The Present

I should have expected it, she is a hound. When I came home from getting myself some food today (as my husband was still recovering and is on bland food) I found Georgia in our bedroom chewing on something. I assumed it was a stick-she loves sticks and brings them in all the time. I am constantly vacuuming up tiny bits of chewed up stick. This time however as I got closer, I realized it is not a stick but a bird. Georgia found a dead bird on the porch or in the yard and brought it into my bedroom. I was already planning to spend the day disinfecting to get rid of the sickness in my house, but now even more so that a bird has been in my room.

I did feel sorry for the bird and angry at the dog. They are supposed to bring animals in as a present to show they love you. They are NOT supposed to chew on them. Lets just say we will not be getting any kisses from Georgia any time soon. I even gave her one of the dental bones to help clean her teeth and breath.

Thanks for the present Georgia, next time just keep it to sticks

Sick time of year

Flu season and though we have thankfully not gotten the flu, we have managed to catch the 8 hour stomach bug. I had it last weekend and have finally been able to eat real food by this weekend. Fuzz did such a great job of caring for me but unfortunately he got it this weekend. This means that tomorrow will partially be spent in disinfecting everything in my house.

Oh the joy

Georgia and Buddy

For Christmas, my mother got my dog a toy named Buddy. Buddy is an orange "stuffed" dog. The belly opens up and you can put in a plastic bottle (Georgia's favorite toy ever). So Christmas morning she played with it as we all opened presents. Now several weeks later she is still playing with buddy, though the tail has been removed. I caught her sleeping on the couch with Buddy and thought is was too cute not to photograph.

To the left is is the cute picture. Below shows the damage that she has done to her toy.

Baking Day 1/2

Alright, the baking day this month did not go as planned. I managed to make a few meals over a few days but most of them are put on hold. Some of the meat went bad--boo money down the drain. But next month I will have one full baking day. Hopefully we will have a garbage disposal by then to help things along.
List that was made:
-Sausage & Shrimp gumbo
-baked ziti (1 with sausage/1 without)
-bananas (on sale for .39/lb) for smoothies

still planning to make farmhouse chicken this week, and spinach and rice casserole, then I will start over again in February

Baking Day Disaster

Well it is not a full disaster, but as the baking day has not yet occurred I consider it one. I had planned on my once a month baking day for this weekend, but sadly Friday night our kitchen sink backed up. We have been working on it over the weekend with little success. I am now going to purchase a drain snake before we take the sink apart fully. I am hoping for the best and then to be able to cook all the food I purchased on Wednesday.

2010 challenge

My family has made it a goal this year to begin to be more frugal with what we have been given. We would like to make some major savings this year for a few goals not in any specific order:
1. new car for the husband
2. begin saving for land we plan on buying to build a house
3. fix things around our house to help save more money such as new doors and weather stripping, insulation, new carpet in the bedrooms.

With a small change to our witholdings we have been getting more money back each month, rather than one lump sum around tax time. We hope to be able to use this to reach some of our goals.

2010

Another new year begins. Feels like a new start. Well I did not get to that reading list in 2009 so I am making a new one for 2010.

Jane Austen books:
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Emma


The Host – Stephanie Meyer
Dracula: The Un Dead - Dacre Stoker
Eragon - Christopher Paolini
Eldest - Christopher Paolini
Brisinger - Christopher Paolini

I will add more later. To add to our year of new starts I am going to try to have a baking freezer day once each month. I had one in November and it was very successful. I will post soon what I will be making.