My day started with a laundry basket almost full of corn… Not a ton, but a good amount. So, I jumped in! First you place your corn in boiling water for 4 minutes… then blanch it in ice water… then drain. I like having a small board with a nail driven through it to place…
Category: Garden
Questions and Answers – August 2013 Edition
LightNING and rain passed north and south of us… Here’s hoping for no fire calls! Let’s get going! Marilyn: Questions: how do the doggies react during thunder and lightning? how did you select the name, “Dally”? Lucas was not scared of lightNING/thunder until I got Elsa. Elsa, as an Oklahoma dog, was SCARED of…
Write That Down
First, I missed this question from Belle the other day for Q&A… Belle – When you brand your cattle, where do you put your brand? Is it important what part of the calf – right leg, left leg? When you sell your cattle then does it get branded by the new owner? I know you…
Hugelkultur Eins
I’ve finally started it… the laying out of my small hugelkultur beds. Hugelkultur, if you recall from this previous post, is where you create a berm, the base of which consists of tree stumps and limbs. Other natural litter is placed on and around it, much like lasagna gardening. The final layer of dirt becomes…
All In All
That hot tub I haven’t bought yet? I sure could use it now! I spent the morning spray painting my garden shed and garage, at least as far as I could get on a ladder! So there’s the up and down, the weight of the backpack of paint (only 8#, but still…) and the reaching…
Amazing Piece
Seems like I need to start these entries a little earlier… I’ve been falling asleep and not feeling like waking up enough to write! That’s typical springtime… the rush is on to clean, garden, farm, ride, move cattle, irrigate and plant. Where we were in snow just a few weeks ago, the grass has now…
Homemade Greek Yogurt
Yesterday’s entry was about making farmer cheese/mozzarella, but what I really started to make was Greek yogurt! I scanned many a recipe… I wanted one that used raw milk since that’s what I had, but many were made with storebought milk. Then I found this easy recipe! Again, I cut it in half, just because…
Hors Experiment
Spent the morning getting my last wheel installed on my minitruck… and then the guys aligned the front… which cost Brandon a gash on his forehead when a wrench slipped! So sorry, Brandon! But I’m very thrilled! There’s lots of projects just waiting for that truck! The afternoon was spent experimenting and cleaning up my…
Hugelkultur
Yup. A day that actually acted like April. It was great! Unfortunately, I spent most of it in the library… but that’s ok. It didn’t give me much of an opportunity to take photos, however… so instead, I’m going to share an idea that I ran across a couple of weeks ago. There’s another Wyoming…
Warm Place
I made some minor adjustments to the chicken coop this morning… Though repairing the window might require the purchase of larger rolls of wire… The rest of the day, it seems, was spent in my kitchen. It was a drying kind of day. As in dehydrator. Cleaning my refrigerator, aka creating soup starter, occupied part…
Just Ducky
After I finished canning the last 5 pints of salsa for the year, and cleaning house, and looking for calendar photos… I headed outside for some fresh air. I drove up and examined the center pivot from close up… still no power… and a few other things left to do… but I must say it…
21 Pints and Disaster
Bleh. I have 21 pints of salsa and a disaster of a kitchen to clean… That was my day, how was yours? **** October 15, 2011 Oh, Gee (look, last year I was too tired to write, too!) October 15, 2010 The Bidding Starts NOW October 15, 2009 We Know Wapiti (boy, howdy, do we!)…