Wedneday Words for Weight Loss

It is Wednesday again, though I feel like it should be Friday.
I have had to have the air conditioning man out here two days
this week. I have learned a lot watching them take things apart.
I think it is finally fixed now. You know what we found out yesterday?
When we had the units put in the builder used a "cheaper company."
Yesterday, the young man asked me if I had ever had the mother board
changed out? I said, I didn't think so. The mother board was duct taped
onto the unit. Yep, old duct taped. Not even screwed in. He said he
didn't know why it had held so long. We had to have a new mother board
put in. Wonders never cease. Now onto the questions.


Questions1. Which works better for you- watching calories or carbs?

Both, but I think the key word is " Watching." If I really limit my carbs I loose
weight, but also knowing that this piece of pie had 1000 calories per slice helps too.

2. Do you take supplements?
Yes.

3. What's the healthiest thing you do for yourself on a regular basis?
Walking and drinking lots and lots of water. Soon I will be swimming.

4. If you could start a home business, what would it be?

I would love a little store that sold junk I have made, like stitchery's and rugs and jam
and pumpkins in the fall. I would love to teach classes and have a place where
people could come and just sit and learn and knit and talk. Then in the evenings
my sons and my husband would play music. I would sell home made pies and
things like that as people sat around and listened.

5. Who did the cooking in your family when you were growing up?

Well, after my Dad remarried, we had a house keeper and a cook. My Mom
cooked some but not much and then on the cooks day off I would cook because my Dad loved my
cooking. The lady who cooked for us was a incredible cook so I would watch her
and tried to learn as much as I could. Before my Mom died, she cooked all of the
time but it was things out of the garden and meat we raised ourselves.
I have two parts of my life, when my Mom was alive, we were really poor. But when she died
my Dad had no debt and money in the bank, she was a really good manager and saver.

After my Mom died and my Dad remarried, we got I wouldn't say rich,
but we lived pretty high on the hog.
Life changed drastically when my Dad remarried.

So this is this weeks questions. Stop by and visit Patrice and her lovely blog
Everyday Rurality.

The Simple Woman's Daybook

I had signed up for a daybook entry and I am just getting to it. So I am going
to do it today.

FOR TODAY

Outside my window...It is finally warm. The kids all went swimming for the first
time today. As I was folding clothes and watching out the window, I am aware,
that soon life will change again, and there will be less and less time when
they will have time to just play in the pool.

I am thinking...How blessed I am by the people who come through my door.

I am thankful for...God's refusals. I realize some of them have shown me His
greatest mercies.

From the learning rooms...My learning rooms right now, are the places
that I am in by opening my clutching hands and leaving them open for
God to fill. With what He wants to give me and knowing that in Acceptance
lieth peace.

From the kitchen...My son wanted Brenner for his birthday dinner, breakfast+ dinner= brenner
The boys have found out that they love biscuits and gravy and want to eat them all of the time now. I made a ice cream cake for his birthday cake.

I am wearing... White shirt and black shorts and socks and tennis shoes.

I am creating...I am still working on my rug but I did draw some new patterns
that I want to get started on as soon as I finish my current rug.

I am going...outside to collect eggs and water my chickens.

I am reading...The Bible, The Ball Canning Book.

I am hoping...That I go swimming more this year than I did last year.

I am hearing...my iPod, I am listening to a Bible teacher as I write this. He is
teaching on physics and the Bible.

Around the house...I need to clean flowerbeds and wash windows.

One of my favorite things...Sitting and visiting with my kids. I love summer
and the slower pace.

A few plans for the rest of the week: I need to go get my eyes checked. I finally
remembered to ask my husband for our eye insurance card.

Here is picture for thought I am sharing...

Here is a picture of the pumpkins. I just love how big they are getting.
Thanks for reading my simple woman's day book entry today.

Making Stuff

One of the things I have wanted to make since I started blogging
was one of these. It is a tool box. One of the web sites that I have
loved since I first found the blogging world has been Funky Junk
Interiors. She loves old wood more than I do, except she really knows
how to make things.
She has directions to make tool boxes and you can find it
here
I have stared at the directions and Thursday I decided that I had not
fooled with wood in a while so I took some of my old signs that I had hanging
on my shed, and I cut them up.
Let's say that my saw is okay for shapes you hang on the wall but it doesn't
work if you want to put it together so it looks good. When my husband got
home I asked him to come look, I had totally forgot about making a bottom.
I brought him in and he looked at the directions and he said, it would be a piece
of cake.

On Saturday he cut it out on his saw and then he put it together and this is
how it looks on my old table. I love it so much. I know I need to paint it, but
I love how all the wood looks like it is old and put together because someone
needed a tool chest. So I am torn. I am thinking I will get some more boards
and have him make me some more and then maybe paint those and
beat them up some more and then they might look like antiques.

You can still see the words I put on them years and years ago.
The signs said, " Because Nice Matters." and the other one
says, "Amazing Grace." Because that is how I try to live.
I needed a reminder and I am still amazed at grace.

I have some other wood things out on the work bench but
I didn't have time to get to those this weekend, so maybe this
week I will have time. I really do enjoy old wood.

I just thought I would share these.
I hope you have a wonderful week.
~Kim~

Easy and Delicious Cobbler

I realized I am a hoarder. I hoard my fruit. I had a bag
of boysenberries I kept in the freezer until my berries
got ripe this year. Today was the day I was going to make
a cobbler.
It really is a very easy recipe. When I first got married
my Mom gave me this cook book called the All Guild Cookbook.
I had two cookbooks when I first got married the Betty Crocker Cookbook
and my All Guild. I think I learned to cook with them both.

My Mom and Dad had a restaurant. When our fair was running in
September to October, they lived at the fairgrounds. Every September,
she would call me from the restaurant and ask for "THE COBBLER" recipe.
I would dig out my cookbook and tell her and then she would make them
for two weeks, lots and lots of them. She also had an ice cream shop in there
so she would serve it with ice cream too. People would wait in line as she
would take the hot cobblers out of the ovens.
I think about that now as I am making cobblers. Now my daughter and daughter-in-
love call me for THE Cobbler Recipe.
Now I am sharing it with you.


Easy and Delicious Cobbler

3 Cups any kind of fruit (peaches, apricots, cherries,
berries, etc)
3/4 cup sugar

Stir together and put in 8x8 inch pan.

Sift together:
1 cup flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder

Add 1 egg and mix until crumbly, Sprinkle over fruit and top with 1/3
cup melted butter. (or margarine) Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes

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I double this recipe because I have never owned a 8x8 pan. I use a 13x9
It doubles really easy and I also bake it longer because my oven isn't
a fast oven like some I have had in the past. The one I made today had
to bake a hour before my top crust was brown like I like it to look.
My husband said, it is fantastic so I am glad I haven't lost my touch.

Enjoy
~Kim~