On the Hill

Poking around on Blogspot and came across my old blog..I can't believe it is still on here as it's been 3 or 4 years since I posted anything on it.  My best intentions to keep my Blogspots up has been all for naught as I have spent the last 3 years in ill health.. running to Drs, going for tests, laying down because I felt too ill to sit or stand up..and here I am now..on the road to wellness it seems.

Life has not changed all that much so with hopes for the best, I shall just pick up where I left off .

 W planted some sunflowers last year and had a beautiful crop..some of them over 10 ft tall, unfortunately they got in a little late so most of them were not fully ripe when we had our first frost, it didn't seem to bother th birds in the slightest..they gobbled up every immature seed and when they ran out, came to the feeders and the front porch where the seed supplies never run out. 

It's so bright and cheerful today that I thought a brisk walk would be in order..as I stepped out on the flagstone patio a gust of cold wind changed my mind and I came back into the house just as a huge flock of geese went over..the 5th one since yesterday morning. The Redwinged Black birds are back, the first one was here on the 7th of March, Norm reported 5 of them on the virbirnum bush this morning..I love their happy OKA-Lee call, a sure sign of spring.

Problems, Problems and ETC

I can never seem to bring this blog up to post to, for some strange reason. I can get to my other blog, The House On the Hill with no problem. This one is impossible to bring up which makes it difficult to update.

It's garden time and cleaning time and picnic time and time for all the good things that don't seem to happen in the winter. I am like the proverbial chicken with my head cut off, running from one thing to another, never finishing one task because I keep starting new ones.

In a weak moment, I bought a 6 pack of canned chicken [white meat] at Sam's Club awhile back. After making a half way decent dip with a can, I decided another 6 pack would be a great idea so now I have 11 cans sitting in the too full pantry.

I spent some time googling recipe sites for chicken salads and finally decided to make up my own, using chicken, light mayo, chopped celery a firm apple or pear and chunks of pineapple. I will add some curry powder and maybe a tiny bit of pineapple juice to the mayo.

I am thinking that there might be another tasty addition but can't think what it might be. maybe at the Father's day Picnic, I will ask for ideas from my family of very accomplished cooks. I think I will try it out here before I make a ton for the party. besides, I have to take my big bowl of potato salad..everyone likes it and I never have it exactly the same no matter how hard I try!

Happy New Year

Another year...another bunch of resolutions I probably won't keep and the inevitable feeling of "Oh my God..another year just flew by and now that is one more gone of the paltry few I have left"..what a horrible thought!

Oh well, as Scarlett said.."I'll think about tomorrow". Today I will make some whole wheat pasta with tomato and basil sauce, drained chopped spinach, ricotta and some mozzarella if I can find any in the frig, if not, I'll top with slices of cheddar or pepperjack.

I always overbuy at holiday time and everything is just crammed in there..time for my budget month to take effect and use up some of the stuff I have already bought and spend no more than $100 this month on groceries.

Tootie has some new additions to her wardrobe..courtesy of Aunt Deb, I had to turn back the fur on her hood so I could find her little face!

Back soon....

Ghosts and Goblins

And all creepy things...time to finish up my Hallowe'en decorating and think about Christmas..my favorite time of the year!

I did't do much decorating this Fall...too many day trips on beautiful blue and gold days. I added about 500 pictures to my scenery, old barns, gravestones and small white churches collections, with a few more goodies thrown in!

Only did inside this year, osteoporosis has limited my bending and lifting and standing on my head to decorate so will just do what I can. Anything is better than nothing I guess. And I do have more pictures but can add later.

My old AOL Journal is still alive !

My old AOL Journal successfully transferred although I am afraid my many AOL Home pages are gone forever. I doubt I would ever take time to make them again and I had no luck at all in trying to move them.

Some of them had several thousand hits but but after AOL changed the software I had used to make most of them, it was impossible to upgrade and remove non-working links so I guess I will print out some of the best ones for my scrapbooks and just forget them...it was great fun while it lasted however.

Today is dreary and nasty, we now have the wood furnace going and a fire in the kitchen stove as well...these old rambling houses were built long before central heating came into use so we have to heat both ends and hope some of the heat drifts into the middle and offside rooms. If not, well, we can always shut the doors on a couple of them on the worst days.

I have been doing a little Halloween decorating, not as much as usual but we have no trick or treaters anymore, they have all grown up and gone away and most of the neighboring places are owned by CITY PEOPLE who just come up to shoot guns, kill stuff and ride those noisy four-wheelers and snomobiles all over everyone's property. some of them are nice and some are awful!

Need to work in the back room and the old office which in now an "everything room"..see you later!

Mixed Up Mess!

After finally trying for a couple of hours last evening to move my AOL Journal over to Blogger I finally got it to move. Great! this AM, I tried to post but had to go through all kinds of tactics including using IE tools to get to enable java script and a bunch of other things I am not sure I want on here.

Now is the time to see if I can get this working right before I go back our and try to catch some SUNSHINE so here goes...

Just Moved my AOL Journal

AOL is closing it's Journal and Hometown pages as of the end of the month. I managed to move my Journal "The House on Long Hill" to Blogger, but am afraid my Hometown pages will end up being lost...might try to rescue some links and pictures for my Blogs on here. I had several pages, some of them had nearly 4,000 visitors and some only a few hundred, but I loved making them and feel sad that they are going.

We had a great vacation last month but now everything is winding down, gardens are nrearly finished, time to buy a couple of bushels and pick our own apples, the deer are standing on their hindlegs to get at them so only the high ones will be left.

We took a ride yesterday and I did get some pics of the beautiful scenery that people pay to come here and see...better to click and see them in a larger size to appreciate them!

I had a long day, will be back soon.