Canesisters 2023 journal - turning my Disasters into Delights

[Baymule]

I ain’t even got chickens and they want to go too!

 

[canesisters]

Full disclosure: the more "yard" I put on the otherside of an animal enclosure fence, the less yard I have to mow.

 

[canesisters]

Wow! You have been gettin' 'er done lately!!

Gotta keep going while I can.
I recognized a while back that I tend to go through cycles where I can accomplish stuff followed by periods where I only leave the sofa to go to work and feed everyone.
I'm just really sick of that LOOOOOooooooong list of planned-but-never-started/half-done-and-quit/wished-I-had/want-to-do-one-day things..... it just sucks the life out of me

 

[Mini Horses]

And all of that is harder to stop when alone....me too.

 

[SA Farm]

I recognized a while back that I tend to go through cycles where I can accomplish stuff followed by periods where I only leave the sofa to go to work and feed everyone.

I think we might be the same person I am this exact same way!

 

[canesisters]

Saturday while I was working on the rain collector I finally started thawing the freezer in the feed room. There were a couple of things on one of the lower shelves that I got loose by night fall, but the top shelf was a SOLID BLOCK of ice and I had no idea if there was anything up there.
Yesterday morning I could tell that there was something in there, but couldn't get to it yet. At evening feeding I was able to break out a BIG chunk of almost loose ice from the very top and found (drumroll......) 2 BRISKETS!, A HUGE ROAST and 2 TRI-TIP STEAKS!!! Apparently THAT'S where I squirreled away the REALLY good stuff!!!
Guess I'm making a brisket this weekend!

Going to let this dry out real good, give it a cleaning, then move everything that's still any good from the 'free to me' commercial chest freezer over in the corner of the barn.
The 'free' freezer has been costing me a small fortune to run because - apparently - the reason it was free is that the seal is worthless. Every time I need to get into it, I have to chip away the ice crawling out and over the lid.
Once THAT one is empty and thawed, I guess I'm going to be googling 'replacing a freezer gasket'
.... or burying it in the yard to be a pond & getting ducks.

 

[Ridgetop]

Or using it to store feed rodent proof! Nice score in meat though!

 

[Baymule]

You are RICH! What’s that meat worth in today’s prices?

 

[canesisters]

Or using it to store feed rodent proof! Nice score in meat though!

I just flipped one of those old 'dangerous' latch-handle fridges over onto it's back to replace a bunch of trashcans as my feed bin. I have to confess that I've never cooked a brisket before... so I've been watching youtube videos.

@Baymule a quick google of 'beef brisket for sale near me' shows everything from $59 to $116 !
Which makes me a little scared to cook it! I'd REALLY HATE to ruin something that expensive.
But then again - it proves the point that I try to make to my friends who say "That's an awful lot of work for such a long time just to get some hamburger"... Getting a yearling back from the processor, I pay SLIGHTLY more per/pound for ground beef as at the grocery store - but I pay that same price for brisket, t-bones, stew meat, ribs, leg bones for broth, etc!

 

[Baymule]

If you cook it in the oven, pour a bottle of Italian salad dressing over it. Keep it covered, cook low and slow, add water as needed. If the brisket is real fatty, may need to scoop out the melted fat. Don’t let the bottom burn, that’s why you add some water to cover the bottom. But don’t take it swimming.

Is it one of those big long whole brisket or cut in half and trimmed?