~gd or VeggiePak are you out there?? this sounds like one for you....
i just got in with a huge haul of beans - yay!
but - the plants are covered in those stupid fuzzy yellow demolition bugs and they are ruining everything. since i got my money's worth out of the beans...and i need to plant...
* OFG walks out with a cat strapped to her head, tin foil hat on cat *
here's one for ya
so
in the last couple days
1. the fridge died and ruined everything in it
2. the dryer died and now its barely limping along
3. my wine fridge that i use for cheese making gave up the ghost
not to be...
The Arrogance of Authority
A DEA officer stopped at a ranch in Texas , and talked with an old rancher.
He told the rancher, "I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs."
The rancher said, "Okay , but don't go in that field over there.....", as he pointed out the location.
The DEA...
ok you know i'm panicking
so debbie wasnt faking it - she had THREE babies! 2 boys and a girl
the first, the largest - a male wont eat
he seems vigorous - he does the tail waggle and seems to find the teat.. but he wont eat
we put some nutri-drench and first milk in a syringe and got it in...
or anyone else
we went out yesterday and it looks like one of the little geese has lost an eye to injury. she still has the eyeball but her sight is clearly gone. it looked like she got an eye poke (i have no idea with what). there is no gunk or discharge - its red and irritated.
i'd like to...
Debbie, our preg la mancha, was down when we went out to feed this afternoon. and she was 'star gazing'...looking around and up like there was something interesting above her. And she wasnt eating a bit. Earlier today she practically pushed me down to get to her feed and it looked like she...
Hattie? you out there?
they've been talking a lot about the hard weather and crazy snows you've been having way over there.... whats the real word on the ground?
how are you doing with it all?
hope you havent been trapped or snowed in!
:-)
hey everyone in the interest of sharing Hog Harvest How To's from around the world and parts elsewhere....
my pal Vrtlarica, in Croatia, just posted her Hog Harvest. They had a butcher come on site and give the neighbor's pig the business...
Say folks, just because there are so many of you interested in running right out there and butchering your hogs.....
I posted Bourbon Red's DETAILED instructions on how to do it yourself on my blog:
http://adventuresinthegoodland.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-hog-harvest-step-by-step.html
hey...
i'm canning the last round of turkey and stock and i have a buncha leftover weird bits.
normally i just put in tubs and give to the cats. but this last batch was cooked for so long most of the small bones are just crumbling when i try to pick them up.
i'm running everything but the skin and...
so i just made the last batch of cheese for the season (probably)...how should i store the whey so its still "active" (is that right?). i'm gonna try lacto-fermentin' something.. but not right now.
what do i do with it? jar in the fridge? freeze it?
:-)
hey Bethanial!!! hey baby - good to see you over here
:-)
how did that pumpkin turn out - did you get it cooked down in the crockpot?
its ok if it didnt have a lot of water in it - i think it depends on how long it had been harvested. just give a taste to make sure its ok and you're good to go...
we went over and got 3 50 lbs bags of black walnuts!! some still have the green husks on them - can i just throw them at.. i mean.. "to" the pigs as is or do i have to take off the green outer shell/husk thingy?
didnt score on the corn (only 2 bags + 2 buckets in the time we had) but we really...