We are at my sisters. Helping prep lunch but now they've kind of taken over. Four people in a tiny kitchen doesn't really work too well.
My sister and I aren't really very good friends. There is always some sort of strife when we hang out. They have been giving us crap for a while though about coming to see them so we decided to get it over with.
Never do I wish we had a second TV more than when football is on. I really hate it lol.
I want a new tv now that I'm watching college basketball - the players are so small from across the room! It doesn't help that SS talks all.the.time about how his mom just got a brand new giant ultra HD TV that is so.much.better than ours. Given that she buys him the most minimal amount of super cheap clothing and we directly pay all medical bills, extracurriculars, etc., I'm pretty sure that our child support helped finance the fancy new TV...
We are at my sisters. Helping prep lunch but now they've kind of taken over. Four people in a tiny kitchen doesn't really work too well.
My sister and I aren't really very good friends. There is always some sort of strife when we hang out. They have been giving us crap for a while though about coming to see them so we decided to get it over with.
Someone call me with an emergency!! Haha.
Hugs lady. My sister and I aren't very close and anytime we hang out it is awkward at best. Hope the day passes quickly!
We went to the gym this am and now we are heading to chipotle for lunch. I am also pretty pumped because we are going to go to a few open houses. We got pre-approval so now it's time to start shopping for a house.
I'm kind of modifying an existing recipe, but right now I have about 20 oz of lean ground beef, 2 cans of kidney beans, 2 large cans of diced tomatoes, about 2 cups of chopped sweet pepper, a half pound of mushrooms, 2 onions, and garlic. For spices I have 6 Tbsp of chili powder, some paprika, some smoked paprika, some cumin and some coriander. Once it's all cooked I'll check the spices and add some frozen peaches and cream corn.
I love corn in ANYTHING - my midwest blood showing through here - but I have never heard of peaches in chili! I add white sugar to mine to enchance the underlying sweetness - do you put in whole slices or do you puree it?? I wanna try this, but I have a feeling DH would thunder at me if I changed my recipe.
Oops, sorry for the confusion. I don't put peaches in the chili, we put "peaches and cream corn" in the chili. It is a sweet corn that has half white and half yellow kernels.
I grew up with 5 acres (and want more more more in our next house!!) it depends a lot on what kind of property it is how hard it is to keep up. We had horses and about 3/4 of the property we kept as thin woods, so it was pretty easy, we had large area around the house as yard and garden, which we mowed, landscaped, etc. It was the best. A wide open property with lots of open land/grass is more upkeep (but more easily usable space). Investing in a few nice lawn tools (tractor and good mower, etc.) goes a long way!
There are some tress on the lot. I'm not sure if it would be considered woods though. Describe thin woods. I'm not sure about horses. I'm not even sure the bank would finance this home.... Just dreaming
It sounds like we started with what TheEleventhHour described with heavy woods and then we thinned it. It's pretty easy to use the portion you want to use and let the rest go or plant trees as a buffer, etc. when we had the horses the woods were thinned to where there was little underbrush and many scrub pines/dead trees were gone but all the big trees stayed. Sunlight got through but there were a lot of trees.
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We are at my sisters. Helping prep lunch but now they've kind of taken over. Four people in a tiny kitchen doesn't really work too well.
My sister and I aren't really very good friends. There is always some sort of strife when we hang out. They have been giving us crap for a while though about coming to see them so we decided to get it over with.
Someone call me with an emergency!! Haha.
Hugs lady. My sister and I aren't very close and anytime we hang out it is awkward at best. Hope the day passes quickly!
+1. My sister moved away when I was in HS still so I'm not really close to her any more. The only thing we really have in common is our love for crafting and yarn.
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I'm in and out between loads of laundry and getting my house in order.
We spontaneously decided to book a hotel room yesterday just to get out of the house and for a little adventure. We used H's hotel points and then a gift card we got for Christmas for dinner so it was a super cheap adventure!
The hotel was only like 15 minutes away from our house but it was fun to just pretend like we were on a mini vacay for the day!
Post by wannabmama on Jan 17, 2016 13:38:03 GMT -5
ladytiffany24 I love mini vacays like that! Every once in awhile I put a super cheap offer in for a hotel in Boston on Priceline and if some hotel accepts, we do an impromptu night in the city.
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@sparky85 , chili sounds so good right about now. What do you put in yours?
It's snowing for the first time this winter where I am. Not sticking, but pretty! I am going to sit here, drink my rooibos, and get ready to make french onion soup for dinner. Maybe I'll try to bake some bread too.
