Nevadans?

[SunnyDawn]

I must be tired cause I forgot about the ice cream maker going and, when they say in the directions that the machine will shut down when it gets too solid to turn, they mean the paddle quits turning. The compressor keeps going and will turn your ice cream into a frozen block that is almost impossible to get off the paddle!!!

Just made some plain vanilla tonight, will make more flavors tomorrow. I am going to try banana with chocolate shavings! All this talk of chocolate covered bananas made me want to try it. I am also hoping to have time to make a strawberry-lemon sorbet.

Now I know my brain ponders strange things at this hour of the night but earlier, while scoring and scraping vanilla beans, I couldn't help but wonder how humans ever got interested in eating this stuff? I mean they smell wonderful but a vanilla bean by itself is a disgusting thing to eat! They are woody and not at all tasty. Yet open them up, scrape out the insides, add a little honey or sugar, and voila! Dessert Nirvana! OK here's another post I should delete in the morning but probably won't. I'll just be embarrassed when I read it again and wonder about my weird late night musings. Don't worry folks, these short bouts of insanity usually pass with a little sleep.

OK, now that I am done pondering that great mystery, maybe I can finally get some sleep! (it's almost 2 am)

 

[gaited horse]

I must be tired cause I forgot about the ice cream maker going and, when they say in the directions that the machine will shut down when it gets too solid to turn, they mean the paddle quits turning.  The compressor keeps going and will turn your ice cream into a frozen block that is almost impossible to get off the paddle!!!    

Just made some plain vanilla tonight, will make more flavors tomorrow.  I am going to try banana with chocolate shavings!  All this talk of chocolate covered bananas made me want to try it.  I am also hoping to have time to make a strawberry-lemon sorbet.    

Now I know my brain ponders strange things at this hour of the night but earlier, while scoring and scraping vanilla beans, I couldn't help but wonder how humans ever got interested in eating this stuff?  I mean they smell wonderful but a vanilla bean by itself is a disgusting thing to eat!  They are woody and not at all tasty.  Yet open them up, scrape out the insides, add a little honey or sugar, and voila!  Dessert Nirvana!  OK here's another post I should delete in the morning but probably won't.   I'll just be embarrassed when I read it again and wonder about my weird late night musings.  Don't worry folks, these short bouts of insanity usually pass with a little sleep.    


OK, now that I am done pondering that great mystery, maybe I can finally get some sleep!  (it's almost 2 am)    

Hi Sunny late night BYC party. My back hurts to much to sleep.
If anyone wants to see the foster kids their on FB

 

[SunnyDawn]

Quote: Hi Tyler! I do want to see the pics but I'm too tired right now to fight with FB. Not sure how I can be this tired but not be sleepy! So what's wrong with your back?! Don't tell me that at your age it is already giving you trouble? At least mine waited til I was 23.

 

[SunnyDawn]

Oh MAN!!! Now it's 2:30am and I am still awake!!! WHY?!! I need to sleeeehehehehehee-eeep!

 

[americanvalkyrie]

YAY!!!!! We missed you sooo much! I kept wondering where you were! Welcome back!!!

Of course! I'll do it right now (as soon as I hit submit).

Well since I have felt for a very long time that we should be getting a lot more for our eggs I see this as very good news indeed! If all I did was sell eggs I would never be able to afford my chickens!
I completely agree!!! Jeez we have some smart folks on here!!!
I found it!
BRAVO!!! Very well put!!!

Your speech reminds me of the time I spoke at the National Women's conference in Chico. I can't go into detail here but short cut version is I was guilted into addressing the wants and needs of women in poverty. I wish I'd not been so self conscious of my low socio-economic status at the time. I was not ready to talk to so many people about what life was like as a poor single Mom but my faculty advisers and 2 department heads convinced me that that was why it was so important for me to speak. In those days it was really considered a personal fault to be poor! If you were poor you must be either lazy or stupid. Speaking up so honestly about my situation in front of all those strangers was a huge emotional struggle for me at that time!!!

People of wealth have no clue what it is like to struggle for basic necessities and the focus of the conference was Women in Poverty. I was adamantly refusing to speak at the conference until I heard a local committee of women suggest that they should donate spa days to single Mom's living in poverty! And the other women thought that was a great idea!!! Really?!! Safety, healthcare, education, food, clean water for our children... none of these things crossed their minds! WOW! That woke me up and made me realize that somebody needed to speak up!

I am ashamed to admit that after my speech some of the women that organized the conference, and my own department heads put the money together to send me to Beijing where the 1995 World Conference for Woman was being held (the National was a lead up to this conference) and I refused.

I still feel terrible for it but I was just so embarrassed to admit publicly that I was poor! It was something I did my best to hide! Of course most people at that time felt the same way which was why these women pressed me so hard to speak up.

Reading what you wrote here reminds me of that speech but also makes me feel so horrible for not having had the nerve then to say what needed to be said. The person that went in my place did not speak well and (I was told later) unfortunately reinforced their perception that poor women are stupid and uneducated. I'm not sure why I'm admitting this here since I have avoided talking about this to anyone!!! I guess what I'm trying to say is that I am so proud of you Missy, and this younger generation! You are not afraid to stand up and say I deserve to be treated better!!! And the fact that other's perceptions are skewed and unrealistic is no reason for you to buy into them and internalize those perceptions!!! I wish we had had someone like you at the conference. I wish I had been more like you are now!!! I am seriously so proud of you right now I am tearing up!

