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Yesterday I made vietnamese dumplings or bánh bao, and it was a long process. I ate them in Texas at my sisters house and they were so delicious! I love them, I want to make them again, this time maybe tweak the recipe a little. The ones I had in Texas were made of rice flour, and the ones I made had regular white baking flour for the dough. Next time I make bánh bao I would put less salt then what the recipe calls for and buy some banana leaves. People use banana leaves to form the dumplings into a pyramind shape and the dough may taste flavorful from the banana leaf. I have also been reading on another vietnamese cooking page and she uses aluminium foil on the outside to case the dumplings well. After I put the meat around a hard boiled egg and rolled out the dough, I wrapped the dough around the egg and meat. After forming 8 of them, which the recipe I followed made, I just plopped them all into a steamer and cooked them for 30 minutes about. I would make them again but change a few...

I have dog fleas in my house and on my dog, I need to get rid of them ASAP! I ordered some essential oil flea spray with great reviews. I am going to get them all out of this house and off of our poor dog. He doesn't go outside that much. He stays inside a lot because he is a protector dog for us. I got rid of the mice problem we had now I can handle this, no big deal I can do it. I am going to rent a carpet cleaner and use vinegar and baking soda and see if it does a good job. I used google to research and I found maybe a good scrub in the tub for a dog will kill fleas. Then apple cider vinegar to rinse is supposed to balance the dogs pH and fleas don't survive in that. We will see what works. Someone could start telling me to soak some tomato juice on our dog on wikipedia, I can't believe everything I read on the internet. I will try a few things!

I woke up in the morning and had a cookie and coffee and read about natural weed killer. I'm going to pick the weeds or spray them with an epsom salt combination. Here's the recipe-  1 gallon vinegar, 2 Cups Epsom salt, 1/4th Cup dawn dishwashing soap and spray it heavily first thing in the morning and the weeds will go away. Roundup is an herbicide that contains glyphosate which kills plants. There are other chemicals in it besides glyphosate that are damaging too. Monsanto introduced roundup in 1974 and it dominates the markets. That's not good because it is bad for our body and our wildlife. I don't mind some weeds, I think a little imperfection looks best. I don't want an immaculate yard in the suburbs. I want a yard with healthy squirrels, rabbits and birds and my baby and dog to breathe pure air and not step on chemicals. I grew herbs and flowers and I need to transplant them outside soon. I'm going to help build some raised garden beds too. Spring time is...

I was driving to the Denver airport this morning at 8:00 A.M, I had some coffee and chocolate and a mothers day gift for my mom. She had a 3 hour layover there since Denver is a big airport hub, and I wanted to visit her. Well plans changed because lo and behold my car overheated. I figured out quick that I shouldn't drive anymore because my car wouldn't go any faster then 60 mph on the interstate. Also It only blew out cold air when I tried the heater. So I let it cool off and after calling and getting a few other opinions, I decided that I needed to go back home. I started driving back only going 55-60 mph. It was a little entertaining, a Maserati zoomed past and a Mercedes sports edition. It looked like a race car game. (did you notice I don't leave the house too much) It overheated again when I was just 15 miles from our house so I pulled over again and waited for it to cool down. I started it up and made it the rest of the way home and was saying "thank you jesus,...

I forgot to say that I told our dog to start folding an hour ago and he hasn't even lifted a paw. What's the problem? Do I really have to do everything around here? Okay fine maybe tomorrow I will. I'm about to tell my baby dolly girl to donate some clothes to goodwill. Her wardrobe is bigger then the Kardashians. And they also have the same amount of talent as my dog. Anyways lets go positive, at least we HAVE clothes to wear!

Hi I'm glad to finally blog again! I'm so excited because I have been meaning to write. I blogged 7 years ago but I couldn't find my blog, I wish I found it because I'm sure it would be very funny to read. Hahaha shoot I'm still going to look for it, I think I was trying to sound like a blogger by saying dumb stuff like this "it is lightly raining outside the ground is damp and the night is silent, but I hear a low whistle from the train." In other words I was trying very hard to be a blogger. Okay so I can't stop thinking about how cute this was! At the grocery store today there was people there very excited about my dolly baby girl and one was a toddler. She said "mom a baby, a baby baby baby baby!" I almost said something back along the lines of yeah love em when they can't run away yet or sass back to you haha. But instead I just smiled. Then there was an older girl with down syndrome and she was so happy to see a baby too she said ...