I'm kind of modifying an existing recipe, but right now I have about 20 oz of lean ground beef, 2 cans of kidney beans, 2 large cans of diced tomatoes, about 2 cups of chopped sweet pepper, a half pound of mushrooms, 2 onions, and garlic. For spices I have 6 Tbsp of chili powder, some paprika, some smoked paprika, some cumin and some coriander. Once it's all cooked I'll check the spices and add some frozen peaches and cream corn.
Frozen peaches?? I have never heard of that (or mushrooms, for that matter) in chili. Interesting!
I'm making chili today, too. I've been searching for a really good recipe and am trying out one of Jamie Dean's recipes that I found on the Food Network site.
So after my work party, which was nuts, we went to the casino (because it was attached to the party building) and stayed out until 2 am. I'm too old for this crap. I did get two hot chocolate bars though yesterday!
Post by ourcrazynavylife on Jan 17, 2016 14:00:50 GMT -5
Thanks for the page onesweetworld. Just hanging out. I cleaned out the littles closet of too small clothes and am washing the next sizes up now. Was in the middle of a phone call with my mom when she said oh my god something just happened I got to go. Wtf cliffhanger mom?! Soo now I'm just trying not to panic.
Post by ourcrazynavylife on Jan 17, 2016 14:04:00 GMT -5
penguin129 that's an awesome deal for a house and 5 acres. I grew up on 13 acres and change. It really depends on what's there on your plot. I certainly wouldn't be mowing all of it. (Ours was mostly wooded area used for hunting so it was untouched. But we mowed the area around the house and out the lane. Side note: goats are awesome for clearing land that's hard to mow. My parents had two that we put out in the old historical cemetery and they always kept it clean).
But investing in a nice mower when you have a large piece of land makes all the difference.
I'm kind of modifying an existing recipe, but right now I have about 20 oz of lean ground beef, 2 cans of kidney beans, 2 large cans of diced tomatoes, about 2 cups of chopped sweet pepper, a half pound of mushrooms, 2 onions, and garlic. For spices I have 6 Tbsp of chili powder, some paprika, some smoked paprika, some cumin and some coriander. Once it's all cooked I'll check the spices and add some frozen peaches and cream corn.
Frozen peaches?? I have never heard of that (or mushrooms, for that matter) in chili. Interesting!
I'm making chili today, too. I've been searching for a really good recipe and am trying out one of Jamie Dean's recipes that I found on the Food Network site.
It seems I've caused confusion with "peaches and cream" corn, it's a type of corn. No peaches in chili.
Post by littlelion on Jan 17, 2016 14:40:27 GMT -5
Apparently I'm too old to go to the movie theatre. Last night went to watch "The Forest" (good but predictable) & could not enjoy the movies cause of the annoying people down our row. Too many giggles, talking, getting in and out, and just saying stupid crap. And on our way out cops rushed into the theatre. There was 4 cop cars outside. Too much drama for this mama. And I was home by 9:30!
The price of the 5 acres and the 3 bedroom 2 bath manufactured home is 69,700. We think the land alone is worth that much. I want to go there today and take a look around since no one is there. It is a foreclosed property.
Woah. No clue where you are but round these parts that could easily be 300k +.
Post by wannabmama on Jan 17, 2016 14:46:21 GMT -5
We are going to a friend's for the next football game and H is napping...and will not wake up! He doesn't really want to go to her house, I know he's trying to get out of it. But I want to go, damnit! And I made buffalo chicken dip and it smells deeeelicious. I'll go without him if he doesn't wake up...but my prediction is he will wake up and go and just be grumpy. Oh, I love my hermit H, but I sometimes wish he'd be a tad less hermit-y!
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Post by littlelion on Jan 17, 2016 14:49:18 GMT -5
penguin129 your chocolate bar looks so tempting. Today is a perfect day for a hot chocolate. I bought a sampler of Mexican hot chocolate. There's regular, cinnamon (my fav), salted almond, dark choc, vanilla, chipotle, & a chile guajillo.
Anyone ever try spicy hot chocolate? I'm debating giving those away.
Post by wannabmama on Jan 17, 2016 14:51:27 GMT -5
littlelion I love spicy hot chocolate! I can definitely see how someone wouldn't like ur, it's definitely different. But if it's mixed right it's really good!
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Post by thechickencoop on Jan 17, 2016 14:53:46 GMT -5
Sooo 5 acres would be awesome if it was wooded. We're only on 1.3 but it's mostly dense woods; maybe about 1/2 acre is clear and then 1/4 is our fenced yard for the chickens. We don't mow that because it's really all leaves and clover that the chickens scratch around.
So we only really have to mow what amounts to about 1/4 acre. Easy peasy. If I had to mow over an acre (even if we had a riding mower) uggh. Dunno if I could do it.
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