I can hardly believe next week will be the 4th of July. Where does time go?? When you are a kid, you think the next birthday will never come and then you reach an age when you wonder how you became so old and time just flies by.
Not a lot of excitement at the farm this week. We did have some sadness…one of our little banty chicks broke his/her leg. We brought the chick inside so that it wouldn’t get stepped on. It seemed sad and so we brought the other banty in to keep it company and then realized it was so much so much smaller than its sibling and so there must be other issues. Long story short, despite best efforts-splinting, eye drop feeding, it passed. I really do not like this part of having animals. I know it is part of the circle of life but they are more like family.
The rest of chicks are doing well. They are growing and no longer cute. The donkeys are looking pretty shabby as well. They are in the process of shedding…by the time they are done it will almost be time to work on their winter coat! I look forward to posting a pic of Casper when he has lost all his winter coat-he is so sleek and gorgeous! We finally put up a better fence between us and the neighbors-on the hottest day of the year I might add (86 degrees F). Not because we don’t like them or because they mind the donkeys visiting when they are free-ranging but they now have their garden in and I want no extra temptation for our jackasses!
The cats…well this pic should sum up why it takes me so long to get things made. I’m almost done with the wedding quilt for Jen and Austin and hopefully can post a pic next week. Top is done and I am almost finished with the quilting.
I want to show everyone pictures of Judy’s gardens which should go a long way to explaining why I don’t have my own garden. I did not include the potato, winter squash and corn areas. This is just the asparagus bed: garlic bed with peas, purple kale, zucchini and sweet potatoes; and the rest-onions, beets, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes, eggplant, carrots, as well as flowers to make it pretty-though all the flowers weren’t in at the time of the photo.
Not much new going on in the kitchen. I have all the asparagus I need for the winter in the freezer. I have already begun dehydrating my kale for my now fairly sought after bullion-I have people who request it in MD, MA as well as local. This week I plan on dehydrating rhubarb-both as a candy and to make into powder for rubs and marinades. Update on my pizza sauce from last week-I have totally perfected it. Of course, I don’t have a recipe but it contained tomatoes, onions, garlic and basil all from last years harvest and of all things butter-lots of butter. Not homemade-but I now have a source for fresh butter as well as milk. I am thinking about trying to make farmer’s cheese. I’ve helped Kim make feta cheese and am not ready to tackle that alone but rather start a bit simpler.
Friday is pizza night. When I visited my friend, Dina, the world’s best pediatrician and battalion surgeon, we all made individual pizzas for dinner. It was great idea-fun, tasty, and making dinner a family affair, and so I decided to try it here. I have perfected the dough (breadmaker) and now the sauce. The pic is of Paul’s pizza. I get to have mine meat free! It takes about 5 min per pizza in the pizza oven. It amazes me that we used to order it and then have to go pick it up (or for you all in the big city-wait for it to be delivered).
Even though is not a recent event, we are going to add a post on the Quonset hut…mostly photos of how “rednecks” get it done!
Thanks for taking the time to be a part of our week!