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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Questions???

Ok people, I have questions! And I want some answers!

Does anybody that reads this thing know anything about digital scrap booking? I'm looking at getting into it a little more and I'm needing some suggestions of where to start. Ideas?

Also, what on earth should I do about baby classes? Are they good? Are they lame? Do they help? I'm not exactly sure if I have time to fit them in but I'm willing to try, but I need some feed back.

Thank All!

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Adventures in La Grande

So at the end of September Corey, his parents and I drove over to La Grande, Oregon to visit Great Aunt Donna and her husband Archie. We totally came for the Honey because Donna and Archie raise honey bees on their property and every year they harvest the honey and sell it. Ron, Corey's dad, had made a long standing deal with Donna that if he would come and visit her, she would give him some honey but he said he wouldn't come unless she had some work for him to do.

So off we went and I must say that the girls got the better end of the deal. The boys spent the day sheet rocking Donna and Archie's enclosed front porch while the girls got to spend the day helping Donna can stew and make raisins!

This was about the third time I've ever canned anything in my life and it was a blast. We went to the garden and "harvested" the onions, potatoes & carrots. We had celery & remaining veggies from the store. We chopped everything up, layered it in the jars and then pressure cooked them for 30 minutes. If you want the full recipe let me know and I'll post it, but didn't they turn out pretty.


Then after lunch we got to start working on raisins. Aunt Donna has about 4 different kinds of grapes growing in her back yard and we got to go out and pick the grapes from all of the vines and then we had to wash them.

After we rinsed them we had to pull all of them off of their vines and put them into a bowl so they could then head to the dryers. I must say that this was probably the worst part of the whole process but that's just because it was wet and I can't stand getting water all over everything, my forearms in particular.

Off to the dryer to spend the next few days becoming raisins!

Unfortunately we had to head home so I didn't get to see my finished product but I had a blast anyway and the honey that she sent home with us is AMAZING!!! Corey'd live off of it if I would let him, he has such a sweet tooth thanks to his momma.  Until next time let the good times roll!!!