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10 For 10 Auction: Lot of 3 Gluten Free Cookbooks
UPDATE: This auction item has closed with a bid of $20! thanks Ali!
The auction for this item ended on December 26 with no bids. I am leaving it open until the first bid of $5.00 is received. All proceeds of this auction are to benefit The Oral Cancer Foundation.
While FabGrandpa does not have a gluten intolerance or celiac, he does eat mostly gluten free because I do, and I am the cook. He has been so supportive of my efforts, even when I was first learning how to cook with different grains. He will be the first to tell you that there is not much he will not eat, but there have been days when he has said, “Once is enough”.
These three books were among the first ones I bought, and were all very helpful to me in the learning process of re-learning how to cook. The first one is The No-Gluten Diet by Kimberly A. Tessmer, R.D., L.D. It retailed for $12.95
Next is The Gluten Free Gourmet Cooks Fast & Healthy by Bette Hagman, retail $18.00
And last is The Gluten Free Diet by Shelley Case, retail $23.20
These three books are all in great condition, and have very good information on the gluten free diet, and plenty of delicious recipes. To bid on this item, leave a comment with a dollar amount indication the amount you want to bid. Comments without dollar amounts are not considered to be bids. The opening bid for this lot of books is $5.00. You can bid in 1 cent increments. Thank you for taking a look! The proceeds from this auction will be donated to The Oral Cancer Foundation in January, in celebration of my husband, Jim Eidson’s 10 years of survival of oral cancer, and in honor of Michael H. Yeaw, who lost his battle. Read more about The Oral Cancer Foundation here.
This auction will close on Saturday, December 26, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. Central Standard Time. The highest bidder will win. The winner will be responsible for paying postage to ship the item. If you have any questions about this item, email me at fabgrandma @ gmail.com
If you’d like to spread the word about this auction to benefit The Oral Cancer Foundation, and to help educate people about oral cancer, please tweet about it, post about it on Facebook, or write about it on your blog. I’d really appreciate it! and you could be saving someone’s life!
That’s My Boy!
I don’t write about my son very often, but that does not mean that I don’t love him just as much as I love my girls. It’s just that he doesn’t talk much, and writes less frequently than he calls. He is married to Sarah, and he is the father of Michael, Sarah, Owen and Miss Amelia. He gave Ameila my middle name when she arrived on my birthday, and that made me cry. Happy cry, of course.
He has been in the Air Force for going on 17 years now, another thing that makes me really proud of him. He has been stationed in Texas, Guam, England, and now at Andrews AFB. We don’t get to see each other very much at all–the last time I saw him was in March.
Because our family is so spread out, I asked each of my children to make a wish list on Amazon. Seth’s wish list has cracked me up, but it has also given me much pleasure, because I can see from what he has on there that he remembers things I did for him when he was a little guy.
For instance, on his very first Christmas, I gave him a Curious George monkey and one of those stuffed gorillas with a plastic banana in its hand. And look at this stuff from his wish list:
That’s Not My Monkey (Usborne Touchy-Feely Books)
Super Stretch Screaming Flingshot Flying Monkey
When he was a few years older, we lived in a house that was under the landing pattern for a small local airport. The planes flew so low over our house that you could read the letters on their tires. One day my son asked me where they were going, so we got in the car and drove over to a hill across the road from the airport and watched them land. That became a weekly activity. My son has been in love with airplanes ever since. The evidence is right here:
E-Sky 4CH USB Flight Simulator Training Kit For RC Airplanes and R/C Helicopters
Revell B17G Flying Fortress 1:48 Scale
Revell Corsair F4U-4 1:48 Scale
When he was 13, he loved to watch The Frugal Gourmet on TV. And whenever I bought a new cookbook, I would often find him in the kitchen trying out new recipes. Evidently he still loves to cook:
Farberware Classic Stainless Steel 10-Piece Cookware Set
Trudeau Melamine Mixing Bowls, Set of 3
He has always had a warped sense of humor: who else would put these things on their wish list?
