Coffee anyone ?

[thistlebloom]

Coffee! Yay! Yumm.

Guess I need to go pick it, actually, it's ripe and falling off the branches. Kinda a PITA crop to process without equipment, but it is pretty tasty if it manages to get roasted right. We only have a cast iron skillet to roast it in and it's important to disable the smoke alarm before starting. Hmm, or just leave it on and quit roasting when it goes off?

Finally fenced the garden to keep the wretched chooks out.
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It's not a very big garden, it's just a salad garden. It's right outside the kitchen door so it's easy to get greens for dinner. Planted lettuce, sugar beets, beans (Good Mother Stallard & Navy) and some tomatoes and watermelons yesterday. If the chickens stay out of it, we may have some salad sometime soon. Although, there's several other of these gardens around and there's still some Romaine left there. That one needs some attention soon.

The sheep are starting to make a dent in the grass in their pasture, maybe one of these days that will be pasture like. They've been working on it since August.

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The first babies this year! Woot! English angoras, five black ones and one albino. I'll save at least the best doe and maybe a buck out of this litter.

I don't suppose anyone is gonna commiserate with us on the weather around here. Windy, some rain and it's gotten downright cold. Lower sixties and we have to wear socks and, well, it IS cold when you don't have a heater in the house. We found a small electric fireplace at a yard sale so we have that in the bedroom since our electric blanket gave up the ghost and we haven't found a new one yet. When we find an electric blanket at a yard sale, then we will shift the electric fireplace to the living room. In the meantime, we have socks and fuzzy slippers. Oh, and long sleeves, too! Although those are really hard to manage since they like to drag into things like coffee cups.

The excavator guy was over yesterday, we hope to get a driveway up to the workshop maybe next month. Being able to drive up to it will be a huge improvement! We can get there from going through the sheep pasture, but that's a muddy hill and two gates.

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It took a couple of days of severe grass cutting (I measured one stem of grass at eighteen feet long, it wasn't a particularly long one, just a random stem of grass picked off the top of the pile when I had a tape measure handy) but now the truck can reach the workshop.

We bought the property with the unfinished workshop and it's about 90% finished, so since we got the Little Rental finished and rented which is down in the front of the property, we can now work on this and try to get the permit finalized.

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Up and down ladders to put a lot of metal Simpson fittings into the roof framing. Sigh! Ten foot ceilings are not going to be a good thing for the next several weeks.

So sorry about your terrible weather! But those bunnies are a consolation, and building progress is always a good thing.

 

[Alaskan]

Coffee! Yay! Yumm.

Guess I need to go pick it, actually, it's ripe and falling off the branches. Kinda a PITA crop to process without equipment, but it is pretty tasty if it manages to get roasted right. We only have a cast iron skillet to roast it in and it's important to disable the smoke alarm before starting. Hmm, or just leave it on and quit roasting when it goes off?

Finally fenced the garden to keep the wretched chooks out.
View attachment 80890

It's not a very big garden, it's just a salad garden. It's right outside the kitchen door so it's easy to get greens for dinner. Planted lettuce, sugar beets, beans (Good Mother Stallard & Navy) and some tomatoes and watermelons yesterday. If the chickens stay out of it, we may have some salad sometime soon. Although, there's several other of these gardens around and there's still some Romaine left there. That one needs some attention soon.

The sheep are starting to make a dent in the grass in their pasture, maybe one of these days that will be pasture like. They've been working on it since August.

View attachment 80893

The first babies this year! Woot! English angoras, five black ones and one albino. I'll save at least the best doe and maybe a buck out of this litter.

I don't suppose anyone is gonna commiserate with us on the weather around here. Windy, some rain and it's gotten downright cold. Lower sixties and we have to wear socks and, well, it IS cold when you don't have a heater in the house. We found a small electric fireplace at a yard sale so we have that in the bedroom since our electric blanket gave up the ghost and we haven't found a new one yet. When we find an electric blanket at a yard sale, then we will shift the electric fireplace to the living room. In the meantime, we have socks and fuzzy slippers. Oh, and long sleeves, too! Although those are really hard to manage since they like to drag into things like coffee cups.

The excavator guy was over yesterday, we hope to get a driveway up to the workshop maybe next month. Being able to drive up to it will be a huge improvement! We can get there from going through the sheep pasture, but that's a muddy hill and two gates.

