Small things make me happy

Christina has a ring tone of someone whistling. I love it. She was finally able to send it to me and now I have it for a ring tone. It is so soothing. Simple things make me happy. Thank you Christina.

Strange comments

I keep getting comments from anonymous about a message board. I always reject them, is anyone else getting these weird comments?

Hannah is home. Now she is going to a friends house to spend the night. I am no longer an important person in her life. Tomorrow I think she is going to another friends for a slumber party and then she leaves for camp on Sunday. Boo hoo.

Bout time to quit

We have gotten quite a bit done today. First off we made stone. The new guy did a good job. I took at least five pallets of stone to the front lot with the fork lift.

Then Jeff and I mowed, he with the tractor and me on the riding lawn mower.

I then decided to take a couple of dead trees to the burn pile and got the forklift stuck. I left the hose on last night, whoops. Jeff got the truck and pulled me out.

After lunch Jeff and I watched a movie. Outsourced. Not too bad. No bad language but definitely some innuendo.

Got the drip hose installed in the greenhouse and made 5 gallons of liquid soap, washed and hung out a load of laundry and made a batch of body whip.

Getting ready to package the body whip in the new jars I bought.

I think I will relax this evening and not do too much.

Tomorrow after stone I will cut Dolinda's hair and then a few of us are heading to Lavern to cook supper for the church camp.

A little political for your viewing pleasure

I'll sick McEntire on you, yeah you

We have a friend from church who is a single lady in her 50's. She is a hoot. She keeps up with everyone by phone. Her favorite singer is Reba so she named her dog McEntire. I probably spelled that wrong but you get my drift. The lady's name is Emma.
Emma called today while we were working outside and this is the message she left.
Get out of this heat.
I'm gonna sick McEntire on you.
You don't need to be out in this heat .....its too hot.
Even McEntire's laying around.
Yeah.
See ya tomorra.

New sizes

Pink Monkey Soap now has 250 ml. (1/2 pint) Gardeners Hand Scrub and 250 ml. body whip for only $4.50 each. If you are looking for a smaller size for travel, to try for the first time, to take to work or what ever, these are the size for you.

This n that

My dad had a small stroke a while back and has lost most of the use of his left hand. He has trouble buckling his belt, buttoning his shirt etc. I have been looking for ways to help. One thing he asked me to do was to sew Velcro on his shirts, I did, he said it didn't help much as you still had to have two hands.
I guess if he had lost the use of one hand a long time ago he would have learned to compensate. At this stage of the game its harder for him.
Recently he asked me to make a bag of sorts for him to put his soap in that would be easier to hang on to. I made a couple of bags out of wash cloths but I also took a few Johnson & Johnson bath buddies. These I have gotten free with coupons. They are for babies. I asked him how the soap thing was working and he said the bath buddies worked the best.
I will now be looking harder for coupons to get the bath buddies free. And I wanted to tell you all so if you know someone older who has had a stroke or just someone who has a hard time holding the soap, try the bath buddies. They are located in the baby section of Wal Mart and cost 99cents.

I bought some stretch fabric to make gauchos yesterday. Last night I cut out three pairs and I have one more to cut out today. Then I will sit down and sew them all up. Then I have to find blouses to match.

The lady from PTCI is going to come today to take pictures of me making soap. I will have to ask her when the article will come out.

This guy is awesome

Soon to be childless

Today is Thursday and on Saturday morning the girls leave for Junior camp. They are both working there this summer. Then next week they attend Senior camp as campers. Then Joy flies to California for a wedding and will be gone for a couple of weeks. And Mollie is suppose to go to Kansas to babysit a cousins kids during harvest.

I have been thinking of what I want to do while the girls are gone. Its so rare that I am alone, I have to think about it.

I think one thing I want to do is sew. Maybe work on one room at a time, cleaning, sorting and arranging. I will have to do all the chores myself and all the mowing as well. At least the vegetables will not be ready to harvest. Jeff should have the tractor fixed by then so I can mow the larger areas. The riding mower is fixed so that is a huge blessing.

Yesterday, I stopped in to PTCI, the local phone/Internet/cell company to drop off a few bars of soap for a lady who is writing a story about my soap making. She had a few questions to ask me so we talked for about 30 min. She wanted to take my picture but it just scared me to death and I said no. I don't know why I am that way. I used to be a professional photographer with a big studio. She said she wanted to come out and take photo's while I make soap. I told her that was fine as long as she only takes pictures of my hands. I am sure I will get used to the idea and let her take pictures of me. I am what I am.

