Saturday, July 30, 2011

Yogurt WIN!


It only took 2 years to get around to it but I finally whipped up a homemade batch of yogurt. Something in me said this was going to be hard but it was ridiculously easy! Well, I did cheat a bit and use my crockpot. Ideally I could get the job done off the grid but for a first time attempt I opted to use this method: http://savingslifestyle.com/2011/07/how-to-make-homemade-yogurt-crockpot/. My little Vik gobbled up 12 oz for breakfast before I cut him off so I'm pretty sure the experiment was a success. I love it when the kids dig my cooking!




Sunday, July 17, 2011

Holy Pickles, Batman!


A dear friend recently introduced me to the world of canning. She's created a monster, muhahahaha! Here's the Peacock Peck of Pickled Pickles.


10 jars last week, 14 this week and loads more cukes crying for me as I walk past them to feed and water the Dirty Dozen. I am in survival chick heaven. Pickles! Yeah!

Brilliant or Book the Therapist Now?

Sometimes I'll have Evie dictate to me a story that tells about a piece of her artwork. Today's selection was so entertaining I just have to share it. Though the obsession with the living dead does have me a little concerned. :)




This picture is called "Mermaid". The three little rocks don't talk. This is why - When people come they get really shy because they fell down and got hurt and got gray but now they are white. They are called the three commandments about God. They are happy because the Mermaid is not bothering them. The mermaid is sitting on a rock watching the birds flying to their nest. The baby birds fly because the mermaid keeps swimming and the starfish keeps swimming. The mermaid has long hair because it keeps growing and now her hair is 100 long! So the mermaid with the longest hair was sitting on the rock. She was sitting on the rock until at last she swam away. After she swam away a truck came.

*Flip to the backside of the page here*


Once upon a time there was a truck with flying birds all over it and they were flying all over until the driver died. He woke up and was a zombie and said, "Oooh, I'm a zombie! Ooooooh, I'm a zombie!" The truck died too. At last he died again and the birds went away. But he only dreamed he was a zombie. The End.