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I think this crazy chapter in my life is slowing down (((KNOCK ON WOOD))) and I hope to get back to some of the things I enjoy. 

I have accutally been making my family decent meals!  This is something that truely makes me happy.  A local grocery store had a killer deal on chicken wings, thighs, and drumbsticks so I got 5 packages.  Which means I had to do some recipe searching because I have never cooked with any of these cuts before.  I made the obvious Fried Chicken on Tuesday night.  I used the recipe out of  The Pionee Woman's cookbook. I also made these delicious Popovers they were so easy and good.  They are like my Hoot-N-Nanny Pancakes but a dinner roll vergan.  YUM

For those of you Utahians I am thinking about hosting a few Food Canning/Preseving classes. Leave me a comment if you might be interested or know someone that would be.

I have so many things I need to sew and so many things I want to make for my new home but so little time.  My list is getting longer and longer.  Here are some ideas that are on my list...

Knot So Hard Flip Flops

Drunken Gummie Bears

I am also going to be making very easy shmeazy citronella oil out door lanterns for my new patio... My next tutorial.  COMING VERY SOON!!!

Canned/Bottled Oranges

Here in Utah you pretty much don't get any good fresh produce during the winter months.  So, my husband & I have been buying Fresh Tree Ripened Oranges straight from California and selling them.  They are SO yummy and such a treat to have.  Anyway, we LOVE to can, so... we decided we were going to bottle and dehydrate some oranges.  We peeled and separated about 30 lbs.  I am a little particular about getting all of the nasty white stuff off the oranges, whereas my husband is not.  He did the oranges to be bottled and I did the oranges to go in the dehydrator. 
I tried the bottled oranges but could only taste the bitterness of all that white crud.  Needless to say I am bummed.  I am assuming they would be better but I don't really know that they would be super delicious like I was hoping or worth all the work of peeling, scraping crud, and separating. 
The dehydrated oranges were kind of a flop too... they're not good for a treat like dried Watermelon is (oh this is so yummy) they will be good to put in a pot of sweet smelly stuff to boil on our wood burning stove.
The moral to this story is:  I don't think I will try preserving oranges again.