FarmerDenise's journal - full on harvest time = busy, busy, busy

[Wifezilla]

If you use a sourdough method on your donuts, it would help increase the nutrition.
http://www.bakespace.com/recipes/detail/Sourdough-Donuts/4505/

 

[FarmerDenise]

If you use a sourdough method on your donuts, it would help increase the nutrition.
http://www.bakespace.com/recipes/detail/Sourdough-Donuts/4505/

I like that idea. I always try to get a little extra nutrition in
Trying to teach these guys, that healthy foods can taste delicious.
They actually usually like what I make. I think they are just too lazy to go an make anything themselves. And I normally don't eat much sweets, so I don't cook them. I focus on the main meal. I am too busy to get too fancy with my cooking. By the time I dig the carrots, clean the mud off them outside, then clean them thoroughly inside and get them ready to use, it feels as if half the day has gone by.
The GF has shown interest in learning how to make the stuff I do. She has been helping her mother cook, in order to learn her mother's recipes. Her mother's recipes are in her head, so it is dificult to learn them.
I gave the GF a homemade recipe book, so she could collect her own recipes. It is a binder with dividers and sheet protectors. I also gave her a coupon redeemable for copies of any of my recipes that she wants. She really liked it.

 

[FarmerDenise]

Still haven't made any donuts. I have been freezing cold. Just cannot get warm. We are lucky of the living room gets to 62* with the fire going for a while. Yesterday we ran some errands and cranked the heater up in the car. We were warm for the first time in days. We might need to go for a long drive to anywhere

One way to warm up is to do some work. So I have been weeding the asparagus beds and the flowerbeds in the front yard. I also planted a lot of bulbs I had sitting around. I gathered them up last year, since they had worked their way to the surface.
Yesterday I tilled the chicken yard. Then I tossed their evening seeds in there for them to scratch things up, and eat whatever I tilled up. Today I plan on tossing in some seeds and then we are locking the chickens out of their yard til May, when we will get the field plowed and planted. Hopefully by then the chicken yard will have a nice criop of greens for the chickens to enjoy.

Besides needing to finish weeding and fertilizing the asparagus beds, we need to prune the grapevines and all the fruit trees. I already pruned the roses in the front yard.
This self sufficient lifestyle sure is a lot of work.
But the rewards are usually worth it.

I am a little concerned about Blossom. We noticed yesterday that she does this weird head twisting thing. As if she were watching something up in the sky flying in a circle. SO said this morning, he thought she rolled her eyes as she does it. Now I have to go out and check. I have to do my animal chores anyhow.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

I am a little concerned about Blossom. We noticed yesterday that she does this weird head twisting thing. As if she were watching something up in the sky flying in a circle. SO said this morning, he thought she rolled her eyes as she does it. Now I have to go out and check. I have to do my animal chores anyhow.

RUN DONT WALK to get her some vitamin B1! this is called "star gazing" and may mean that she is having an episode of polio. Debbie did this after kidding last year. you can use regular B1 tablets for people

here is an article:
http://www.tennesseemeatgoats.com/articles2/listeriosis.html

some of the pro's (Free? Karen?) probably know better than me but you can fix this very very easily. also you cant give too much B1 - she'll just flush it out of her system.

if its polio the next thing that will happen is she'll be down and cant get up, do some kind of weird stretching her back thing, then it could be curtains.

hope she is ok!

 

[FarmerDenise]

 

[abifae]

Does he live with you? He's an adult. Boot him the hell out. Let him see what it's like not just mooching.

 

[Dace]

That is quite disrespectful! Perhaps he is dealing with something that is stressing him out? Isn't this out of character for him?

I am sorry....you should not have to deal with that garbage!

 

[FarmerDenise]

OFG, I just noticed that you posted on my journal about Blossom. Thank you for the info. I was so busy researching on it and checking on Blossom that I didn't notice earlier.

I didn't see Blossom do the stargazing bit at all today. SO said he saw her do it early in the morning. I did go and give her vitaminn B complex with her grains and some molasses too. She didn't eat it at first, but then when she saw that I wasn't bringing anything else, she ate her share. I plan on giving her more tomorrow and I will put some UP/ACV in the water too.

I managed to clip Flowers rear hooves today also. She hates having her rear feet messed with. So I tied her to the fence and pinned her against it with my body and it took about 1/2 hour to get both hoves done.

I got all the christmas decor packed up also.

I pruned the grapevines and started pruning the plums and peaches.

Now I will be able to focus on getting ready for DD's baby shower.

When I went to TJ's to get the B complex, I also picked up some Quinoa, finely ground almonds and brie.

I plan on using the ground almond to make a pastry shell for a cheesecake for the baby shower. I have friends with celiacs and fibromyalgia. So I want to make some goodies that they can eat also. I will also make some GF cookies.

The brie is for me to keep my energy up. I have to do something to get some fat on me! I cannot get warm! need to bake some bread too!

 

[FarmerDenise]

 

[Dace]

How are you feeling today?