2008-01-29

Today is a day to stay..

Well today is a day to stay inside and do online marketing.  I am
glad I have a nice warm house.  It is , now wrap up because even
saying it will make you cold, -32*C (about -20 or so F*)   With the
wind chill,  it is about -52*C.  Now do you have anything to complain
about? lol

They say your skin will freeze in seconds and my husband goes
outside bareheaded and barehanded.  Men!  As a mother I have
to worry about my son who is off at university.  Will he dress properly
since he has to stand waiting for a bus or will that be uncool? 
What age is it that they decide to think of themselves and their safety
rather than what others will think.  With some it seems to be when
something bad happens but there are those who do use their brains. 
Hopefully he is one who uses his brains.  He is always telling me,
"Oh Mom, I'm not stupid"  Is there a degree of stupidity? You know
the mother's degree and the children's degree.  What's that saying
about , 'never the twain shall meet'?  Will have to look that up, may
have  nothing to do with this subject. lol

So I will sign off and go about my continuing emarketing with my
home based business using the information in my SeoSquid
back office.

2008-01-28

Junior Hockey and roasts

   What do you do with a 22lb roast for a supper that isn't going to
happen?  Have you ever cooked a 22 pound roast before?  I don't think I
have. I've cooked plenty of 4 or 5 pound roasts but not 22 pounds.  Well I
had to trust my cookbook which I have had for 40 years. It is a good
cookbook but I would hate to have to eat roast after it was cooked as long
as they suggested.  They must cook awfully tough roasts.

  A young man from my town, whom my son played hockey with a few years ago
had the opportunity to be picked for the Canadian Junior Hockey team that
played in the World's in the Czech Republic.  He helped the team bring home
the Gold for Canada.  My town decided that he deserved a supper put on in his
honour. I was asked if I would cook one of the roasts.   

  The cookbook said for a medium well done roast I should cook it for
24 to 29 min. per pound.  Ok, you do the math.  22 times 24 is ..yes.. 528
minutes.  Now divide that by 60 (mins in an hour)... ok so you know that..
 Well that comes out to 8.8 hours.  The supper is at seven but I had to
have the roast at the rink at six with the gravy.  I live about 5 miles from
town so I wanted the roast ready to come out of the oven by five so I
would have time to make the gravy and get in town by six.

  I decided to start at nine this morning because I wanted to brown it
first to have nice flavoured gravy.  Then I put the lid on it and turned
the oven to 325*F (about 150*C), and  went about my day.  Around 11:00 -
11:30am I received a phone call saying the supper was cancelled!  You see
we are having one doozy of a blizzard  right at the moment.  It started
about an hour after I put the roast in the oven.  Now I knew the
weathermen were forecasting a blizzard but this is a big province and it
could have very well missed us. But of course it didn't, I had a roast in
the oven.... Anyway I was told to keep cooking it and they would sell it
in sandwiches at a hockey game.

  So, why I was unhappy with the cookbook was the fact that it only took
five hours to cook the roast.  I would say they were way off on their
estimation!  I was the only one who had started my roast.  The others had
cooked big roasts before, so they knew how long it would take.  You live
and learn, do your own estimations!??    

  Here is my advertising pitch now;  If you sign up to Prairiemade.com
I'll send you some slices of roast beef through the mail.
Ok, sending slices of roast beef through the mail won't work too well.
How about this;  signing up with Prairiemade.com will give you the
opportunity to make enough money to buy your own roast beef.  We
are like the concept;  don't give someone fish, teach them to fish. 
Moneylegs, the parent company, has been developing online leaders
since 1999.

Words of wisdom from an Old Farmer: {not me :o) } Every path has a few
puddles.

  Oh, by the way, we do get to have some of that roast for supper.
It would be cruel and unusual punishment to makes us smell that roast and
not get a taste of it!  There may be puddles but some are small enough
to step over!  So the rink and my husband and I all win.

2008-01-21

Help! I'm lost in the Maze.

Brother,  Robert,  and I don't mean Robert is my brother,  though my brothers' name is Robert.  Oops sorry , this maze  is going to my head. :o)   Anyway, Robert, four directions to go in your maze and it takes me four tries before I get the right trail!  Mystical Maze is fun but it sure does take advantage of my poor sense of direction.  Any one out there want to help me get through Robert's Maze?  Or how about at least lending me a compass?  To find me in the maze you need to enter Here.e.e.

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