Pancakes For Dinner

2011-12-03T13:37:00.000-08:00

You see this poor dog?

That's me.

Yeah. He's wiped out. Worked himself to the bone poor thing. cleaning and decorating that house. After doing all that work he just doesn't have the energy to go on. It's a wonder he made it up to the roof before he fell asleep.

But it was totally worth it you know. That house looks great! And now he can truly enjoy that nap knowing it was well earned.

8 Habaneros all in a row...

2011-08-30T08:59:00.000-07:00

Is what I had to eat to come in second place at the Goehner chilli cook off hot chilli pepper eating contest, last Saturday. Wow. You know what the guy who won first place had to eat? 8 habaneros and one bite. Yeah I lost by one bite. The poor guy said the only thing that kept him going was the fact that he was going to get beat by a girl.
He did manage to keep them all down. which is not something I can say for myself, but I'm glad I didn't. I bet he felt awful the next day.

Oh, and did I mention the second place prize...

Isn't that sick? That's 1 gallon of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

So last Saturday will now be remembered as the stupidest night of my life. Yeah.

Corn corn and more corn...

2011-07-11T09:55:00.000-07:00

There comes a time every summer when my life consists of corn, sunburn, corn, blisters, beanpoles, corn rash, mud, sunburn, sunburn, blisters, and sunburn. Yup that pretty much covers it, oh wait did I say sunburn, yeah? Good.
Well I'm a little sad to say that time of summer has past for me. Yup my job in the field is done, and all too soon for my taste. Oh well. I'm still feeling the affects on my crispy shoulders. And did you know wearing duct tape on your skin can result in itchy red bumps. Yeah. It's gross.
Oh well, back to life I suppose...

2011-07-07T20:14:00.000-07:00

Well before I start telling you about today's happenings I just wanted to tell you that I've started working in the corn. Started on Monday actually. I'm so happy, and tired. Best. Job. Ever.

Any who, allow me to show you are semi yard ornament we had today...

Yeah Dad got a ton of sand that was delivered today. But it rained all night last night and most of the morning so the ground was too soft and apparently this is what happens when you drive a semi on wet ground.

They tried to dig it out... but that didn't work. So after digging a trench in the middle of our yard the truck driver call his brother too come pull him out with his bobcat.

"Oh yeah this is going to work, we'll just wrap a chain around that and we'll pull you right out."

Look at them just standing around watching one guy do all the work.

Well pulling from the front didn't work so the went around and pulled it out from the back.
Which worked great!

But apparently that was just too easy for the truck driver, so he drove the truck right back into the whole.

I kid you not.

So they chained the bobcat back up and pulled it out again. This time he stayed out. Thanks mister bobcat man you saved our yard.

What's left of it anyway.

Ages...

2011-07-02T16:46:00.000-07:00

It's been ages,
I know,
It's been ages,
But you never right,
You never call,
And I begin to wonder,
Have you missed me at all?

So many things to do,
so many places to go,
I've had no time for you,
And this has been my woe.

And that's my sad attempt at poetry. :)

Now let's see where to begin on what's been happening... After a lovely visit with my sister and brother in law (lovely except for the fact I was ill half the time.) My life was pretty mush consumed by farmer's markets, gardening, painting, thunderstorms, power outages, another cold (I thought you were only suppose to get sick in the winter??) and now I'm nursing the sun burn of the century.

Well there you have it. I got on planning to write this super long post about every thing that's been going on, but I think I wrapped it all in a pretty neat nut shell there. :D

It's a good thing too I got pies in the oven waiting to come out!

Taking a break...

2011-05-29T16:40:00.000-07:00

I know I said I would post pictures but I haven't had time. Now my sister and brother in law are here for the week and I just wanted to tell you I will probably not be blogging this week. At all. O.k. :)

I have a good excuse!

2011-05-25T05:44:00.000-07:00

Look at me I haven't posted in like two weeks! And I haven't changed my background in even longer! lol
I have a good excuse though. If ever there was such a thing. First there was my computer... trust me if it were any slower it would have been moving back wards. It would take me five minutes to scroll down a page! Let alone load a page!
Then there were the phone lines...Or should I say the lack there of? But the phone lines are back, and after running a few cleaners, virus scans, and "renewing my IP address" (whatever that means) it's seems to be working at an acceptable speed. And now I have a lady popping on every now and again to let me know my "virus database has been updated" It's kinda creepy actually. I take great joy in muting her. :)
So any way, I'm back, I'm busy, and I have pictures coming soon!

