Category: General

  • Tweaked A/C AGAIN!

    Had to call A/C guy back the next day and tweak the thing, we were frozen first thing that morning. Since then it’s been a day, and I haven’t looked THIS morning yet, but no freezing yesterday. So that’s plus 1.

  • A/C Guy fixed things

    A/C Guy finally came back today with the new sensor module, installed it, made sure it was working and also added a manual damper in between master bedroom and the other bedrooms (’cause of the heat load we have in the master bedroom from the East/South facing the Sun.) He tweaked things as well, to…

  • Summer giving way to Autumn

    August has come and gone. I’m not wishing time away, but I sure won’t miss the Fall Allergy season when that has come and gone. It’s here, has been, and will be for a longer stay than I want (like I ever really want it!) Weather has been nicer atimes the past couple of weeks.…

  • July is nearly over!

    Wow this month has gone fast! Now the Dog Days of Summer are beginning. Hot more often than not. Sun strong, not quite as light as late as it was in July, but this side of the sun’s courses through the cosmos are the hot-dog ones, whereas May and June are just wanna-be’s. I’m so…

  • My Baby is Four Years Old now!

    Quentin turned 4 yesterday. He had a nice time, really liked his presents. He’s getting so big. He’s still the youngest though. He has more “baby traits” than the previous three did at this point, which isn’t precisely birth order, more personality. His older brother, Asa, was the baby at that age, has a different…

  • Red Pepper Sausage Skillet Meal

    1 Red Pepper, sliced into 1/4″ strips (or more, as desired) 1/2 Vidalia Onion, sliced thin into 1 1/2″-long strips (or more, as desired) 2 Tablespoons Butter, plus enough Olive Oil to fry the onions & red peppers 2 Tablespoons Tamari Sauce (or Soy Sauce) Tabasco Sauce, to taste 1 small can diced tomatoes (like…

  • Update on A/C

    I wrote about the HVAC here on my other blog yesterday.

  • 1st Daffodil to open!

    1st Daffodil of 2011 planting Originally uploaded by CrazyMaisy. I posted this photo to Flickr the other day. It’s the related to the previous post here, the same plant as the one in the photo of a green shoot coming up through the dirt. There are many more shoots coming up now, over 70 (not…

  • Snow January 2011

    We got over 5-inches of snow from somewhere around 10pm through to the morning, Sunday, January 9 to Monday, January 10, 2011. The snow came down thick and fast for a long time fastly sticking and building up. I’m seeing this as the best snow storm we’ve had since moving to Georgia in 1997.

  • Skillet Beef Casserole

    Maisy’s Skillet Noodle Casserole 1 large onion, chopped fairly fine 4 or 5 large cloves garlic, finely diced, smashed 1 lb organic beef or bison, ground 2 Tbsp Beef Base (less if desired) 1 can of tomato soup, or tomato paste equivalent, or tomato sauce, or … tomato you-name-it (can use more than 1 can…

  • Starting out in 2010

    Boy oh boy it’s a new year, already a month after. I guess I thought I’d posted something here. Something, since mid-December. I didn’t get a family photo for Christmas, and never got a Christmas card finish or sent to anyone. It was very mild in December & January, cold enough for a fire in…

  • Crafting a Christmas Card

    Crafting a Christmas Card

    It’s already just a week before Christmas 2009. Time has flown. I still haven’t gotten my Christmas cards done. I know what I want to do. But haven’t gotten anything more than pro-types for cutting with my Cricut/Gypsy and putting that together and gluing things together & glitter … but no inside picture or writing…

  • December

    December this year has been rather wet compared to what I remember since living in GA (1997.) It has rained and rained and rained, been overcast and dull a lot, little sun. Sunny days are very special this month so far. Today the wind is building so much so that we are under a Wind…

  • Septic Tank Pumping

    Update on the septic tank pumping from yesterday: they arrived later than originally planned, but it went quick. It was FULL. So we hit that point like a brick wall this past week. Barely able to do anything in the house that involved draining into the stack to the septic tank. A chart online about…

  • Septic Tank Pumping 2009

    Birthday and Thanksgiving Day were good. Waiting to get things done here & there, then this weekend we had symptoms of “gotta get it done” with the septic tank, so bad we had to monitor the toilet in the basement & vaccum water out of it if it got too high when flushing another toilet…

  • V’s 11th Birthday

    Today is our daughter’s 11th birthday. We are having Spaghetti, at her request, and chocolate cupcakes w/cream cheese frosting. I’ll add some pictures here later. 11 years ago I was in the hospital, induced to give birth so that I didn’t go into labor over the holiday [rolling my eyes] which is a ridiculous thing,…

  • Taco Ground Meat Filling

    Taco Ground Meat Filling by Maisy 1 lb. ground meat (i.e. beef, bison, etc.) 1 med. onion, diced Garlic, minced (2 or more cloves, as much as desired, I use 3-5 usually) Cook the above on medium heat until the meat is browned and the onions are soft. Then add: 1 Tablespoon Ancho Chili Powder 2 Tablespoons Cumin…

  • Going on and on

    My children are getting older. Of course they are, but it’s the anniversaries of events that mark such growth coming up that make me think of it. My eldest is turning 13 on the 29th. My youngest will be 22 months old on the 23rd. I’m working on birthday stuff for the 29th. Elections for…

  • Still, STILL Snowing

    It’s still, still snowing, though maybe not as hard as it was an hour ago. I haven’t gotten my pictures uploaded yet, though I have downloaded them from my camera to my computer … FWIW.

  • Still Snowing

    The snow is STILL coming down, now it’s 5pm. It’s been falling thickly for so long now and the snow must be 4+” by now. I will put some pictures here in a bit.