Burp!!!

I'm still full of Thanksgiving! MMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!
today, I clean the office, then my husband is going to pick me up to help him finish his work, then he wants to take me to see a fishtank he wants to buy.
BBBBuu-bbuu-But I don't want a fishtank! I just remember the last ones we had smelled of wet fish and lake water in the house and I don't want to smell it again! But he's so excited!
Ohh welllll.
Gotta go and get started on today!
Bye! Trisha

Fall is for Harvesting! and for Thanksgiving To God for food

Look! look! look! look! look!


look at my harvest! I also put new vidoes up on my YouTube channel if you want to see them in "action"!
I am so proud of myself at getting so many sweet potatoes and such huge ones all from only 1 plant!

you might notice in that picture, the wonderful detail of my finger forever suspended in action for eternity in that picture! That's a true ACTION SHOT! anyways, back to the harvest, you might notice that's a 15 inch ruler there! WHAT"S UP WITH THAT POTATO? it's like it couldn't figure out where to stop!
 POTATO: "MMM right here? nope... theres still room on that root.... right here? nope, let's just go a little further... You know- the winter's coming and we need to make sure we store enough! better go a bit longer..."
ME: "Well potato,  I don't know what to do with you! It will be interesting peeling you! Thanks for all your hard work storing up for the winter!"

WOW!

 keep in mind here, thats a 15 inch ruler I have in there! I'm still shocked!

Check out the fat size of that one!

before shots. Before I roughly yanked the plant from it's comfortable bed of all summer and ever so gently dug up it's buried lumps of gold! such pretty flowers it had too! But I didn't grow it for decoration! Just for food. did you know that the leaves and stems of the potato plants are edible? cook em up like spinach. I've never tried it yet, but I've read about it. I just don't dare. It's not something I've ever seen anyone eat and I'm scared at how it will taste! Guess we're not that starving!

vacant spot in garden for sale!

I am in complete aww of what came out of that dirt! I wasn't expecting much because I ignored that plant so much this summer!
 Anyways, I told you I would post about the harvest, and I did.
So now I'm free to go back to being lazy! :-D
Have a great afternoon!
Trisha

Pretty orange like pumpkins!

I fixed my blog. I was so sick of that pink for a long time and finally remembered how to change it. Orange looks lots nicer I think!
         I've had a very lazy day today. Not much going on. Just a day of relaxing for me and my husband. He actually got up early! About 10:30AM! I was so impressed!

I should go out and dig up my sweet potatoes, but I don't feel like it yet. I read somewhere that the starches change to sugars and the potatoes get sweeter if you leave them in the ground till after the first frost, but no longer. it hasn't froze yet, but has gotten cooler. I don't know if that qualifies, but I'm getting excited to dig them up and see how many I grew this year! Maybe I'll do that today!

       Then I have laundry and my entire house to clean. I don't like cleaning my house. I feel like moving to a smaller house so I'll have less to clean! My husband likes big houses, and then won't help me clean it. I think a small house is perfect- costs less to heat or cool, easier to clean and maintain, and there are so many other benifits and I have a difficult time trying to convince my husband a small house is better!

       

Maybe I am just lazy! Thats probably all it is!

My motto is still less to clean and I'm still going to get rid of a lot more things just as soon as I can get into all the stuff in the garage! For some reason we piled all the big things like shelves and dressers in front of all the smaller things that I have wonderfull plans to get rid of, so it's all sealed in waiting for our house to get painted and then we can move the big things out and uncover all our treasures trash!!!
I can't wait! everytime I've gotten rid of stuff, I've felt so free! now living in my house right now, the only decorations I have are houseplants and 1 vase and a fake tree! so easy to clean you think! But I'm missing the biggest thing about cleaning- MOTIVATION!!!!!

I did organize the desk drawer and the dreaded drawer of papers that always builds up! So I really did do something productive!Well, I'm going out to dig potatoes! Will update you with the harvest!
Till later,
Trisha

officially free! and Happlily Full of Cinnamon Rolls and Apple Cinnamon Rolls!