View attachment 80894

It took a couple of days of severe grass cutting (I measured one stem of grass at eighteen feet long, it wasn't a particularly long one, just a random stem of grass picked off the top of the pile when I had a tape measure handy) but now the truck can reach the workshop.

We bought the property with the unfinished workshop and it's about 90% finished, so since we got the Little Rental finished and rented which is down in the front of the property, we can now work on this and try to get the permit finalized.

View attachment 80898
Up and down ladders to put a lot of metal Simpson fittings into the roof framing. Sigh! Ten foot ceilings are not going to be a good thing for the next several weeks.

It looks both warm and green!!!!!

Improving buildings sure is rewarding!

 

[Baymule]

Coffee! Yay! Yumm.

Guess I need to go pick it, actually, it's ripe and falling off the branches. Kinda a PITA crop to process without equipment, but it is pretty tasty if it manages to get roasted right. We only have a cast iron skillet to roast it in and it's important to disable the smoke alarm before starting. Hmm, or just leave it on and quit roasting when it goes off?



I don't suppose anyone is gonna commiserate with us on the weather around here. Windy, some rain and it's gotten downright cold. Lower sixties and we have to wear socks and, well, it IS cold when you don't have a heater in the house. We found a small electric fireplace at a yard sale so we have that in the bedroom since our electric blanket gave up the ghost and we haven't found a new one yet. When we find an electric blanket at a yard sale, then we will shift the electric fireplace to the living room. In the meantime, we have socks and fuzzy slippers. Oh, and long sleeves, too! Although those are really hard to manage since they like to drag into things like coffee cups.

Pick and roast your own coffee! How cool is that? I think I would like that, along with way too many avocadoes! LOL

Yes, I will feel sorry for your cold weather. In east Texas, winter isn't too bad, couple weeks ago we had snow, that is usually a 2-3 year event. Then we had weeks of rain, drizzle, fog, cold (at least cold to me) icky weather. While nights may dip to freezing, days go up to the 50's and 60's. We certainly wouldn't go without a heater, but generally, our winters aren't too bad.

I hope you find an electric blanket soon. Nice a toasty warn is the way to sleep!

 

[Mini Horses]

I'm waiting for cold rain, turning to cold snow, turning to winter mix -- turning to a cold slushy, muddy mess! Event coming soon. In preparation for more of this frigid wind, and unwelcome mess, I went out and fed the goats a midnight extra feed. Probably won't be out there as early as usual, so they will be ok. Besides, they are not going to want to be out in it either! Chicken feeders full, horses hayed. Guess I can go to bed and sleep late. At least, go out late. Not a snow or cold fan!! Expect 20s and possible wind chill in teens at get up. Might as well be -10, it's all too cold for me.

 

[promiseacres]

Coffee is on, a bit more snow over night.
Co op today, taking my 6th grade pe class to have archery lessons. Should be a fun time.

 

[Mini Horses]

Woke to the expected. It flew through, never saw the happening, just white stuff left! It seems about a couple inches but, sun out and it's melting. Here comes the mud! . Roads are all clear. That's enough for here.

Obviously I'm having coffee. Some good bacon over there, enjoy.

 

[Baymule]

Frost this morning, I slept late. Dogs barked all night long, even Paris. Something was moving around last night. Probably a stray that someone dumped out, but who knows. Paris is old and cranky, she seldom bothers with stupid stuff anymore, but does like to bark at the neighbors. So if she tunes up and barks all night, there is something skulking around.

I'm feeling much better, still a little congested. BJ is several days behind me, still coughing and feels bad. Neither one of us have a lot of gumption to do much of anything. LOL I just do outside chores and try to fix us something to eat. I have chicken thawed out and will make us orange chicken today, there will be enough to eat on for a couple of days. Ready for this mess to be gone.

 

[Alaskan]

Forcing kids to make breakfast
Going to be abit slow (say, brunch), but good.

 

[Mini Horses]

Snow 60% gone. Lots of water left to deal with .

 

[Alaskan]

Wow...

Kid #3 tried to set up a savings/investment account... which meant that PayPal found out how old he is... so PayPal canceled his account.

I just.... well... I feel so bad for him.