Coffee anyone ?

[Mini Horses]

Aha....you'll get a slight break just getting tires. Don't fall asleep in the waiting room.

Finishing coffee....do chores....go to work....reward self with 4 days at home for farm work! Next week I have 5 days of at least 10 hrs each in stores...not looking forward to that. Yep, working into OT, which company hates but too bad! They accepted the jobs for us to do and not enough reps to work. I consider it my "Boer does and fence fund". Week after next, another overbooked .... I'd LOVE to be fired for OT. . It's ridiculous...one week 10-15 hrs, next one 50-55, with finish dates that don't allow change. Corporate needs help!

Right in middle of canning season...how dare they.

So far new buck is being such a good boy. Talking to me and cautiously coming when called. Of course, rut isn't far off.

 

[Mini Horses]

Coffee, pls! Worked cleaning elderberries until I said "enough" last night. Still several quarts looking at me, in a pan by AC. . Later.

There's the produce auction tonight. Hope I can remember it later, when it's time to go there. Off work until Mon, so could process things. Do I NEED anything? Maybe a rest

Onions...I'd buy those but, rarely are there any. Might be some fresh dug potatoes about now. I'd can those but wouldn't have to do at once. Maybe a few peppers...couple boxes...cut and freeze. Hmmm ... I'd have to thaw corn on cob, cut off and can for freezer space. . This has got to be a cheese weekend, frig is full of milk again. This is why many just go to the store as needed. how to turn it off?

So I'm looking in my supply room and amazed at the accumulation! Had a bunch of $4 coupons on TP & paper towels. It was $5.95, plus $1 digital coupon, plus my $4 one...with tax $1.03 for 8 dble rolls and my coupons running out. What was I to do???? Yeah, bought. Loaded!!! With already stashed, have 100 rolls? PT ended up at 32 cent each...have 16 rolls but rarely use except canning season. That made it ok. No more!!

I have a problem.

 

[Ridgetop]

I woke up at 4:00 got up and washed dishes. They have been piling up, been to tired to stand up that long.

TSK TSK! What happened to the paper plates! One travel mug for coffee to rinse out and go. One large travel mug for ice tea to rinse and go.
It's so hot, just eat the steak frozen. You know, like a giant meatsicle! Presto! No dishes! LOL

 

[Ridgetop]

So I'm looking in my supply room and amazed at the accumulation! Had a bunch of $4 coupons on TP & paper towels. It was $5.95, plus $1 digital coupon, plus my $4 one...with tax $1.03 for 8 dble rolls and my coupons running out. What was I to do???? Yeah, bought. Loaded!!! With already stashed, have 100 rolls? PT ended up at 32 cent each...have 16 rolls but rarely use except canning season. That made it ok. No more!!

You can't go wrong with paper goods at 32 cents each. If water gets scarce think of the savings on laundry. And if you can start a rumor about the lack of TP and paper towels (now that you have bought them all LOL) you can sell at a profit. Good work!

 

[Bruce]

produce auction

Never heard of such a thing!

TSK TSK! What happened to the paper plates!

TSK! TSK! Paper plates are environmentally unfriendly. Doesn't take much to wash a dish that can be used repeatedly for many many decades. We're using plates that were my grandmother's "dailies". She died in '83 and had lived with my mother and step-father for a few years so they were packed away. I think she got the plates in the 50's.

 

[Mike CHS]

The Amish community in Ethridge, TN has the best produce auction that I have ever seen plus most of them also have stands on their farms that you can also buy in bulk without the crowd,

 

[Baymule]

Coffee is ready. Hot in here, be glad when the AC guy shows up. This will be a day off for me! No fencing, no ladder climbing, this day is sounding better and better. LOL

 

[farmerjan]

We have a pretty good produce auction here also. About an hour north of me; many Mennonite farmers in that area. Prices are pretty good but sometimes quantities are big. Sometimes it makes you wonder why you go through all the trouble to grow the garden... Hey, I know all the positives.... not saying not to grow a garden... but the produce auction is a good way to get a quantity all at once especially if you want to do some major canning/freezing/pickle making.

 

[Ridgetop]

TSK! TSK! Paper plates are environmentally unfriendly. Doesn't take much to wash a dish that can be used repeatedly for many many decades.

Bruce! I am shocked! Have you never dusted sandwich crumbs off a aper plate and used it again?

Environmentally friendly or not, using paper plates in the midst of a remodel or move prevents exhaustion. They can be seen as a necessary health product!

I also have a set of Bavarian bone china from grandmother, several platters from the great grandparents' kitchen service, and bone china service for 30 which we use for family dinners. (I am leaving that 30 plate service in CA with my kids so they can host the family dinners for 20-30 members.)

However, I don't use those good dishes when remodeling for fear of breaking them. During a previous remodeling at the old house my mother-in-law accidently threw away half the silverware thinking it was disposable. Had to buy another set.

Anyway, I consider paper plates to have their place in the world - Camping, remodeling, and outside dining on a concrete patio with small children. Otherwise, we use the kitchen Pfalzgraf which I stocked up on at a church rummage sale and have been using for 15 years. Good stuff, and wish I could find some more.

 

[farmerjan]

Hey @Mini Horses are you getting much rain over there??? We have had more than our fair share here... Looked like you got some again last night... it wandered from here and went east. Are you closer to Richmond or Norfolk area?