Pants!

2011-05-11T08:39:00.000-07:00

Here's a peek at some of what I worked on last week...

I've recently purchased a fine point fabric paint marker, so now I can do more finer detailing...

Today....

2011-05-10T16:56:00.000-07:00

Papa came up from Illinois today. He'll be having a good long visit with us before heading back.
So (need I say?) we cleaned house all day. Hey, we were good this time! We started cleaning yesterday so we didn't have as much to do today.
We'll that wraps up my day...:)

Hey want to see what bluebananaberry pancakes look like?
Ooops! Got to be faster than that! After a day of hard work pancakes don't last long in this house.

Hello Saturday...

2011-05-07T14:28:00.000-07:00

As you may know today was a big day. So big I spent time getting ready for it, lots of time, last night...

Hello Farmers market!

Hello hoards of beautiful happy people. We're happy to be in the sun aren't we?

Hello flower vendors.

Hello flowers.

Hello Wisconsin I like your cheese.
Hello big red fire engine.

Hello strange people I have never seen before you make awesome soap.Juuust kidding! Hello Timmy and Mom

Hello overpriced coffee...or is it gormet?
Hello honey jars shaped like bears.

Hello drummer dude, you rock.

Hello first day in our first booth.

Hello pillow, I missed you, let's spend some quality time together.

Spring pics...

2011-05-06T08:38:00.000-07:00

spring pics...

2011-05-05T08:27:00.000-07:00

Spring pics...

2011-05-04T08:43:00.001-07:00

Spring pics...

2011-05-03T10:51:00.000-07:00

Goog Morning Monday!

2011-05-02T08:39:00.000-07:00

Yes here we go again. And I will be extremely busy this week because...The farmers market starts on Saturday!! Eeeep!!
So I will be busyx3, getting ready for that, and cutting a million acres of grass. O.k. not really a million, but, yeah.

Have a great day!

Royal names...

2011-04-29T21:51:00.001-07:00

I heard this on the radio and thought it would be fun. I think it might actually be going around on face book but being out of the internet world loop I don't know for sure.

Any way in honor of the royal wedding. To get you royal name you first take one of you grandparents names, then the name of your first pet, and the name of the street you grew up on, add Lord or Lady to that and Tada! Your very own royal name.

Sincerely,
Lady Mildred Mandy Weber

Doughnuts...

2011-04-28T08:52:00.000-07:00

I made doughnuts! And they were so yummy!

The first of many I hope...so do all my siblings...

Yes, at my sisters request for her birthday breakfast I made doughnuts. They weren't as hard as I thought they would be to make. I did have some trouble getting my oil to stay at the temperature I needed it to stay at. And some of them I should have cooked a little longer than I did. But I suspect that will all improve with practice...and a deep fryer. :D I'm hoping to maybe sell them at the farmers market this summer, that would be awesome!

Hungry yet? Come over to my house, we'll make doughnuts.

Happybirthday party...

2011-04-21T12:25:00.000-07:00

Oh well, in our house we never celebrate birthdays on the actual birthday anyway. So today we celebrated Sarah's birthday. So getting up reeeeeaaallly early (about eight) I started my first ever batch of doughnuts, which I will tell all about later.
Then I made cake, then I made crab cakes, and crab rangoon, then comes the icing on the cake. No I literally mean the icing on the cake...

Happy birthday Sarah. My feet hurt. Goodnight.

Poor me, Happy Birthday you...

2011-04-16T13:55:00.001-07:00

I have the habit of picking up and remembering completely useless facts. My brain is full of these literally useless facts. Like the word soup comes from a Germanic word "sop" which is a piece of bread used to soak up broths, stews and wine, or, the word restaurant was first used to describe a kind of soup, and, ice cream was probably invented by the Italians, not the chineese as some may believe, or the word 'nerd' came from the Dr. Suess book 'If I Ran the Zoo', Mickey Rooney (who's real name is Joseph Yule Jr.) was married eight times; divorced seven, 7up was originally named "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", and today is Charlie Chaplin's 122nd birthday. To list a few anyway... Like I said useless, right? When will I ever use any of that info?
Now that might not be all that bad, but tell me, how terrible is it that I remembered today was Charlie Chaplin 122nd birthday before I remembered it was my sister 14th? Now THAT would have been something useful to remember! I'm hopeless!

