My niece Sarah was invited to a dinner and raffle over the weekend for one of the places she works. She ended up WINNING the grand prize of a 75 inch television! That thing is so big there is no way it is going to fit in her apartment. Still she was glad she won that instead of one of the other prizes which was a free Botox injection.
Diane was talking to mom on speaker from Gulf Shores so I sent her the picture above. Diane told Joan, "go to my house and in the closet is a ski jacket and matching ski pants." We told her we would go there next. About then Karin had breakfast ready for mom and mom walks to the table each morning.
We left then for Diane's house to find Joan something decent to wear tomorrow. We finally figured out Joan must be very smart. She comes dressed like a hobo and ends up going home in a nice Sunday coat and carrying a ski jacket and ski pants.
She is going to keep the mission mart coat for working outside around here. Mark had left over blueberry pancake to go with his egg and sausage this morning. After breakfast Mark tightened up the nut on the bouncy house fan and I put it together. Of course we tried it out before taking it back to the barn and hooking it back up to the bouncy house.
After getting the upstairs cleaned I brought down a couple of old candles. We were down to 1 and a half fire starters from the last batch I made.
I put those 2 candles in a pan on low then started rolling napkins. These napkins are from Sam's club and have 1200 in the package for about $12.00 making them 1 cent each.
Below I have a bunch of them rolled up for dipping. I took 2 of my jelly roll pans and put a sheet of wax paper on each of those.
The pan of wax is moved from the stove and put between the napkins and the pans.
The napkins are dipped in the wax then put on the pan and just stacked up.
When the wax was gone the pans were taken outside to cool for a bit. That doesn't take long, the wax hardens pretty fast and the sticks can be put in a zip lock bag until needed. The video below shows the finished product.
I ended up with 130 of them and spent just a little over $1.30 for them. About that time Mark came in and wanted to put the log splitter back on the tractor. As soon as we got that done I had him bring a bale down for Evan. Evan was turned out into the pasture but he knew what we were doing so hung around the gate until we finished then when I opened the gate came galloping in for his treat. He knows there will be grain waiting in his bucket when I move a bale in. These stallions know the routine so well. I left then with the golf cart, threw the net wrap away then parked the golf cart in the gym. Tomorrow I will plug that in and get it charged up again. It has a lithium battery and those can't be put on the charger in below freezing weather. While at the gym the balls were organized and those carts the kids had so much fun on were worked on. I brought over 3 lead ropes and tied them together and made a better pull rope for them. We have some home schooling kids coming on Thursday, I think they will enjoy playing with them. David's message was turned on so I could watch and listen to that again. Dinner tonight was chicken tortillas. I used left over chicken from last night and while heating it up in the pan cut up a lime and squeezed on some lime juice. I used mixed lettuce and spinach on the tortilla, added the lime chicken, the red and green peppers were sautéed then put on top but the red onion was added raw. A little bit of queso cheese added, sprinkled some shredded cheddar on that then put a little sour cream on top. It is a colorful tasty quick meal.
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