Good deals, Fixing the Stove, and The Lights Went Out!

 

I used the coupon from Walmart to buy things we use.  Milk, crackers, baked beans, corn, cream cheese, and a few cans of carrots.

I also used a $10 off 40 coupon from our local grocery store to buy more things I needed.

There is a coupon from Meijer's too for if you buy $100 you get $10...I'll wait till next week.

We pulled back the oven to find the serial number to order a burner plug in and it was on the bottom drawer!  Of course though we really need to clean back there.

We bought this stove at habitat for humanity about 10 years ago.  We have replaced parts here and there and it just keeps on running.

Our lights went out last night for about 3 or 4 hours.  They said a transformer blew.  We got all our lamps out and the house was lit up again.  I keep them all in one place for easy access...the top shelf in the coat closet.  

It was cold outside but still warm inside from the last time the furnace kicked on.  It was late so we went to bed and covered up (we are all adults).  They gave us a repair time as 2:30 in the morning and it was fixed by 12:30.  That heat felt good when it came on.

Now, if you don't think this freaked us out ...your wrong.  There is so much talk about the grid failure on social media it made us think...did it really happen.....

A couple of great things we have for a power outage :

A solar charger for our phone  (we keep these in the sunlight so they are ready to go at all times):  

BLAVOR Solar Power Bank 10,000mAh Portable Wireless Charger for Cell Phones

These lights are small but mighty in power:

Lichamp LED Camping Lantern, 4 Pack Battery Powered Flashlight for Power Outages, Portable Collapsible Hanging Light Essential for Home, Outdoor, Emergency Lamp Survival Kit Gear for Hurricane, Gray

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Adding Leaves to the Garden, It's been A Wonderful Fall!

 

We went up to Lumberman's Monument a couple of weekends ago just to see the Fall colors.  It was a great trip.  We stopped in to Ben Franklin's in East Tawas mainly for our granddaughter.  Grandson has gotten too old he said to find anything there (toys).    She found some Needo's she liked.  The kids are wild over those squishy things.  

Roses are still blooming here in November.  It's been a wonderful Fall but a lot of the trees are now naked.  

We've been putting leaves in the garden, it adds extra nutrients to the soil, helps the soil not blow away with the winter winds,  and  helps suppress the weeds till Spring.  We do not chop them up.  By Spring they will be fine to plow under (spring is end of May here).

Hope you are having a great Fall too!  

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Fall Chores & a Beautiful Autumn Walk!

Fall is here and we are keeping busy preparing for the winter months. I feel like there is a lot to do!  

Here is what we are doing in the greenhouse:

Granddaughter helped me spray paint some milk jugs and fill them with water for solar heating.   We finished 4 but I would like to do a lot more. People need to drink more milk around here!

We will see how much this helps...  I've done this before but not to the extend I want to do it this time.

I picked lettuce for the week out of the green stalks.  After watching a video a light bulb went off and I realized my green stalks were too close to the greenhouse door -so basically when you open the door you would be immediately giving them a blast of cold air.  So I rearranged everything and moved them a little further away from the door, more in the middle of the row.

In the garden:  I hope to plant the garlic and tulips this week.  I will also be pulling up the tomato cages after the frost we are expecting.  It's easier when the tomato foliage is dead to get the cages out of the soil.

I feel like I'm running out of time before the snow falls so I'm going to get busy!  

It gets dark at night so early now so I've been back to crocheting or sewing.  I'm crocheting a hat and scarf for donation and last night I completed the scarf.

On one of the warmer days this past week we went for a our local nature preserve.   We saw a couple of turkeys, ducks, and lots of squirrels.  It was a beautiful Autumn walk through the fallen leaves. Thank goodness they have lots of benches because I used every single one we came across!   

Today they are calling for an all day rain so we are planning on walking at a church that has a indoor track (they have benches too).  There is a way!

Besides great how to You tube videos I've become addicted to the stories that are told.  This week my favorite story has been: 

His Own Children Had No Room for Him — So He Knocked on His Daughter in Law's Door!

I was also sent a book from Leslie Gould to review!  Just the cover alone makes me want to dive right in!  

A Second Chance to Remember (Letters from Lancaster County): A Sweet Amish Second-Chance Contemporary Romance Set in Lancaster County

Hope everything is going well at your house.  Have a great day!  

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Frost Is Just Around the Corner & Amish shopping!

 With the threat of frost just around the corner (next Tuesday night) I've been picking my green tomatoes and wrapping them in newspaper.  

Checking them often, we are then able to use them as they slowly  ripen.

Our trip into some Amish country

We stopped at a farm and bought watermelon for $4.50 and a big cabbage for $ 3.00.   The thing about Michigan watermelons is that they come in late and it's already getting cooler.  They are delicious though!

Then we stopped at Country View next and bought some great deals with apples being our #1 thing we wanted.

We bought a half bushel of Gala apples for $12.00.  We have already eaten quite a few out of this bag.

We were detoured by road construction and found a Amish bakery that we had never been to before.  They had wonderful sourdough bread and donuts for a great price.  We told her how we just happened upon her bakery and she gave us this map of all the Amish businesses!  This is really helpful and we wish we had it years ago.

Hope everything is going well at your house.  Have a great day!  

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