Hoerman's House

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Archive for the month “October, 2014”

Nominated for One Lovely Blog Award

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Yesterday, to my surprise, I was nominated for One Lovely Blog Award by  http://rantingalong.wordpress.com

The rules for the nominees are:
1.  Thank the person who nominated you for the award.  

      Thank you very much  Floridaborne for the nomination.  🙂

2.  Add the One Lovely Blog logo to your post. 

It is the photo added above.

3.  Share 7 facts/or things about yourself.  

I don’t usually share this because there are a lot of strong opinions, especially of late, about my line of work.  I work in law enforcement and am a police dispatcher.  This blog gives me an outlet to see and share the awesome things that exist in the big bad world.

I have an extreme love of coffee, but am not able to drink it because I have an adverse reaction to caffeine.  I still fantasize about fully leaded coffee.

I am a nerd.  I enjoy reading and watching science fiction/fantasy.  I am impatiently waiting for George R. R. Martin to finish writing Game of Thrones!

I am a homebody and enjoy spending time with my husband, Glen, and our critters, (2 dogs, 1 cat and 2 parrots….however, sometimes the parrots drive me insane).

I enjoy drinking wine.  When asked if I prefer red or white….the answer is yes.

I am a doomsday prepper wannabe.  We got somewhat started this summer with our garden and canning.

I am scared of bugs.  Always have been.  Of course there are a few exceptions such as lady bugs, roly poly’s and lightening bugs.

4.  Nominate somewhere around 15 bloggers that you admire and inform the nominees by commenting on their blog.

The blogs I’m nominating are:

http://Atrampinthewoods.wordpress.com

http://cindyknoke.com/

http://naturehasnoboss.wordpress.com/

http://forayintofoodstorage.com/

http://injimsgarden.com/

http://borg.com/

http://talainsphotographyblog.wordpress.com/

http://exploratorius.us/

Hopefully, those nominated will see this as fun, and a good way to share blogs we enjoy reading with everyone.  Please know this isn’t a mandatory project to stress out over.

Rainy Days and Mondays

It rained buckets here all day yesterday.  What to do when you can’t go outside?  Take a long nap of course.

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happy is a cat with a bag

Happy Friday everyone!  Hope you have as good a weekend as Lily has playing with a bag.

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Balls

The Sycamore tree is a tree with balls.  Literally.

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Midweek Doldrums

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Persimmons….What to do with them?

We have a few persimmon trees and they are all loaded with fruit.  We are still waiting for them to ripen.  If they aren’t ripe and you eat them, your mouth will feel like it is turning wrong side out.  They are so very sour.  I have never had anything made with persimmons.  Last year a friend shared a recipe for persimmon pie cupcakes.  Maybe this year is the year to give it a try.

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Field of Hedgeapples

This year we have a lot of hegeapples that have dropped in our yard.  The hedgeapple is the fruit of the osage orange tree.   As I was reading up on them I was shocked to discover that they are not poisonous.  I was always told that they were.   One of the common myths about hedgeapples is they will repel insects….more specifically spiders.  If that were true I wouldn’t have spiders anywhere near my house.

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scritches are awesome

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Growing up

Our neighbors baby is growing by leaps and bounds.  Such a cutie.

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