My MIL used to make a country fried steak that my kids and DH loved...I hated...! She said the secret was to get a 1 1/2 inch thick piece of round steak, and work a lot of flour into it. She said you take the edge of a plate and just pound that flour in until there is much worked in as you can get....then brown it on both sides in hot Crisco, add a little water and cover and simmer until it's tender. She probably also added a can of cream of.... soup! When we would go away and would leave the kids with her....that was her special treat. They chose to go to Grandma's even after they were well old enough to stay alone because of that durned country fried steak!

Four, most of my plants are for butterflies, either as host plants or pollinator plants. A couple groups like ferns and mosses aren't. I have a few milkweed species for Monarchs and Gypsy Moths. A. syriaca, purpurascens, sullivantii, viridis, viridiflora, quadrifolia, engelmanii, verticillata, subverticillata, exaltata, stenophylla, fascicularis and speciosa. The native white butterflies and sulphers are almost gone around here, but I still grow the legumes that are their hostplants, and some skippers and other leps feed on legumes also. The legumes I grow are Lespedeza capitata, Lespedeza violacea, Astragaus canadensis, Baptisia australis, Baptisia tinctoria, Baptisia bracteata, Baptisia alba, Dalea purpurea, Dalea foliosa, Apios americana, Apios priceana, Amorpha canescens, Amorpha fruticosa, Amorpha nana, Lathyrus venosum, Lathyrus odorata 'Cupani'. Chamaecrista fasciculata, Senna hebecarpa, Acmispon americana, Amphicarpaea bracteata, Trifolium stoloniferum, Trifolium reflexum, Trifolium carolinianum, Desmanthus illinoensis, Desmodium canadensis, Pediomeum tenuiflorum, Thermopsis villosa, and Scrotalaria saggitata. The cudweed tribe of Asteraceae is the group that appeals to American Lady butterflies. Of those I grow Antennaria neglecta, Antennaria plantaginifolia, Anaphallis margaritacea and Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium. I've wanted to grow the weedy cudweeds. Gamochata pensylvanica, and Gamochaeta purpurea. It's been difficult trying to find the seeds for the 2 weedy species. I grow Wooly Pipevine, Isotrema/Aristolochia for the pipevine swallowtails. I've only seen a few leaves eaten, but there are so many leaves that the caterpillars can hide in? I grow Wild Ginger, Asarum canadense and Virginia Snakeroot, Endodeca/Aristolochia serpentaria var convolvulacea for the Pipevine Swallowtails too. I grow 2 species of native thistle for the American Lady butterflies too. Cirsium discolor, Prairie Thistle and Cirsium altissimum, Tall Thistle. I try to grow only the grasses and sedges that are butterfly host plants. The native legumes don't have ant nectaries, so the caterpillars are basically safe from ants. For Black Swallowtails I grow Golden Alexanders, Zizia aurea, Heart Leaved Golden Alexanders, Zizia aptera, Yellow Pimpernel, Taenidia integgerima, Honewort, Cryprotaenia canadensis,Rue, Ruta gravolens, Swamp Parsley, Sium sauve, Sweet Cicely, Osmorhiza claytonii, Snow Parsley, Cnidium monieri, Orlaya, Sanicula canadensis. For the Giant Swallowtails I'm growing Hopstree, Ptelea trifoliata, and Rue. Rue is interesting in that Black Swallowtails will use it in place of Apiaceae species. For the Buckeyes, which sadly are so rare nowadays, I grow some Verbena species, V. hastata, simplex, bracteata, stricta, urticifolia, bonariensis, and Glandularia bipinnatifida. Also Plantago species for the Buckeyes. Plantago aristata, rugeli, wrightiana, virginica and unintentionally the weedy Plantago lanceolata and major. Im still searching for Plantago patagonica seeds. There are a million venders selling Plantago major seeds online, but a beautiful species like patagonica isn't offered. I've scattered thousands of Agalinis seeds around the beds, and not 1 seedling. Agalinis, False Foxglove is another buckeye host plant. Same thing with Linaria canadensis. I can't get the seeds to germinate. I should get some Pentas for the Tersa Sphinx Moth. The only other species in Rubiaceae that I grow is Buttonbush, Cephalanthus occidentalis. I've also been searching for seeds for the weeds Buttonweed, Diodia virginiana, and False Buttonweed, Spermacoce remota. I only have the Half-Truth Buttonweed Lol. Also in Rubiaceae and Tersa Sphinx Moth host plants. Buttonbush is one of the all time best pollinator plants.

Bought six steaks today. My son and family are coming up to stay with us for 10 days, so we will have steaks, corn on the cob and German Potato salad. Have lots of other meals planned, plus ordering pizza at least once. They let us know 2 weeks ago that they wanted to come up to the lake. We said yes. Kids Immediately packed their bags. DDIL said she had to unpack 7 year old Alex's bag. He had packed all of his underwear and none to wear for the time before they came up! Silly boy!

Lol i thought if that too except i paid alot of money to have it made the same as what they ripped off . it was all wood, did it all in white , sofit and gutters are new also, before i even thought of black windows. once i thought of that i ofcourse wished i would have done gray but what is done is staying .