Another week has gone by and it is getting colder out. We actually have our wood stove outside going, so, more work to get ready for winter like, chopping, cutting, loading and unloading wood and then stacking it. Alright, I am already a little pooped out with college, work, family, canning and freezing, but I still have squash to freeze and apples too!! I am getting a little bit excited for fall, because I love how the leaves change to such beautiful yellow, orange, red, and then brown colors. When the leaves drop to the ground and swirl or roll around in the ground they look like they are dancing. I love the smell of wood stoves outside going and people baking and making homemade meals in the ovens, oh you wouldnt dare do that in the summer, because that is grilling season and too warm to fire up the oven in the house, lol. I love fresh apples and they usually are in around the end of summer and the beginning of fall. I shall miss the summer, but it will give me something to look forward to, like next summer. Be safe and drive safe.
Oh by the way, next week on Wed. my daughter has her first ultrasound and I get to go with her and see my grandbaby for the first time. She wants to know what the sex of the baby is if they can see it. I can't wait!

Today I had a wonderful day. I finally at age 40, almost 41, had my braces removed at 11:00am today. I am loving it and eating corn off the cob. I never thought it would be so difficult to not eat foods that I love so much like caramel apples, chewing gum, and corn on the cob. I had all three today and it was GREAT!!
Another week has passed and guess what I did not do so good in A & P, so I transferred to Body Structures and Functions and I am getting that a lot better. It is still a lot of memorization but at least it is a little slower paced.
I canned tomatoes this last weekend and worked at BP gas station. My father and my step-mom were here this last weekend also, so we had 4 of our children home. The other 2 had to work so they couldn't come and see their Grandma and Grandpa. I also prepared and froze some buttercup squash over the weekend.
Hope all is well with all of you and bye till next time!
By the way hope you like my hamster, you can feed him by clicking on the square box that he is in. Thanks if you do, he will love that.

Hi there, another week has gone by and there is still lots to be done, such as cleaning my house! Oh well, everyone keeps telling me it will still be there tomorow.
I just want to say, "Yippee, we are done with sweet corn harvest!" I am also done making Dill and Bread & Butter pickles. I will still have about a month left of raspberries to pick and freeze and I have tomatos and squash to harvest and to freeze or can for the winter. Soon this will come to an end and then I will have time to really clean my house.
As far as college is going I am very overwhelmed this semester. I dropped A & P and I am now in Body Structures and Medical Terminology is going good. I think I need to take Chemistry before I go back to A & P.
My family is doing well. Brady, my 10 year old son, is the quarter back for his 4th grade football team, instead, he wants to be a running back or a wide receiver. My daughter, Reggi, is starting to show with her pregnancy. Reality has really set in, that I am going to be a Grandma in February. She has an Ultrasound to see the baby on October 8th and I get to go. Boy, I am real excited! I will post the ultrasound picture after it is done.
I work at Gundersen, in the Lab Dept. as a Phlebotomist. There is a lot of people sick out there and it will continue through the next few months, so people WASH YOUR HANDS ALOT! It is the best way to get rid of germs. I hope none of you get sick. As we are all busy with school, work, family, friends, hobbies, and lots of other stuff, our bodies will lack rest and the lack of correct nourishment we need to keep fighting and going will lead us to being sick with some sort of bug. I wish you all good health and a good fall semester.
Today, I had to have a tooth pulled and it wasnt that bad. The shot of the novacaine was the worst, but taking my tooth out wasn't that bad. I hope it heals ok and I don't get what they call a Dry Socket. I have heard that hurts a lot and I don't have much pain tolerance. I'm sure it will be fine.
Well, see you in class and have a great day or night!

Hello everyone, hope you had a wonderful Labor Day weekend. I so needed to have that weekend to catch up on a lot of work around the farm and home. I froze 43 quart bags of sweetcorn, with the help of my friends Becci, Danny and my wonderful, eldest son Dustin. My super mom had done 28 quart bags, before I had gotten home from work(4am-1pm) at BP. We shucked corn, boiled it for 4 minutes, then cut it off the cob and then bagged and dated it. What a chore, but it sure will be great to eat it this winter. Plus I had done 15 quart bags with my husband a week before. Well I guess you are wondering where did I get all that sweetcorn, well my youngest son and husband planted an acre of it. So we give a lot away to help others. My other project was to pick vegetables out of the garden and do some canning, like pickles and make refrigerator salsa and can some jars of that too. Mission has been completed.
My family also had a Sweetcorn Party on Sunday night with a bunch of family members and friends. We had homemade BBQ's, Sweetcorn, refrigerator salsa, chili-cheese dip, pasta salad, chips, cake, brownies, and strawberry jello dessert. It was bring your own beverage so some people were creative with that. We had a blast and it was nice to sit around the campfire and visit with everyone.
Between home, working 2 jobs, college, church, and my family and friends, I am a very busy person and sometimes hard to get a hold of. But this time of the year is great and very productive to accomplish a lot to get ready for winter. I love to pick my raspberries from my patch and soon I will have squash to do. Harvesting my garden is a reward for our family and we love to eat it all year long. If you have any good and new recipes with raspberries, squash, cucumbers, new potatoes, and tomatoes, I would love to have them. My motto is I will try most anything once and if I like it I will try it again and then it turns out to be a win-win situation.
Well enough about my weekend and by for now. I have 2 big tests this week in A&P and Med Term so off to study.