Okay so I won't get my own show

I have gremlins in my kitchen today.

It started out very promising with some decent dyeing .... and went down hill from there. The yellow over-dye that I applied to the coffee colored yarn & extra dark blue to the bright blue I didn't want ... didnt hold - I mean they took the color, it just didn't do what it was supposed to.

the yellow I over-dyed on the onion skin mostly washed off after it had cooled and the yarn will have a very marled look to it ... some areas taking color more than others ... it will be intereesting to see the effect to say the least.

but I will not get that deep blue to brown gradiant that I wanted to look like birds wings ... now instead of ravens it will look more like bluebirds ... sigh ... but the brown looks more bronzey than coffee brown.

well all this is too bad but I can live with it, really.

The one that really killed all 'semblence of sanity was supper ... I had a bright idea to use the left over beef fried rice with the extra green peppers I got for potato salad -- I was going to make 'oriental' stuffed green peppers .... I made one for lunch and they were realy good.

My family isn't a big fan of peppers so I had three left .... figured that a half a pepper each would be okay. But I found that my peppers - all of them - had gone south. Since they weren't going to take long to ddo, I figured I could start late so ~ crap ~

I tried to pull up my computer quickly to find an alternative ... so I settled on quiche, its quick, easy and refriderator velcro (as Alton Brown says) .... but I didn't have pie crusts, just had to use cresent roll dough instead ....

first tube was fine ... second tube had this 'bits' of what looked like plastic in them - I've ran acrossed it before but decided that this time I had better call and let them know. Wouldn't you know it - no live person, just some stupid prerecorded message that was of no help at all. Even when it said 'if you would like to leave a message please wait' was no help because it just had a message with the hours instead of a way of actually leaving a message. ~crap~

luckily I had some that I had just picked up before Easter before I decided not to use them after all .... well good thing I had them because I needed them. so they made the base for the quiche .... put the rice in .... scrambled and mixed the eggs .... poured them on top .... put the mess in the oven for 1/2hr - that should be long enough right, and we would still be eating at a decent hour. well I've learned to check things 1/2 way thru so crusts don't burn - good thing cuz the top of the crust was getting too brown, so I topped it with foil.

wouldn't you know it - the top of the crust was cooked but the yolk was still raw and settling on top ... crap .... so I thought well I'll transfer it into my glass pan and microwave it .... 5 minutes yolks will be cooked.

do you know what you get when you put wet yolks in a bread crust?? dough ... crap ... the bottom of the crust was nothing but gooey dough. alternatives came to mind ... and of course poor daughter had to choose this particular time to start giving me crap for calling her up to help brainstorm an alterenative.

sent her for pizza -- by the time the quiche got out of the microwave it would be done if needed, if not - quiche could wait till tomorrow. no pizza. she brought up egg rolls. not what I wanted and it would need the microwave to cook ... crap.

luckily the quiche got done ... the bottom crust was done .... and it tasted ....

like crap.

but we ate it -- I think everyone was afraid not to.

nope -- wont see me on the Food Network anytime soon.

Storms

Well, we did our rain dance last week at the cabin and I guess it worked in spades!

We got 2 1/2" of rain Saturday, and now we got another 1 1/2" last night with high winds. It blew open the secured front door and I had to actually lock it to keep it closed.

Saturday's storm sent a lovely Maple branch towards the front windows but luckily it just slid down them instead of coming thru the glass. Last night's storm has put another good sized branch across my front sidewalk so no one can come to the front door...well that's one way to keep the Fuller brush man away.

Our garden had tomatoes all over it from Saturday's storm which we had to pick up, but my daughter checked it out today and said the zucchini and canteloupes have been taken for a ride this time.

Sure.....where wa all this rain two months ago when the corn needed it??? Or even a month ago when the cobs were forming? The corn crop is a total wash....we can't even sell the stalks for Halloween decorations they are so puny (only about 3- 3 1/2ft tall) and sun-bleached.

Very disappointing year for the farm. We won't even qualify for the Federal Disaster loans the government is offering farmers because our farm isn't "big" enough...by farmland standards we are a "hobby" farm...but this money is where the kids field trips and school activity fees come from. We were hoping to help the eldest son with his first year's book at College this year but now it is going to be tight.

Between gas prices, food prices (milk is almost $4/gal where we go, and that the cheapest place), new clothes for the kids, shoes, first semester tuition for the oldest, and having to pay the district so our daughter can get a bus to school money is going to be tight this year.

We won't even make back the $ we put out for the seed this year.

Don't worry though, we will muddle thru....aw heck we will be okay...we are doing better then some in the area...and we are doing better than the farmers who rely almost solely on their crops for income, they really do deserve the loan money.

Remember Farm-Aid? That musical concert that began in the 80's by the likes of Willie Nelson? Whatever happened to that? Is that still going on?

Or did the farmer's get left behind again?