Old Time, New Time

Don't forget it's daylight savings time. You spring forward, then you fall back. It's like Robert Downey Jr. getting out of bed. - David Letterman



Got up bright and early at 6:30??? to let the cockers out.  This gave me one hour more to cook for church.  Today is our green team assignment to bring dishes using leftovers.  So I made a sweet potato pie from left over sweet potatoes (more on this later), and a bean and rice casserole from left over bean soup.


On Thursday, my two aunties and I went to glean sweet potatoes in a big field of one of her Baptist friends.  I took my little potato rake and dug 3 five gallon buckets of sweets.  It is such fun!!!  I am not all that partial to sweet potatoes, but I LOVE to dig for them.  I am trying different things with them.  I made some deep fried sweet potato chips that were really yummy.  I put some in the dehydrator and they turned out to be crunchy and chewy.  I'm not sure if I like these or not, but supposedly they make great doggy treats.

My Haul

Last night was the auction.  There was a lot of stuff and a lot of people.  I went to bid on a couple of items for Christmas presents.  Got some but the ones I wanted went for a ridiculous price.  There were 4 of them (can't say what cause I still may find one) and I stopped bidding at 75 dollars apiece.  The ahole bidding against me took all four.  D*** dealers!  But it was entertaining, as always.

Yesterday, besides the auction, I drug another of my aunties out of bed at 4am to get to a charity sale at Belks in Wilmington.  Besides a five dollar coupon and massive sales cuts, to the first 150 persons through the door, they gave another gift card worth anywhere from 5 dollars to 1000 dollars.  When we got there, at 5:30, there were already about 125 people in line.  So we got cards, but it was a close thing. Both of our cards turned out to be only 5 dollars, but she got some intimates and some sheets and I got some intimates and a cake carrier for very deep discounts.

On the way back I took this picture of a cotton field, pre-harvest.

Looks like snow

Lastly, the cockers have been fighting with the squirrels lately cause they eat the scratch I throw out.  I haven't been able to get a shot of it, but one of the cockers was chasing the squirrel around the hay bale this morning.  Very amusing.  Here is a video of the squirrel, anyway:

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