Coffee

[digitS']

As I read what everyone has with their coffee, I decided I must be a horse-IMO they are a pretty animal with very little overall purpose. As I drink coffee in AM, I have my bowl of oatmeal. Then for lunch, I eat a sandwich with whole wheat/oatmeal bread. For desert wide made a rhubarb crisp with OATMEAL. I eat as many oats as a horse. Also qualify as very little over all purpose but don’t resemble the pretty, so maybe not a horse. Goat?

Cheerios !

 

[Phaedra]

Homegrown roses mixed with Oolong tea - reading in the greenhouse

 

[digitS']

Criminetly!

Wind gusts up to 60 mph. I'm convinced as of this afternoon that one tree in the yard has to go.

The entire tree was moving, branches and trunk!

The tree made its departure thru the backyard gate yesterday afternoon. As the tree people finished, there were wind gusts to 35mph. Brighter backyard but it didn't shade a garden so .

Steve

 

[flowerbug]

The tree made its departure thru the backyard gate yesterday afternoon. As the tree people finished, there were wind gusts to 35mph. Brighter backyard but it didn't shade a garden so .

Steve

it's nice to have a worry taken care of at last.

 

[digitS']

I learned yesterday that a tragic event occurred to my great grandfather's brother ... so, my father's Great Uncle. 1890's

He was out at the edge of a farm field with his two children husking corn. A windstorm came up. The children were able to move out of the way to safety. Uncle Ben was not and was killed by a falling tree.

Breathed another sigh of relief after learning that.

Steve

 

[baymule]

As I read what everyone has with their coffee, I decided I must be a horse-IMO they are a pretty animal with very little overall purpose. As I drink coffee in AM, I have my bowl of oatmeal. Then for lunch, I eat a sandwich with whole wheat/oatmeal bread. For desert wide made a rhubarb crisp with OATMEAL. I eat as many oats as a horse. Also qualify as very little over all purpose but don’t resemble the pretty, so maybe not a horse. Goat?

Neigh, not a goat. Goats are cute and pretty too. LOL

 

[digitS']

I'm on my after-breakfast tangerine "zest" and licorice cup of tea. I'm very happy to have found this idea, as simple as it is .

DW wanted to try passionfruit leaf tea, so we ordered it. Slightest taste of fruit otherwise - it tastes like hay! I decided that it might be better with the mango/pineapple tea and bought some. Oh ... the jury is still out on that but I think that I came up with a good cold drink for the summer . Sun tea, out in the backyard waiting for a return from a few hours in the garden?

Steve
waiting impatiently for his anise hyssop and lemon verbena to grow!

 

[baymule]

Took 2 ram lambs to auction yesterday. Neighbor came over, helped me put camper top on and I drove truck in pasture close to sheep pens. I caught a ram lamb and handed it over the cow panel fence to the neighbor. The second one knew what was coming so he ran. He bounced like a kangaroo. I finally launched myself at him, did a belly flop in hay, mud and sheep poop, and caught a hind foot. Haha! I was stretched out flat, not letting go! I don’t know how the heck I got up, but I grabbed the other leg on my way up. I let him walk himself on his front legs over to the fence, got a good hold around his middle and lifted him over. We got him in the back of the truck. Done!

While I was lamb wrestling, neighbor felt something on his leg. Dainty, a very friendly 2 month old ewe lamb was nibbling the hair on his leg! Yank! Ouch! Little stinker!
She nibbles my blue jeans too. She bites on the seat of my pants, only problem is, my butt is in them and her little teeth PINCH!

Doesn’t she look all innocent?

Shirts are chewy too.

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

Took 2 ram lambs to auction yesterday. Neighbor came over, helped me put camper top on and I drove truck in pasture close to sheep pens. I caught a ram lamb and handed it over the cow panel fence to the neighbor. The second one knew what was coming so he ran. He bounced like a kangaroo. I finally launched myself at him, did a belly flop in hay, mud and sheep poop, and caught a hind foot. Haha! I was stretched out flat, not letting go! I don’t know how the heck I got up, but I grabbed the other leg on my way up. I let him walk himself on his front legs over to the fence, got a good hold around his middle and lifted him over. We got him in the back of the truck. Done!

While I was lamb wrestling, neighbor felt something on his leg. Dainty, a very friendly 2 month old ewe lamb was nibbling the hair on his leg! Yank! Ouch! Little stinker!
She nibbles my blue jeans too. She bites on the seat of my pants, only problem is, my butt is in them and her little teeth PINCH!

Doesn’t she look all innocent?

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Shirts are chewy too.

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Lol! I can totally visualize the whole ram chasing scene in my head

 

[Dahlia]

I am exhausted. LOL I feel like I have a new baby to take care of. I have had Herman sourdough starters and regular sourdough and I went on a little kick of making spelt or rye bread with starter, but I always give up after awhile. I kept telling DD I would start making sourdough and give her a starter and she gave up waiting on me and asked somebody for a starter and when she first got hers, she was like this is a lot of work and I said that people name their starters, it is like having a new baby and she agreed. LOL My problem is with this and when making kombucha tea or sauerkraut is my house temperature. In the winter I can put kombucha on a mat and keep even temperature, but in the summer, too warm for the mat during the day, but at night it is too cold. I finally moved the sourdough starter to the office where it is warmer. DD borrowed her mother-in-law's waffle iron and she is going to try sourdough waffles. She made pop tarts and she said she wants to make crackers. DS really likes homemade bread and things but saw how much work it was and said he can see the sourdough starter is going to end up down the drain and I thought I can see you making lots of trips to Costco for sacks of flour. LOLL DD is making it to be healthy for her family, but they also stocked up on extra food with all the toilet paper goings on and then again lately with prices going up. I used to do that when I had money, but lately, I have decided it is impossible really to stock up all that is needed and I had read that it would take 300 pounds of flour for baking 1 small loaf of bread a day for I think 3 or 6 months. Making your own bread is not really cheap anymore, but maybe it is, I don't know, but I will be buying a lot more flour than usual. We buy bread for meals, but we do not eat many sandwiches. DB comes over for usually 3 or 4 meals a week and he said he does not like sourdough bread. I am thinking of making sourdough cornbread and not tell him I put sourdough in it and see if he likes it. He likes to come when we have chili and cornbread for supper. Picture is my 3 loaves of bread.

Those are beautiful loaves of bread! I love the light design on the tops! Cool idea!