Liquid Ass 1 Ounce Bottle Spray Mist
Pull My Finger Fart Finger Pen
But the one thing on his wish list that makes my heart go pitter patter? This:
Love Your Mother. Bumper Sticker
p.s. yes, there are affiliate links to Amazon. But I still love this wish list.
My Sewing Machine Stared At Me Sadly Today
So I had to tear myself away from the computer and the website work, and sew something. I had promised my daughter a backpack for her birthday, which was in November, so that was the first thing I picked up today. The thing has been sitting there, all cut out and ready to sew, for weeks.
Becca is a HUGE Harry Potter fan. I found some embroidered patches with her favorite house emblem on them, Gryffindor:
That patch will be on the front of the backpack. I’m using orange fabric on the outside and for the pockets:
The whole thing is quilted and padded, and the pocket is big enough to hold her netbook or her e-reader. Or whatever. I used a piece of green corduroy that I found in a thrift shop for the inside. It is very soft. This backpack will be very sturdy, and has some very stiff interfacing in the middle.
And because she is a knitter, I made a pocket that goes all the way across the inside, with small divisions to hold knitting needles. At least I hope they will fit in there. Those pens and pencils fit in there pretty snugly, so maybe the needles will stay put in there. And one bigger pocket to hold a notebook or something. Tomorrow, I have to make the sides and top, and then put the whole thing together. I think I accomplished a lot, and made my poor neglected sewing machine happy.
Ah, The Perks Of Volunteering!
This is our second season volunteering at Payne Lake Campground. Payne Lake is in the Talledega National Forest, south of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. We liked it so much last year that we decided to come back. The forest service really knows how to make us volunteers feel welcome and appreciated!
Our duties here include staffing the entrance station on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. There are two camphost spots, one on each side of the lake, so we agreed with the other couple that we would staff the booth all day every other weekend. During the week, we drive around the campground a couple of times a day, doing the site checks, and checking the bathrooms to make sure they are stocked with toilet paper, and that the heaters are working.
We also pick up litter and clean out the fire rings on the campsites. Theyask for a total of 32 hours a week of work. We don’t have to do anything that is really hard, and we don’t have to clean any bathrooms. It really is a good volunteer gig.
In exchange for the work that we do, we are given a full hook up campsite, propane, and satellite internet service. (Verizon Mi-fi also gets a good signal here) They have also put a washer and dryer and a small freezer in the maintenance shop on the property for us to use. AND, several times during the winter, someone comes by and puts venison in the freezer for us to eat. Last year, they gave us some very nice jackets with a “Forest Service Volunteer” patch on them. Then when it was time to leave last year, they had a cook out and gave us more presents!
Today they had a Christmas luncheon at the work center. It was a very nice party with lots of food, and time to talk and get to know many of the forest service employees. They were all so nice!
Oh, and did I mention that they give us this nice truck to drive while we are on forest service business? Classy! There is a golf cart, too. Because we have business we need to take care of next winter in Georgia, we have already confirmed our volunteer job at a Georgia State Park. That means that Joe is looking for someone to replace us next winter. So, if anyone is interested in taking this spot, we’ll be leaving around April 10 to head back west for the summer. He needs someone during the summer, too.
Payne Lake Recreation Area has two campgrounds–one on the west side (which is the one we ae assigned to) and one on the east side. The West Side Campground has 18 campsites, 8 of which have electric and water, and 10 that have just water connections. The East Side Campground has 35 primitive sites. There is a day use area, a nature trail, a boat ramp, and a dump station. There aren’t many campers during the week, but on weekends during hunting season, it is full much of the time. You don’t take any money–the visitors fill out their own passes and drop the money in a pipe safe. We are here pretty much to prevent theft and vandalism in the area.
If you’d like more info, you can email me at fabgrandma @ gmail.com and I can send you Joe’s phone number and email address.
