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  1. Oklahoma pictorial

    March 8, 2012 by Fat and Happy Housewife

    A couple of weeks ago, I climbed aboard “Billie Jo” (we named our trucks after the girls of “Petticoat Junction”) and headed to Broken Arrow, OK with BigRigPig. Here is the gallery of pictures I took there and back. A couple of notes:

    As we got near the consignee in Broken Bow (the only directions we were given were to turn down the road and look for the construction), a hawk was soaring above us and I said, “look, he’s gonna guide us to the construction site.” Well, he did!! The pictures below are of the guiding hawk.

    The picture of the church is in Kansas. It is the only thing on the horizon for miles and miles. When you first see the steeple in the distance, you expect to be coming upon a town. Nope! Nothing but the church.

    I just love the old neon signs and I truly believe that every single one in these great United States should be restored!! Just wish I had the money to do it.

    We also love old bridges and these great steel behemoths are getting harder and harder to find as the all the bridges are being replaced around the country.

    Love, live and cook (or not) on the road!!

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  2. “I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.” –Bill Watterson

    March 2, 2012 by Fat and Happy Housewife

    So many people I know just hate winter! While autumn is my truly favorite season, I love winter too. It holds such promise. I collected a few quotes about winter:

    I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show. –Andrew Wyeth

    While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best. –Tom Allen

    If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. –Anne Bradstreet

    BigRigPig took me on yet another picture taking trip to a conservation area about 10 miles from the house. As we drove around and into the area, I snapped a lot of pictures from the truck window and was thinking about how gloomy it looked. I figured all my pictures would turn out just being these gray blobs of stuff; the “stuff” of winter. But, ALAS… I found some great color out there. The colored stuff that holds the promise!

    Love, live and cook in these days of winter, so you can get out and enjoy the warmth of spring!!

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  3. 49% Sweetheart

    February 14, 2012 by Fat and Happy Housewife

    Heart with Lace

    Happy Valentine’s Day to you all! It’s my birthday! I’ll let you guess what the other 51% of me is…

    I got a camera for my birthday! Guess BigRigPig got tired of my whining! LOL I’m pretty sure my middle name was meant to be “Cheap”, but every now and then he can talk me into letting go of a little more money than I normally would! And why not? It’s my birthday!!! :-)

    Old Barn in the Snow

    BigRigPig took me out driving in the snow yesterday! We were looking for eagles, but we didn’t see any. Above is a picture of an old barn just sitting out in the middle of nowhere. There were actually cattle there, but I love this picture best! I know I should be cooking and snapping away, but you’ll just have to wait and see how well this camera takes pictures of food! Today my Sweetheart is taking me to an eagle habitat to try again!

    Valentine Devil

    Love, live and cook “muy caliente”!

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  4. What’s missing?

    February 12, 2012 by Fat and Happy Housewife

    The blogger!!

    Lost in Paperwork

    It’s that time of year when I get overwhelmed with paperwork and taxes and the only thing I can think about is what’s NOT getting done! If you’ve noticed that your favorite small business blogger has gone missing, they’re probably doing their taxes too.

    Big Rig

    All my planned organization has fallen by the wayside! I’m finding papers and receipts all over the place, and not all from last year! I managed to keep four months recorded and filed properly, but the other eight months are in folders, manilla envelopes, glove boxes, old purses, and even on the bedside table. Arrrrgh!

    To give you an idea of what I’m up against… we have truck and trailer payments (interest is deductible, right?), insurance on those and the loads we carry, card fees and tolls and office supplies, oh my!! I’ve spent the last week on irs.gov just looking up publications and forms. Even though this is a yearly event, it’s like everything I ever knew about taxes has flown the coop!

    And… to top it all off, I actually help others with their taxes. I know, right? I can’t get my own sh** together, and I’m helping other owner/operators fill out their taxes. It’s good karma! That’s my story and I’m sticking with it!

    Money Roll

    Now… love, live and cook like you get a refund no matter what!!

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  5. What’s another kid?

    January 30, 2012 by Fat and Happy Housewife

    http://www.cartoon-clipart.com/cartoon_clipart_images/happy_children_playing_0515-1003-2917-0559.html

    Between BigRigPig and I, we have five children. I remember when they were young and would bring friends over, we would look at each other and say, “What’s another kid?” They couldn’t make any more mess than our five and they couldn’t eat much more! Well, I told you that story to tell you this one:

    BigRigPig’s mom, Granny, has been having health issues and was just given a new diet with lots and lots of restrictions. She lives with her daughter (I’ll call her TeachersPet) and son-in-law (CraftyDan) and the new diet constraints really put a kink in their lives. TeachersPet and CraftyDan are a young couple with very busy lives and little time to cook actual meals, let alone meals with diet restrictions. Well, since I already devote two days a week to cooking for the truck, I saw no reason why I couldn’t just throw Granny’s meals into the mix! What’s one more kid, right?

    We found a website that caters to Granny’s diet, DaVita, set it up for her condition and then I spent almost an entire day looking over recipes and trying to decide what to make! Unfortunately, I had already spent two days cooking for the truck when it was decided that I’d just add Granny’s food to my schedule. Needless to say, I’m very tired of cooking right now, and my dirty pots and pans are literally stacked to the ceiling.

    Dirty Dishes

    But I had a wonderful time learning about new ways to season dishes without salt and pepper, and I’m very happy that I could be of some sort of help to the family! I would have lots of pictures of interesting dishes if I could figure out how to use my new phone. I went to take pictures while I was cooking and it told me my phone was too full. How a phone gets too full is beyond me, but when I went to the “gallery” to delete some pictures and lighten its load, the app wouldn’t open and it told me my SD card was too full. Whatever! I’ll work on that this week so that I can actually blog some foodstuffs next!

    Live, love and cook for someone’s health!!

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