...So sorry...all that just to say Happy Birthday Sarah! I hope you have a wonderful day. :)

Snow!

2011-04-15T09:46:00.001-07:00

Yeah so I'm sitting here trying to find a spring picture for my profile when I look out the window and it's snowing! Snow! In April! A week before Easter! And it aint no light spring time snow either, it's really coming down!
We're starting a fire! And just the other day we were all sitting outside getting sunburns. Ha! Well you know what they say in Nebraska, "If you don't like the weather, just wait five minutes."
We don't really expect any of the snow to stick, although it is supposed to get down to 30 tonight. But we just had a whole lot of rain, and tomorrow it's supposed to be 60. And we're all looking forward to a sunny weekend. We shall see...
And my profile picture will have to wait as my computer apparently doesn't like loading pictures in snow storms.

I collect...

2011-04-01T15:42:00.000-07:00

bottles! Yes! And I decided this morning (which was a beautiful morning) to take a million picture of my bottles for my blog!

So I packed them all into a basket...

...actually they didn't all fit. so after several trips I got the all lined up outside....

Unfortunately I got them all lined up only to realize they wouldn't all fit here either. So I snapped a few pics and then moved them again...

These are my favorites...

And this is where they live...

I'm going to have to find some more windows soon.

Eggs...

2011-03-31T08:52:00.000-07:00

Have you ever noticed how raw eggs like to stick together in one runny glop of goop? It's disgusting. I hate raw eggs. You know that skin that forms on the edge of the pan when you don't scrape your scrambled eggs while there cooking? That drives me crazy. I make one of my brothers eat those scrambled eggs.
You know how when you fry or poach your eggs you get that little bit of, not cooked egg, right around the yolk. I can't stand that. It disgusts me. Have you ever seen some one eat a raw egg? ...*shudders*

Yeah. So, make sure your eggs are fully cooked before enjoying. :) And have a good Thursday.

Blue bird...

2011-03-30T11:01:00.000-07:00

Now I can show you my first ordered and sold item! Sorry it took me so long I was delayed by a computer crash and a trip out of town. Things happen.
Any who, the lady who wrote the news paper article ordered a bag for a fundraising auction. So here it is hand painted by me...

I only wish I could have gotten a better picture of it. Theses aren't very good.

Oh yeah, I finally came up with a signature I like.
So this is the first piece I've signed too!

News Paper article...

2011-03-06T18:34:00.000-08:00

Well the news paper article came out in today's paper. We didn't really expect a whole lot of response right away, but Mom got emails and orders for soap this morning because of it.
Be sure to check it out!

http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/article_73a22746-bbc4-5ceb-87c3-24fc02f9216c.html

Happy Birthday...

2011-03-02T15:35:00.000-08:00

Today is my favorite author's birthday.
That's right!
Happy Birthday Dr Suess!

Now I'm going to go make a him a birthday cake.

Pants!

2011-02-06T12:50:00.000-08:00

Here are a couple pants I've done in the last week...

Snow fort...

2011-02-04T22:23:00.000-08:00

We finally did get some snow here, and it was just perfect for building. Check out what the boys made...

More Kids!

2011-02-01T14:12:00.000-08:00

As if we don't have enough already! lol

Lollipop thinks she can fly...

Thistle...

Cricket (he's the smallest)...

and cookie monster...

...and so kidding season begins.

Deep in Our Refrigerator

2010-12-29T16:24:00.001-08:00

The refrigerator is not a place where dust should collect. However cleaning out the fridge today I found some in the back on the bottom where no one ever goes, dust, and also some hair... Anyway, it reminded me of a poem I read a while ago...

Deep in Our Refrigerator

by Jack Prelutsky

Deep in our refrigerator,

there's a special place

for food that's been around awhile . . .

we keep it, just in case.

“It's probably too old to eat,”

my mother likes to say.

“But I don't think it's old enough

for me to throw away.”

It stays there for a month or more

to ripen in the cold,

and soon we notice fuzzy clumps

of multicolored mold.

The clumps are larger every day,

we notice this as well,

but mostly what we notice

is a certain special smell.

When finally it all becomes

a nasty mass of slime,

my mother takes it out, and says,

“Apparently, it's time.”