BTW! I am not admitting this to get anyone to say what I did was all right! It just plain was not!!! Life is a learning process. But I want you all to know what I did so you know how amazing this next generation is and that maybe this is why we are having to go through this as a nation!!! This hardship that so many of us are facing now or have faced recently, to some degree anyway, will help us all to grow immensely!!! I know it may get worse before it gets better but I have faith that with folks like you all out there that it WILL get better!

OK now I will get off of my soap box too!
YAY!!! Sounds great!!! I'm making some ice cream right now but that will be a have to for the next time!
LOL!!! I agree. We've given up movies, TV, new books, we rarely go out to eat anymore, and even going to see the kids is down to once in a great while. But some things are sacred!!!

JK folks, the kids are important too!!! Just gas is a WHOLE lot more expensive than hair color or internet.
Oh Pam this touched me sooo much! I was just telling Steve today how losing my Mom has made me appreciate and cherish the ones I love so much more!
Oh no!!! You aren't covered under John's insurance?!!
Oh my gosh! What cute little fluffies you have there!!!

Awww!!! You are sooo sweet!

Yay for a new dark egg!!!

Wow, that was a self-esteem boost high enough to get me through several days! A great start to my morning!

It is a lot more "ok" these days to admit you're poor. I'd like to stand up and thank all the hipsters out there for making it cool to act poor, even if you're not. That way, those of us who are actually poor can blend right in with just a plaid shirt and a bicycle. Though I never get the "you don't look that old" comments anymore, so I'm sure I don't pass for a 20-something and might look like I'm trying too hard to be cool.

Five years ago, I can recall how people would nod toward an acquaintance and say in a sympathetic tone, "Poor thing. She's going through a hard time right now." Have you noticed that people don't say that as much anymore? Because the standard response to that is, "Who isn't?" We all are! A whole lot of it is financial, but I have some good friends who went through the financial mess, and their husbands got jobs... a few months before they were diagnosed with breast cancer. I know a lot of us are very different religions and belief systems, and there might be a few of us with no religion. I'm glad it's not an issue here. But I believe a lot of us can stand back and look at everyone's troubles, using our personal belief system as a basis, and see that these troubles are helping us be so much more compassionate and stronger, so we can then help someone else out.

You guys were on here at 2am? I should have joined you! I woke up several times, trying to listen between snores for noise outside. Since finding that raccoon about a week ago, I've been kind of paranoid. Once I heard a noise and jumped up to go look, and Tater came with me, until I realized that I had dreamed the noise. When I went back to sleep, I had dreams all night about growing my corn, and worrying if I had thinned it out too much yesterday. So I'm running on energy drinks today, but I only have 2 clients. And a huge to-do list that's over 20 items long, and about a week to do it!

On the week of the 18th, I've been asked to get a team together and go provide chair massages for about 300 of Russ' coworkers. Well... it hasn't gone through final approval. I should hear in a day or so. If it does, I'll have the money to pay to renew my massage license and pay a few more bills, but will be hiring one of Sahara's friends to come check on the animals in the middle of each workday.

I feel so blessed right now! I have snow peas sitting on the vine, waiting to be picked, and more in the fridge, waiting to be eaten. The lettuce is also ready to be thinned out again. The kale is ready to be picked and fed to the chickens again. I know it's only a few items, but we currently have an abundance of healthy food. If you're telling your kids to eat the healthy food before it goes bad, because more is about to come out of the garden, then you can't be too poor.

 

[NevadaRon]

I must be tired cause I forgot about the ice cream maker going and, when they say in the directions that the machine will shut down when it gets too solid to turn, they mean the paddle quits turning. The compressor keeps going and will turn your ice cream into a frozen block that is almost impossible to get off the paddle!!!

Just made some plain vanilla tonight, will make more flavors tomorrow. I am going to try banana with chocolate shavings! All this talk of chocolate covered bananas made me want to try it. I am also hoping to have time to make a strawberry-lemon sorbet.

Now I know my brain ponders strange things at this hour of the night but earlier, while scoring and scraping vanilla beans, I couldn't help but wonder how humans ever got interested in eating this stuff? I mean they smell wonderful but a vanilla bean by itself is a disgusting thing to eat! They are woody and not at all tasty. Yet open them up, scrape out the insides, add a little honey or sugar, and voila! Dessert Nirvana! OK here's another post I should delete in the morning but probably won't. I'll just be embarrassed when I read it again and wonder about my weird late night musings. Don't worry folks, these short bouts of insanity usually pass with a little sleep.

OK, now that I am done pondering that great mystery, maybe I can finally get some sleep! (it's almost 2 am)

That's what I think every time I eat an artichoke!

 

[gaited horse]

Hi Tyler!  I do want to see the pics but I'm too tired right now to fight with FB.  Not sure how I can be this tired but not be sleepy!  So what's wrong with your back?!  Don't tell me that at your age it is already giving you trouble?  At least mine waited til I was 23.

I got in a car accident we when I was 12 it was'nt serious but it still acts up at times.

 

[americanvalkyrie]

That's what I think every time I eat an artichoke!

You're at least the 3rd person I've heard say that! My son doesn't eat artichokes. They don't make sense to him, and it's too messy to get to the actual food. He doesn't eat fresh cherries for the same reason... he doesn't like to deal with the pits.

 

[gaited horse]

That's what I think every time I eat an artichoke!

Or bannanas. How did they figure out to peel them.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

Oh MAN!!! Now it's 2:30am and I am still awake!!! WHY?!! I need to sleeeehehehehehee-eeep!

I should have checked BYC later last night, we could have chatted but around 11:30pm everyone seemed to have gone to bed. I couldn't sleep either. It was after 2am by the time I fell asleep and two of my grandsons came at 5:30am this morning. I need a nap!