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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Streak Free Windows

I have found a way to clean windows without getting the streaking. I spray the whole window down with spray away glass cleaner. I wait until the foaming is done. Then I rub down the whole window really well using a rag. Then I take another dry rag and keep wiping it until the window is totally dry. It works every time.

Getting Rid Of Mold And Mildew

If you have some surface mold someplace you can easily get rid of it by wiping it down with a sponge soaked in straight bleach.

If your mold is more then surface mold then you need to take out the wall or where ever it is at. Then get a garden sprayer and fill it with straight bleach and spray the studs or area all down several times until there is no sign of the mold or mildew and then replace the sheet rock or whatever you had to get rid of. After you replace the sheet rock paint it with Kiltz Latex 2 primer and then a semi gloss or satin paint.

Homemade Chicken Pot Pie!

Crust Ingredients
2 1/4 cups flour
2/3 cups shortening
1 tsp. seasoning salt
10 tbs. cold water

Filling Ingredients
3 chicken drumsticks ( or the equivalent of, can even use leftover chicken or turkey)
3 bouillon cubes
1 mug boiling water
2 tbs. butter
2 tbs. flour
3 carrots pealed and sliced
2 potatoes pealed and diced
1 onion chopped
1 celery stalk sliced
1/2 can peas ( optional )

Start by boiling the chicken until it comes of off the bones. Discard bones and skin. Dice chicken and add to a frying pan with a little bit of oil add vegetables and saute1 minute, In another frying pan add butter and melt then add flour and cook untill forms a ball, add the water with the bouillon cubes dissolved in it and beat with a wire wisk. This will make a gravy. Poor over the meat veggie mixture and simmer.

Make your crust. In a mixing bowl add flour and salt stir together, add shortening and work into the rest with a fork until well cut. Then add water and mix well, you may need to kneed it a little to get it mixed. Then roll out on floured surface. Put down bottom crust in pie pan then add filling then repeat with top crust. Poke 9 holes in top of crust with a fork and tuck under extra dough and pinch crust around the edges. Bake in preheated 450 oven until brown and done.
serve with mashed potato or rice.

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Cream Puffs And Filling

Cream Puffs
Ingredients
1 cup water
1/2 cup of butter
1 cup of flour
4 eggs

Heat Oven to 400

Heat water and butter to a rolling boil in a medium sized heavy pot. Stir if flour. Stir constantly over low heat until in forms a ball ( 1 minute ) Remove from heat add eggs. Mix with mixer on high until it is very smooth. Put onto ungreased cookie sheet a 1/3 cup at a time leaving about 3 inches in between each one. Bake until puffed and golden. about 40 minutes. Cool Cut off tops and fill with filling. Replace tops and drizzle chocolate sundae sauce on top.

Filling
Ingredients
1/3 cup sugar
2 tbs. cornstarch
2 cups of milk
2 egg yolks
2 tbs. butter
1 tbs. vanilla

Add everything to a heavy medium pot. Stir together with wire wisk. Bring to a boil on medium heat stir all the time. Turn to low heat and cook 1 minute still stirring. Let cool and fill puffs.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Found A Cure For The Raven Problem

As I posted before, I was having trouble with Ravens getting into my chicken house and taking the chickens eggs and killing my chickens. Well I had enough of them the other day so I decided that it was time to really do something about it.
I made some scarecrows, nothing fancy but they seem to be doing the trick. I screwed a board to the side of each chicken house. I planned it so that the board would be about 7 feet up off of the ground. I wanted the scarecrows to be really intimidating. Then I screwed an old pair of jeans to the chicken house right under the board. I used long wood screws so that is would be sturdy. I tied knots in the bottoms of each leg and stuffed them with shopping bags. Then I put a shirt down over the board. I stapled the back of the shirt to the board with a staple gun. I tucked the bottom of the shirt down into the pant and then nailed it all together to the side of the house. I stuffed the shirt with old shopping bags. I tied a knot in the sleeves and stuffed them with plastic egg crates. Then for the head I used old feed bags. I just bunched them up into a ball, put the ball down on the top of the board and then stapled around the head with a staple gun onto the board. I took a permanent marker and drew a face. I pulled the neck of the shirt up to the head and stapled again. Then I took a bright yellow safety hat and put it on. It looked huge and scary.
Now, it was time for the test. I let my dog outside. She went crazy growling and barking. She thought they were real. It has been two days and no problems yet with the ravens. I see them circle my yard, but then they leave. They want nothing to do with a 7 foot man in a safety hat.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Tuna Casserole

Ingredients
1 package egg noodles
2 can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
4 tbs. butter
1 large can tuna
1 can peas
1 can carrots
Italian bread crumbs

Preheat oven to 350
Cook noodles and drain. Add 2 tbs. butter, peas, carrots and tuna. In a small bowl stir together the soup and garlic. Add to the rest and mix well. Put into a lightly greased 9 x 13 pan. Sprinkle heavily with Italian bread crumbs and then add 2 tbs. of melted butter. Bake until heated through and bread crumbs are brown.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Ravens Are Dangerous Around Chickens !

