every morning for over nine years I wake up and I do the exact same thing early
in the morning I get a scoop of feed and I let the chickens out of their coop
some mornings I wish I could stay in bed and other mornings I'm ready to start
the day
but every morning the chickens are ready
about you but it sure doesn't take long for the work to build up today you're
gonna follow with me one of my everyday shorts of life and I have a lot of work
to do I took one day off I didn't do anything absolutely nothing okay that's
very unusual for me but it felt good but now it seems like I have a lot of work
to do what I do is I take a piece of soap and I put it in this kettle that's
meant just for washing dishes as you know I have to keep my water up so I
heat my water to clean the kitchen hot water is really important so I hope to
get all of my cleaning done today because my granddaughter has a birthday
this afternoon as you can see it takes quite a while to get enough of water it
doesn't come out very fast back to the memory of my mama in the kitchen my mom
has spent most of her life in the kitchen and she was your traditional
Mennonite housewife which meant a lot of cooking from scratch mom made everything
from scratch she didn't buy processed food at all and there was times in my
mom's life that she gone through a lot of heartache and pain but then there was
times in my mom's life where she was very joyous in this joyous times I
remember my mother singing now my mother didn't have a very good singing voice if
she would be the first to tell you that but her singing is something I remember
because it wasn't the sound coming out of her mouth it was what was in her
heart and those are the moments that I tried to hang on to and those are the
memories that I tried cherish everybody has its own family
dynamics no matter where you live everybody has their own way of doing
things and their own traditions so in my videos I like sharing with you my
traditions is sharing with you my thoughts and my feelings on my life
one thing about my mother she was a perfectionist her house was always very
clean she spent all of her time cooking and cleaning sometimes sometimes that
seems very hard to live up to because I'm not quite as clean as she was my
mother wasn't a homesteader we didn't have animals or gardens or
anything like that when she left her traditional Mennonite roots she got away
with all of that but my mother still kept her Pennsylvania Dutch cooking
intact and so we ate a lot of potatoes a lot of noodles a lot of starches
Pennsylvania Dutch is known for their starches so we had a lot of things like
that a lot of comfort food and in some homes desserts were really important but
not him not in our home we didn't have a whole lot of desserts except for the
occasional pie my mom was a very good pie maker as stage 4 dementia or
Alzheimer's they really aren't quite sure exactly what she has but she
doesn't speak and it's been about eight years since my mother talked we don't
know what my mother knows what she thinks and we don't know what she can
comprehend these days but she speaks to me with her eyes so when we talked to
her she would blink a lot and I really believe that blinking is letting us know
that she understands what we're saying emergent dementia is a very hard death
because they change so slowly it's almost as if you have a hard time
remembering what they used to be but we have to look on the bright side that
maybe someday in our lifetime there will be a cure for such diseases
in life and I pray that others will never have to go through what so many of
us have Alzheimer's and dementia has affected every household in one way or
another and I pray that a cure would be found soon any garage and now I'm gonna
finally work on the last of that food pantry items that I got at the end of
August and this is the dry goods that I had got for free a lot of you has said
you know with the flour and things like that you should put them in the freezer
overnight I don't have freezer space so we are going to use the old-fashioned
method of preserving your flour to keep it bug free about a year ago I got a
bunch of these bay leaves for 69 cents and putting a bay leaf in your dry goods
will help deter them from getting any kind of bugs or bug infestation
sometimes when you get flour there could be some kind of bug eggs in it I know
that sounds really gross but that it's just how it is no matter where you get
it but freezing it kills that larvae well if you don't have a freezer or
freezer space you got to do it this way and this is an old-fashioned treatment
for making sure that you don't have any kind of bugs or anything like that in
your flour you know since this flower did come from the food pantry I will use
this up first but I'm gonna share with you what I got
also this food came from an Amish food pantry so I am very blessed in the local
area here we have someone that donates all of these bulk food items but they
actually came from and I came from an Amish or Mennonite type of place so
usually their food would be fresher I know a lot of channels don't share with
their subscribers where what they do with their Amazon money that they earn
but I like sharing with you every part of my life and so I want to share with
you I was able to save up money and buy some of these half gallon jars so this
is where my Amazon money comes in so when you use my Amazon links or my store
front I earn a little but after a couple months it gets to be
a nice little amount and I was able to get three pieces of jars which I can use
for a lifetime since it's going to take me an hour to do all this I'm just going
to highlight with you all the different things that I got as you know I got a
lot of the fruit pectin this can last me for almost indefinitely as long as you
have it sealed so we are going to go ahead and we're going to seal the fruit
pectin first
now this fruit pectin will ask me for many years to come I have quite a bit of
this wheat flour now this wheat flour won't last as long as white flour now
I'm going to demonstrate an alternative if you don't have any electricity so
we're gonna vacuum seal using a brake bleeder like using this but it is hard
on your wrists and hands and it takes a little bit of muscle power you have the
same effect do it this way if you cannot afford a food vacuum sealer so it seals
it the exact same way just takes a little muscle power all right so here's
the finished product two cases of some staple dry goods we have wheat flour
regular flour Odessa flour which is a bread flour fruit pectin and salt so
this should be able to keep me stocked up for quite a while everybody for those
of you who stay to the very end of my video I'm gonna share with you just a
little product review now my product reviews I don't get any Commission off
of them but I do get to have the product for free and I just want to share with
you something I have never heard of and I thought it might help me for my
restless leg syndrome and for anxiety so it's called the weighted blanket now
this is from Sofia and Williams I never heard of a way to blanket before but I
thought it would be something really unique for me to try so we're gonna get
it out of the bag and I'm gonna show you what it looks like the blanket it is
quite heavy and then this is a cover that comes with it
I thought you can put the cover on it but you can't so this is just a separate
cover which is soon adorable I like it so the cover I'm going to use as a lap
blanket out in my where my computer is and here's the weighted blanket so let's
take a look and see what it's like now this is a
out I got a child's one great in the wintertime because it is very warm so
what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna wait to the wintertime and tell you how it is
and I think I might just use this for out out in my reading room where I like
to read it does make you feel really secure and snug so let me know in the
comments below have you ever heard about a weighted blanket and do you buy them
and does it help you or is it just one of those fads but this here is beautiful
with the cupcakes I really like it so thank you guys for watching we'll see
you guys tomorrow
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