Up at 3AM, 37° now but a cold front is moving in.
Dinners (yes, I said dinners......nuf said) over, family is gone and we are back to normal....as normal you can get with a new puppy in the house. Sugar is doing really well; lets us know when she needs to go out and seems to like everyone. Our granddaughter was really taken with her and so was our daughter and SIL. He took over puppy duty while here which was nice for me. She goes to the vet Wednesday...that should be interesting. I am shopping for a harness and a bed for her today. She is almost to heavy for me to carry very far. If we have to carry her in, DH will get to do it.
The dinners went well but two turkey dinners back to back are a bit much. I swear each year I will have the nerve to stop it but maybe next year......
Farm
The great doors project is done! They came two days before Thanksgiving and finished up.
This is the Milk Parlor door. My daughter thinks I shouldn't paint the patch work; looks very cottagey...I think she may be right....I am thinking some Grandpa Otts on a trellis in front......
The old chicken house (west side of yard)
and the east building,
I have booked them to paint the milk barn in the spring; will have to remind them probably but that is OK.
Still haven't got the bill yet; that may be a shocker. I don't stress over repairs and upkeep; they are what keep a property looking good and holding value (I hope).
We had a serendipitous moment after the job was finished. We had them haul the bulk tank to their place to take at their leisure into town for salvage....meantime someone they knew came by and wanted to buy it! Good news. He is a dairy systems installer and he came over to get some peripherals that go with the tank if used and I talked to him about rigging my stall with a unit to milk Willow into the fresh cow bucket. He said it would be a simple job and promised me Wednesday or Thursday. I want all options open. It just takes 3 minutes to milk by bucket.....cleanup is more but if I have a flareup with my
hands, DH can milk! I just reminded DH, he could milk her then....he was not nearly as excited about that as I was.
Cooking
I am living proof you can teach an old dog new tricks. I have been making biscuits for over 50 years and just learned a new technique from Thibault's Table (thank you Ann). We both use the same recipe but I have never used the folding technique with the dough.
Here are the results from this morning:
Note: I forgot the dimple so I did have a couple lean a little sideways.
I like those little layers....also the biscuit breaks open easily instead of just the top as sometimes happens.
Here is why I should have done the dimple:
Check out her blog for explicit directions and the recipe.
Dinners (yes, I said dinners......nuf said) over, family is gone and we are back to normal....as normal you can get with a new puppy in the house. Sugar is doing really well; lets us know when she needs to go out and seems to like everyone. Our granddaughter was really taken with her and so was our daughter and SIL. He took over puppy duty while here which was nice for me. She goes to the vet Wednesday...that should be interesting. I am shopping for a harness and a bed for her today. She is almost to heavy for me to carry very far. If we have to carry her in, DH will get to do it.
The dinners went well but two turkey dinners back to back are a bit much. I swear each year I will have the nerve to stop it but maybe next year......
Farm
The great doors project is done! They came two days before Thanksgiving and finished up.
This is the Milk Parlor door. My daughter thinks I shouldn't paint the patch work; looks very cottagey...I think she may be right....I am thinking some Grandpa Otts on a trellis in front......
The old chicken house (west side of yard)
and the east building,
I have booked them to paint the milk barn in the spring; will have to remind them probably but that is OK.
Still haven't got the bill yet; that may be a shocker. I don't stress over repairs and upkeep; they are what keep a property looking good and holding value (I hope).
We had a serendipitous moment after the job was finished. We had them haul the bulk tank to their place to take at their leisure into town for salvage....meantime someone they knew came by and wanted to buy it! Good news. He is a dairy systems installer and he came over to get some peripherals that go with the tank if used and I talked to him about rigging my stall with a unit to milk Willow into the fresh cow bucket. He said it would be a simple job and promised me Wednesday or Thursday. I want all options open. It just takes 3 minutes to milk by bucket.....cleanup is more but if I have a flareup with my
hands, DH can milk! I just reminded DH, he could milk her then....he was not nearly as excited about that as I was.
Cooking
I am living proof you can teach an old dog new tricks. I have been making biscuits for over 50 years and just learned a new technique from Thibault's Table (thank you Ann). We both use the same recipe but I have never used the folding technique with the dough.
Here are the results from this morning:
Note: I forgot the dimple so I did have a couple lean a little sideways.
I like those little layers....also the biscuit breaks open easily instead of just the top as sometimes happens.
Here is why I should have done the dimple:
Check out her blog for explicit directions and the recipe.
