Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[Mini Horses]

Rains coming in at my place in a few hours. Got the bags of feed from truck bed -- too late last night and sure can't afford to lose a bag! Chores done, milk chilling, breakfast hours ago and now it really is "the lull before the storm" . Winds picking up some.

Better get whatever meat I'm cooking from freezer before I forget ya know that CRS stuff . Maybe plan a quiche, too -- egg overload! Plus bread pudding -- milk overload -- need stale bread . Well, just plain old vanilla pudding will work!

Seems a cooking day has formed.

 

[flowerbug]

Rains coming in at my place in a few hours. Got the bags of feed from truck bed -- too late last night and sure can't afford to lose a bag! Chores done, milk chilling, breakfast hours ago and now it really is "the lull before the storm" . Winds picking up some.

Better get whatever meat I'm cooking from freezer before I forget ya know that CRS stuff . Maybe plan a quiche, too -- egg overload! Plus bread pudding -- milk overload -- need stale bread . Well, just plain old vanilla pudding will work!

Seems a cooking day has formed.

i love all those things and would look like a balloon...

 

[flowerbug]

That's so true Flowerbug. My brother is also T2 yet drinks every day, all day since 10am until he can't walk back home at night.
I think that is the kind of T2 I am bordering with. My sister is the T2 that needs insulin. Her body doesn't produce any insulin.

i was reading last week or two ago about a new gadget they're testing/developing that pretty much can replace the pancreas for insulin production. it uses sugar as fuel so it self-regulates.

 

[Country homesteader]

The storm is almost here at my house, @Mini Horses . The wind has picked up very much so hopefully the clothes I have on the line will dry before the rain actually hits. The last time I checked they were almost dry but needed a little bit longer especially FH long sleeve work shirts. While doing laundry I'm trying to get as much cleaning done before I have to bring 3 dogs in cuz I know once they come in and the storm hits they won't want me out of their sight at all and they will be wanting places to hide , big scaredy babies !!!!

 

[Mini Horses]

We're still getting rain. Softer. Severe t-storm warnings over. Should be gone 10-12, here. Rain makes grass & forbes grow -- and my "self powered mowers" love that! Not the rain just the results.

 

[Hinotori]

Went clam digging. Limits are 20 clams at the moment. We got both of ours in 45 minutes which is quite fast. Perfect conditions and a favorable low tide for it. Next dig will also be 20 clam limit before it drops back down to the normal 15 clams.

Bowl is 16 inches across. Most of the clams have shells between 5 and 6 inches in length. Wish I could think of a use for the shells.

 

[Dreamz]

@Hinotori so you are oceanside? Unless there are lake or river clams, which never heard of.
Shells broken for chickens or whole for art. I prefer scallops or conch. Not into clams or any other shell seafood. I would love to go to Alaska and eat crab and see those big fishing boats from deadliest catch show,lol I could have me some fresh ocean fish right now!

 

[Country homesteader]

Good Morning wonderful people!!!
Coffee is READY and it's HOT!!!!
What am I doing up so early on Sunday morning you ask? Well, ask my pup who by the way is back to sleep why he got me up so early.
@Hinotori crushed shells are good for chickens, flowers/plants.
What Can You Do With Leftover Clam Shells?
Make clam shell broth. Seafood broth has always been far less popular than chicken, beef and veggie stock, which in my book should be criminal. ...
Use them as a soap dish. ...
Hold your salt. ...
As a jewellery holder. ...
Presenting your food. ...
Mulch using clamshells.
That's just a few ideas clam shells can be used for. The only kind of seafood that I like is shrimp but it doesn't bother me when others eat other kinds of seafood unless I'm getting forced to try it.

 

[baymule]

Thanks for the coffee. I’m up early on a Sunday morning too. I’ll be out at daylight to get chores done.

 

[flowerbug]

Went clam digging. Limits are 20 clams at the moment. We got both of ours in 45 minutes which is quite fast. Perfect conditions and a favorable low tide for it. Next dig will also be 20 clam limit before it drops back down to the normal 15 clams.

Bowl is 16 inches across. Most of the clams have shells between 5 and 6 inches in length. Wish I could think of a use for the shells.

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if you can mash the shells up a bit they could be buried in a garden or put in the compost pile (and then they'd end up in the garden). then they would become a longer term calcium and other trace nutrient supplier.

if you get so many that you can't use them all they could be stockpiled in a spare hole until you did need them. it's not like they're going to spoil or rot.

i'm not sure to what extent they will rot though, but i wonder if they could be crushed and used in concrete as a filler? (pothole patching, driveway hole filler, etc.) do the cement factories out that ways take them from the fishin industry? or does someone else use them? it seems they'd be a nice material to work with if you could get it by the truckload.