Ohiofarmgirl'sAdventuresinTheGoodLand-where ya been? whatcha been doin

[ohiofarmgirl]

i'm so excited about the new canner!!! whoot! i got it the day before i left so i only got to do one batch of turkey stock.

today i'm working on making stock from all the bones we saved from the pigs - so i'll process those later. i'm also going to see if i can eek out another couple of batches of apples that we got from our farm stand friend.

in the next couple of days i'm going to work on another of our $5 turkeys (from pre-Tday sales). i'll part up the whole birds and use the canner to process more stock, and also make some meat+stock batches. since we are totally turkeyed out, i'll grind some of the meat, make meatballs (with some pork), and then we'll have superfast dinners ready.

sometime in the next couple of weeks we'll be um.. er.. that is... thinning the herd of hens.. we have some older layers that need to go. so i'll be making chicken soup and stock.

i'll really get the full value of the canner next summer tho - but for now i'm so excited just to get some of these things going.

until then i'm going to try using the 'pressure cooker' function to make some suppers. since its the 23 quart version its kinda huge and unwieldy.. but we'll give it a go

 

[FarmerChick]

cool

yea I would think you are turkey'd out...with those good buys you got..LOL

yes a canner can sure be fun and the end result of great stocked foods is a big plus at the end of some hard work!!

yes the summer harvest will be wonderful to can!

are you into making jams and all that kind of products?
do you have the blackberries and all that around your place? we are loaded here...yummo

 

[lorihadams]

Cool, glad to see you are back from "civilized" life!

We've missed you, my dear! Sorry about the ducks, we have to thin out our flock....looks like we've got 5 hens and 5 drakes. Gotta choose soon before things get ugly.

Can't wait to see what else starts up at your place, never a dull moment!

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

never a dull moment!

aint that right! some times i yearn for just 5 minutes without some manner of ridiculousness happening.

i flat out laughed at my city friends when they were talking about my 'quiet' country life - HA! they've never heard the guineas shrieking like howler monkeys, they turkeys screaming at the geese, the geese honking back, and that one ridiculous little hen who will not shut up!

oh well better than the car alarms going off and all the road ragers swearing at each other. at one point i asked my host if she wanted me to get out and give a redneck style beat down to the gal who was honking behind her. we never get that out here between the huge american made farm truck, the NRA sticker in the window, and The Big Man with his high-n-tight ....

can you believe that - screaming at a stranger over a parking spot? sheesh... oh well. them folks are nuts.
;-)

 

[FarmerChick]

sometimes it is all people have.
that parking spot in life....LOL

I want more from my life.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

sometimes it is all people have.
that parking spot in life....LOL

I want more from my life.

Yeah, or the spot in line that is just 10 people ahead of you. LOL

 

[lorihadams]

Funny story for you!

When my husband used to live in the city he used to take a mounted deer head and lay down in the back of his pickup truck (Dodge Ram jacked up suspension and big ol tires) and go through the drive through window at the fast food place. His buddy who was driving would order something and when he got up to the window he would tell the lady that it was for his friend in the back to just toss it in the back of the truck when he pulled up. Then when he pulled forward my husband would pop up that deer head in the lady's face and just laugh.....

He also used to wear his set of redneck teeth everywhere and roll down the window at stop lights and talk to the people next to him. Really freaked people out.......country folk are just so misunderstood!

 

[Farmfresh]

I got another one.

When I was a kid growing up farmin' in the city with chickens, rabbits, and horses, I used to ride my HORSE through the drive through at the local burger stand! Talk about getting looks!

 

[big brown horse]

I got another one.

When I was a kid growing up farmin' in the city with chickens, rabbits, and horses, I used to ride my HORSE through the drive through at the local burger stand! Talk about getting looks!

You too???!! Dairy Queen was all we had in our tiny town, but they had no problem selling something to me while I was on my pony. (I rode a lined-back dun shetland pony back then, I rode him till my feet dragged the ground...gosh I loved that pony!!)

By the time I got a horse I grew self conscious, so I tied him to the tree out back.

 

[Farmfresh]

So now I will also tell my pony story.

Dapper was my 36 inch tall Shetland. Mom would let me ride HER to the local 7- Eleven, but she would not let me go if I was on my bike or walking. Mom said the pony had more sense that I did when it came to cars ... and she probably did! She would always go into the nearest yard and wait for the car to pass before continuing on her way to the store. I really did not like taking her however, because she always extracted a TOLL. At the store she would never let me get back on her back unless she got a Jolly Rancher! With no pay she would wait until I had one foot in the stirrup and slowly turn around to keep you hopping on the other foot to keep up.

I always tied her to the gas meter at the store.