Elly May was able to rescue the thing and it was still alive with no visable wounds. Feeling sorry for it.. she let it go in a sort of wild grassy area behind our house . But this morning.. she went out to check on it and it had died . So I guess they killed it afterall . The mighty hunters and their first kill. Sort of. ... kind of by default.. but anyway. It is gone now.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Casualty....
Kitchen Rambles
It was very very yummy. I even had lamb bones left over from 2 lamb legs we'd had earlier in the year at Passover and I made lamb broth out of those after roasting them. We had bought a whole lamb (well , it was frozen and in pieces..) from Chaffin Family Orchards (same place our chickens come from) and it was (and still is) absolutely delicious. Very very tender and not gamey at all.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
The Cat's Meow
Socks.. and stripes.. I love them. But you can never find just the right kind. So the other night when I could not sleep because my lovely joints were out and aching like crazy , I came down to sit at the computer in the wee hours of the morning and search for socks. I found the coolest shop that is up in Portland Oregon. And they have thing highs . How cool is that ? With stripes. In a bazillion different colors. Boy howdy was I excited. Why get boring socks when you can have these?? Granted, my skirts are all about ankle length so no one but me knows I've got them on.. I guess I need to make some slightly shorter skirts... but anyway... they got here today . Since I was already wearing a fuchia colored sweater , I went for the stripes to match ( I also got some blues and purples) . Are these cool or what??
I mean.. they're so spiffy.. so topping.. so absolutely ripping. The cat's meow, the frogs croak , the chickens cluck , the cow's mooo and all that jazz . Sock Dreams.. I thank you for such cool socks.
In other news, I've got lots of photos and projects to post about sometime in the near future here. I'm still fighting remnents of this cold but Frank is gone. Although , like a complete idiot I left my window open a crack last night and it got really cold and my throat has not been happy with me since... nor my nose. I'm hoping this is just a passing thing and it doesn't go back to the full blown thing it was before. But if it does.. I can just put on more socks and smile at them.
In other news, I've got lots of photos and projects to post about sometime in the near future here. I'm still fighting remnents of this cold but Frank is gone. Although , like a complete idiot I left my window open a crack last night and it got really cold and my throat has not been happy with me since... nor my nose. I'm hoping this is just a passing thing and it doesn't go back to the full blown thing it was before. But if it does.. I can just put on more socks and smile at them.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Annabelle is Sick
Fascinating I know. But that is why there are no adventures. Well, things are always happening around here ... but just now, I have a frog in my throat and unfortunately, I can't take a picture and show you. But he is there just the same. I've found I can sing a whole octave lower than usual. I can mimick all those cool deep voices I've never been able to master... so you see , everything has a silver lining to it. I wonder if I should name him. I want to call him Fred but I'm afraid I end up calling everything Fred . Fred was the lobster.. , Fred was the spider on my ceiling , I think I even called a vacuum cleaner Fred once. It is just such a lovely go-to name. It fit them all . Oh well, maybe I'll just call this one Frank. Frank the throat frog. He is most active in the morning.
Anyhow, Frank and I are going to go rest now and sip some hot raspberry leaf tea . I do hope he goes away soon. There are so many things do be done !
Anyhow, Frank and I are going to go rest now and sip some hot raspberry leaf tea . I do hope he goes away soon. There are so many things do be done !
Monday, October 12, 2009
A Soup Kind of Day
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Random Picture post...
Seed saving.. I love these seeds. They look so cool .
Root Beer Gone Wrong....
Monday, October 5, 2009
Changin' the Beds..
We've had some issues with our top garden beds for awhile. Kind of a sun thing... The stuff in the back only gets a few hours of sun, ending at noon when it gets shaded by the fence. Nothing does very well in the back. So why waste all that space? Why not have a walkway there and run the beds the other direction? Well, it seemed like a big project and I didn't know if it would ever actually happen. I decided to plan it out , to see what kind of square footage I could get by changing things, would I lose some ? Would I gain some? and so on. I'm not really a planner so to go through all the trouble of measuring and marking up graph paper was kind of unusual for me. It gave me a headache. And I never did come up with anything solid.. But this past weekend it all came together in the hands of my very very capable father. He didn't get out any graph paper, he didn't even measure much, he just said , do it like this... and then he built it. We helped, but mostly he did all the work.
Oh, these aren't garden beds obviously, but it is what the sky looked like above them when I was taking before pictures..
Lovely power lines...
Skies like this are rare here. We don't get many clouds..
This looked really really cool. It was all feathery.
The ladies are molting. That there is a plucked chicken..

OKAY, on to garden beds... These are before shots..

Interesting..

New bed going in. It is just one big huge thing..
I think it looks like a boat. I don't know what to name it though. The R.V.S (Royal Veggie Ship) Behemouth or something. Hey, did you know RMS stands for Royal Mail Ship? I didn't know that before. That sounds kind of lame. The Royal Mail Ship Titanic.. kind of loses something. ..
OKAY, on to garden beds... These are before shots..
Interesting..
ANYhow, now I have a ship to fill with dirt. Lots and lots and lots of dirt. We'll be making most of it. It is time for serious composting. Those 4x4's would make good scarecrows. I could do all the ones in back... I could have a whole family of them! Hmmm. Then the dogs could growl at the strangers in the garden. SO, that was the weekend.
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