Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Another Catch up Journal Posting

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....

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  2. (Sorry about the above. I was signed in on my quilting blog.)

    Gosh, 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.

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    1. Lemon is my favorite too, but not my sis's.

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  3. You're TILLING already? Omigosh. I hope you get better rains this season.

    I, too, love a coconut creme pie and your's looks just wonderful! *drool*

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    1. 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?

      Actually 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.

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  4. I'm in awe of that meringue! And also of the work you've accomplished already.

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  5. Goodness gracious! I can't take my eyes off that pie! The meringue looks wonderful, coconut cream is a favorite of mine.

    Your lawn looks greener than ours here in mid-MO. We haven't done one thing to get our garden spot ready.

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  6. 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!

    My BIL commented on how much greener were were down here than Iowa. We really haven't had much winter. Things have stayed green.

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  7. Glenda, I just gained a few pounds looking at this screen this morning, I'm with Mama Pea, I wanted to lick the screen.
    Boy, 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

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  8. Coconut cream and lemon pies,YUM! We love both around here. I may need to do some baking this week.

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  9. Coconut 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!!

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  10. Seventeen 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 ;(

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  11. Good thing it's not freezing here in my living room or my tongue would be stuck to my laptop screen!
    K

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