Wanted: Ice Cream Recipie

I got the Ice Cream maker attachment for my Kitchen Aid mixer for my Bday so I'm looking for good Ice Cream or Sorbet or Sherbert recipies to try out.

Any one got a good one?

I bet you will go do this yourself....

You know when you are in the middle of doing something and you try to pull some foil out of the box with one hand and the whole roll comes out of the box. Then you have to put the roll back in the box and start over. And if you are like my husband the roll has gotten away from you so you have to roll it all back up and its no longer smooth but all bumpy. The darn roll always comes out at the wrong time.

So have you ever looked at the end of your Aluminum foil or plastic wrap box?

Go look at it, I'l wait......

Written on the end it said, Press here to lock end. Right there on the end of the box is a tab to lock the roll in place. How long has this little locking tab been there?

Now I didn't find this out myself but it was sent as an email. Once I finished reading the email I went and checked it out for myself and proceeded to press in all the tabs on the end of the boxes.

Did any one know about this trick and not share it with the rest of us?????

The 10 Most Annoying Songs Ever

Rolling Stone polled readers and asked them to I.D. the most irritating songs to get stuck in the crevices of your cranium. Here they are.

The 10 Most Annoying Songs Ever

1. My Humps, Black Eyed Peas
2. Macarena, Los Del Rio
3. Who Let The Dogs Out, Baja Men.
4. My Heart Will Go On, Celine Dion
5. Photograph, Nickelback
6. Mambo No. 5, Lou Bega
7. You’re Beautiful, James Blunt.
8. Wannabe, Spice Girls.
9. The Thong Song, Sisqo
10. Believe, Cher

What do you think should make the list?

My new Baby

My mother in-law raises chickens for the eggs. Every year she gets a couple more as laying chickens only produce eggs for about 2 years. This year she got another 10 by mail when they were only a couple days old.

Because they are babies you need to baby them. Thus you need to create a very warm spot for them to spend the first couple weeks while they get bigger. Once they are bigger they can be moved to an outside cage in the hen house. Once they are big enough that they will not escape thru the fence around the coop they can be let out with the other girls.

Thus there are baby chicks living in the bath tub at her house. So taking a shower is an event in itself. Move the chicks out making sure the cat doesn't get to them and that they don't get out of their container. Then you need to clean the poop out of the bottom of the tub. Then you can take your shower then put them back in with all their accessories.

It is really funny to be going potty listening to them just cheeping away.

I claimed one - its a little black one with white wing tips with black feet and 1 white toe. That chicken will now be called Beth

When was the last time you...

Played kickball?

Burned the back of your knees? and the top of your feet?

Played with tadpoles?

Held baby chicks?

Took a shower under the stars?

Was serenaded by a tree frog in the shower?

Had fresh cheese curds?

Petted a baby cow?

Remember when it was 68 deg in the middle of June?

Chased geese?

Picked strawberries?

Its amazing what you find

So tonight I started going thru all the floppy discs I have laying around looking for my song book and what do I run across but some really good pictures. That makes me want to go thru some old CD's full of pictures I have here as well. Hmmm now that I have a new computer with a DVD burner I might just have to put them all on DVD - hmmm I'm think xmas presents here for you all.

What else did I find? A disc of Zoe's that has old english papers on it and what looks like her song book. The game Asteroids and Wheel of fortune. A picture of my sister and I holding a stingray from our first cruise. And a bunch of pictures of Chris taking down the worlds biggest tree down here in Indy.

Oh and my problem has been solved - I found the electronic copy of my song book on a CD (of all things) labeled back up 4/2004 - shows you how old that thing is. I could have sworn it was on a disc but I'll take a CD over a disc any day. Now to make sure I don't misplace it again and put it in the file box labeled games (were I found it not in the back up box where it should have been). I'm probably going to also put it in my online storage space so I can't loose it again unless that web server goes down or I forget my password. Maybe my lock box or a safety deposit box.....hmmmmm

I think I've lost it...

Do you remember how during college most of us spent alot of time typing out our girl scout song books. I remember using the time I was monitoring the computer lab to get everything typed up and printed out from the hand written versions I had up until then. Plus paper at school was free...

