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Project Discussions:  November 1- Grateful Challenge  |
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Bellepic
True Blue Farmgirl
387 Posts
Christine
Santa Ana
CA
USA
387 Posts |
 Posted - Nov 11 2025 : 06:27:16 AM
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| Nov 10 - food abundance. I took a moment to pause in the pre-Thanksgiving freezer Tetris'ing to marvel that the main food-related problem these days is that there is so much of it. In the history of our species, we are in such a rare moment. |
Farmgirl#8680
www.steamstead.blogspot.com
Oct 2025 FGOTM |
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Bellepic
True Blue Farmgirl
387 Posts
Christine
Santa Ana
CA
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - Nov 12 2025 : 08:17:50 AM
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| Nov 11 - Days with surprising symmetry. Something so satisfying about the date 11/11... I learned 11:11 is a good time to make wishes but with this grateful challenge, I'm finding I already have everything I need. |
Farmgirl#8680
www.steamstead.blogspot.com
Oct 2025 FGOTM |
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Blessed in Colorado
True Blue Farmgirl
5474 Posts
Debbie Fischer
Coos Bay
OR
5474 Posts |
Posted - Nov 12 2025 : 09:23:45 AM
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| Chris, I love all the things you are grateful for daily. You have truly taken this challenge to heart and I love that. Thank you:-) |
Big Hugs,
Debbie
Farmgirl if the Month for:
September 2012, February 2018, September 2022 and August 2025.
“My altars are My Mountains and the Ocean.” Lord Bryon
When I am old I am wearing Purple. I am Old!!
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Blessed in Colorado
True Blue Farmgirl
5474 Posts
Debbie Fischer
Coos Bay
OR
5474 Posts |
Posted - Nov 12 2025 : 09:35:08 AM
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I am truly Grateful that the 6.1 cm Mass (Liopoma) on my Ankle causing all my pain was removed last Friday and was Benign. A Blessing and answered prayers for sure. I am also grateful that I am slowly starting to feel better and that the severe pain is lessening after my doctor sending me stronger drugs late Monday afternoon.
Thank you Wildflowers for all your prayers and caring it means so much. Thank you Wanda Sue for watching over the HH in my absence. I have missed y’all and am so happy to be back in the Henhouse.
I see my doctor tomorrow for him to check how the ankle is doing. My stitches do not come out until next Thursday. I just want this pain to go away as it had been so severe I had not been eating or sleeping. One day at a time and each day will be better in my healing.
Have a beautiful and amazing Wednesday Wildflowers.
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Big Hugs,
Debbie
Farmgirl if the Month for:
September 2012, February 2018, September 2022 and August 2025.
“My altars are My Mountains and the Ocean.” Lord Bryon
When I am old I am wearing Purple. I am Old!!
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Wanda Sue
True Blue Farmgirl
1744 Posts
Wanda
Murrells Inlet
SC
USA
1744 Posts |
Posted - Nov 12 2025 : 4:48:54 PM
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| Debbie I am very thankful that the mass was benign. Also so very glad that you have reached a turning point in your healing. Those first days after surgery have got to be very hard to handle. Welcome back to the HH!! |
A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.
Wanda Sue
Farm Girl #3677
Farmgirl of the Month-August 2022 |
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debbieklann
True Blue Farmgirl
3224 Posts
Debbie
Madras
OR
USA
3224 Posts |
Posted - Nov 12 2025 : 4:53:35 PM
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| So happy it was benign!!! Praying that each day gets easier:) |
Debbie Klann
Farmgirl Sister #770
2018 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
January 2020 FGOTM
"Well behaved women seldom make history"...
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
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Bellepic
True Blue Farmgirl
387 Posts
Christine
Santa Ana
CA
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - Nov 13 2025 : 08:07:19 AM
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| Nov 12 -- I am grateful Debbie's liopoma was benign. I am grateful in laws could come down and cover childcare for an evening. I am also grateful the crazy outdoor beer garden I initially suggested Jens and I go for our anniversary surprise date night was closed because the burgers we had down the street were amazing and we didn't have to navigate awkwardness of being tee-totalers. |
Farmgirl#8680
www.steamstead.blogspot.com
Oct 2025 FGOTM |
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PrairiePearl
True Blue Farmgirl
241 Posts
Jeanette
Nanton
AB
Canada
241 Posts |
Posted - Nov 13 2025 : 8:47:43 PM
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| Debbie-such a blessing that the lipoma was benign. It is now almost Friday and I hope that you are sleeping like a baby with no pain and no stitches by now :0) |
Jeanette
Farmgirl Sister #8699
~Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. ~ Corrie Ten Boom
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Blessed in Colorado
True Blue Farmgirl
5474 Posts
Debbie Fischer
Coos Bay
OR
5474 Posts |
Posted - Nov 13 2025 : 9:01:36 PM
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Nope, not meant to be yet Jeanette. My stitches have to stay in for two weeks so I get them out on the 20th hopefully.
