Thanks to a great suggestion from Molly I watched several you tube videos on how to make cheese. It looked so simple. I ran to the store and got some goat's milk for goat cheese which my Daddy loves.
I thought I followed the video but my batch did not curdle like it was supposed to. If it did I would have taken the curds out (which is the cheese) and the rest of the liquid is the whey which I would have thrown away. HOWEVER, I learned the whey if very healthy and can be used in smoothies, soups or throw on plants for fertilizer as it is full of nutrients. I love learning stuff like that.
Well my first batch total failure except I made some liquid for the compost patch and I will save some for some chicken broth. I'm guessing I didn't let the milk get hot enough.
I have to take go pickup Mom for an errand in a little bit so I will stop and buy more milk then try again later.
It seems like I have to fail my first try everytime I try something new. pfffft
I woke up around midnight and couldn't fall back asleep. Got up a couple times, played a computer game, didn't get sleepy, tried to watch a documentary on China history, didn't get sleepy so I let my mind wander.
Bear in mind for those that don't know me, I semi-retired two months ago and moved from one city to another. I now live ten minutes (probably less) from my aging parents. After working my whole life, going to school, raising kids I now find a lot of extra time on my hands. What to do?
I know I'm getting back into volunteering as I did that in the city I just moved from, the main focus was feeding the hungry but donating my time is on hold for now until I know what I want to do or am needed.
When I was younger I was gung ho to garden and loved what I grew, somehow I faded away from that but the juices to start gardening again have been flowing recently. My first attempt at tomatoe & eggplant in a "grow pot" was a failure. I'm joining a community garden which I think my last blog was about. I saw their compost piles and got even more inspired. The month of July and August are brutally hot here, to hot for most things except onions and okra but it dawned on me while I couldn't sleep and went into busy brain thinking mode that I could start seedlings in the house. I jumped up to go watch you tube on how to do things.
So far I built an egg carton greenhouse to start some bok choy seeds given to me and some cherry tomatoes. Then after several more videos I'm all into making some bean sprouts all of which I dearly love. Now I'm just waiting for it to get light enough outside so I can go get my soil to prepare, hence why I get to write a blog while I wait for the light.
If I were working, not being able to sleep would be very negative, but now that time doesn't matter I can turn it into a positive!
Of course I will probably fall asleep before I get to eat breakfast, so what, who cares!
Now that I go to write the blog I can't remember if my profile picture shows Bella or not but I'm going to guess the dog is in my arms because she usually is and when she isn't, she is by my side. She went to work with me every single day in the CPA firm and she sits on my desk at home.
Two days ago she was restless, throwing up and diareah. I knew a vet visit was in order the next day however her diareah and vomitting stopped yesterday but she still stayed restless. Today she finally ate something but everytime she laid down, she would pop up, spin around, try to lay down, pop up spin around, try to lay down, rinse and repeat.
I only moved to this town two months ago so I called the neighbor to ask for her vets phone number. Funny thing when the vet's office answered I recognized the name and it was the same vet I used over 40 years ago when I lived in this town. I took Bella to the vet but she miraculously got better when we got there so I was sent home. If I find blood in her stool or she continues this popping up, spinning uncomfortable gestures I will have some geriatric blood work done after all she is 14 years old.
She weighed two and a half pounds, that is SOOOO TINY. I don't ever want such a tiny dog again. I love throwing her in my purse but I don't like watching for all the predators (like birds) that want to dine on her. Especially here in FL she is truly gator bait.
I think my cooking made for one sick puppy.
In my early twenties when I bought five acres of sand, I got into gardening, with that much land it was easy., once the truck load of chicken shit was delivered to fertilize it. Years later I went back to the city, got more oriented into my career and have not gardened in almost 40 years. Now that I've entered retirement I would like to get back into it but hardly have any yard. Really don't want to maintain a large yard anymore either. So Tom told me to check out Community Gardens.
I googled it and found one close to me which I am going to go investigate it in an hour or so. They don't have a plot for me right now which is okay, too damn hot here to plant now. However the person I'm meeting is going to show me around and I will volunteer some so as to get on the list for a plot in the fall.
I'm pretty excited, enough so I woke up four hours too early. I have no idea what I'm in for which is probably what has the tingling feeling of excitement coursing through me. I gave gardening an honest try on my own a few months ago but failed miserably, don't know why. I have a most beautiful eggplant that grew blossoms but the b*tch didn't grow any eggplants, ugh. My tomatoes got a disease and I only got one tomato.
According to the web site this community garden has classes as well I will probably meet people to give me advise. A whole new learning curve is always a good thing for me even if I resist it at first.
I want to grow tomatoes to make spaghetti sauce from scratch so bad I can smell the sauce simmering now. I hope I get to grow some flowers for my yard too. They are pretty spendy at the stores.
Wish me luck folks.
Hi folks. I use Facebook to see the different activities my friends and especially family members are involved in. It keeps me updated on many things I would otherwise miss.
Of course the FB site figures you out and then feeds your newfeeds with what it determines you would like to see. For me it is recipes, kitchen gadgets, animal rescues and funny animal videos.
Sometimes there are video challenges such as the ice bucket challenge where people were trying to raise money for some medical reason and posted videos of ice buckets being poored on them, some were hilarious. Then there was the cinnammon challenge which could be dangerous but also hilarious. Well currently there must be a lip sync challenge to different police departments.