I have been having a hard time lately to get any eggs. I thought at first that my chickens just were not laying. After a few days of there not being any eggs, I got very suspicious. I noticed one morning that there was a raven in the chicken fence. Then a few days later I saw a raven flying with an egg shell. That raven was going into my hen house and eating the eggs before I could get them. So I started leaving my chickens closed in the house until I got their eggs for the day and then I would let them out in the fence.
Sunday I was at Church, and my husband left the house to pick me up. He brought the dog with him, so all was quiet in my yard. A raven killed one of my chickens. This chicken was huge. It weighed about 8 pounds. The raven struck it in the back of the neck with one hard peck killed it and then carried it off. We found the chicken when we got home laying on the ground and could tell by the wound that it was a big bird that had done it, also we saw the raven and then sure enough he came back after the chicken. We were only gone about 15 minutes. I was shocked, the egg thing was bad enough but killing my chicken that is really going way too far.
Today I went to a friends house and came home to find that my chicken nest that the chicken was laying on, in order to hatch the eggs was empty. The chickens were all spooked and about 20 eggs were gone. My guess, that raven again. And the worst part is my husband can't get a shot at him, he is too fast. He is going to wipe out my chickens.

Do You Keep All Tax Info and Receipts For 7 Years?

Everyone make sure that you are keeping all of your receipts and tax info for at least 7 years. The IRS will go back a long time and question about something. This week I got a letter from the IRS they wanted my receipt that I had paid my 2290 taxes in 2006. I can't find my receipt. The IRS will make me repay this plus 3 years worth of interest and penalties. All because I can't find my receipt. Don't let this happen to you!
Also make sure that you are keeping your bank statements for that long. If I had kept those it would be a help right now. Keep this stuff in a place that is easy to get to and well organized. That way if anything comes up you will know right were to look for what you need.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Hummingbird Feeder Craft To Do With Kids

These are so cute and great for gifts.

Needed
inexpensive plastic hummingbird feeder ( family dollar 2.00)
craft paint in red, orange, yellow, green
foam brushes in different shapes (craft department at Walmart)
Chunky plastic assorted beads with big holes
Thin Nylon Rope
sugar
Sand Paper fine grit

Start by having the kids sand the bottle part of the feeder. Now paint the whole feeder red. Paint green grass and flower stems on the bottle part after the red paint dries. Then make orange and yellow flowers out of the round sponge brushes. Use the big on for the whole flower and the little ones for the center. Let them be creative with the different shapes of brushes. Let dry. Add a rope to hang it by. Give the kids a bunch of beads and let them string them all over the rope. Make sure to make the rope long enough that the feeder can be hung anywhere. While my son was making his feeder the hummingbirds were coming to it before he even got it done or anything in it.

Making the feed
Boil 4 cups of water with 3 cups of sugar in it and then let it cool. Add to feeder and hang.

Kick Your Chicken And Leave It Casserole

Ingredients
2 lbs. boneless chicken tenders
1 can of cream of chicken soup
8 ounce package of shredded Monetary Jack Cheese
1 box of stove top chicken stuffing mix
1 stick of butter

Preheat Oven 350
Grease lightly 9x13 pan. Lay the chicken in the bottom raw. Add can of soup all over the top. Then top with the cheese. Add stuffing mix dry all over the top. Melt the butter and pour on top of that.
Bake for 1 hour. Or until brown and bubbly all over.

Hanging Dish Towel Instructions

Needed

Dish Towel
small amount of scrap yarn
big button
big needle
scissors
crochet hook size G

Fold your dish towel in half top to bottom. Make sure the print side is out.
along the top of the fold, poke holes about 1/2 inch down using the eye end of your needle. You want to poke a hole about every 1/4 of an inch all the way along the fold. Make sure the hole is through both layers of the towel.
Now, you are ready to start crocheting. Make a loop with your yarn and pull it through the first hole in your towel using your crochet hook. Single crochet. Same with each hole all the way across.
Now chain two and turn, double crochet in each single crochet.
Chain two and turn, double crochet in every other double crochet.
Chain two and turn, double crochet in every 3rd double crochet.
Chain two and turn double crochet in every double crochet.
Keep double crocheting in every double crochet until you have done 10 rows of that.
Chain two and turn. Double crochet in first two, chain 3, skip next 2 double crochets. Double crochet in the remaining double crochets.
Chain one and turn. single crochet in first two double crochets. Single crochet 3 in the hole and then single crochet in remaining double crochets.
Weave in ends.
Thread your needle with same yarn, and tie a knot. Fold down the handing part of your towel and decide where you want your button. Make sure that your button is lined up with the hole. Sew on your button and tie of end.
Towel is finished enjoy!

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Do you have hairspray build up in the bathroom?

I have been fighting with hairspray buildup in the bathroom for awhile now. I just couldn't seem to get it off of my bathroom closet door. I tried everything, and nothing took it completely. Today I sprayed it all down with Spray Away.
If you are not familiar with this product, it is a glass cleaner in an aerosol can. It will take a lot of tough stains out of things.
I sprayed it on my closet door and let it foam up and set a minute or two. Then I wiped it off with a dry rag. It took every bit of the hairspray build up off. I only had to do it once. I was afraid that it might do something to the finish on the door. But, it didn't harm a thing.
Give it a try.

Double Chocolate Brownies

Ingredients
2 sticks of butter
18 tbs. baking cocoa
6 tbs. vegetable oil
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1 1/3 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350
Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl. Spread into a lightly greased 9x13 pan. Put into the oven and bake until toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. About 40 minutes