But, I did see the doctor today for my first post op appointment and the pain I have been in. He took my dressing off and it did not look good, I have a bad infection and that is why I have been in so much pain. Not eating, sleeping and so sick to my tummy and dizzy. So now we know. I am down for the count, continued elevation, icing and I cannot walk or do anything but go to the bathroom. The doctor was just shocked when he saw it as I have been doing everything I was suppose to do. So I will keep praying, take my antibiotics and pain pills and hope to feel better soon and seethe doctor on the 20th. Night, night. |
Big Hugs,
Debbie
Farmgirl if the Month for:
September 2012, February 2018, September 2022 and August 2025.
“My altars are My Mountains and the Ocean.” Lord Bryon
When I am old I am wearing Purple. I am Old!!
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Bellepic
True Blue Farmgirl
387 Posts
Christine
Santa Ana
CA
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - Nov 14 2025 : 07:28:58 AM
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Ooh, what a plot twist. Hoping the antibiotics do the trick, you are one tough Mama Hen!
Nov 13 -- Rain imminent! Fallon noticed our seasonal winter lawn is coming back. There was a new high score of 4 cats lined up under the shelter of the truck for the breakfast buffet this morning, they must know the weather is turning too. I love that this weather front gives me "permission" to stay indoors and do my favorite cozy hobbies. |
Farmgirl#8680
www.steamstead.blogspot.com
Oct 2025 FGOTM |
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Bellepic
True Blue Farmgirl
387 Posts
Christine
Santa Ana
CA
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - Nov 15 2025 : 07:16:09 AM
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| Nov 14 -- Seeing friendships develop over 3 years of scouting. The troop met last night. I tend toward curmudgeonly, so it was astonishing to look around the room and appreciate how wonderful every girl and parent has become to me. Full stop, no "if only X would y...' footnotes. They love seeing each other as well and it is so amusing to see them develop their own traditions and jokes even if we only meet a few times a year. |
Farmgirl#8680
www.steamstead.blogspot.com
Oct 2025 FGOTM |
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Bellepic
True Blue Farmgirl
387 Posts
Christine
Santa Ana
CA
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - Nov 16 2025 : 07:11:07 AM
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| Nov 15 -- a kids event we loved last year but left quickly because it got too busy offers a "sensory hour" for neurodivergent kids/families that should be a little less crowded. I am so relieved and grateful they offer this option. |
Farmgirl#8680
www.steamstead.blogspot.com
Oct 2025 FGOTM |
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Bellepic
True Blue Farmgirl
387 Posts
Christine
Santa Ana
CA
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - Nov 17 2025 : 10:08:36 AM
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| Nov 16 -- how chatty our henhouse has gotten! I stepped away for a day and there are so many threads to catch up on. Also, the potted kumquat we transplanted a couple years ago finally set fruit and it is just the right balance of sweet and sour to curb my snack cravings. Fallon begs to differ (too sour!) but she still has a bucket of Halloween candy in the fridge. |
Farmgirl#8680
www.steamstead.blogspot.com
Oct 2025 FGOTM |
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Bellepic
True Blue Farmgirl
387 Posts
Christine
Santa Ana
CA
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - Nov 18 2025 : 07:50:03 AM
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| Nov 17 -- umbrellas, especially dollar store umbrellas you don't have to be precious with for fear of losing them, especially wielded by a 3 foot kid who tries to share and hold it over your head, so they tiptoe across the parking lot while you hunch down in a squat walk. The rain continues! |
Farmgirl#8680
www.steamstead.blogspot.com
Oct 2025 FGOTM |
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Bellepic
True Blue Farmgirl
387 Posts
Christine
Santa Ana
CA
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - Nov 19 2025 : 06:51:51 AM
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| Nov 18- central heating. Not as mission critical here, we managed for a couple years of early home ownership without it, but it is so heartwarming to see Fallon and her dog Rho snuggled in the dog bed in front of the register ("heat window") on a chilly fall morning. |
Farmgirl#8680
www.steamstead.blogspot.com
Oct 2025 FGOTM |
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Bellepic
True Blue Farmgirl
387 Posts
Christine
Santa Ana
CA
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - Nov 20 2025 : 11:13:55 AM
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Nov 19- online recipes/google. As much as I dream of cramming a twee recipe box tight with index cards for my favorite recipes, it was so helpful to be able to hop online at the eleventh hour and compare a couple recipes for how to "instant potify" traditional Indian pudding and melon ball out the daintiest venison meatballs I had volunteered to bring for Fallon's school's Fall Festival. Also grateful I could hop back online and figure out what indigenous tribe's territory my friend had shot the deer in to make it extra educational. It all turned out so good!
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Farmgirl#8680
www.steamstead.blogspot.com
Oct 2025 FGOTM |
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debbieklann
True Blue Farmgirl
3224 Posts
Debbie
Madras
OR
USA
3224 Posts |
Posted - Nov 20 2025 : 11:18:18 AM
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| I am impressed!!!! |
Debbie Klann
Farmgirl Sister #770
2018 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
January 2020 FGOTM
"Well behaved women seldom make history"...
