Hittin' the Spice Jackpot at Dollar General.....

I ran to town this morning to run a few errands, and needed to stop at the Dollar General and pick up some potatoes and mushrooms. A few days ago while watching Semi Homemade with Sandra Lee, she made a recipe for Crockpot Meatloaf that looked absolutely wonderul. All I needed to make it was potatoes and mushrooms. Well, first off when I walked into the produce section, I knew I had lucked up! They had beautiful snow white button mushrooms on sale for $1 for an 8 ounce carton....good deal. Then I went to get my potatoes, and they had an even better sale on them! The Dole 5 pound bags of Russett potatoes were also just $1 a bag...wow!! I put two of each in my cart and then decided I would browse around and see what deals I could find .........

........then my luck got even better. They had a section that said clearance last chance where they had several baking items and spices marked down. They had 12 ounce bottles of Sunflower oil marked down to .25 cents, McCormick lemon extract, almond extract, whole peppercorns, and large bottles of parsley flakes....all marked down to .25 cents!!!!

I got 4 each of the extracts, 5 bottles of oil, the last 2 peppercorns, and 2 parsley flakes.

So, in the end, I got everything in both pictures for $8.25 before tax, I though that was pretty darn good! I am all set for holiday baking with all the oil and extracts I got, and I am really proud that I got all of it without using a single coupon! Who would've thought it?

Have a great weekend everyone, and look for those deals in the clearance aisle when you go shopping.....you never know what great deals you will find!!

Mornin' Run!

There's almost nothing that makes me happier and soothes my soul more than watching my horses run, buck, and enjoy life!

 I brought Dior and Gunner in from the big pasture, and let Sonny and Mr. T go out to graze this morning, so Dior and Gunner thought they would put on a show for me!

They ran around the round pen and paddock and bucked, kicked, and had a ball!

Gunner had to stop for a minute and say hello to Jack who was watching all the commotion from the lower pasture........

Dior flyin' by me...........

It's been so hot here for the last month, that we put one of those big industrial size fans in the aisleway of the barn to help keep the guys cool in this relentless heat. Sonny and Mr T love it and had gotten used to it, but Gunner and Dior just met it's acquaitance this morning, and Gunner kept his distance, he was having second thoughts about walking past it.......you've never heard such snorting, blowing, and carrying on !

He finally figured out it wasn't gonna eat him, and it's all good now. They actually stand right in front of it and sleep with it blowing on them, LOL.....

Have a great Tuesday everyone!!!

Good Deals at Kroger....

I just had to post my great deal I got at Kroger this morning! I got everything you see in the picture for $4.22, and $2.05 of that was tax!

8 bottles of Sobe (used 4 BOGOF coupons, plus additional $4 off at register for buying 8)

Kroger Tortilla chips (1.00 no coupon)

Kroger real Butter 1 pound (1.65 no coupon, but still good deal)

1 Box of Kroger Fettuccini (.99 no coupon)

Schick Hydro 3 Razor (5.99, used 5.00 off paper coupon plus 4.00 off Kroger Ecoupon, so 3.01 OVERAGE, register took full amount off of both coupons)

Digiorno Pan Pizza (had coupon for a free pizza)

Tampax Pearl Tampons (4.19, used 2.00 coupon and 2.00 Kroger Ecoupon)

Loaf of Kroger bread (1.00 no coupons)

Healthy Life Hamburger buns (1.29, used .25 coupon which doubled)


Total before all Paper coupons, Kroger discounts and E-Coupons was 31.68, and I paid $4.22!  That ends up being only .26 cents per item....can't beat that! I love this hobby.....it really pays to use coupons!

Beatin' The Heat.....

It is still miserable hot here in middle Tennessee! We have had record high temps for the last month with no relief in sight. The horses are faring well.....they have plenty of shade, we have a fan going in their run in stall, and I am spraying them down occasionally with the water hose. I even set up a sprinkler the other day for them, and they were in heaven!

Playin' in the Sprinkler.........

Gettin' a drink............

Sonny straddles the sprinkler to let it spray

 his belly and "nether regions", LOL.......

Havin' a ball..........

Ummmm....no, he's not dead.....

Sonny loves to take a good roll after gettin' wet.......

Mr. T likes to drink from the sprinkler.......

Ahhhh....makes me want to go get under

 the sprinkler now, I think I might!