Simply Balisha

Simply Balisha

Friday, February 28, 2014

Meat Prices, Apple Computer, and a Lenten Challenge




Realizing that meat prices will be going through the roof, we bought quite a lot of meat this week. Joe, having been a meat cutter years ago is able to cut our meat. He took this big piece of sirloin and made three sirloin tip roasts. I just showed this one cut of meat, but there were several other meats that he cut and packaged.

I'm also trying out my new picture program on this Apple computer. I managed to download these pictures...but not sure I could do it again without some trial and error. I haven't figured out how to send them to pic monkey, however. I got them kind of dark. You'll have to excuse these first pictures...I'm still learning. Apple is a whole "nuther" thing in computers. I'm so used to the windows based computer...this will take some learning......and you know what they say about "old dogs."

Lent is coming and I was reading something that Vicki wrote on her blog this morning...http://lifeinmyemptynest.blogspot.com/2013/02/40-bags-in-40-days.html  about her Lenten Challenge. Last year she filled 40 bags in 40 days instead of giving up something for Lent. The bags contained things that her family no longer needed...things that someone else might need. She said it made her house and mind more orderly. I thought, at the time, it was a wonderful idea. We have an abundance of "things" here at our house. I don't know if I can fill 40 big bags, but I'm going to give it a try. Most years I give up some food item, but this year it will be  a challenge to fill the bags with items that we no longer use, sort of like spring housecleaning....and my mind will get a spring housecleaning too.
Remember my goal for this year was to simplify.

Balisha


6 comments:

  1. Very wise to purchase meat now and that's great that Joe can cut it for you. Your photos turned out fine; glad you are making progress with the computer.

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  2. I like that idea for Lent. This year, I am going to do something for someone else everyday--maybe a note or a phone call to friends who live in other states--or just drop a happy card into the mail to someone. Simple.

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  3. Love the idea about the 40 bags and not much meat eating in this cottage.
    Like your images and know you are and will continue to make friends with your new computer.

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  4. The meat looks wonderful! How nice to be able to prepare roasts for your "larder!" And the pictures look good too.

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  5. The 40 bag challenge didn't go over as well as I wished. I don't have 40 bags of things to get rid of, because when we joined households, I got rid of many things. We have things stored in the basement...that were Joe's familyII items. He would like to clear that out, but getting someone to part with things...as you know...is not easy sometimes.....so my 40 bags might come up short. We'll see what happens.I think that I scared him with the 40 bags idea....it's not like I am going to tear through the house collecting things and putting them in bags. One at a time....slow and careful.

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  6. That is awesome that Joe knows how to cut meat and make roasts, etc. We don't eat a lot of meat - I make several vegetarian dishes per week - so our meat budget isn't bad at all. And when I do buy meat, I only buy the organic, grass-fed stuff whenever I can. I find a little goes a long way. Forty bags of stuff is a lot at one time. I've maybe donated that much stuff over a year. I keep bags in my basement that I add to all the time and when they get full, that's when I donate.

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