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
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Blessed in Colorado
True Blue Farmgirl
5474 Posts
Debbie Fischer
Coos Bay
OR
5474 Posts |
Posted - Nov 20 2025 : 11:26:15 AM
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How wonderful Chris, the Indian pudding and venison sounds yummy. As does the story of the the indigenous tribe took the deer on Indian territory. Thank you.
I will admit only to my Wildflowers that I have 6 vintage recipe boxes between my kitchen and dining room. Looking for another one as these are full. |
Big Hugs,
Debbie
Farmgirl if the Month for:
September 2012, February 2018, September 2022 and August 2025.
“My altars are My Mountains and the Ocean.” Lord Bryon
When I am old I am wearing Purple. I am Old!!
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debbieklann
True Blue Farmgirl
3224 Posts
Debbie
Madras
OR
USA
3224 Posts |
Posted - Nov 20 2025 : 1:39:32 PM
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| Debbie, I share your love of recipe collecting! I’m guessing I have that many also :). Someone has to be the keeper of the recipes! |
Debbie Klann
Farmgirl Sister #770
2018 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
January 2020 FGOTM
"Well behaved women seldom make history"...
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
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Blessed in Colorado
True Blue Farmgirl
5474 Posts
Debbie Fischer
Coos Bay
OR
5474 Posts |
Posted - Nov 20 2025 : 2:24:33 PM
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| That’s what think too Debbie. |
Big Hugs,
Debbie
Farmgirl if the Month for:
September 2012, February 2018, September 2022 and August 2025.
“My altars are My Mountains and the Ocean.” Lord Bryon
When I am old I am wearing Purple. I am Old!!
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nndairy
True Blue Farmgirl
1920 Posts
Heather
Wapakoneta
Ohio
USA
1920 Posts |
Posted - Nov 20 2025 : 6:19:18 PM
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| I only have one recipe box, but I have a cupboard full of recipe books and a couple over flow boxes of them. And also a pile of printed ones from the internet and a bunch of them saved that aren't printed. |
~Heather
“I would rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.” — George Washington |
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho
10733 Posts
Denise
Ohio
USA
10733 Posts |
Posted - Nov 21 2025 : 04:19:49 AM
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Debbie, catching up with this thread. I hope you are healing now and that your foot looks better when you see him today? I know you didn't seem sure it would be today you see him.
Recipes wow, I am overflowing with them. I have a love for cookbooks, mostly mom's. I also have all of her handwritten recipes plus so many of my own and ones farmgirls have sent over the years I have them in books,binders,tins and boxes. Strangely enough I do not own a real recipe box. I've been looking for a vintage one that I love to put all the ones in that I will keep when we down size. |
Denise~~
Sister #43
"I am a bookaholic with no desire to be cured."
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105
www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com
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Bellepic
True Blue Farmgirl
387 Posts
Christine
Santa Ana
CA
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - Nov 21 2025 : 07:21:54 AM
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Nov 20- Instant Pots and 24 hour yogurt. When I did the first cheese-making badge, I was ambivalent about whether DIY yogurt was actually cost effective. My first batch was made in the Instant Pot on the default 8 hour setting. There was a lot of whey. Then I discovered a sub-reddit of 24 hour yogurt enthusiasts that kept posting soothing videos of them cutting into their super-thick yogurt culture. Push a couple buttons and come back to this satisfying moonscape! I am a convert.
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Farmgirl#8680
www.steamstead.blogspot.com
Oct 2025 FGOTM |
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levisgrammy
Scattered Prairie Hen Honcho
10733 Posts
Denise
Ohio
USA
10733 Posts |
Posted - Nov 21 2025 : 07:31:47 AM
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Chris,
My daughter makes her own yogurt in the crockpot. It is cost effective for them as they have 6 to make it for. The kids aren't crazy about it because the sugar content is low but it is good for them. I love to see mama's making good things for their littles.
Is this a badge you're working on? |
Denise~~
Sister #43
"I am a bookaholic with no desire to be cured."
"Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path"
Psalm 119:105
www.ladybugsandlilacs.blogspot.com
www.torisgram.etsy.com |
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Bellepic
True Blue Farmgirl
387 Posts
Christine
Santa Ana
CA
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - Nov 22 2025 : 06:36:06 AM
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Denise-- The first level is already in our 2025 badge count. Fallon is hit or miss with it, even with homemade granola and a bunch of berries. Maybe if I found some reusable pouches, pureed it with fruit, and sent it into school where she has limited options! I am intimidated to try rennet and hard cheese for level 2, have you or anyone else tried it?
Nov 21- Harry Potter series. My turn to do bedtime stories last night. This brought back so many memories as an elder millennial of cosplaying at the bookstore "late" at night to get the latest release in the series and then scampering home to binge read it before my friends/siblings dropped any spoilers. Fallon and I are on a more relaxed timeline though. |
Farmgirl#8680
www.steamstead.blogspot.com
Oct 2025 FGOTM |
Edited by - Bellepic on Nov 22 2025 06:47:27 AM |
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November 1- Grateful Challenge
