Oh Yeah, We Had A Baby
Hehe, forgot to mention that here! If you’re not on Facebook you may be out of the loop. Introducing… Kent Keith Born 7/7/11 @ 9:58AM 6# 3 oz. – 19 inches long In answer to all the popular questions: How was the labor? Speedy, very intense, but the best I could have asked for really. […]
Lamb Doctorin’: Flystrike
Disclaimer: This is not a pleasant condition to talk about. I’m sharing it to A)help other shepherds who find themselves dealing with it for the first time and B)to remain transparent to our customers. Things like this are a part of raising animals and it’s our job to educate ourselves on how to best care […]
Inventorying My Freezer
Stick with me – I know inventorying your freezer sounds like an OCD thing to do. I’m not crazy!! (Well, maybe a little, but not in regard to this!) We have 4 freezers in our house and a small one in the top of the shop fridge. If I can’t keep track of what’s in […]
Frozen Cookie Dough
Brian always harasses me when I make a batch of cookie dough just to nibble on. He prefers the real cookies – odd, I know! 😉 The dough tends to sit in the fridge for a day or two before I get around to baking any cookies. Wouldn’t it be nice to have dough all […]
Planting Potatoes
Whew – it takes FOREVER to plant potatoes when you don’t crowd them. According to my favorite gardening book main crop potatoes should be planted 15″ apart in rows 30″ apart. I planted 10# of Red Pontiac potatoes in rows this way. I cut them in to pieces with at least 1 or 2 good […]
A Sit Down Project (Literally)
I could have taken advantage of the day without rain to plant my potatoes but I didn’t. Instead, I finished up a sewing project in the house. I have my Mom’s rocking chair. It’s really sturdy and good looking but lacked a cushion. I used cut up paper bags to make a pattern. The back […]
Pictures (Basement, Garden, etc.)
It was pretty productive day. I can only do about half of what I normally do and I’m twice as sore. I guess the baby isn’t much for weeding! Guess I better do an extra good job with my mulching this year. 😉
Part-time Day 1
Well, this is my first week dropping back to part-time at work. That means today was my first Tuesday at home! I made myself quite a to-do list to help me stay on task and not kill too many brain cells on the computer all day. I actually crossed off every single thing on my […]
Freezer Cooking: Browned Ground Beef
If you do it right you can have ground beef already browned and packaged loosely enough that you can scoop out however much you need for any particular recipe. Here’s how I do it. Ingredients: Fresh or frozen ground beef A NOTE ABOUT USING FROZEN BEEF: If you’re buying your beef from the grocery store […]
Freezer Cooking with Ground Beef
I did my freezer cooking day a couple weekends ago. I had intended to get together with some family to do it but when that didn’t work out I decided to post it all here. This way anyone who would like to follow along can plan their own day of cooking. I started with 20 […]