I’ve come a long way working on some pictures for a project that I’m involved in for our town. I thought it would be really cool to take some photos that were taken during the last Irish Fest that our town had, blow them up to a really big size, and then display them during an Irish Stew supper that I’m helping with. Now this sounds like a good idea, and I’ve got the photos all ready in my cart on the web page for where I want to get them printed – but even with downsizing the amount that I’d like to buy it’s still way too expensive. But with the supper only 2 1/2 weeks away, I’m hoping that they’ll have a sale on the prints .. like tomorrow! If not? Well I’ll have to find a less expensive place to buy them from which I really don’t want to do.
I’m also working on a photo project with Kyle. He brought some really cool sand back from the Black Sea and the Red Sea from when he was in Athens Greece and I’d like to display them somehow. So I found some perfect sized shadow boxes and I also have two of his pictures that he took when he was in Athens at those beaches to display in them. But they are in my cart with the other stuff that I want to print but it’s too expensive- so I guess I wait.
And guess what I bought for the kitchen? Check out my new Jerky Maker. I think it looks pretty sassy if I say so myself!
I literally worn my out. I was using it the other day and just when I was half way done it jammed up and died. I had such a mess and for an instant I thought ‘Hey I might be able to fix this’. Then I cobbled the rest of the raw jerky mix out of it and walked to the trash can and threw it out. It’s been giving me trouble and if I only counted how many batches that it actually did, I would know that it paid for it’s self many times over. So tonight I broke down and bought a new one. I’m hoping to get to use yet this week sometime. With William coming home this weekend, he’s always ready to take some beef jerky back to college.
Now I did learn today what we can do with all our egg shells. There is a known organic pesticide called diatomaceous earth, which is basically the fossilized remains of creatures that are ground into a fine powder. This works as an organic pesticide because it gets under the shells of beetles and acts like bits of glass to cut them up and kill them. (That part isn’t so nice!) Snails and slugs will also die if they slink across it, and it works as a deterrent. Well guess what, eggshells work the same way. Now we’ve always thrown our egg shells into the garden because I heard that some of the pests didn’t like it, but grinding it up and putting it on the leaves of the plants? SCORE! So now I’m working on drying out our egg shells and making a container of my organic pesticide. I have no idea if it’ll actually work – but honestly I’m not out a thing!
And what is the photo of the day? Well after I was looking at Kyle’s pictures of Athens, I decided that the photo below was going to be it. I think it’s an amazing photo and it doesn’t even look real! Very, very cool!