I've got my last paychecks from the roach motel, and was at Mom and Dad's all afternoon!
I had a wonderfultastic day today! I originally went to mom's because I didn't want to sit at home looking at all that needed to be done, because I felt I couldn't do it cause my neck hurts and I still had remnants of the headache I had yesterday. I don't know if I slept wrong, or pulled a muscle in my back, neck or shoulder, but my neck is in a hard knot on one side and I can't turn it too well. I had a pretty bad headache yesterday and my mom thinks it tensed my muscles which is probably the case.
 
 anyways, we went to Anthem and bought stuff for cinnamon rolls. Then mom made dough while I washed dishes and then we sliced apples to fry up in butter for some of the cinnamon rolls! then I went to Anthem and got my checks, came back, and mom was already half way done with the cinnamon rolls! I helped her to finish, and then washed all the new dishes- I love washing dishes at other people's houses! does anyone else? we cooked and visited all afternoon and I had so much fun and feel more relaxed than I have in ages! I just needed time with mom! I havn't seen her in forever it seems!
I had so much fun and came home with some delicious rolls and wonderful supper for my husband and pomegranate seeds and don't you think I have the most wonderful mom on earth? she also put muscle relaxing cream on my neck before I left, and made a nice warm rice sock to put on my neck for on the way home. She's always been such a sweet caring mom, and still is! She still takes care of me! She is the best! I still have that sock on my neck! and it's working!

But oh those rolls she made! I felt like I was melting inside eating them! They are so delicious and juicy with buttery melty appley carmely goodness, or just plain buttery cinnamony carmely deliciousness in the whole world that makes you feel like you are in a world of your own with each bite savoring the flavors, and they have the most beautiful texture and have the most best flavor ever! and the supper she made! I have never been able to make that dish taste as wonderful as she made it tonight! I am even further convinced that I really did grow up with the world's greatest chef even more cause no one can top the way she cooks! I can only hope to be able to cook as great as my mom someday! THANK YOU MOM! THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO!!!!
I am so happy I went there today. I had so much fun!
Goodnight everyone!
Trisha

FREE!!!! (of the roach motel)

I'm free at last, but will have to go back to the roach motel to pick up my last check next Friday.
I have to work in the kitchen tonight at church, and tomorrow morning. I also received a call yesterday that I'm on the coffee committee tomorrow night. so when it rains, it pours!
I made pasta last night. MMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!! It was the best yet I have ever made! I kneaded the dough extra long and used less egg this time so I think thats why it was so nice and aldente instead of soggy! I also rolled it out thicker than normal.

I made a lot and froze some after it dried for later.

then I cooked some up, drizzled it with first cold pressed extra virgin olive oil (which is the absolute best tasting stuff on the planet-besides chocolate avocado pudding), and put it on plates,

added deliciously thick spagetti sauce, sprinkled parmesan cheese on my husbands (I don't like it on spagetti)

toasted up some garlic bread-didn't take a picture- and ate. it was so good! Sometimes I impress myself.

MMMMMM see those yummy garlic chunks?

here's Cruiser with his blue squeeky ball. He loves his squeeky balls- you can see his green one in the background, along with a tennis ball. this dog lives for any game involving throwing a ball. here he's trying to give it to me to throw.

before the party- my kitchen getting painted. almost there!

closeup of the intricate details of many layers of different colored paint and unpainted texture, and paint cutting done before painting. (this is the wall in my kitchen) I'm glad you can't see this part anymore.....

another attractive picture of the dog and his blue ball..... no other explanation needed.
see how fuzzy he is after his bath though? his shampoo makes him smell like marshmallows.....
This is a picture of my husband's plate of food from the Pink Lotus where we had takeout about a month ago. I was shocked when he told me he was hungry and proceeded to dump the entire contents of his order on his plate and then ate it. I guess he WAS hungry!! and he's not fat at all and not a fat roll in sight on him! And me, well we won't even go there. let's just say, if I ate all that, it would form a roll the same size on my belly without any trouble. aparently 2 different metabolisms here.

plotch- thats the sound of the splat of dumping it on the plate- notice the splatters on the placemat? :-)

Thats a mountain of rice and onions huh? It was very spicy mongolian beef or something.

Leave it to my husband to make it an "attractive" presentation! :-)

ANYWAYS, enough of my yapping. I gotta bring lights over to the house we're fixing up because my husband forgot them and called me to bring them, and it's 1:01PM and I'm still in my PJ's and I have to get ready for Bible Camp soon! So will update you later!

Make it a great day!

Trisha