole dollars for it and was sure he would need it in the very near future or at least some time.

He has since had time to think it over and agreed that I may have it for the sake of the art,

So look for map roses to be in my very near future.

Chicken & Dumplings

Had Ashes, Jason, Lizard, and Superman over for dinner tonight. It was Ashes choice what to have and she chose Chicken & dumplings.
This is my grandmothers recipe and I meant to take pics while cooking ( this one was as I put the chicken in to cook) but I got sidetracked and then when the dumplings were done, Lizard was starving and so I got caught up in feeding her and forgot again. Oh well maybe next time.
I will tell you the one thing My grandmother told me about chicken & dumplings is never add potatoes as the starch spoils the soup.

Spent the morning organizing my art stuff. I had to much stuff and no place to put it. So I bought a couple more small drawer things and then sorted the 2 drawers into the others. By the time I was done I was very happy as I now have a tool drawer, a sewing drawer, A metal working drawer,  a paint drawer. A bead drawer. and a I don't know what to do with this crap drawer. OK I know that is only 5 drawers and I have 6, but I needed and electronics drawer. for all of my electronics, there chargers, cords to connect to each other. and so and so forth

the end result is this

these are some of my bead boxes, and and the top drawer of the 3 drawer thingy I bought.

This is very handy as it sits in the corner right behind my chair so when I am working and need something everything is right there.

We had a beautiful day here almost felt like March or April. I went out and enjoyed the afternoon sun.

Till next time!

Cheeto!

Those that know me know that I have 3 dogs. I joke all of the time that I just replaced the kids as they moved out with a dog so I still have 3 babies these just don't get as  mouthy.

My kids claim Odie is the little brother they never wanted. That should tell you how spoiled these dogs are.

So yesterday was a typical Morning, Hubby was home and we were working on some art things. Hubby was in and out,  over to the storage shed and the garage, And somehow managed to leave the gate open.

Usually at this point in this story you would think we were going to talk about Odie as he has been the one over the years that has caused so much chaos in our lives. He is the one who ran through the bob wire fence chasing the deer and had to get stitches. He's the one who has jumped out the car window to chase rabbits. He's the one who tested his electronic collar daily waiting for the batteries to be dead so he could disappear for hours at a time.

But this time it was Cheeto. That cute little dog who never does anything wrong. The one who you just want to pick up and cuddle because he is so cuddly.

Anyways, Hubby let the dogs out and went back to his project. After a while ( I was beading and he was doing some stained glass so we are not sure how long) We realized that the dogs hadn't whined to come back in. This is unusual as Cheeto has no hair and freezes fairly quickly in the winter months.

Hubby got up and checked and to his surprise Odie and Rocky were both still in the yard but Cheeto was gone.

We headed out and checked the property calling and calling and nothing. I walked over the Apartments that are east of us and talked to the guys working there and they hadn't seen him.

Then I walked the neighbor hood hoping to see him somewhere. In the meantime Hubby got in the truck and started driving around hoping to see the little guy (shit).

We searched and called and called and searched. I had just about given up when I spotted the little guy (shit) across the gulch over towards the trailer court. I called him but I think he was to freaked out to come back across the gulch.

I didn't dare go down in and cross for fear that I would loose sight of him and he would disappear while I couldn't see him, And hubby was still out driving around.

Lucky for me some very nice people stopped and tried to catch the little guy (shit) but he wouldn't let them get close.

They offered to keep an eye on him till I could get over there. I ran to the truck and drove over there he had run from the guy who stopped but when I walked over and called him he came right to me.

I was never so happy ( Lucky for him because it kept me from spanking the little shit ). He is such a small dog that it would of been very easy for someone to pick him up and we would of never seen him again.

Hubby has now taken the vow to make sure he closes the gate and as for Cheeto he is going in to get neutered. lol that should be just punishment for him.

Winter weather.

We have had a very unusual winter here in the basin. We haven't had our weeks and weeks of below zero cold, or fog that has settled in and stayed for weeks and weeks.

We have had days in the upper 40 and even a few 50's Its been crazy but I have loved it.

So I was in the grocery store a while back, Waiting my turn in line and chatting with the ladies about how nice it had been and the lady behind me apparently was very unhappy with the warmth and sunshine and proceeded to yell at me  about how bad it was going to be this summer . How there wasn't going to be any hay and so the price was going to go sky high and they would then have to go shopping out of state for hay.

I was shocked,  as I don't think I have ever been yelled at by a stranger in the grocery store. and especially over something I really have no control over.

The only thing I could think of to say to her was well hopefully it will rain a lot this spring and summer and then I laughed as did the other ladies. She really didn't think I was funny nor did she think my hoping for rain would resolve the problem.

I am still not sure what she hoped to accomplish, and as I left the only thing I could think of is I wish I had brought my camera for a pic for my blog. lol

Halloween 2011

 Halloween 2011. 2 of the 4 dressed up and ready for treats

I still have tons of pics to post from over the summer so look for them to show up from time to time.