Deane Adams

Holly,thank you for your wonderful post.  I too find that from time to time I experience "some" difficulty being able to clearly read the text on the cards.

Peace

I was a bit under the weather yesterday and did not eat much, so tonight I fixed my tarragon beef braise with baked potato (small pat of butter, no salt) and a small serving of red kale and arugula with lemon juice.
Served at the table upon one of my mothers quilted place mats, no linen as I was wearing a long sleeve shirt in case of any drips.
Hey I'm a pagan not a barbarian !

Peace

Oh my goodness, that's a lot of meals from one chicken.  Just how large do the birds grow of Skye???

Peace

I finished the baked chicken and rice from a few nights ago along with the organic creamy tomato soup I've been eating for lunch.  Dumped all into the pot warmed on the stove top and no I did not eat out of the pan!  I used my 1 qt. blue and white enamelware cup, but eating out the pan does save water when you wash the dishes.

Peace

wood stove I have ever used.  Liberator, gen 2 without the hopper.  I ordered one around the 18th of August and it was sitting on  my carport a few days after Labor day.  There is a learning curve as is with any stove, but this stove with its small feed tube and two air intakes took me a little longer to get used to.  I keep it outside for a week or so redoing and adding more paint, then burning/curing the paint before moving it into the basement.  I finished all the set up yesterday, I had some early problems with smoke leaking from around the fireplace door frame, but some careful caulking took care of that and removing the damper from the exit pipe helped also.

I did a real test firing today for about two and half hours and could not be more pleased.  I'm delighted with its performance, with the basement door open upstairs, using no fans as yet and burning less than a 5 gal bucket of mostly twigs and small limbs I got the temp upstairs to rise 5 degrees.  I even had to come out of my sweatshirt.

I got this to use as a supplement for the heat pump and or for emergency use.  Next will be building some sort of interlocking block "mass" around the stove to help store the heat.

Peace

If you have the space how about an outdoor line or two?  That's all I use these days and a line in the basement.  But I live alone and only do laundry every two weeks or so.  Also I can use an indoor folding dryer rack near my new wood stove.

Peace

I guess it is a good thing I cannot embarrass myself, I'm way beyond that. Here goes, I like fish sticks with Mac & Cheese (homemade) not the kind in the box.  And I've been thinking about making this delight.  But it's kinda hard to make it for just one, so like rice I end up eating it for days.  But I'm up for it and I'm tough enough to take it on!!!

Peace

I've been kinda blown away with all these fabulous dish's you guys have been posting.  I felt the need to step things up a bit, so tonight while warming my leftovers I applied a coating of Chick-fil-A , Polynesian Sauce on top. (it has the lowest salt level of all their sauces)  And I did not eat out of the pan !!!

Peace

Thank you for another excellent post, with those pics, I think I might be feeling, no is that hunger, that I'm feeling???

Peace

I had a nice gift in my inbox yesterday.  I got a look at two of the cards that are now finished.  I'm not a word smith, so help out if you want, my best may be to call them awe-inspiring.  I can see masses of Permies marching out giving out the purple playing cards to everyone.  Ah what a vision!

As I told a neighbor after giving him a copy of Paul's saving the world book and a deck of cards, "I'm going to break your head open from the inside out"  A few days later he told me you just might do that!!

Peace