Sometimes I snap a picture or tackle a project and think, "I'll post about that." But life waits for no blogger, and by the time I can sit down at the computer and collect my thoughts, there is no way to round them all up into a cohesive herd. Some of those ideas fall by the wayside, never to see the light of a computer screen (such loss; such tragedy!), but sometimes I throw them all together like a tossed salad and serve it up to you. THAT'S what today's post is - tossed salad!
Out standing in their field. Notice the fresh dirt behind Jackson? Rick will NOT be pleased to see that he is digging holes in the reseeded pasture! Jackson is doing his best to turn Dozer into a proper farm dog, but thankfully Dozer's short hair is incapable of holding a bushel of burrs and a mountain of mud. Jackson is seriously tempting me to
shear shave him for the winter; sure would make it easier to clean up him after every outside jaunt!
Oh, what a tangled web I knit.... I have cast on and ripped out that neat hat twice now, both times losing a length of yarn because the fibers in it get hopelessly enmeshed. I cast on a third time last night, and hope to get past the second row (isn't that pitiful?) tonight after Brian goes to bed. Working on it in a less than quiet atmosphere has been unsuccessful.
There's kraut in the house! Last night with a little help from Rick, I got both mammoth cabbages shredded, resulting in 20 lbs. of kraut in the basement shower and two big bowls of cole slaw in the frig.
Last night Rick came home with concord grapes and apples from a client (not the one who gave us the cabbages). May I just say again here how blessed we are by the bounty friends and clients share with us? And when we are blessed with bounty, I feel duty-bound to do my part and preserve it. After all, if I'm not contributing much cash to our household, I can at least make every effort to keep our grocery costs low.
Rick pressed about half the grapes last night; move over, Welches! Oh, sooooo good. The apples will be turned into more sauce on Sunday, and probably a batch of apple butter. I also need to make another batch of Green Tomato Salsa (I'm calling it that because it is
much closer in taste to green Tabasco than sandwich relish).
This hanging scale purchased on eBay arrived yesterday; now I'll be able to weigh my lambs! I don't think doing so is essential, so I haven't been willing to shell out the cash for what Premier sells. But when I found a brand-new hanging fish scale with a 10-year warranty for under $20 (postage-free) on eBay that will give me that useful information, I thought it was a worthwhile investment. Now I just need to order ear tags, and I'm set for lambing season . . . in four or five months. :-)
Finally, here's my artsy-fartsy offering for the day:
That's it for now at . . .
Trick or treat?
Dozer was all dressed up with nowhere to go this year. My mom had given me these two costumes for Jackson, knowing that I used to dress Rosie up for a local feedstore's pet costume contest each year. The costumes were too small and silly for an elegant (looking, not acting!) Aussie but fit Dozer, and I picked up a blue kid's baseball mitt at a thrift shop for a buck for Dozer to carry in his mouth (I thought the baseball jacket was cuter than the policeman's uniform). Alas, corporate decided to cancel the contest this year, so the dogs have been reduced to begging at the door naked, so to speak.
