Well...Where have I been?

I put out a little garden every year, mostly tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchini.  I have never canned anything before, which at my age is something of a wonder, but this year I was going to learn.  My intention was to can tomatoes from my garden and then with any leftovers, perhaps can a few jars of salsa.

So how has that worked out  for me you might ask?  It is not going as planned, I will tell you that.  My tomatoes are not wanting to ripen for some reason.  I had planted jalapeño peppers to go in the salsa and they have produced and produced until they are about produced out.  I had to something with all these peppers, so jalapeño jelly came to mind.  I simply love jap jelly with cream cheese on a cracker. That sweet/ spicy combination is just wonderful.    So now all my peppers are jelly, no tomatoes yet, and no jalapeños to put in my salsa.

Then I remembered my niece telling me she bought packets of seasoning when she made salsa and just added it to her chopped tomatoes, cooked them up and then canned them.  Off to the grocery store I went for this seasoning packet of stuff.  I found Mrs. Wages seasoning for medium salsa.  That sounded  good to me.  On the back of the packet it says you can use fresh tomatoes or you can buy the petite diced tomatoes right off the grocery store shelf, make the salsa, then either freeze it or can it.  You know of course I had to try the petite diced tomatoes first thing so I could see how the salsa was going to taste.  I can tell you now, even if my tomatoes never ripen this year, I am going to have some great tasting salsa.  I froze the first batch, but the next I make I will can.  Each packet makes 5 pints of salsa when you add the amount of diced tomatoes, and vinegar it calls for.  One day soon I will have 15 pints of salsa all canned and on the shelf.  We are buying a hog to butcher this fall, and there will just not be room in the freezer for everything. 

That is all the canning of any kind I have done this year so far, but later on I will be canning chicken, both white and dark meat, chicken broth and white beans.  Don't you just love learning to do something new?

Until next time,

Glenda

The Presidents Greatest Accomplishments

Our President has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:

First President to negotiate with terrorist for a deserter and traitor.
First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
First President to violate the War Powers Act.
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
First President to terminate America's ability to put a man in space.
First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
First President to repeat the Holy Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences."
Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion. (Thank God he didn't get away with THIS one).
How is this "hope and change" working out for you?
It's hard to comprehend all this guy has gotten away with. A white President and heaven forbid, a Republican, would have been impeached a long time ago

I did not comprise this list, but kudos to whoever did.

Ain't Technology Grand?

Well it never fails, I set out to do something on my computer and it becomes obstinate. I decided I wanted to write this blog as my personal space to either blow off steam, or to praise something or someone. My computer decided it did not want to open any websites, and if happened to open one, it wanted to take forty-forevers to load it.  I don't have patience for that noise.  When I sit down in front of this machine I expect it to work, simple as that.

After a few hours of shutting down and rebooting, running my virus software, or anything else I could think of, I decided to look into that PC-Matic program.  The guy on the TV says this is the best remedy known to man for computer woes, but as you know I can be a bit of a skeptic.  After a few tries I got online again to read a few reviews that WERE NOT found on the company site.  The large majority of reviews thought the PC-Matic program was amazing and did all it was designed to do.  I am thinking, if it doesn't work I can uninstall then demand my money back for a worthless product, right?  I pay for the product and download it on my computer.  I paid my $50.00 (actually 49.99), which will renew every year unless I stop it, for licenses for 5 computers.  No, I don't have 5 computers, one PC and one Laptop, that is just what you get for your 50.00. 

Once downloaded I follow the directions to start scanning my computer.  It states the more there is wrong on your computer the longer the scan will take. So the waiting begins, {sigh}.  The scanning is complete, according to the report, I have 64 problems on my computer.  YIKES!!!!  I select to "Repair All", and I wait a bit longer.  Next I have to reboot my computer for all the changes to take effect.  Lastly I am instructed to run the scan again on the off chance the first scan may have missed something.  I thought, OK what else to I have to do on this hot, humid Saturday morning, so I select scan and prepare to wait.  The second scan just took a couple minutes. I really can't tell you if it found any other problems, I just wanted to reboot again and take this puppy for a test drive.

Is my computer running any faster?  Does warp speed mean anything to you?  I wholeheartedly recommend this product if your computer is sluggish  and just not operating at it's best.  I don't work for the company, nor do I get any kind of compensation if you purchase the product on my recommendation, I just believe in  sharing the info when I find something that is really great.  I would recommend PC-Matic to any and everyone without hesitation.

That is my rambling for today.  It Monday, so that means there is a mountain of laundry calling my name.

Until next time;
Glenda

Don't Let the Name Fool You

First let me say this blog is still a work in progress and probably always will be.  

Next let me say don't let the name of the blog fool you.  I chose the name after three days of trying to pick out a name that was not already taken.  When I typed in the above name of the blog and it indicated I was good to go, I said this is it!  Now I am from Missouri and I have said "Show Me" on many occasions, I just don't say it  about all things.

My reason for having this blog is just to have a place to write down my random thoughts and what is going through my mind.  There will be no rhyme or reason, just random.

I do have to warn you about a couple of things though;  I have strong religious beliefs, I am a born again Christian.  I pray and I say God Bless You, Thank you Jesus, Praise the Lord, and Merry Christmas to name a few.  I have strong political opinions;  I am a Republican and I think all this Political Correctness bunk is just that, a whole lot of bunk.  Now if any of the statements above offend you, the time to get out is now.  This is my blog, not yours.  I will post about my thoughts and feelings.  You can agree or you can disagree, but disagreeing is not going to change anything, especially my mind.

I do have a sense of humor, if you don't, you are not going to enjoy it here.  If you plan on being one of those sarcastic people just remember one thing;  Don't dish it out if you can't take it, OK?

I am sure there are other things I could list, but my fingers are getting tired, so I am going to stop here for now.  But I will be back when something crosses my mind that I want to share.  

Have a great night,

G.