She dumps it in the garbage can,

though not without regret,

then fills the space with other food

that's not so ancient yet

Christmas presents...

2010-12-21T18:02:00.001-08:00

Well the home show is finally over. Actually it's been over for over a week now. We baked a million cookies. We've finally been able to enjoy some Christmas festivities of our own. We're going to bake a million more cookies too. I love Christmas cookies.
We got our tree too. And you have to admit it's pretty awesome...

That's a terrible picture. You're going to have to trust me on this one. It's the best tree.

Here are the clothes pin dolls I've been working on for the past four days. Christmas presents for my littlest sister...

I'm so excited!

2010-11-21T12:37:00.000-08:00

At some point this winter there will come a time when I will have nothing to do. A week maybe two. Where I well have the time to blog every day and absolutely nothing to blog about. It will probably occur in the weeks following the Holidays. Aaah, the long weeks of winter when the world seems to go into hibernation. I can't wait.
Any ways...want to see what I've been doing all week?

I've been making hats. Yup that's it. All week. For the craft show yesterday.

Goodbye...

2010-11-12T18:29:00.000-08:00

Today I am saying goodbye to my teenagerness, (no that's not really a word.) Farewell to nineteen. Today is my last day as a teenager. And such a sad sad day it is. I loved being a teenager, too bad it's all over for me. If I could change things, a bit, I would stay nineteen just another year. I'm sure I'll have gray hair and wrinkles when I wake up tomorrow.
A word of wisdom to all you teenagers in the world who have the good sense to still be a teenager, enjoy it while you can. Stay a teenager as long as you can.

Anyway I don't have enough time to wallow. I have to go get ready for the craft show tomorrow. :P Happy birthday me.

Dear blog,

2010-11-10T08:04:00.000-08:00

Poor, sad, neglected blog. I'm so sorry I've forgotten about you. Sorry I was dragged away in the busyness of life and left you here to fend for yourself.

I'm back now, and I'm here to say I had good reason to neglect you for so long. A few actually.

First and foremost, I had my sisters wedding to go to, which meant regular shopping trips to Lincoln till we found brides maid outfits for me and two of my sister. Then I had hundreds of cupcakes to bake for said wedding. Every thing went wonderfully and I promise pictures as soon as I get them myself. Love you Jenny! So glad I got to help out.

Now I know that doesn't exactly explain for the past two months. It's a start though. Right?

o.K. then on top of that I've also taken a cake decorating class, gotten my garden ready for winter, learned how to make puff pastry and sweet potato pie, learned how not to make vanilla cupcakes rise, traded our weekly farmers markets in for craft shows, made dozens of hats for the craft shows, and actually picked my paintbrushes back up. I'm hoping I'll have something to show at our home show in December. We shall see about that last part won't we.

Sunday Outing...

2010-09-27T18:34:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Concordia University held their final showing of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night at the Seward band shell. I was able to go with three of my sisters. The good people of Concordia's Theater put on a great show. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera and have no proof for you that I was actually there. Isn't that just like me?
Now I can't wait till November when they're doing 'The Pirates of Penzance'.

Oh boy Saturday!

2010-09-25T14:26:00.000-07:00

Saturday to do list...
1. Get up at 5:00 a.m. - check
2. Head to Lincoln Hay Market despite threatening lightening. - check
3. Get to Hay Market set up canopy. - check
4. Get wet while waiting for rain to stop. -check
5. Stand in the wind and rain for half and hour trying not to let the canopy blow away. - check
6. decide it's not worth it and and try to fold the wet canopy back up. - check
7. go home. - check
8. Get coffee. - check
9. Get home. - check
10. Make pumkin bread for breakfast. - check
11. Milk goats. - check
13. Go to Seward farmer's market to get tomatoes and stock up on jelly for the winter. - check
14. Spend a vast amount of time at thrift store. - check
15. spend a little money on lots of things you don't really mean. - check
16. Go home. - check
17. Eat lunch. - check
18. Go to bed. because Saturdays are supposed to be spent in bed.

That's what happens when it rains on my Saturday morning.

Fact: I made cookies...

2010-09-01T18:36:00.000-07:00

Peanut butter cookies. And the I put chocolate chips in them. Why? Because I wanted to feel like a genius...

...It worked!

When was the last time you swiped you finger through the cookie dough, and then grinned really big because it made you feel like a little kid again. Go ahead, try it.

