July 26, 2006

mmm.. ABC Television has now joined "DTTR" website. Wrote a email back to the lady who casts the show who joined our site and she emailed me and apparently this show is a real thing. Shows you how much I watch TV.. I cannot be on the TV show since I am in Canada, but I was still giggling this morning to think of what the other woman would have thought of feeding and petting pigs and milking "Crystal". I did not have any fears over this unknown person in my house or with my family, but I was concerned about some city-slicker handling my animals. 71 animals is not a small amount for a newbie to work around. And if one is 'off' or injured what a newbie would be able to do in a situation like that. The other thought I had was if she would know what to do with our pantry and if she could cook from it. It would be hard for someone who is used to going to the grocery store often, if not everyday. And no microwave foods.

It went from super hot to overcast and sprinkling. I am going to put my laundry out on the line anyway and hope for the best. Summer rain fresh?

Watermelon and blueberry wine batches are on the go. I want to make some mead next. Lavender ice cream is also in the works for today since my Lavender is going strong.

Since it is cooler, cleaning the poultry houses and weeding the garden are on the agenda for the day. I had beans and corn soaking overnight and Texas style chili is on the menu for tonight.

A sister of a longtime friend recently moved into the area and may get a basic lesson on how to handle horses since she is marrying a horseshoer and she wants to be part of his world and not look like such a newbie. I will start her from the ground up. Probably "Sierra" will be the guinea pig, though he is our tallest horse and she cannot be over 5'2". But "Sierra" will stand there like a rock for her.

July 26, 2006

I love FreeCycle. We have about 9 people on our local one, but we just picked up a cast iron woodstove, vintage unknown at the moment. It is pretty cute. It is for a project for the magazine one day. just wait until you see what I have planned.

The sun came out and it is warm again. I forgot to tell you guys the other night we have a reminiscent Walton's thing going the other night. We had unexpected company Friday night and we all sat on the front porch talking for an hour or two and drinking homemade lemonaide. After the unexpected company left, we continued to all sit there in the shade on the front porch. The guys started to grease and work on the logging truck, everyone else was reading various parts of the newspaper that my bf brought home and we were all listening to the comedy channel on the truck radio.
I thought about how little anyone as a family sits on the porch or livingroom and all of them listen to a radio program anymore. Our TV was off, 2 cats were sitting in laps. It was a delightful summer evening. Hot, but nice.

I will have to continue this when I get back from the barnyard. Apparently the pigs have uprooted their water trough and we have to re-vamp it and I need to go help.