They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
Hey y'all! It's getting towards the end of Advent. Or rather, it is getting toward the middle of the third week of Advent. Unfortunately, due to the vagaries of the calendar, we don't get a fourth week of Advent this year. We basically get 24 hours, from sundown next Saturday until sundown on Sunday. This,… Continue reading Christmas Cookie Extravaganza
For supper today we had country style ribs from our pigs, cooked in our own barbecue sauce (ours, meaning Kathleen made it and canned it, not that we grew it ourselves), with butternut squash and green beans from our garden. Helping herself to some raw garlic (from our garden) which she chewed up and swallowed.… Continue reading Our Food
Last week we went "Shopping" in the shop, and Seppi picked out a nice, Seppi-sized pumpkin, because he wanted to make Pumpkin Muffins. Monday morning, bright and early, he brought his pumpkin upstairs from the garage, to make pumpkin something. Right now. He seemed oblivious to the fact that one does not simply cut the… Continue reading I want pumpkin something… Now!
We invited these fine fellows over for supper tonight…
Seppi wants to make pumpkin muffins, so he went "shop"ping for pumpkins. In the shop. Where we keep our pumpkins. Isn't that a nice shopping bag? Thanks, Grandma Ann!
Yesterday Mommy woke up with a fever and aches and chills. You know, the whole flu-like viral syndrome. Same thing Evie had earlier in the week. We had plans to get the turkey stock from Thanksgiving canned, as well as put the last of the carrots in the freezer, but Mommy was not feeling up… Continue reading Last of the Carrots
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with friends and family! With yesterdays turkey carcass simmering on the stove with onions, carrots, celery and bay leaves, the house is filled with the smell of fresh turkey stock. Later today I will be straining and canning this up for use later use in soups. The… Continue reading Gobble Gobble!
We harvested one of the Georgia candy roaster hubbard squashes a few weeks back, just to try it out. It has been sitting in the garage ever since because we have not had an opportunity to cook it. It is rather a large squash and we didn't want 10 LBs of leftovers. It's almost as… Continue reading Georgia Candy Roaster bake.
What do you do when you have leftover mashed potatoes? Obviously, you make donuts. Mommy and the girls made the dough yesterday, while the menfolk were running errands and mending fences. Today after mass, she pulled it out of the refrigerator and cut it into circles. We don’t have a donut cutter, so she just… Continue reading Mashed potato donuts
Little Farm in the Big City 