I am so sick of hearing everyone talk about the presidential candidates sex, race and religion. It seems more and more people think that what is on the outside is the most important. Hillary is a woman, do you want a woman president? Barack is not white, is he a Muslim.. who cares? There is […]
Author: Talina
A city girl turned farmer. Yes women do farm ;) Owner and operator of direct to consumer, Ryder Family Farm in Southern Illinois.
Wearing many hats I'm also a mother to 3, a wife, a yogi, a farmer, a 4-H & Girl Scout leader & hospitality manager.
Got this funny video in my inbox/ Dress Contest
Okay so this goes along with the vibrator talk talk that is going on in my blogging circle these days. It all started with Missburrows observing that people are just too weird about the word vibrator (Yes you did start a revolution!). People posted comments saying vibrator and so on. Good clean fun right? Then […]
Interview Time- Meet Janelle
I had the pleasure of interviewing Janelle over at Junk Food for the Soul for the great interview experiment over at citizen of the month I had lots of fun doing this interview and will be posting a second one shortly because I accidentally interviewed the wrong person. Oops, more fun for me! I see […]
Wordless Wednesday- Deer and Kitty meet
This is not my photo, I found it via StumbleUpon and just loved it! It was found @ http://usera.imagecave.com/kcammack1 I just downloaded it so I could repost it but the credit for the photo is all theirs! Great capture!
Yay the insainty has passed!
Mmmm buttery toast! I am finally sitting down to relax, seems like it’s been the first time in two weeks! I feel like a giant weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I am so thankful to be so fortunate. I knocked out 45 custom purses and they are on the way to their […]
Salmon on the stove top? :(
Howdy!! Do you know of a creative way to prepare salmon without the microwave or oven? I still only have a working stove top … the oven still doesn’t work and no resolution has been offered yet. We have to be out of here on 24 days anyway so WTF?? It would be nice to […]
Make it from scratch blog carnival – Feburary 5th 2008
Being able to say you made something is a great achievement and Make it From Scratch Carnival has so many great make it from scratch ideas that anyone can try! The most popular topic for this edition of make it from scratch is food, these ideas are mouthwatering and I can’t wait to try some […]
When life gives you lemons…
… smash them into a sorry pulp, take some photos and blog about it. Things are crazy right now (that is quite the understatement)… Our living situation saga just keeps getting more and more interesting as the days pass. Back on January 15th 2008 I wrote “You broke your toe? Want to buy a house?” […]
Adventures of traveling the pacific coast highway- Pt. 2- Spending to much time in the car is a bad thing!
As you can tell by the title of this post traveling by car to a distant destination is not always a good thing! spending too much time in the car makes you grumpy and irritable and you can’t make tuna fish sandwiches while driving in the car (well you shouldn’t). N and I visit California […]
Cuteness Carnival for you!
It’s witchypoo’s fault, she posted the cutest photo of a kitten today, I went to get a cup of coffee and found my own gato, Jack posing in all his cuteness and just had to share! It was about 57 degrees int he house when I took this photo, do you think he was cold? […]
We can cook again and we will be moving, again…
The last few days have been a bit trying for us as some of you know. On Tuesday night our gas stove/ oven caught fire and that was enough to make me drink hard liquor! Wednesday we were told by the rental company that a new stove was on the way but were not given […]
New stove should be here soon..
Thanks to everyone for all your concern! Our stove is toast, the firemen told us to make sure they didn’t try to have us use it again. Here is why: We called the rental company we are renting this place from, the scheduled an appliance guy to come out this afternoon to take […]
Our stove was on fire!
Yep, you read it right… Our stove caught fire tonight! I baked some chicken breasts in the oven and then turned the stove off. N and I were eating dinner and this repulsive smell was wafting through the house. I mentioned it to N several times over dinner. Eventually the smell got stronger and then […]
Crazy weather makes for chilly times….
Yesterday it rained, all day and changed to snow last night.. It’s been snowing since then and this type of weather just make me want to sit and relax. Stormy weather makes me want to relax and to have “me time”. I am eating top ramen and the fire is going while I am sitting […]
Ahhh… What is going on?
I was installing some upgraded versions of the plugins I use in wordpress last night and like witchypoo my blog went a bit haywire! A special thanks to Veronica for giving me the heads up about some errors that were displaying on the blog, now I just need to figure out why commentluv isn’t working […]
It's fun to mystery shop!
Well, today consisted of driving 50 miles away to complete a mystery shop, earn some money and spend some time together. We headed down to cottonwood, I am a mystery shopper in addition to teaching dance at the local high school, being a professional blogger and owning my own business (where you can buy a […]
Our gas bill is how much?
My blood started to boil when I walked into the dining room and peered over N’s shoulder at the gas bill. Last month we paid $55.39 for 40 therms over the course of 2 months, this was November & December. Our new bill is for $208.61!! Apparently we used 170 therms in 32 days… That’s […]
Want to file your taxes for free?
I just about have all my W2’s and 1040’s and am ready to file and get my tax refund. Last year I bought a tax filing program because I was uncomfortable with my ability to file my own business taxes. This year I was looking for a free filing alternative for my tax needs. Those […]
I missed blog for choice day…
I read about blog for choice day over at Sleepless Nights and am sad I missed “the day”, better late than never right? So here I go! I am a very pro choice and cannot believe that so many are okay with giving up their freedom to choose. Freedom is what this country was built […]
Moist roasted chicken recipe- Salt cocoon locks in flavor
I saw this recipe done on television back in November 2008, I tried it and was delightfully surprised with how easy and unique this recipe is! Who knew roasting a whole chicken was this fun, easy and insanely delicious? The added bonus is that you can make several more chicken meals with the remains of […]