Oh, yeah, because there's not enough sugar in the babies already you have to roll them in more sugar before you can cook them.

Don't forget to spuish them with a fork, it's the peanut butter signature.

Yum! Apologies for the terrible pictures. I blame it on the lighting.

If you need a recipe this is the one I used 'here'

So many people!

2010-08-14T12:22:00.000-07:00

This is what my Saturday mornings look like...

Can you believe all the people that come to the Lincoln Hay Market?

Yes I took a picture of a radish tower.

This is our booth...

Fun. :)

7,8,9,10

2010-08-09T17:10:00.000-07:00

Yeah, that's right posting at 7:00 August 9th 2010, 7:00 8/9/10 that doesn't happen very often :D Just had to share that with you all. Happy Monday!

Cookies!

2010-07-21T21:02:00.000-07:00

My sister make the best chocolate chip cookies. I know every body thinks they have found the best ones, or they're still looking. But, these are seriously the best.

The only thing you have to decide is, do you like yours krispy or gooey?

Slightly adapted from 'Betty Crocker's Best of Baking'

1\2 cup granulated sugar
1\2 cup packed brown sugar
1\3 cup butter, softened
1\3 cup shortening
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1\2 heaping cups all-purpose-flour
1\2 teaspoon baking soda
1\2 teaspoon salt
6 ounces chocolate chips

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Mix sugars, margarine, shortening, egg and vanilla. Stir in remaining ingredients. Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 4 minutes turn and bake for f4 more minutes (we like ours gooey.) Cool slightly before removing from cookie sheet. Cool on flat clean surface.

Now if you'll excuse me I'm in need of some icy cold fresh milk. :D

Movie time...

2010-07-12T19:06:00.000-07:00

I just finished watching Cinderella with my four year old sister. She brought it to me and asked me to watch it with her. You know the ooooolllldd Disney version. The "timeless classic" I guess it is. We have the old VHS too, no Blue Ray HD whatever. Good old fuzzy VHS that doesn't get scratched when you leave it sit on the shelf out of it's case.
I remember watching Cinderella when I was a little girl with my sister. It was never my favorite but I still remember watching it. And I didn't really want to watch it tonight either but it was totally worth it to see my little sister's reactions. Especially at the end when the glass slipper gets broken and Cinderella pulls the other one out of her pocket, my sister clapped her hands together and yelled "It is hers!" :) Timeless.

Happy Independence day!

2010-07-04T10:35:00.000-07:00

Happy Independence day every body. And to really get you into the mood check out my friends blog... Naturally Texan

Gardening...

2010-06-25T14:44:00.000-07:00

Today I decided to get up early and weed my garden. What! Yes I weeded. My sadly neglected garden, looked more like a jungle really than a garden. I've been so busy lately, its been hard to find time to do a lot out side when it's not raining or too hot (my garden is full sun.) I got half of it done, though I would have liked to work on it longer it was time to milk.
As I was pulling the weeds up I noticed these tiny green spiders all over the place! Unfortunately I couldn't get the camera to focus on them so none of the pictures turned out. However I was able to look it up and I'm pretty sure this is what they are...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoplognatha_ovata

Here's my garden...

Why is there a bed in my garden?

Because it's going to look really cool when the Thunbergia I planted starts climbing on it, that's why.

Boo!

2010-06-22T09:13:00.001-07:00

I got a kitty!

Some one was giving them away at the farmers market on Saturday. So I talked my mom into letting me get one. He's not very photogenic...

But he does have glowy green eyes.

We've named him Boo.

2010-06-06T09:27:00.000-07:00

My sister has these coming in from the garden...

So I made this...

Yummy!

Greetings!

2010-06-01T19:27:00.000-07:00

Hello everybody! I've decided to give blogging a try, just because I want to share my business with you. Guess I should start bye introducing my self, (even though I already did that in my profile.)
I'm Rebekah. I'm 19, I'm the third oldest of ten awesome children. I own a car and do not have my license yet. It is important that you know this. Don't ask me why, I don't know.
I moved from St. Louise MO, about six years ago, to a teeny tiny town in south east Nebraska. We actually live right outside the town on a six acre piece of land, we like to call LOMAH Acres (which stands for Land Of Milk And Honey.) We raise dairy goats. My mom makes goat milk soap which we sell at four farmer's markets in the summer and various craft shows in the fall and winter.
O.k. that's all for the first post. Goodnight!