Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government. Show all posts

Monday, January 31, 2011

PREPAREDNESS...Am I Crazy?

  1. Be Prepared
  2. Walton Feed
  3. Paula's Bread Best "Truck Load" prices for hard wheat, beans, TVP (bacon, sausage pepperoni) and popcorn. Products ordered from Walton Feed.
  4. Pleasant Hill Grain
  5. Natural Meals Best books.
  6. Disaster Necessities
  7. Grandma's Country Foods
  8. USA Emergency Supply's Best prices for Gamma Seal Lids. Don't know what shipping is though. BEST "Information Center".
  9. Honeyville Grain Best prices for freeze dried fruits, steel cut oats and Blue corn. Also cheapest shipping price...$4.49!
  10. Auguson Farms


#2.5 can= 2 1/2 cups or 20 oz.
#10 can = 10-12 cups or 96 oz.

Amanda picked up my electric grain/bean grinder (I found it on Craigslist for 1/2 price), now all I need is to order some wheat/bean seeds.
Are you ready for some home ground bread...Hot from the oven?


2 LOAVES WHOLE WHEAT BEAD

using my Kitchen Aid Mixer...
  • 2 cups warm water
  • 1 T yeast
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 1/3 cup oil
  • 2 t. salt
  • 1/3 cup gluten ( you can substitute crushed vitamin C, 1/8 T per loaf)
  • 5 to 6 cups whole wheat flour, freshly
  • ground if possible (I use Hard White Wheat) 1 cup wheat berries makes approximately 1 1/2 cups ground flour.

In a stand up type mixer such as a Kitchen Aid combine water, yeast and honey. Let this sit for about 5 minutes or until the yeast is nice and bubbly. Add oil, salt, gluten flour and 3 to 4 cups of whole wheat flour. Knead this with your mixer and continue to add more flour until the dough does not stick to the side of the bowl and does not feel sticky to the touch. Knead for another 7 to 8 minutes.

When dough has finished kneading remove from mixer and divide the dough into 2 pieces and shape into loaves and put into bread pans that have been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.

Place in preheated 150* oven for 20 - 30 minutes to let rise, then increase temperature to 350* for approx. 30 minutes more or until golden brown.


I also have some homemade butter waiting.

Friday, April 16, 2010

If we're doing the windows...


can we replace the front door too...


I like this one...


a NEW front door...


It's also covered under the tax credit and we'll get back 30% next year...



it opens, it closes, it doesn't stick, it doesn't leak air around the edges, and it had a dead bolt lock!
Now what about the utility room door?

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Putting in the windows...

T & E of Texarkana put the windows in... for the 3 referrals, so far, I have given them they even threw in new shutters. The old shutters were white...please give me your opinion of the new ones, I'm not sure about the color.


this is what they hauled away...


1st window...the kitchen "before"


out with the old...


in with the new...


next up the dining room...


its gone...


so pretty...


the front bathroom... putting in the screws.


caulking the edges...


Oh yeah!


Once upon a time we built a wall...I painted it a pretty blue...


and then they pocked a whole in it...


and started sawing into my pretty blue wall...


I see daylight...






Oh look... a window... (notice the pretty white ceiling fan, yeah we have a new one, now)


and then Kenneth said "Just tear down the whole thing" and we had three windows.


from the front - outside...


and then there were three new windows...


Kenneth is rebuilding the sheet-rock wall, only this time will keep the pretty window.


the last window... Sam's room.


see how pretty they match the screen and the white picket fence.

then they put up the new shutters...


I just love it when a plan comes together. Even if it took 8 years.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Surprise, surprise...


see this tag... this is for tax credit energy - efficient windows...


there are three waiting outside the house...waiting to be put in.


this one goes in the dining room...


this one is for the living room...


and these three are going in our bedroom...
We got new window! I am so excited... and we get back 30% of the cost next year.
Hmm... how to spend this new found $$ next year?

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

It's official...


we have been counted...