I realized after the fact that by the time I ran to the house it was already gone. So if it had actually hit where I was I wouldn't have been able to get anywhere safe, other than diving into the hay stall in the barn, which is probably the safest place, especially if I pulled a few bales down to create a little hole to crouch in. Just glad that it wasn't worse!!
I got a few things done this weekend, though nothing major. So it goes. We did get the fridge cleaned out, which was a big help, and I did manage to cook dinner last night. I made home made meat loaf (pretty good recipe, next time I'm going to put the onions, carrots and parsley into the blender... texture issues with the onions!), grilled okra (that is a no-go for the BF, sadly!), frozen corn that we needed to eat up and purple mashed potatoes! The potatoes were fun, they turned out a lovely shade of lavender when I was finished.
I started my fermented squash at the end of the week, and I'll taste it today to see how it is doing. I still have a cabbage recipe to start and a carrot recipe to start. Pretty soon I should be able to do my tomatoes, my sungold is running pretty good right now. I'm waiting on the others to get going, but we'll see how long that takes. Speaking of the garden. The okra is coming in good, a little bit at a time (when I can catch it before it gets too huge...), and the green beans are trying. The Limas are so close to being ready too. I'm still waiting on the tomatoes... they're HUGE on the vine, it will just be a matter of time before they get going. The Sungold is chugging along though, which is lovely! I'm going to have enough to ferment them soon, which is exciting!
I got some laundry done yesterday, which was a good thing. Other than that, not much happened.
I've been feeling really overwhelemed (hence not being on here almost at all) and have been covering for some of the folks that have been away on vacation last week and this week at the farm. It was only compounded by the fact that I was feeding my friend's horses for the past 2 weeks as well. I also realized that at the end of this week my riding instructor will be back in town, and she's now staying with me, plus my parents were trying to figure out what dates they wanted to visit. Thankfully their visit isn't until the second week of August, so that takes some of the pressure off. Now I just have to get everything organized before then and figure out what needs to be done and how to get everything done.
My dogs will be coming home some time soon, now I guess I have to schedule that around my parent's visit as well. I need to get the paddock fenced in with wire so that the dogs will have somewhere to go and then figure out how I am going to handle all their other stuff. They have a lot of stuff! I don't know where the crate is going to go, but I guess I'll have to figure it out somehow. I suggested to the BF that we make a table top for it and put it where the end table is next to the couch so that it won't take up any excess space, it will only take up the space that is already there. I guess we're going to have to see if that works out ok or not. I know the BF is not really looking forward to it, he doesn't like dogs at all.
Things are moving too fast, and I am just feeling like there is not enough time to get ahold of anything. My lesson is now on Saturday morning, so I don't even have Saturday to add an extra session in with my horse! I'm going to TRY to squeeze in a session one morning before I have to be at the farm, but that is going to meant that I will have to be up and out feeding really early... like probably by 7:15 in order to have enough time to spend a little time working him. My routine has gotten all thrown off lately, and that is kinda crazy!
