Stella's Social Club

[ronott1]

Just got back from breakfast out and a trip to Hobby Lobby with $50 worth of yarn, courtesy of my son, Michael, and his birthday gift card. On the way back, we encountered, three, count 'em, THREE, black bears, and a horse drawn covered wagon. Read about that here in my blog post-sure was good "blog fodder", lol. http://www.blueroocreations.com/apps/blog/

Tom's recipe for Kelly or whoever else wants it.

Potato soup is so easy. Depending on how many you're serving, just peel and chunk up a few pounds of potatoes (we used about 5 lbs for us and had tons of leftover soup). Cube them big so when they cook down, you still have some chunks in there, it's not all mush.
Put in plenty of water because it will simmer for several hours. Put a can of chicken broth or stock in it.
Crumble up some pork sausage (dont have to cook it first) or ham into the soup.
Add salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, parsley flakes ( you can use chopped flat leaf parsley instead if you want fresh). Use the salt according to your own taste, of course.
Add 1/2-3/4 stick of butter and about 1/2 cup of half and half or cream. Stir periodically and when it starts to thicken on its own.
Then mix 1/2 c. milk, half and half or cream with about a tablespoon of cornstarch and one of flour and mix up well, pour into the soup and stir to finish the thickening process.

Thanks!

I have added the recipe to my recipe folder.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Thanks Cyn! I'll give it a try.

 

[The Sheriff]

Kelly, don't forget your visit with me on Monday, rain, sleet, snow nor dark of night!

 

[The Sheriff]

Cyn, I don't know if this is crochet or knitting, but I bought it today at a little boutique. It is a "headband or neck warmer." Has two big button at one end and a button hole at the other. I think it will be good for early morning animal chores when my ears are freezing. You should sell these on your website. I paid $11.75. Not sure I would go out in public with it on because my head looks big enough already, but I'll sure get some good use out of it at home. It is 20 inches long and 6 inches at the widest point. It starts tapering for the last five inches.

 

[speckledhen]

Looks like knitting to me, Mary. You can get a similar look with crochet, but I do believe that is knitting. Could be wrong, I guess.

I do headbands that just stretch, like this one, which also can be a neck warmer.




And these are on our site.




And this is an earwarmer design, which can be a neckwarmer or a decorative hat band.




You can make a cowl small and it will serve just like an earwarmer, or make one extra wide and you can pull it up over your head as a hood. Multi use accessories are wonderful, I think.

 

[The Sheriff]

Now I remember where I saw them!

 

[The Sheriff]

I took off by myself this afternoon to enjoy Small Business Shopping day. I bought the headband. At a second hand/consignment store I bought a vintage canning jar with a cool well worn lid to store dog cookies.


My best find was a table for my foyer for $20 at a junk store! It needs a little work but I am thrilled with it.



My indulgent find were these glass chicken Christmas tree ornaments at a furniture/home accessory store! In my defense, all Christmas stuff was 20% off!



They are really quite large!



My favorite is the barred rock!



Warning to Kelly...don't go inside The Nest. If you do, don't blame me!

 

[speckledhen]

Aw, I love the Barred Rock hen! We don't do ornaments/tree (or really anything) but that little glass hen is so quaint!

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Time for us Northern CA folks to prepare for this storm coming on Tuesday. Looks like it's a cold one (highs in the low-mid 40's and lows in the 20's) It also looks like we may get some snow. High 60's to snow, what a temperature change. I'm going to have to shut down the auto waterers for the chickens. I've been loading the bees up with food every day so they have enough to get through the cold spell.

checking my point forecast for this week they are saying maybe a inch of snow here Tuesday. Cold air coming behind the frontal band. The kicker though is the lows and highs the rest of the week.

35 to 40 for the highs and 18-23 the lows

 

[The Sheriff]

Is this the first snow load test for your netting Jason? I can't remember if you had it up during snow last year.