Coffee anyone ?

SageHill

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Ah - hot coffee finally. Headed out early this morning to graze (hmm a recurring theme :lol: ). The forecast rain was not supposed to get here until 4pm-ish - HAHAHAHA - forecast schmorcast - out grazing and ..... 🌧️ Raindrops keep fallin' on my head 🎶.
Tis Happy New Year's Eve Day - no plans. I'll probably fall asleep at midnight --- east coast time!!! LOL. Guessing I'm not alone on that 🥳.
 

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Today's rhythm:
*Out at sunup to let the chickens out
In the 50°s! Glorious!
*Blossom standing in the yard.... 😳
*Put Blossum back in with Eva
*Feed Eva, let chickens out, start checking fence
*NOT so 'glorious' an hour later - still in my PJs in the pasture with my crocks full of "mud"
*Found & repaired 2 grounded spots - inside for shower, coffee, & a nice long self-doubt/failure at raising calfs/I can't go through this again/I should sell them & give up/what makes me think I can "farm" pitty-party
*haven't even finished getting dried off from shower & see Blossom out again
*have completely irrational breakdown but decide I don't have time to finish that & go get calf back in the pasture
*comb shower-snarls our of my hair - FINALLY get that coffee & head back out
*search through my horde of saved wire sections & find a couple of long ones - replace 2 sketchy sections
*tramp around fence line 'making a plan' of how I might afford to replace ALL of the sketchy spots
*spend the next several hours obsessively haunting the windows & doors like some kind of cow stalker trying to act normal while keeping a constant eye on them
*more coffee, little lunch, finally relaxing a bit & watching fog slowly roll up the hill

Happy New Year..

Edited to add:
*Blossom didn't get out anymore
*Went out for evening milking.. just as the front arrived & it started POURING rain
*evidence said that Blossom had just enjoyed a large meal, but decided to milk anyway 'for Eva's udder health'
*half-way through she pee-ed & then immediately dropped a sloppy plop into the puddle 🤢💩
*....second shower in one day
*..... get a cow they said... it's so wholesome...you'll love it 🤣
 
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Would like a hot, buttered biscuit. Not wanting to mix and bake tho.
@ Mini Horses:
Here is Aunt Esta's Freezer Biscuit recipe. You put them in the oven right from the freezer. They are really tasty and you can bake 1 or 20 straight from the freezer. I used to make and freeze 3 or 4 batches at a time for our family of 6. Biscuits fill up growing children when you are on a budget. LOL Aunt Esta and her husband had a farm in Kansas where they raised wheat, milo, corn, and some cattle and hogs. They raised 5 kids on the farm. She gave me this recipe 40 years ago when we visited her and I told her about fixing meals for 6 daycare kids I watched as well as for our kids. The biscuits are tasty and my family always think of biscuits as a treat with jam or honey.

Aunt Esta's Freezer Biscuits
DO NOT THAW BEFORE BAKING

2 1/2 cups flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
2 Tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
Sift together dry ingredients then add:
1 cup soft shortening
Cut in to consistency of cornmeal
Add:
1 egg
2/3 cups of milk
Knead lightly and roll out 1/2" thick. Cut biscuits and freeze on cookie sheet. When frozen, put in Ziploc bg. Keep frozen until needed.

Bake at 450 degrees for 10-15 minutes.

Don't know how many biscuits it makes since she didn't specify. Probably depends on size of biscuit cutter. I used to make multiple recipes to freeze. The nice thing about this recipe is that if you have a small family, or just want a couple biscuits at a time, you can make and freeze a bagful and just bake one or two.
:)
 

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Its ALWAYS fun to look out and see ,"someone's" where they don't belong! :lol: :lol: :lol: NOT!

I've had my share of those days. And it takes a couple minutes to "realize" they're not supposed to be where you see them! :ep it's always a good thing we don't live within good vision of any neighbors -- as we rush out without appropriate dress quit often. :old:idunno
 

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Rub it in Bay, rub it in. :lol: We are in the upper 60's but it was 40mph winds to bring your warm weather up here.
Ooo you would just love our weather. The high was 74 with 99% humidity. It felt like a solid 85 at least. Only here can you sweat in the middle of winter. Can we trade weather??
 

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My place

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Cross by church

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Back side of chicken coop

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I can look and admire and even envy you the gorgeous scenes... and be glad we don't have it... Thank you for all that @Alaskan . But when we get that 35 degrees and freezing rain, I sometimes think I would have been better off going north to VT than south to VA. Then I usually get over it pretty quick:gig:lol::frow:yesss::highfive::bunny:jumpy:thumbsup
 
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