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So there was a sale on Doritos. If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, you know that I hardly ever buy junk food. It’s too expensive. But then there was a sale. Three for the price of one on Doritos. I became the proud owner of 345 million bags of Doritos. Everyone was excited at first. Everyone was eating Doritos. Like, my GOD, we have Doritos! Then the Doritos-munching slacked off. And we still have 344 million bags of Doritos.
Yesterday was a busy day. I was out quite a bit then other things were going on when I was home, including unexpected visitors. At 8 pm, I looked around and realized I had to do something fast and easy about dinner. We had a pot of pinto beans I’d cooked the night before, so I made a pan of cornbread and called it dinner. While the cornbread was baking, because I was starving by then, I reached into a bag of Doritos and ate a handful. Then I took the cornbread out of the oven and had a warm, buttery slice and thought, This is so much better than Doritos.
The last several years, I’ve eaten almost exclusively homemade, homebaked, and often homegrown. I’m not sure I even like Doritos anymore. I think this is a good thing, except I miss Doritos. Which is hard to explain when I have 344 million bags of them.
The ducklings have moved on from their brooder to join the big chicks in the chicken yard.
Mr. and Mrs. Duck (the big ducks) were fascinated and plastered themselves to the fenceline outside the chicken yard as soon as the ducklings appeared. I had a lightbulb moment and decided to attempt an adoption. I moved Mr. and Mrs. Duck into the chicken yard with the big chicks and the ducklings. I hated to move them back in to the chicken yard after only their first week of free-ranging, but I’m hoping they will take the ducklings under their wing and ease their way into free-ranging, too, and they can all go back out together in another month or so.
Spot took his test run with the chickens. He loves the chickens.
Except when they look at him wrong, then he runs.
I love Spot.
Yesterday I walked out onto the porch and looked down at Mean Rooster and he flew up five feet off the ground in a desperate attempt to attack me.
Just sayin’.
That rooster is out to get me. As soon as he can figure out how to fly up high enough to reach the second-story porch, I’m a goner.
One of the reasons I was so busy and out of pocket yesterday was because we went to pick up Pepsi. He’s here, he’s here!
He is a gorgeous goat.
The kids have been waiting for him with great anticipation. Weston said, “What if he’s a defective fainting goat? What if he doesn’t faint?”
He had to test Pepsi right away………….. (to be continued)
Posted by Suzanne McMinn on May 12, 2009
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By the way, I am in love with Pepsi. He’s so cute!!!
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Perhaps you should carry pepper spray just in case the rooster perfects his flying skills.
As for Doritos… as yummy as they taste, they’ll just kill you faster than a stick of butter. Stick with the cornbread.
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How is your garden comming along. We need to start on mine this weekend. Good thing I put it off. We had frost last night. ugg.
And too much rain to till up the garden at that.
Picked up your book last week.:) I was at Walmart and it was calling me. lol.
Corn bread is so much better than Doritos. But then a good Dorito can be just as yummy at times too.
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So when do we get to meet Pocahontas? Is she there yet? Huh?
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My Grandma had one of those, I was scared to death of him as a child.
Can’t wait to read the rest of the story!
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So now I have a walking stick (which I made from a fallen tree branch) and I make sure I have it with me, they are learning to keep their distance!
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Pepsi is absolutely adorable!
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I think she’s messing with his head.Probably told him that chickens eat dogs.
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Send a bag of Doritos here, I’ll help ya get rid of them!
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One of our roosters was racing the perimeter of the chicken pen yesterday to chase my daughter. He’s going to the freezer soon, though. Can’t keep mean roosters and little kids.
~Jenny~
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Beth in PA
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He clearly is just a lovable mutt.
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That Spot is so funny! My dog does that too – scared to death of the chickens. lol!
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The type B ratties are shorter to the ground and longer than the type A ratty. You can see the doxie body in them.
When he gets excited and his ears pop up you will know for sure!
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Now as to those Doritos – send them on up to my new son in law – I think they are is favorite food group. He would be very disappointed if I didn’t have a bag available whenever he visits lol.
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As far as the Doritos go, crush them up in a bag into fine crumbs and use them like bread crumbs in chicken or in a meatloaf. I have done both with the sweet/hot flavor. I also one time heavily covered the chicken pieces and let sit over night in the fridge before dipping them into egg and then flour. My husband liked it but my advice would be do it with one piece of chicken for a sample as it was a little too much for my taste buds. Of course I add ranch to spice BBQ sauce to calm the bite. I wonder what it would do to cornbread?
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