What Would YOU Like To See?

Well, I think as soon as I finish the post on mama cloth, we will have finally come to the last installment of the Disposable to Reusable series. What would you like to hear next? I have a few ideas, but not all that many so I'm open to suggestions! ;) I will be expanding on reenacting themes and projects and maybe some specific food themes (i.e. why we don't eat wheat, soy, etc.), and doing an intro to NRT (Nutrition Response Testing) and journaling our journey towards better and better health.

So please comment! :)

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Sick

I realize that I haven't blogged in quite some time. I have been sick. For those of you who do/are familar with NRT (Nutrition Response Testing), it's cellular parasites that are affecting me (and actually, eating rye, too)! Blagh. Hopefully, now that I've gotten my supplements adjusted I'll be able to finish up my posts on Disposable to Reusable.

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Old Mill Village Reenactment - October 2010

I've added an "About Me" tab on the blog.

Two Hands

I keep waiting for a time to blog where I have two hands free to type, but Miss Elsa has other things to say about that! So I will just type with one hand.

I've decided to try to do a series on paper/disposable products and switching to more "green" options. I will also be covering the 'hows' and 'whys' of doing so.

Here is the list that I'd like to cover. Some we have not gotten rid of yet, but plan to! I will also note at this time that the only thing that we have TOTALLY done away with at the moment is tissues; mostly owing to the fact that Tim has always used handkerchiefs and I so very rarely need to blow my nose that I don't think I have EVER bought a box of tissues:

• Paper plates
• Paper towels
• Napkins
• Toilet Paper
• Nursing Pads
• Feminine Needs
• Diapers and Wipes
• Tissues
• Sandwich Bags

At this point, I'm still taking suggestions for blogging, so PLEASE, suggest away! :) Any questions that I can answer? Probably my best topics would be reenacting and natural living.

Some blogging changes

I've decided that I'm going to change the name of my blog and the address as well. So you'll want to update your info for those changes ;) New address is: http://herheartathome.blogspot.com/.

I'm Back!

I took a week off because I was going to the local county fair almost every day and still had to keep house, too! So this is one thing that I could neglect and not feel too bad about ;)

Fair week was a lot of fun, as usual! I spent most of my time at the maple syrup tent where a family from our church sells maple products! Its a great place to crash and sit in front of some fans and talk to some great people! I know MANY people find that tent a huge blessing!


Nathaniel really enjoyed seeing the animals, of course! We stood by the pigs for probably 15-20 minutes or so while I chatted with a friend and he picked up the pig sound! :P An accurate one, I might add ;)


Thursday I horse showed there. I hadn't shown in about 5 years! I don't specifically remember the date of my last show. I'm probably going to be bringing all my old ribbons here (that are still in my old room) because Tim is very proud of them and keeps asking me when I'm going to hang the ribbons I acquired on Thursday up! So this is about how my day went:

• 3:30AM - Alarm goes off and I get up.
• 4:00AM - I leave for the barn
• 4:45ishAM - Arrive at barn. Bring Walker (the horse) in and feed him. Hang around for a while talking with people who are there getting their horses ready.
• 5:45AM - Trailers pull out of barn driveway.
• 6:15ishAM - Arrive at the fairgrounds. Get horses settled into stalls. Start getting tacked up for schooling.
  
• 7:00ishAM - School.
  
• 7:40ishAM - Back to stall for a short rest and so I can get ready (hair, shirt, coat, number, etc).
• 8:10ishAM - Get back on and have my first two over fences classes. Place 2nd and 3rd out of four. Not bad! :)
• Go back to the stall for another rest.
• Tim, Nathaniel and Stasia get there.

• Get back on and finish my classes. I did extremely well. Especially, considering that I only rode once in the three weeks leading up to the show! :P I placed in 8 out of 9 classes--and some of those classes had 24 people in them! Not too shabby! God was very good to bless me with good rides and the ribbons to show it! Walker ended up winning the flat portion of the Adult Hunter division and with my 2nd and 3rd places in the over fences classes qualified us for the Reserve Champion ribbon and prize (which is basically second place Champion :P). I even placed third in the county rider equitation class! I won that class probably 5 or 6 years ago.

Yesterday, I worked on a muslin for a sack coat for Nathaniel. Our next event is in October and I'm suspecting that it might be kind of chilly, so I want him to have something warm to wear. I think I'm going to take my old cape (that's not really that authentic) and use that for the wool fabric for it. I already took it apart from the lining, so it's going to be turned into that or maybe a hood for myself. I can't decide. It will depend on how my items that I'm going to sell on eBay do. I'm selling off a bunch of my old riding breeches, coat, and show shirt. And a few other things. I plan on taking some of it and buying a helmet bag for my new helmet and a boot bag (to protect them) as well as some wool and maybe some silk for a ball gown? We'll just have to see how much money I get from it all and what has good prices at the time, etc! Well, that's pretty much all that's been going on with me recently!

Blogging, Reenacting and Baking

I'm still slowly getting into the swing of blogging, for one thing, I'm not sure anyone actually is reading this at all :P I keep thinking of all these great deep (or more deep than this post will be ;) blog topics and then I forget them. In fact, I can't think of ONE that I've thought of, at this moment! :P So I'm going to start writing them DOWN!

This past weekend we did a reenactment. We did day trips since we live close-ish. It was a great event, even though the numbers were a little low this year. I think the economy is really affecting this hobby. But anyway, the weather was SUPER nice on Saturday. It was very sunny so I did get a little burnt, but I ate a LOT of butter when we got back in and on my mashed potatoes and I hardly had any problems with it on Sunday. Today I've had a bit of pain on my neck where my hair rubs, but I changed my hair to a ponytail--rather than the loose bun at the base of my neck--and it hasn't bothered me :) I really need to stop being lazy about sewing and just get my machine out and FINISH my corded sunbonnet that I started! Its not finished because right after I started it, I got pregnant and I was SOOOOO tired! Then I ended up miscarrying and I just haven't picked it up since. I didn't take any pictures on Saturday as I was sitting around with Mel and Ruthie from the 4th Virginia, having a marvelous time. Nathaniel was so super good both days!

Sunday was strange weather, it was cold but rather sticky-sweaty. Not terribly pleasant, but the temperature wasn't that bad at all. Here are some pictures of Sunday's battle:

Captain Beers of the 26th Texas dismounted Cavalry and Captain Keator of the 4th Virginia Infantry

The 4th Virginia
The 26th TX...sorta. Tim and Dennis are the only official members that were there. The rest were "stragglers"

Confederate Cannons

I spent my day today re-organizing the corner in Nathaniel's room where I store all his old clothes, upcoming clothes, and off season clothes of mine. I vacuumed our bedroom as it needed all the cob/spider webs taken down! It was getting REALLY bad in there! Of course the Adirondack siding that we have on our walls is a spider's playground!


I also made some peanut butter cookies tonight. They are of course sugar-free as well as wheat free. I do most of my baking with brown rice flour. I like them a lot. Tim likes them more :P If you're not used to sugar-free cooking, you'd find it more like a sweet peanut butter biscuit. If you are used to things sweetened with apple juice/sauce, etc, I think you'd find this recipe quite tasty! Someday I'll post it! ;)