I have to say I've certainly enjoyed watching several officers put together their videos, some are really cute. At the end of the video an officer challenges another police department.
Anyone else enjoying that?
Still feel a bit green to blogging but I need to write rather than pay a therapist also spelled "TheRapist". If I need advise, a blog is a great place to hear many opinions, I love that part, especially if most every one is civil.
Tomorrow I will see two of my very last clients for tax season. Tomorrow is the first time we are cutting clients off six days before the deadline. Don't get me wrong, we will still file an extension but they have to drop off their paperwork with no guarantees nor any live appointments.
I've been with this company over twenty years, it's my work husband. Loved the job all that time except the first six months I was employed there. The boss was just starting his CPA Firm and I had just moved across country from Seattle, WA to Orlando, FL leaving a boss that was retiring from his CPA Firm. The Orlando boss and I grew the business, mostly he grew it, I just kept his books as the admin/secretary as well as an Accountant during tax season. The firm grew after a couple years we hired a secretary, that made my job easier. After many years of employment, I became a Partner
Five years ago we interviewed buyers for our firm finally selling to a much younger woman. One of the questions I asked before I accepted the sale was would she allow my dog to work by my side for the two year contract I had agreed to. I knew I could handle anything for two years. I thought if it was an unpleasant two years I could retire but I was hoping to make it to sixty-six when social security would kick in. I signed the non-compete. The two years flew by with me enjoying what I did and learning my boss. In those two year I loved and admired her, will do anything for her while she has grows this company.
In the last five years I finally heard my boss say, she doesn't know if she could still be doing tax seasons at my age. I just smiled. She is a beautiful woman from Lithuania, she does Ironman's, I tell her she is a beast.
I'm moving a 100 miles to the next chapter of my life. Working part time from home by remoting into the office. I will miss my co-workers but have my parents and siblings to enjoy. I also am now single, no work-husband so there time to explore a companion.
End of a Season creates a New Season.
This is often why I blog - my sleep pattern has gone whacko. On a 40 hr work week schedule I have to try to force sleep when I can, after retirement I will let my body enoy as little sleep as it needs.
The funny thing is I'm hearing this disturbing sleep disorder from so many people, my children, the adult grand divas, friends are starting to say it happening to them, even some co-workers, different posters on a blog I discussed elsewhere came forward with this experience. My guess is all the wonderful electronics we are tethered too are affecting parts of our brain, sleep pattern being one of them.
I've tried teas, tons of natural products but not script pills because I can't get my hands on any but that is a good think because from my understanding you wake up groggy and I hate groggy. All the natural one I pop awake like a jack in the box. They just won't put me to sleep though
My folks aren't having this sleep problem, in fact Mom get Dad up around 9am, Mom dresses him, fixes breakfast, Dad reads his newspaper (and I tease him that everyone reads it online) and he is ready for his first of six daily naps. Sleep no longer eludes him. Ironically he hated sleep when he was younger. Mom on the other hand says she too is waking up hours before Dad and she gets to cherish that time for herself so sh is okay with it.
I'm facing the first part of my life of not having to adhere to a schedule and I'm just a little bewildered at wondering, imagining all the things that can unfold. At the same time I have to fear of "change", habits to break easy. This is my problem and I embrace it, now if I can quit trying to over think it, I could do myself a favor. Sounds like I'm trying to turn into my own therapist.
This blog brought to you by sleep deprivation, I hope I don't regret it tomorrow.
Down and out, I got an hour and a half before the stinky alarm goes off.
Good Day to the world. I'm a newbie to CS but an experienced blogger looking for a place to blog for the theraputic value it provides me for free. I'm a boomer fixing to retire and move from Orlando to Tampa very soon. Ugh the move isn't pleasant but what a happy camper I will be when it is behind me.
I've lived in southern CA, Seattle WA and Orlando, FL. I was born in Tampa, FL where I grew up, returning now to help out my aging parents who live two miles from the home I bought to retire in. My siblings all live in the general area so it is a family effort.
I call my grand daughters, the granddivas because they are both grown divas! One moved to Santa Monica the other is here. I have a nine year old grandson that I just acquired last year and he is over the top cute and I love him dearly.
It is still tax season, I'm an accountant and towards the end of the season, all of us in my office are dragging our butts. I've worked for this company for over 20 years, was part owner for awhile until we sold to the current boss, a young woman that I dearly love and admire. It is a bittersweet retirement for me as I want to retire but I have leaving my beloved co-workers and job so I'll stay on part time and work from home, it's a sweet deal.
A friend recommended this site, I'm waiting on another friend from Canada to start blogging because her blogs are extremely well written. She is truly a lady with a passion and I look forward to her blogging as well.
Oh one other trait about me that anyone that knows me vouches for...I have always been bonded to a dog throughout my life, some big some little. I was widowed young and had big dogs to help me protect my children. In Orlando I have an apartment size dog, a tiny 3 pound Chi (chihuahua) that NEVER barks, can't stand little yappy dogs. My dogs have gone to work with me everyday for over 30 years, I just lucked out (like winning the lottery) on that perk. Her name is Bella, when I move to the home in Tampa I am thinking about rescuing a bigger dog for security reasons plus Bella is very old.
That's me and that's all folks.
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