weeks run together

 Son 2's cat died . He was 20 yrs old. He still has the younger one but had stated he will not get another cat due to his own health going down. His paperwork is on hold for his medical retirement while the gov't is shut down but since he has his Army medical retirement he is ok. VA did give him some good news, they connected with an Urgent Care close to him so he isn't looking for a ride to get there as he no longer drives interstate.He laughed when he found out it was our old doctor's before we moved here. 

Daughter 4 is now sharing  a car with her older son so they could buy a chest freezer. Younger son is walking to work to save $$.  She's glad the oldest and her family are doing ok.

Daughter 1 has blocked family due to ALL of us reporting to her doctor/law she was drinking and selling her prescription drugs. Her husband backed us as he worried she was going to end up killing herself. She's in rehab now so it's wait to see how this goes. 

Daughter 2 is worried about losing her job working at the school, last hired is first fired,she is still bartending but acknowledged her tips are way down and her hours there have been cut in half. She has 2 of her boys (adults) living with her still but they told her she should start looking at getting a smaller place as they are looking at moving next summer.

Daughter 3 said she is working 2 part time jobs, she has the 2 younger kids still at home both are working part time with still being in school.

Son 1 said he is doing fine, still working steady at IT company. 

Parents in law are doing good but Hubby's SIL of his younger brother was in really bad shape between heart and other issues. She's doing better after she said something to her heart doctor that our son had been zapped and it fixed he AFIB.SO they tried it.... it straightened it out like his did. 

Hubby got over pneumonia, Doc decided he wanted another test CT scan with dye on his lungs. Found granulomatous, passes through genes, affects immune system. He has recovered but we now know why he gets sick easily. Will have to work on a better routine for home blessing and making sure he eat healthy.

I have another tray of green tomatoes turning . I will add them to the ones in the freezer to cook into sauce.

I gathered thoughts of what I wanted to do with the beef that will be coming in late Nov thru Dec. Made the list so I wouldn't side track and not remember something. Already decided on the pork.

We have the wood/coal stove on for the last 2 weeks. I've been doing most of the keeping the wood in house. 

Hubby checked on the whole house generator and the solar well pump. He does a monthly test run to make sure they are in good working order. 

I still need to finish the deep cleaning. Slow process since there was several medical appts for Hubby.

I checked the pantry, medical supplies, etc. Have 2 out of 6 deep freezers to defrost, clean, organize and inventory this month. Picked up a few things we were low on. 

Worked on finances for next year. Need to check a few more things before we set those numbers. 

Set for a hard winter they keep talking about.

I hope everyone is healthy, got supplies for your homes and find something daily

Blessed be  Stay safe

Hubby's birthday.

 This is from the other day but he loved how well it turned out. Ribeye steak, baked potato and asparagus I froze will be his meal for his birthday.

Son2 is now off work for medical. His employer suggested he file for assistance thru VA as he can't stand very long on his feet. PAIN just runs down his legs through the feet. Doctors don't have answers of why YET, more testing  to come.  He can pay his bills, maintenance on car and house but limited on groceries with the cost that just keeps going up. He was an idiot (his words) and gave his emergency back up incase of electric failure to his girlfriend that is now his ex.   We raided ours, found stuff that we will not use here since we have a wood/coal stove to heat and cook on, solar pump for the deep well, hand pump on cistern and 2 generators. He ordered a grid down "bucket" of dried food that will stay good for 25 yrs. Figured that would cover some of the food issues.  One of those , I don't need to have a pantry as the store is 3 blocks from me. Store manager put a sign out if they lose electric the store would be CLOSED as they don't have a generator to run the store , just protect the freezers and frigs. 

I checked with the girls and Son 1... they said they would be okay for at least a week. I told them to push that amount to 2 wks (comparing to Blizzard of 1978). I will ask again next month. Two of the girls live across from each other, one will have heat, the other has a grill so they decided worse case grill gets carried across the street along with blankets and pillows. LOL

We cleared the gardens. I froze the tomatoes to can later. The last of the winter squash will be cured Thursday so I can move it to the basement then. 

We did a trail run of the wood stove since we changed the cap on the chimney.

Started nicer ... Hubby put 1round log (8 inch wide, 15 inches long) in for night time at it was down to 40 ℉, just one and it ran us out of the house at almost 90 ℉ with every window open GEEZE.  Hubby might have to cut them in half and only use 1 instead of the 6 we used last winter . He thinks it was Birch wood as it burns hotter but doesn't last as long. Took a good 24 hrs to get the house back down to mid 70s 😌

I have all 3 refrigerator freezers organized and 4 of the 6 deep freezers sorted and organized (and inventoried) Still have the beef freezer and the other freezer that is a combination of poultry, seafood and veggies. I restocked nonfood items and otc meds. 

I didn't go to store yet so it will be 8 weeks since we did a shopping except for milk and I picked up large bag of carrots, 2 celery and 25 lbs of bread flour as I shared what I had with M and she just gave me the cash to replace what I gave her.Bulk store was out of all flours and was waiting for delivery. Came in almost a week late. She sent a pie over with the cash . 

I paid all the bills, that's always a sigh of relief. Stayed on budget for groceries/nonfood/ OTC meds.

Now I need to finish the fall cleaning 😕SIGH. 

Blessed be, stay safe

Prayers for peace

Rolling into Autumn

 Kalettes did not produce due to drought  😞

Harvested last of winter squash to cure. Moved cured squash to basement. Gave what we didn't want to neighbor.

Eggplant is not turning. Hubby said he would recheck it this weekend and if it's still green he will pull it.

Tomatoes need picked and plants pulled.

We harvested the last of the potatoes, didn't do well at all.

We harvested the last of the sweet potatoes that did extremely well. Probably will end up sharing that in a couple months or so.

Hubby redid the ruined insulation in the pump house. Wore a cover all for it but didn't bother with a face mask... caught pnumonia and was down for two weeks and still gets tired very quickly which means I was doing his work along with mine. 

I got a sinus infection, so running a fever SIGH SIGH SIGH...neighbor on other side burnt drywall and didn't warn anyone and the smoke drifted all over the neighborhood. Even my Amish neighbor complained.😮

I only bought 1 loaf of bread and 2 gallons of milk in Sept. 

Not as done with autumn work load as we had hoped to be due to health issues but still doing decent. 

Hope everyone is well and that you have something to smile about.