7:20am
25 degrees and feels like 20 out, BRRRR!
Can you believe this weekend, the beginning of December,
we are supposed to see 60 degree temps?!
Can you believe this weekend, the beginning of December,
we are supposed to see 60 degree temps?!
Last night I watched the tail end of the show
Extreme Couponing on TLC.
This one family had a 15 year old girl that was
into couponing and even had her own stockpile!
She had $600-$700 worth of groceries
and only spent $25. The family told her if she could
continue saving them money they would
put a down payment of $5000 on a car for her 16th birthday.
Impressive for such a young age.
Shoot, I'd take the $5000 and flat out buy a used
car with that instead of getting a 2013 one.
How can you be that into couponing and saving
money that you wouldn't want to get a used
car and waste lots of money on a new one that
depreciates in value the moment you drive it off the lot
and then you would have car payments and
full coverage insurance each month to pay for
rather than a car that was free and clear of any loans.
I don't know. Maybe she wanted to start building her
credit up or mom and dad was going to make those car payments.
They even went out looking at new cars. The 15 year old
was concerned about trunk space so she brought along
a bunch of filled grocery bags in her mom's suv
and put them into the new car's trunk to test the
fit for a bunch of groceries!
Their next new show has a lady who has
50,000 coupons that she uses a robot to sort them out!
Now that is extreme to take it that far!
You can check out a sneak peek clip of the
newest show coming up HERE.
9:15am
Still tweaking the solar air heater.
I was feeling cool air drafts coming in the window
so cut out some foam carpet padding
to put around it to insulate it some more.
I hot glued it in place so it was secure.
No more gaps or drafts with double insulation.
1:00pm
180 degrees in solar air heater.
The house temperature has not dropped below
69 degrees since 10:00am.
Full sun today.
2:00pm
Working on dehydrating a bunch of potatoes.
Aldis and Kroger had potatoes 10 pounds for $1.00.
Stock up at that price because they were about
$3.00 for 10 pounds.
I bought 30 pounds. I can't use them all at once
so need to dehydrate them for later use.
I have two dehydrators and so far have only filled one.
When I get back from the bus stop I get the other
one ready. I sliced all the potatoes thin so they
would dry faster. Then I soaked them in a mixtre
of water, Citrus Drop (Kroger brand Mountain Dew)
and a little lemon juice. This will keep them from
turning brown. These potatoes slices can be used
for fried potatoes or scalloped potatoes.
2:55pm
Supper tonight will be chili bowls.
Take a roll of large biscuits like Grands.
I used Kroger brand. Turn a regular sized cupcake
pan over and shape each biscuit over the backside
of the cupcake pan doing every other one to
allow room for them to expand when they bake.
Bake according to biscuit package directions.
While baking warm a can of chili on the stove in a pot.
Once biscuits are baked remove them from
pan and set upright and spoon chili into them.
Top with cheese & onions or sour cream.
3:15pm
Got a big pot of potatoes boiling on the stove
with some lemon juice in the water.
Once tender I'll drain them then put back into the pot
and put in the fridge overnight. Tomorrow I
will shred them up and make hash browns
to put on the food dehydrator.
Potatoes will take about 6-12 hours to dehydrate.
BUT dehydrated ones can last 5-10 years!
Buy a lot while they are cheap during the
holidays and dehydrate them for the pantry.
I put mine in canning jars once dry.
If you dehydrate onions, I suggest putting the
dehydrators outside as they will stink up your house!
Onions are .59 cents at Aldis for a 3 pound bag.
Those will be next to go in the dehydrator once
I get done doing about 35 pounds of potatoes.
4:15pm
While making supper I decided to check
on the potatoes in the dehydrator.
To my surprise they were done already.
It took about 2.25 hours.
This is the result of about 3 pounds
of potatoes after dehydrating.
I have started working on shredding up
potatoes and have one tray done up for
the dehydrator. Getting a little grub in my belly first
before doing any more.
Hubby is staying an hour/ hour and a half after work
on a side job of replacing someone's rear brakes for $50.
That's half off or more on the labor alone compared to a repair shop doing them.
Do NOT take your vehicle to Goodyear to have worked on!
WAY WAY over priced!
And you'll drive away from there with more
problems than you had to begin with.
Ask me how I know.
I will refrain from going back there again!
9:15am
Still tweaking the solar air heater.
I was feeling cool air drafts coming in the window
so cut out some foam carpet padding
to put around it to insulate it some more.
I hot glued it in place so it was secure.
No more gaps or drafts with double insulation.
