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

[FarmerDenise]

Just having lunch. A sandwhich of home-made bread with real whole grains, yocheese, cucumber and onion. All home made or grown. What a great feeling.
I picked a small bowl of blueberries. They don't grow as well here as they do in the New England area, but I am happy to get a few to taste. This year our two little bushes produced enough to actually do something with them. I just haven't decided on what. SO wants to make blueberry pancakes. I want to make blueberry dumplings like my grandmother used to make. Whoever makes theirs first, wins.

 

[FarmerDenise]

Here a picture of my sandwhich. This is one I made when the bread came out of the oven, and it was sandwhiches for dinner night. No one complained.

We finally got our first real tomato harvest. Looks like our cherokee purples crossed with the beefsteak, so now we have purple beefsteak tomatoes. Taste good, too.

Here is a pic of my new little kitty.

 

[2dream]

I just woke up from my nap - resting from reading your work post.

Those sandwiches look good, now I am hungry. LOL

I would love to have some fresh bread but its just to hot here right now to bake bread. I usually do that in the winter time. I really wanted to work on an outside mud/brick bread oven this year but the weather is just not cooperating with me so far.

Cute kitty. Does new kitty have a name?
(I can't have cats - DH does not like cats and unfortunately my dog seems to love them as personal play toys.)

 

[FarmerDenise]

The kitty's name is peter, but we call him Petey.
This Peter was one of my foster kitties. Black kitties, don't find a home as easily as other kitties and I liked his sleek look. Since our old resident cat didn't mind him too much, we decided to keep this black kitty.

 

[FarmerDenise]

We spent yesterday cutting back blackberry vines. they were threatening to take ove the laundry line and the chicken house. We spent the afternoon weeding and cleaning up the front yard. Several buckets of dried plants with seeds went to the chickens along with many bugs. Many more went into the yard waste bins. I kept thinking of Freemotions goats. They would probably love the stuff we put in there.
The front yard looks a lot better now. We don't water it very often these days. SO doesn't want to spend the time and also the county has enforced water rationing and we don't want to deal with having to explain that we are on well water.

 

[Farmfresh]

Good I am glad I am not the only one that reads an interesting idea in a book and has to try it!

By the way the "Apples and Onions" from Wilder's Farmer Boy book went over well - the acorn flour I read about in a book about native Americans did not!

 

[noobiechickenlady]

I'm partial to the black kitties, FD. I've also had several. I adopted one who had the body style of a siamese (tall, leggy & very slender) but was jet black with orangey eyes. I named her Cairo. I say I adopted her, but I swear she was my familiar, she came straight up to me outside of a restaurant and as I was petting her, an employee came out and said "Watch it, that cat hates people, she'll bite!" I drove home with her in my lap, fed her with my own hands, and never had a problem out of her. She passed away several years later. Man, I miss that cat.

Beautiful tomatoes!!

 

[Dace]

Beautiful tomatoes! Oh I miss my maters so much!

Lovely little kitty too. We used to have a black cat who was beautiful and feisty.

 

[FarmerDenise]

I love the Little House books, I borrowd the cookbook from the library once and tried a few of the recipes. Salt pork gavy was nasty . I don't remember what else I tried.

SO and I hadn't heard from FIL in over a week, so we decided to go up there a day early to do the yardwork. Turns out MIL had to go to the hospital when they were in Reno. They are both looking poorly. Now neither of them can drive, at least until MIL recovers. They were glad to see us. I go up to work, but I don't always get much done, because we end up spending so much time visiting.
I'll have to bring them some vegies and maybe some dinner too.

 

[Blackbird]

I just read through your journal FD.

I like all your chicken stories. I have a little Mille fluer named Helen who's blind in both eyes. She's a little sweety like your Susie.

Our friend Jo has a very fat black cat named Jet, he hates everyone, hates being petted, held, touched. He basically only sticks around because he gets fed, but whenever my mom goes over he's right there on her lap! My mom doesn't particularly enjoy cats either, but Jet is special to her. Not that is surprises me, all animals flock to my mother.