June 5th, 2006

 

he bear saga continues... last Wednesday I warned "Teenager" to look out for the bear when he went down to catch the school bus and lo and behold.. they were just at the next telephone pole away from him. Yep, there were two. A regular sized one and the big one. He says the big one at the shoulders, is mid-chest size on him (Teenager) and he is 6'3". We are now putting one of the trucks down there every morning for a school bus stop.

Our garden is up and my watering system is 90% done. The beans, potatoes, onions and brassicas are doing great. (For Newbies, Brassicas are the cabbage, broccoli, ect family). However, I need to plant corn, carrots and beets today as I did not want to plant any of them until the watering system was done. SO today is that day for that and I ought to be out there and not typing as the sun is going to be hot soon.

My friend did not pick up the goat milk yesterday for her baby and so I made goat milk vanilla custard and chocolate goat milk fudge out of it last night. We had company over and the fudge had not set up 100% set, so we tossed it over vanilla ice cream and topped with organic strawberries. Yummy!!!


I am also in the mood to take one of the trucks to the back 40 and pick up alot of that firewood that is cut into rounds and bring it up into the woodshed. We may as well start and get it out of there before Fall sets in. Soon all my extra time will be devoted to building a stone foundation for the writing cabin and the walls for the stone root cellar. I have been thinking more and more each day how I am going to set my forms.

Anything else exciting and noteworthy that has happened lately? Just running around alot the last few days. I have driven more than I normally do and it is driving me crazy. But we had alot of errands to run and I am the designated errand runner.
My bf's birthday is coming up soon and I am thinking about getting him a weather

station for his birthday. It has remote goodies to it to check the wind speed (which is good as we are seriously thinking about putting in a wind-solar hybrid power system) as well as digital rain and temperature gauges. There is no chance of him reading this and no one else knows.. so if you guys tell him I will know what source it came from *S*.

Oh... I guess I ought to tell you that I also started making wine this last week. I have 2 primary fermenters worth going, but now they are in glass carboys with fermentation locks. I will leave you in suspense as to what kinds they are. I figure they can drink them around Christmas/Yule time. I say "they", as I have about 1/4 cup of alcoholic beverages a year. This is the first time I have made wine since leaving my families homeplace which had a moderate sized vineyard. I do not know if my dad would be proud or giggle at me.