Tuna juice & handmade cards

I've been a busy bee lately. I have made taken the canned tuna (Remember: that "Tuna" is a name for the Pricky Pear Fruit) syrup and been mixing delicious drinks out of it~ some syrup, lemon lime soda and either tequila or vodka! white rum may even be good too~ or coconut rum! The possibilities are endless. If someone were to have a ladies night sort of party this would be a PERFECT drink to have mixed up.
I have also been taking the juice, which I have in a mason jar in the freezer, scraping some "Tuna" ice off and mix lightly into drinks to add a pink pizzaz! Then I took the thawed juice and added a bunch to some orange juice I had from concentrate. It is so delicious, but Trey won't drink it! I think the fabulous fuchsia turns him off. Adding just a tiny bit of the juice adds the color, but not so much the flavor. So you could add it to orange juice for an interesting twist on the orange color of orange juice, with only adding a very slight hint of another taste.

you've heard of pink lemonade~ but pink orange juice?

I got some cardstock from target ($7 for 75 colorful scrapbook sized pages) along with patterned gift wrap for a $1 a roll. I got a bit of gift wrap from my parents too (for embellishments). I used a glue stick to glue the wrapping paper on the folded cardstock (I was able to get 4 cards from each page: 2 large and 2 small). I hand painted some with "noel" and "joy" while others got a Santa. One got a snowflake my friend made. I went through magazines I got for free and found pages that had little to no words and were pleasing to the eye. These ones went to some of my family members in Massachusetts.

I still need to photograph the rest of the cards and their envelopes. Now I can make nice cards for an occasion from wrapping paper, magazines, old posters... the possibilities seem endless!
Oh and I harvested some broccoli and lettuce~ yum!

Amish White Bread

I just have to post a photo of the Amish white bread I have been making from this recipe. It turns out great every time I make it. This loaf I had frozen for a few weeks before thawing out to use. I keep it stored in the refrigerator, so it has last over a week after thawing and hopefully a bit longer for me to finish off this loaf.

Dr. Crook

I have had insurance off and on during my life. Recently I have obtained health insurance again so I can make sure my health is good so I can avoid having it again, hopefully ever.
With the plan you must get a check up to receive a discount~ so I did. This was supposed to be covered 100%, but I received a bill in the mail for a little under $20.
That's when I got to see how much "doctors" charge for a check up. $750!
I called the billing dept and attempted to discuss my outrage~ how could they charge that much money for a simple check up and bloodwork~ things I have gotten for free through the health department for years. The desk demon replied "well thats what they charged your insurance company." I told her that my opinion of doctors is that they are nothing but crooks and thanks to their office my opinion has been concrete.
I am outraged. Are there honest doctors in America who want to help people and not become filthy billionaires leaching the life out of people?! I am seriously thinking about moving out of this country, there are so many problems! So many things that I do not agree with! I want acres and acres of land to distance myself from this terrible lifestyle people call American. Now I am thinking just 5 acres in a good community in a good country would be plenty.

Today just seems so dark and I hope we can pull ourselves out of this. I see there are groups who are trying but there have been for over 30 years! Human rights went away and money took over a long time ago...

Container Housing

Trying to cure boredom I browsed a web column about strange architecture. One of the pages showed some of the container housing that is becoming popular and mentioned it to my partner Trey later on. He said, "why don't we just bury a container then for our house?" BING! A light went off in my head... so now I have been researching container housing and sketching plans. Now I have been seeing old containers for sale on sides of roads, or ones seemingly abandoned.
It would be important to get a rust free container and I would have to use a plastic sheeting to seal around once I fill in the earth so that the rain water wouldn't rust it.
I also ask myself, can just one 40 foot container be enough? At first we drew plans for incorporate 2 containers, joined together. But I feel that would be a lot of work, perhaps just a single container could be enough for a home and have an additional container on the property as a garage and work space.
Why buried underground? Living in the metal Bus I became very aware of how metal quickly heats and cools. 10 feet underground remains a constant temperature of around 50degrees, thus requiring very little to heat it when the outside temperature is say, 10 degrees. In the summertime vents and windows can be opened to warm the inside. I plan to bury my container at least 90% underground, and with the remainder roof being a living roof.
This is a very far off plan unfortunately unless I wanted to en debt myself and obtain a loan. But I would want to ensure that containers are strong enough to support at least 10 feet of earth.
Until then I can google photos of already made container housing to help me plan the interior of mine.