Chocolate Covered Cherry Vegan Milkshake

Mmmmm...Vitamix...the creamiest, most decadent velvety sweet heaven...you will never believe it's vegan!


25 ice cubes
1 1/2 C Almond milk
1 avocado
1/4 C chocolate chips
handful of dried cherries
handful of dried plums (prunes)
1 tsp vanilla

Throw all these things in the Vitamix, hit the "Smoothie" setting.  
Pour & enjoy!

Natural Ant Killer

We have had a terrible ant problem since it got warm.  I read about this online & we decided to try it.  Borax is an ingredient in commercial ant bait, like Terro.  But why got to the store, use fuel to get there, spend more money to buy the bait & make more waste to throw away?!  The only waste here is the cotton ball or pad...and that is biodegradable!

Waited to see if it would work...it did!!! 

1/2 C hot water
1/4 C white sugar
1 T Borax
Cotton balls or pads
(Small lids)

Mix until thoroughly dissolved. 
Plop in several cotton balls, or pads...fish them out with your fingers or a fork/spoon.
Place in lid, just to keep sticky solution up off the floor.
Leave them in the midst of your favorite ants' trails! 

We just did this & I am so pleased it worked!!

All the plywood subfloor is OUT!!

Okay, except for the driver's area, that is!

Top step rip out...one step at a time...Watch Your Step!

Two plywood panels left to rip out.

Geez...and there is way more open to the outside than I had hoped for. But on the bright side...only 2 more ply wood panels left!

Front side of rear passenger side wheel well.

Back side of rear passenger side wheel well.

Half of subfloor is up!

So, today we got half of the plywood subfloor up.
Found some rust-through on the front and back side of the driver's rear...really hoping the passenger side has less of that problem, or none (wishful thinking!).

Half the plywood subfloor is now up!

Unbelievably the subfloor is in fairly decent condition, so i am hoping to sand off the thin layer of rust accumulation from laying against the floor, then just reuse it!

Close up of the type of plywood used in 2000/2001.

My lovely ShopVac assistant, complete with do-rag!

Yep...that is the outside in the bottom left of the picture. Bummer.

And that is more "outside" shining in through the floor just forward of that same wheel well.

Ceiling & Floor are coming along!

I got a second plywood floor panel up, all the fiberglass insulation bagged up and got the top step flooring and plywood sub-floor removed!