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Welcome to our Fly on the Wall group post. Today 14 bloggers are inviting you to catch a glimpse of what you\u2019d see if you were a fly on the wall in our homes. Come on in and buzz around my house,and then check out the other houses too! Links to all of the crazy bloggers are at the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n
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Summer is slipping past us quickly, which means frantic scrambling at our place. Our first frost meant complete panic, as I picked as much of the harvest as possible. I saved most of it, but the “light frost” turned into a “killing freeze” and anything I missed or didn’t have time to deal with was history. Here’s the sad proof:<\/p>\n
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Wait, did I say sad? I was so sick of picking beans, that I was actually relieved to see them die, DIE, DIE<\/strong>!!! Whew. I feel better.<\/p>\n The Man: “Put 5,000 on the pumpkin and gracias (only he pronounced it “graw-shus” on the pie.” Wooo HOOOO!<\/p><\/div>\n Let me set the stage here, okay? I love hunting season! We have a deal: I make lots of food and he leaves for 10 days or so. Sweet, huh? Except…he got an elk after just a few days. So not only did he come home early, he came home dragging a bazillion pounds of gory meat with him. While I’m thrilled to have meat security, it took us almost 2 days to cut and package the meat because (and though I say “we” I mean “he”) we cannot have any<\/em> fat, gristle, or bone in our meat. That means each piece must be cut with surgical precision. All scraps are frozen for the dogs, so nothing is wasted, but my hands looked like prunes before we finished because I had to keep washing my hands, cutting boards, and knives to “start clean”. OCD much?<\/p>\n Do you remember last year when I showed you what a bear penis bone<\/a> looked like? Well, this year I had something even more impressive, but was afraid of offending too many of you. Let’s just say that a bull elk is called\u00a0a bull for good reason,\u00a0and leave it at that! I really don’t want the picture out there for anyone to Google, so use your imagination. Just….whoa!<\/p>\n Now comes the REALLY nasty part. The Man, in his efforts to thwart marauding neighbor dogs and cheat the coyotes, put the poor elk’s head up on the garage roof, under the assumption bugs would clean it off and then he could bleach the skull for the wall in his man cave. (Don’t think I didn’t notice you disappeared for a few days, little fly.) After that frost we had very warm weather, and the smell got worse and worse. I was at the brink of buying a case of face masks or moving to my daughter’s when he gave in and removed it. It’s now soaking in a big tank\u00a0of soapy water. No smell, so I guess that’s a step in the right direction. Ugh. The man hadn’t been gone 30 minutes when my dryer stopped dead. No flicker, no pulse. Figures. So I hung everything on the line and resigned myself to roughing it. (It’s a top loading, computerized prima donna dryer, not easily repaired.) My son, Lord Voldemort, rolled his eyes when I wanted to try my computer “cure”, which was\u00a0to unplug it and plug it back in. Guess what? Uh huh, oh yeah, who’s the dryer fixer here? That be me! We have two chest freezers, and both are full to the top with meat and veggies. It makes my squirrel instincts happy to see all that food for winter. I’m on to dehydrating things now, because that doesn’t take up much room. A trip to Costco for coffee and Russ: \u201cMan, that Middle East is a messed up place. Makes you wonder why Israel doesn\u2019t just move their country somewhere else.\u201d Gardening isn’t all grunting and dirt. Sometimes it provides amusement. Case in point:<\/p>\n Cute little potato family.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n I have a few other examples that are also rated “G”.<\/p>\n . It’s all fun and games until someone gets a leg chewed off!<\/p><\/div>\n This has been an “all work, no play” kind of month. If anything funny was said it probably just went right over my head. I see some calm times coming though – after the tomatoes and apples are processed and the garlic is dried and the dry corn is picked and the potatoes are sorted, and the elderberries are made into syrup…well, I’ll try to make time to jot down funnies as they happen. ‘Til then, click on the links below for some good laughs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Baking In a Tornado<\/a> Welcome to our Fly on the Wall group post. Today 14 bloggers are inviting you to catch a glimpse of what you\u2019d see if you were a fly on the wall in our homes. Come on in and buzz around … Continue reading <\/p>\n<\/a>
\nDealing with the bounty means I haven’t posted a blog post since last month’s Fly on the Wall! And yet, I have been lucky enough to have understanding followers, because my Facebook page just hit 5,000 likes – which is incredibly exciting to me! I was trying to figure out what to write on the pumpkin and the pie for my photo. I had some help:<\/p>\n
\nMe: “Graw-shus? Maybe you need to go back to Spanish class.”
\nThe Man: “I was just being fecalcetious.”
\nOh.<\/p>\n<\/a>As if the garden wasn’t enough to deal with, it was also hunting season. (Here’s where you’ll want to scroll waaaaay down the page if you’re anti-hunting or a vegetarian. Okay…I warned you!)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\nwine<\/del> dog food and I’ll be ready for the snow to fly!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nHe’s a bright guy – much more into politics than I – so I’m pretty sure he was messing with me. But…WHAT?!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\nJust to show how much influence a female has over a male, Daisy has finally taught old stodgy Otis to throw caution to the wind and play<\/em>! It may not look like much fun, but they’re having a great time wrestling together. Makes me happy.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nStacy Sews and Schools<\/a>
\nJust a Little Nutty<\/a>
\nMenopausal Mother<\/a>
\nThe Sadder But Wiser Girl<\/a>
\nThe Momisodes<\/a>
\nFollow Me Home<\/a>
\nGo Momma O<\/a>
\nDinosaur Superhero Mommy<\/a>
\nSpatulas on Parade<\/a>
\nJuicebox Confession<\/a>
\nSomeone Else’s Genius<\/a>
\nBattered Hope<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"