Life and times of a new farmer/homesteader
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It's quite a lovely day here. Warm, sunshiney, simply lovely. A good day for being outside.I'm still having problems with the camera. I hope I didn't break it, but it won't recognise any floppy disks. I'm going to bring it into a camera shop on Thursday, when I head into Portland. I played with the chickens for most of the morning. I've only gotten three eggs in the last three days, so I'm wondering if they have found a new interesting place to lay them. They still won't lay in the laying box I built for them. Polly is so good with the chickens, and they're getting pretty good around her too. I think they have realized that she won't do them any harm, and a couple of the other roosters (besides Little Peep,) have started chasing her too. It makes for some great fun. Yesterday, my sister and I made some salsas. One pico de gallo, one roasted garlic and one sweet onion. It was so nice to see her. She ended up giving me a bunch of food; jams, applesauce, fruit cocktail, some spices and stuff her family won't eat. It's all good, I will eat pretty much anything. I brought her eggs, which she adores. She loves farm fresh eggs, and she doesn't get them enough. She also gave me a rice steamer and a pizza stone. She had extras, and I didn't have either. I might make pizza tonight, although I have never been really good at making pizza dough. I might as well try, as I would like to get better at it. I have all my favorite toppings, so it could be really good. I forgot about my soup stock on the stove last night before I went to bed. Whoops! It boiled way down, but it didn't burn, thank goodness. I added lots of water and it still tastes really rich. I can be a little absent minded, but I really need to watch that kind of thing. At least I know the fire alarms work, although they didn't go off last night. If it had burned, I would have been up pretty quick. I think I'm just going to strain and freeze this stock. I like having stock on hand, and it isn't really soup weather. Much more salad weather. The job search continues. No luck yet. I'm starting to see more help wanted signs, although the papers have been bleak. I'm going to have to run off a few more copies of my resume. I think I'm down to five. My sister had some words of encouragement. That was nice. I think I'm going to go back outside. It's a beautiful day. Simply lovely. Have a wonderful day! Raymond { Last Page } { Page 74 of 181 } { Next Page } |
