Today has been a warm sunshiny day but the winds have been extreme.
I have been missing in action for a few days. My sis and BIL from Iowa came down Friday and stayed until Monday morning so I let things on the Blog/Diary/Journal slide a bit.
We had a great time as always and didn't do a thing but visit. I made her favorite dessert and his too I find, coconut cream pie.
I also baked an angel food cake...that's gone too!
We always eat too much when we get together. I made nothing fancy, a meatloaf dinner, pizza and country breakfasts. I think I had sloppy joes for lunch once too.
Today:
8:30 AM, milked Willow and processed the milk
9:30, gave the bull who is much improved another dose of antibiotic and treated him for lice. I can see this is going to be a problem until the sun shines a lot.
10:00 Tilled the entire west end of the garden (20x45 feet). This is another thing off the To Do List!
It is supposed to rain Thursday. I hope to get spinach and lettuce planted before. I am putting my snap peas in to soak this evening and will plant some on the mini hoop frame.
I see I lost all herbs that I planted last summer very late, except for the French Culinary Thyme and it looks wonderful.
I actually mowed part of the yard Friday which I think set a new record early.
This shows my newly trimmed front shrub border. I just realized I now have a lot of open space available for fall bulbs...... if I will just actually get them in the ground!
This area should be particularly good unless the large tree roots are a problem.
Still no signs of life in the dogwood or the redbud.
Chickens laid 17 eggs yesterday....
I have been missing in action for a few days. My sis and BIL from Iowa came down Friday and stayed until Monday morning so I let things on the Blog/Diary/Journal slide a bit.
We had a great time as always and didn't do a thing but visit. I made her favorite dessert and his too I find, coconut cream pie.
I also baked an angel food cake...that's gone too!
We always eat too much when we get together. I made nothing fancy, a meatloaf dinner, pizza and country breakfasts. I think I had sloppy joes for lunch once too.
Today:
8:30 AM, milked Willow and processed the milk
9:30, gave the bull who is much improved another dose of antibiotic and treated him for lice. I can see this is going to be a problem until the sun shines a lot.
10:00 Tilled the entire west end of the garden (20x45 feet). This is another thing off the To Do List!
It is supposed to rain Thursday. I hope to get spinach and lettuce planted before. I am putting my snap peas in to soak this evening and will plant some on the mini hoop frame.
I see I lost all herbs that I planted last summer very late, except for the French Culinary Thyme and it looks wonderful.
I actually mowed part of the yard Friday which I think set a new record early.
This shows my newly trimmed front shrub border. I just realized I now have a lot of open space available for fall bulbs...... if I will just actually get them in the ground!
This area should be particularly good unless the large tree roots are a problem.
Still no signs of life in the dogwood or the redbud.
Chickens laid 17 eggs yesterday....
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ReplyDelete(Sorry about the above. I was signed in on my quilting blog.)
ReplyDeleteGosh, if that pie had been Lemon Cream rather than Coconut Cream I would have had a hard time not licking the screen! What a beautiful meringue.
Your second to the last picture gave me a bit of a start. It looks so much like the front yard of our last place in Illinois that it was a little eerie! I couldn't stop looking at it.
Lemon is my favorite too, but not my sis's.
DeleteYou're TILLING already? Omigosh. I hope you get better rains this season.
ReplyDeleteI, too, love a coconut creme pie and your's looks just wonderful! *drool*
Kris, I strike when the iron is hot! They keep telling us to plant early this year.....I realized it was a local nursery telling us that. Could they possibly had an ulterior motive?
DeleteActually this isn't too early to till down here. I will do some early crops before too long. Also I did no fall cleanup to speak of, so I am actually behind.
I'm in awe of that meringue! And also of the work you've accomplished already.
ReplyDeleteGoodness gracious! I can't take my eyes off that pie! The meringue looks wonderful, coconut cream is a favorite of mine.
ReplyDeleteYour lawn looks greener than ours here in mid-MO. We haven't done one thing to get our garden spot ready.
One reason that meringue is so high is it was made with 5 whites. The pie recipe calls for 5 yolks so I just used all the whites up!
ReplyDeleteMy BIL commented on how much greener were were down here than Iowa. We really haven't had much winter. Things have stayed green.
Glenda, I just gained a few pounds looking at this screen this morning, I'm with Mama Pea, I wanted to lick the screen.
ReplyDeleteBoy, you are green down there. Its still drab and dull here. Monday, and Tuesday, it was 72* and 76* yesterday, just beautiful, now this morning, bitey wind, cloudy, and wintery, then back to the 50's and 60's toward the weekend, Yah!
17 eggs to boot too, lucky duck!
Have a great "egg" and "milk" day.
Hugs
Coconut cream and lemon pies,YUM! We love both around here. I may need to do some baking this week.
ReplyDeleteCoconut pie, my favorite too. Yours looks picture perfect! Your front border looks very neat-bet you are glad that is done. Looks like your garden tilled up nicely-good soil. Take care in the wind!!
ReplyDeleteSeventeen eggs, girl you can make another coconut cream pie and angel food cake with that kind of surplus! I would love to be a guest at your house, by the way! The yard is looking good, way to early to start that mowing thing though. We have a real good stand of all our weeds ;(
ReplyDeleteGood thing it's not freezing here in my living room or my tongue would be stuck to my laptop screen!
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