Unless I can find two men to work two hours a day for me we will be done making stone tomorrow. Jr. is leaving for New Mexico, the girls are off to camp and I cant make stone alone so production will grind to a halt. It's hard to find someone who will drive out here for only two hours. So we will see. Jr. said he would think about it and see if he could think of anyone he would trust to work here. He knows that if I wouldn't want someone here socially, I sure wouldn't want them to work here. We live and work in the same place.

Joy passed her drivers test yesterday so she is good to go. Now she can drive herself and her sisters to and from camps.

Come on pull me

Yesterday Jeff looked out the window and saw our dog, Roper laying in the wagon. He looks lonely and might want someone to pull him around.

Suddenly salad ranch & bacon copycat recipe

Suddenly Salad Ranch & Bacon Salad

Ingredients :

2 cups dry Shell Pasta

1 (8 ounce) can very young Peas, drained (important because they are small and crisp)

2/3 cup Mayonnaise - do not use Miracle Whip

1 packet of Hidden Valley Ranch Ranch Dressing mix

3-4 peeled Baby Carrots,

shreddedBacon Bits (real or fake, fresh cooked or in a can)

1/2 teaspoon Onion Powder

Directions

1. Bring water to a rolling boil in a saucepan.

2. Add shell pasta and carrot shreds, allow them to boil, uncovered, for 10 minutes

.3. Drain into a strainer and rinse under cold water.

4. In a medium sized bowl, mix together the peas, the entire packet of ranch dressing mix, bacon bits, onion powder, and mayonnaise.

5. Add pasta and carrots.

6. Stir together until everything is coated with mayo-seasoning mixture.

7. Chill and serve.

Joy is getting her drivers license

Joy has an appointment this afternoon to get her drivers license. It has taken a long time because every auto we own has a cracked windshield and you cant have that to take the test. Joy got her new to her car and it has a good windshield but the horn doesn't work.
Its always something you know. So we are borrowing a friends car and Joy needs to drive it a bit to get used to it so she can take her test.
No one we know has an auto that has a good windshield that lives out in the country like we do. Jeff even asked the guys at work and all their windshields have cracks. Its a conspiracy I tell ya. LOL.
Anyway it will be good when she gets her license so she can go places without us.

On the lighter side

I saw this over at Wendy's and with 5 daughters you know that I know about this. I hope everyone has a wonderful day today.

Sewing project

I bought this pattern a few weeks ago because Joy and Mollie like to wear these stretchy, swingy type of pants. View C. I think I am going to try making a pair for myself. The pattern says for stretch knits only so I will have to look through my stash to see if I have any available.
I love wearing Capri type pants and its pretty much all I wear all through the warm seasons. Maybe this will be a way to wear pants, yet be dressed up at the same time.
When we go to camp meeting I like to wear a dress to services which are three or four times a day. Something like this would help me keep cool in the un air-conditioned chapel as well as look nice.

For some reason I really don't like cutting out the pieces to sew, I could sew all day if I just didn't have to pin and cut out the pieces. That may be why I sew so much original stuff that doesn't take a pattern

Joy got her car tagged

We receive the notarized title for Joy's new to her car today so we sent to Guymon and got it tagged. It is now legal to drive. We had not been driving it because of the tags. Now we can.

Next Joy needs to get her regular drivers license. In Oklahoma your car must have no cracks in the windshield, the blinkers must work, also the horn and such as that. We do not even own a car with out cracks in the windshield. Not too many people in this area do.

Joy's new to her car has no cracks. But alas, her horn doesn't work. We have to borrow a car from someone who lives in town. Its always something.

We finished making the corners for our last order. Tomorrow when we pull them we are putting those molds in the shed and no making corners for a while. They are sure hard to make and take so much time.

By Friday we will have 900 square feet of field stone on the sales lot. Next week I want to start a darker base color with four face colors. Brown, red, black and green. They are shades of these colors of course.

I need to hire a temporary worker while the girls are at all the church camps they go to and work at. Their summer is very busy. Summer is when I build up my stock on the stone lot though so its still time to work for me.