I Think I Am ADD
I have so many plans of things to do in my head and written down on paper in lists, but I just can’t get anything accomplished. I sit down to compose a letter, an email, or a blog post, but when I start to write, “A” becomes “AN” which becomes “AND” which becomes “ANDES” and then I think,” oooo, ANDIES CANDIES”, and then “ooooo, I like CANDY”, and then I get up and start looking through the pantry for whatever candy there might be in there. And then I think, “OH, I was supposed to be writing about that pantry challenge.” Crap.
I wake up with so many ideas running through my head that I will not ever possibly have time for. Someone told me that all of this distraction is only a part of getting older, but I have been this way for most of my life, which explains why I never did well in school. I used to keep a notebook and pen on my bedside table, so I could write things down when I woke up in the middle of the night. That only encouraged me to plan more stuff. I still wake up in the night with ideas, but I refuse to write them down anymore, because it only makes me crazy that I can’t do all the things I think of.
All of the above is one of the reasons I have been a little quiet here. I have been working on some “ideas”, not necessarily putting them into words yet. One of those ideas is an expansion of my little place here in the internetz. If you think of FabGrandma.com as a physical space, then it started out as a one room cabin. Last winter, I moved into a two room cabin, and now I am adding two more rooms. I have to have a place to put all these ideas I have, and it is taking me a while to get them all sorted out and filed away.
One of the first things you might notice is that I have updated the header up there at the top, making it a little easier to read and a little bit nicer, I think. I have sorted out the menu links a little better, and made a page where I can show you pictures of my grandchildren. The two new room, or pages, are “Shopping With FabGrandma” and “FabGrandma’s Gluten Free News”. Neither one of those pages has much on them yet, but like I said, the ideas are about to make my head pop open. I would appreciate it very much if you would click around on the links, and let me know what you think so far. I am open to suggestions for improvement. And content.
And that brings me to yet another idea I had. Is there anyone out there who would like to be a part of FabGrandma. Someone who has some writing skillz, who would like to write occasionally for either the gluten free page or the shopping page? If so, email me and let me know what your ideas are. Let’s talk.
10 For 10 Backpack Auction Winner
Thanks so much to Patty for her bid of $50 for the handmade backpack. I know she is going to love it for her new granddaughter, who was born yesterday. The Oral Cancer Foundation benefit auction has raised $165 so far!
10 For 10 Auction: Set of 4 Art Cards
UPDATE: 1/23/2011: This item closed with a bid of $5.00! Thanks Cindy!
The auction for this item ended on December 18 with no bids. I am leaving it open until the first bid of $5.00 is received. All proceed of this auction are to benefit The Oral Cancer Foundation.
At one of the first workamping jobs we had, we met an amazing guy named Chet Mazza. Chet’s career job was taking photographs of jets while flying through the air. After his retirment, he worked at campgrounds while traveling in an RV with his wife. His photography was beautiful! FabGrandpa and I had many wonder evenings with Chet and Ellie. One night, while sitting around the campfire, we swapped our handiwork–he took several bars of my home made soap, and we got a handful of his notecards made with is beautiful photographs.
Each notecard is numbered by the artist, and has been stored in a plastic sleeve. The auction to benefit The Oral Cancer Foundation this week includes 4 of these beautiful cards. I am not setting an opening bid for these, as I have no idea where to start with them.
To bid on this item, leave a comment with a dollar amount. Comments without dollar amounts are not considered to be bids. You can bid in 1 cent increments. Thank you for taking a look! The proceeds from this auction will be donated to The Oral Cancer Foundation in January, in celebration of my husband, Jim Eidson’s 10 years of survival of oral cancer, and in honor of Michael H. Yeaw, who lost his battle.
More information here.
This auction will close on Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 11:59 p.m. Central Standard Time. The highest bidder will win. If you have any questions about this item, email me at fabgrandma @ gmail.com
If you’d like to spread the word about this auction to benefit The Oral Cancer Foundation, and to help educate people about oral cancer, please tweet about it, post about it on Facebook, or write about it on your blog. I’d really appreciate it! and you could be saving someone’s life!