Well as of today I can not find both my hard copy nor my electronic version of my song book and I was looking. I think I know where the hard copy is - I can visualize the box its in. I just have not seen that box in awhile (that is what 2 moves in 2 years will do to you). As for the electronic copy - I know it was saved on a computer at one point in time. Which computer is anyone's question. And if it survived various hard drive crashes is the question. I also had a copy on a floppy disc - finding that disc is going to be challenge. The lucky thing is I still have a computer with a floppy disc drive - if that drive works is a questions.

Well cleaning the office today I did find my old computer box with a small box full of discs - none of them labeled. I also found an old lap top from where Patty worked a couple jobs ago, a bunch of dos information and a ream of paper. So I think I know what I'm going to be doing for the next couple of days - going thru discs. Why do I hang onto junk?

So tell me - can you lay your hands on your song book?

The Flood

If you haven't heard Indiana has had masive amounts of rain this week. Today alone we got better than 2 inches from about 9am to noon. South of us near Bloomington got about 6 inches in the same time frame. And this is on top of the rain earlier this week.

Flash Flood warnings abound. I65 south of Indy is closed.

The rain was coming down so fast the storm sewer at the bottom of our yard was overflowing and the man hole cover in the middle of the street was spewing water thru the holes in the cover.

Our back yard, which is a funnel for the water for the neighbors yards, was a river - you could not see the grass.

Well the rain has stopped for now but more rain is in the forecast.

The plus side is that my garden is doing awsome. The roses are blooming. My tomatos which went in the ground just a couple weeks ago are already flowering. And I have volunteers abound. I need to get them out of the ground before they get too much bigger and take over my roses. Down side is Chris is cutting the grass when ever he can as it is growing fast - but its very nice and green.

Feeling much better

Well the cough is gone - well I'm only coughing occasionally now and not as hard. I can breath thru the nose more often and am only getting stuffed up once in awhile now. And my voice is coming back. I'm still a bit snotty but its getting better and better.

So I'm well on my way to a full recovery.

What really helped in my mind was having my feet rubbed. It was weird but the night of the coughing fit where I was coughing so hard Chris thought I was going to throw up (Tuesday), I had Chris massage the bottoms of my feet. I know there is some science behind it and that certain areas of you feet are linked to vital organs - reflexology I think its called. But I can tell you this that my coughing subsided and my head cleared up right after he finished rubbing my feet.

I am so going to have to try that again when I get sick next time and see if it cuts the duration and symptoms down.

Plus having your feet rubbed feels oh so nice.

1/2 day today

Yesterday afternoon my sinus issue started to turn into a bronchial issue - I started that really deep heavy cough like you hear with bronchitis. Chris thought I was going to heave as I was coughing that hard. As I don't feel the gurgling in the lungs like you get with bronchitis and Chris didn't hear anything when he listened to my lungs with his stethoscope (that's another story) I'm pretty sure I don't have it but I'm probably right on the edge - I'm also not coughing anything up (its a nice dry hack) and I'm also not running a fever. I think my cough is more related to the sinus drainage I've got going on and the major irritation my trachea has right now. Oh and I started loosing my voice.

I do have to say that being a life long cougher I've got pretty good control over the cough reflex. To the point that my body is telling me to cough but I can ignore it so I'm coughing much less.

But the real reason I'm taking a 1/2 day is because of the 200 storms that came thru last night (okay minor exaggeration but it never stopped raining between about 9 pm and 7 am this morning). The lightning shows were awesome and it felt like they were going off every hour but they are really hard to sleep thru. We did get hail at one point in time as I was listening to it ping off the window. I got up to check the house during one of the early hard rain falls closing a couple windows. Chris got up while it was hailing to make sure the storm wasn't getting worse and to close the rest of the windows. As it was they are reporting this morning that 4 tornadoes touched down south of the city more by Bloomington. Add that to the one that touched down in the north east corner of the city on Friday and its been a busy week.

Because of the rough night I was so tired this morning I never heard the alarms go off. Chris finally got me up. I stood up but was so dizzy I had to sit right back down. I laid back down and fell right back asleep. And didn't wake up until Chris called me at 9 to see how I was doing. And talk about weird dreams I was having.

So except for a really sore throat, almost no voice and continuing cough I feel alot better than 6am. And since I'm already late for work I might as well turn it into a 1/2 day and get some stuff done around here.

I really hate sinus issues.