My New Blog

Hello world!

cooksalot1987 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:44:55 +0000

Welcome to my new blog! This will be a learning curve but hopefully in the next week I can get this looking decent.

Your age by chocolate math

cooksalot1987 — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:02:00 +0000

Well I got this in my email and had to share. Yeah yeah I know the blog is still in holiday mode. Of course I am on “Summer Holiday” Heehee

YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH:

Don’t tell me your age; you’d probably lie anyway-but the Hershey Man will know! YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH

This is pretty neat.

DON’T CHEAT BY SCROLLING DOWN FIRST!
It takes less than a minute .
Work this out as you read .
Be sure you don’t read the bottom until you’ve worked it out!
This is not one of those waste of time things, it’s fun.

1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10)

2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)

3. Add 5

4. Multiply it by 50 — I’ll wait while you get the calculator

5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1759 ..
If you haven’t, add 1758.

6.. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number

The first digit of this was your original number
(i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).

The next two numbers are

YOUR AGE! (Oh YES, it is!!!!!)

THIS IS THE ONLY YEAR (2009) IT WILL EVER WORK, SO SPREAD IT AROUND WHILE IT LASTS.

Chocolate

Calculator

Kraft Recipe Assistant

cooksalot1987 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:50:00 +0000

About Teaching Art

cooksalot1987 — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:36:00 +0000

I picked this up from another homeschool mom/blogger/author. I know there are those including me (miss artsy fartsy) that seem to miss the subject of art. This is a very interesting interview on this subject.

Give it a listen and then if nothing else give your kids a chance to dip their toes into the world of Arts and Crafts. Who knows you may have inspired the next great Artist of the century.

Took Boys Skiing

cooksalot1987 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:10:00 +0000

And the sky was just the perfect color blue with this gorgeous moon. Here’s the picture I took of that moon. I have a few pictures of the boys skiing and snowboarding. But it was hard to get a good picture with all the people that seemed to always get in the way. I’ll have to clean those pictures up and post those later.

Calling all homeschoolers!

cooksalot1987 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:17:00 +0000

I want to know what your views are on “mandatory” registration with the state. If you live in a state that requires registration or a state that doesn’t. Are you for or against it? Why? What are your personal experiences on this. If your state doen’t require it can you tell me what your reaction would be if they decided to introduce legislation requiring this.
Personally I am dead against it. I have seen the individual school districts abuse this asking for more than the state legislation required. Even telling some that they won’t be approved if they don’t answer unnecessary questions. So I want to know.

Toto this is not Hawaii!

cooksalot1987 — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:49:00 +0000

If you have a hard time reading this click and drag your mouse over the text to highlight and then you can read much better.

Just about now I’m really missing those Green and Bright Christmases were the sun shines by day and the stars glow at night. Now my friends and family in Oregon and Washington have been bombarded with snow and ice this last week or so, but wow! They have what we normally get and we have a small blizzard! For example ( now keep in mind I’m no Pioneer Woman) this is just the “Winter Storm Warning” on Monday. There was a thin layer of snow when we went to bed. Nothing coming out of the sky either. We just figured OK the normal stuff. We get this warning every winter since we’ve been up here. Quick put out the salad bowl so we can make some Snow Ice Cream. Who knows where the bowl went to in the morning! So this is a picture of what we woke up to Monday morning.
Next on Christmas Eve we took the kids out ice skating at the ice rink that the hockey association build. Outdoors so it’s really freezing. By 8pm the wind was starting to blow. Really Blow! Bryce and I froze out and came home around 7:30pm Phil and Francis stayed, and played some more. I’ll post some pictures later today. (since I have nothing better to do until the snow stops blowing around!) I guess Phil and Ken Davis went and added more water to the rink to make sure the ice is nice and thick for when it warms up next week for a few days. That way we don’t lose our ice. Phil and Francis made it home by 9:30pm. By then the weather wasn’t just talking winter warning anymore they were talking blizzard. Blowing snow, and white out! Here I thought white out was that stuff in a bottle that you used to correct typing mistakes. NOT!
This morning we awoke to a new blanket of snow. Just check out the pictures. Also that black pipe sticking out above the garden hose storage is for our furnace. Had to go and take a shovel out there after this picture was taken so that it wouldn’t get buried. LOL! Like my apple tree in the background? Purdy with all that snow on it isn’t it?

Sorry this picture isn’t the best. I had to take it from the bedroom window. I couldn’t get to a good enough spot to take this picture because of how deep the snow is. Oh and I did remove that glass salad bowl and we did make snow ice cream. YUM!

I had to get this picture in because the trash didn’t have any snow on it last night. Trash pickup was yesterday, and Phil got the tractor out with the snow blower and cleared the drive way up to the fence. Matter of fact he made himself this little trench like path from the workshop to the drive way. Well that trench/path GONE! Totally under snow, almost flat across.
Can you tell the Hawaiian part of me is just fascinated by this weather phenomenon. Now my friends in Canada, Illinois, Missouri, and places like that are going “Oh that’s nothing you should see what it’s like here”. Still for me this is AMAZING! Hope everyone has a great Christmas day. Stay in stay warm. Unlike us who have kids that want to go out to Bartz Field and sled!!!

BLIZZARD WARNING!

cooksalot1987 — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:50:00 +0000

Forget the warning it’s a BLIZZARD! I guess we got a real “White Christmas” this year. I’m glad we took the boys to the skating rink last night. Again Bryce says “This is the best Christmas EVER!” I just hope he keeps on saying that. Merry Christmas Everyone!

Is Christmas Over Yet???

cooksalot1987 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:43:00 +0000

I know I haven’t even found the perfect gift for Francis yet, but I just finished 49 Christmas cards after losing the mailing list to vista. I did find my back up at the end but even then a good part of the addresses weren’t even correct. Tomorrow those things get put in the mail box, and that nightmare is over! Hey! Don’t laugh I actually did it before Christmas. I’m getting better. Now I just have to find a gift for Francis. Wish me luck!

I finally finished The Testament by John Grisham

cooksalot1987 — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 06:14:00 +0000

The Testament by John Grisham

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
Finally finished this after starting it 2 years ago when I moved to Idaho. First I had to find me another copy of the book. I really didn’t expect to like this book and yet I just had to finish it! The ending could have been better, but it was good.

View all my reviews.