At one time, this was my favorite. Pretzel Salad Ingredients: 1 cup of broken pretzels 1 stick of butter ½ cup sugar 1 pkg. Dream Whip 1 oz. pkg. cream cheese ½ cup sugar 1/8 cup of cornstarch 1 can crushed pineapple Directions: Mix butter and sugar, add pretzels and stir. Put in round casserole dish. Bake 10 minutes at 350, take out and let cool. Prepare Dream Whip according to pkg directions. Blend in cream cheese and sugar, do not over blend. (There will be some lumps). Spread over pretzel mixture. Thicken pineapple with 1/8 cup cornstarch (mixed with water). Cook over med – high heat until juicy. Spread over top. Chill for 4-5 hours. zap This is good stuff.
I can see how this would taste awesome and doesn't require the skills of a 4 star chef. It also uses a lot of what you might have laying around in the fridge and cupboard, but gotta tell ya I don't think it's going to be winning any beauty contests haha.
In case we get some high winds when the cold front moves in Sunday, I moved some firewood related items out of the woods. I'll get back to some stacking once the heat is gone.
The wife decided she would makes some baked beans after she finished the berried delight this morning.
Tomorrow I'll get a face cord of seasoned maple stacked and then load up the utility trailer with some branches left from the clearing last spring and take them to the wood dump.
I stacked the first face cord before noon but since that area gets lots of sun, I'll wait until later before I start on the second face cord with pictures going up tonight.
Since I posted, the clouds moved in with some rain but it won't last long. I had my share of sun when I was a kid so I only like x amount of direct sun per day. We have some hotter weather with plenty of sun coming in so I'll start splitting under a nice big ole pine that should give me plenty of shade.
I know about the sun, I'm very fair complexion and spent my youth helping daddy farm with open cab tractors, needless to say, I've seen the Dr 3 times for skin cancer.
The cooler temps in the morning feel nice, we had 52 this morning. I did start taking more bark back in to fill in a low spot on a trail today. I always show the wife the areas we'll be burning from just in case something happened to me so today I did that. We have 14 face cord of cherry,beech,soft maple,sugar maple,muscle wood and some yellow birch. In our second area we'll burn some wood from we have ironwood,yellow birch, the maples and beech. In the softwood area we have a hair under six face cord for the shoulder seasons, fall and spring. We won't need all the wood listed but we'll have enough covered if winter hangs on like last year. Hopefully tomorrow I'll start splitting more pine but have a few things going on before that will happen. On my ride back in today, I did notice part of a cherry down but it's in an area that doesn't have a trail to that area but we can fix that, I'll get pictures when I do the job. If my face cord count is correct, we have 53 stacked of hardwood with a goal of adding another 10-12 before the snow gets deep, it's not the most we've had but it's enough.
Thanks T.J.V., not bad for taking the summer off. Today was a lost day, the truck went in for a new ABS module which is two parts but we only needed one which was corroded so bad they couldn't get it off so they ordered the other part so the job can be done, more . They had a truck from Alabama (2005, mine is a 2010 ) the 2005 didn't have any rust at all and the motor looked new, gotta love that salt!
That bites. Sure wish they could use sand on the roads. I noticed how the trucks were rusted when we went to Michigan in May for the GTG.
Yeah, the salt does a number on our vehicles. Woodsnwoods You mentioned.. I'm unfamiliar with that designation, what species?
Once the temps get really low, sand won't do much but I do wish there was something safer and better for the environment.
