July 18, 2006

ot sure where I left off on my last post on this ole blog o' mine.

My garden is going gangbusters after all that rain.. we ate fresh snow peas out of the garden for dinner last night. A full colander/strainer full was GONE! Just lightly steamed with a tidge of butter. Even I ate them and I am not a legume fan. Actually I like the snow peas, I am just not a fan of English Shell Peas.. probably a holdover from having to eat canned green peas when I was little. I am sure if I opened up my mind and just sat in the garden with the orange tabby cat "Charlie", who is my constant companion out there, and maybe even share some with "Charlie", I would actually enjoy them. Cut some wonderful colours of lettuce for my bf's mom and took it fresh to her this morning. FINALLY got the last of the re-prints done and they are being sent off to be stapled and trimmed tomorrow.

Wednesday we are rearranging the 3-hole rabbit cage and putting it in a different part of the woodshed so we can start bringing in wood for winter.

I do not remember if I mentioned we got our last batch of wine bottled. I bought another primary fermentor today so I can get a batch of beer, Saskatoon Wine and mead going. Though I actually am rare to drink alcohol, I am fun building stuff for others to enjoy. It give me something to do in the kitchen before the harvest comes in for me to start canning, drying and freezing. We had a pair of hawks eyeing the turkeys and chickens today. After the one turkey attack and 3 chickens AWOL (probably dead), no one went outside today as I was not home to watch the situation at all.

We seem to have a spare cat this evening. "Teenager" went to go get his gf's animals from the pound where they were being held as a emergency shelter as she was right in the evacuation zone from the wildfires. They brought the animals here to pick up her laundry (her family does not have a washer/dryer) and the cat got out of the cage and is out in the bush somewhere. We will keep an eye out for him. Hopefully we can catch him soon. I probably need to go get my gosling out of the
 greenhouse.. though the cat can not get in, it is not impossible that he could get in if he tried very hard.

Dinner tonight was some sort of pork sweet and sour with ALOT of red pepper flakes in it from my "Thai Hot" pepper plant I grew a year or so ago and brown rice.. it was HOT and delicious.. I got a little carried away with the pepper flakes.. THAT will certainly burn the whatever-cold-it-felt-like-I-was-coming-down-with out..

I did not see our piggies for a couple days as someone else fed them. I cannot believe how much they have grown in 48 hours. We changed their bedding and added a new bale of straw and they loved us for it. They are such funny creatures. I now understand how my bf likes pigs. They are starting to talk to me now and the one female still likes to be scratched, especially
 behind her ears. I have not gotten her to fall over on her side again though. We save up all our vegetable and fruit scraps for them and they get goodies every day. Yesterday morning though, I just fed them grain and they looked at me like "Ummm.... WHERE IS OUR FOOD!".. they were quite miffed. I have a lawn chair up there now to watch them now on a sunny day. Last night, the house was being too 'man-ly" (translation = PHEW!!!), so I went outside to go ride my mare for the first time since the accident and instead my bf's horse, a nice huge paint gelding (the one on the Summer 2006 issue), started to talk to me and was closest.. so he was the one who was caught up and I rode him for the first time ever. MAN.. is that horse smooth.. soft mouth.. does what you ask him.. stayed in a trot the whole time I asked him. My bf is afraid I am going to steal his horse.. though it is tempting, I will keep my little mare. One of these days I will get back on her, hopefully next weekend as I have people to ride with. It is not that I am afraid to get back on her, if I was physically able I would have gotten back on her the next day, but I know my balance is not what it usually is and I do not want to be caught sitting light as she is a horse that jumps first and asks questions later.

Tomorrow we are going to pick alot of Saskatoon's and then work on a project for the Fall issue.. and NOPE.. it has nothing to do with the Saskatoons.. we are just going to grab materials for the project while we are out there. "Kid" is going to help me build them, as this project is for kids of all ages Goodnight everyone...