1:00pm
180 degrees in solar air heater.
The house temperature has not dropped below
69 degrees since 10:00am.
Full sun today.
2:00pm
Working on dehydrating a bunch of potatoes.
Aldis and Kroger had potatoes 10 pounds for $1.00.
Stock up at that price because they were about
$3.00 for 10 pounds.
I bought 30 pounds. I can't use them all at once
so need to dehydrate them for later use.
I have two dehydrators and so far have only filled one.
When I get back from the bus stop I get the other
one ready. I sliced all the potatoes thin so they
would dry faster. Then I soaked them in a mixtre
of water, Citrus Drop (Kroger brand Mountain Dew)
and a little lemon juice. This will keep them from
turning brown. These potatoes slices can be used
for fried potatoes or scalloped potatoes.
2:55pm
Supper tonight will be chili bowls.
Take a roll of large biscuits like Grands.
I used Kroger brand. Turn a regular sized cupcake
pan over and shape each biscuit over the backside
of the cupcake pan doing every other one to
allow room for them to expand when they bake.
Bake according to biscuit package directions.
While baking warm a can of chili on the stove in a pot.
Once biscuits are baked remove them from
pan and set upright and spoon chili into them.
Top with cheese & onions or sour cream.
3:15pm
Got a big pot of potatoes boiling on the stove
with some lemon juice in the water.
Once tender I'll drain them then put back into the pot
and put in the fridge overnight. Tomorrow I
will shred them up and make hash browns
to put on the food dehydrator.
Potatoes will take about 6-12 hours to dehydrate.
BUT dehydrated ones can last 5-10 years!
Buy a lot while they are cheap during the
holidays and dehydrate them for the pantry.
I put mine in canning jars once dry.
If you dehydrate onions, I suggest putting the
dehydrators outside as they will stink up your house!
Onions are .59 cents at Aldis for a 3 pound bag.
Those will be next to go in the dehydrator once
I get done doing about 35 pounds of potatoes.
4:15pm
While making supper I decided to check
on the potatoes in the dehydrator.
To my surprise they were done already.
It took about 2.25 hours.
This is the result of about 3 pounds
of potatoes after dehydrating.
I have started working on shredding up
potatoes and have one tray done up for
the dehydrator. Getting a little grub in my belly first
before doing any more.
Hubby is staying an hour/ hour and a half after work
on a side job of replacing someone's rear brakes for $50.
That's half off or more on the labor alone compared to a repair shop doing them.
Do NOT take your vehicle to Goodyear to have worked on!
WAY WAY over priced!
And you'll drive away from there with more
problems than you had to begin with.
Ask me how I know.
I will refrain from going back there again!
Costs way too much like I said.
I had coil packs replaced on an Expedition.
They charged me $80 for each coil pack.
I saw on Ebay I could have purchased
8 brand new ones for $80 for all 8 from a parts
company out of Canada!
Strike 1
I went in for a antifreeze flush and the next
day after picking my vehicle up all the freon
mysteriously leaked out of my air conditioner.
I thought it was antifreeze on the ground under
the truck and it turned out to be the freon
with stop leak in it that is colored green like antifreeze.
NEVER had any problems with my ac before that.
Blew ice cold all the time up until that day.
Strike 2
Another time I took another truck in to have
it looked over to see if it needed the
GEM Module replaced because it was
a problem with Expeditions.
Well you guessed it I ended up with another
problem I didn't have before soon after driving away,
NO brake lights!
Strike 3 and you're out.
Third time was a charm and I never went back
to that place again!
5:45pm
Got 4 trays of hash browns going in the dehydrator.
Hoping they'll be done before 9pm.
I'm so tired. I got up at 5:40am this morning
to allow myself a little extra time to bake
french bread casseroles this morning.
They are all three baked now so it's only
a matter of warming them up in the microwave
tomorrow morning.
To keep the hash browns from falling through
the trays I used the fruit leather type trays.
I also used some homemade trays I made
out of plastic canvas. I traced a tray onto
a sheet of plastic canvas and cut it out.
I've used them before without any problems
but will still keep an eye on the potatoes.
I have the dehydrator set on 170 degrees,
the highest temperature setting.
Hubby just called and is on his way home.
After getting the tires off the guys car needing brakes
they found out the guy bought the wrong brake pads.
The guy said he will compensate for his time
tonight due to his mistake so it's all good.
So it looks like hubby will be late again tomorrow night.
Oh and hubby is on call for the next couple of hours
tonight. The guy on call had a funeral showing to go to
and hubby said he'd cover him while attending that.
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