Coffee anyone ?

[SageHill]

Ah - hot coffee finally. Headed out early this morning to graze (hmm a recurring theme ). 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 .

 

[canesisters]

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

 

[Ridgetop]

Are you my long-lost sister? I thought that sort of morning only happened at Ridgetop! LOL

 

[Ridgetop]

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.

 

[Mini Horses]

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

 

[canesisters]

YEEEES!!!!
I can't count how many times I've been outside for hours when I THOUGHT I was going to 'pop out real quick & come right back in'

 

[Mini Horses]

THANKS @Ridgetop ! I'll try those. Except cream of tartar, sugar and egg, it's pretty much your typical baking powder recipe.

I did make biscuits tonight, to go with the split pea soup.

 

[Show Sebright]

Rub it in Bay, rub it in. 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??

 

[Alaskan]

My place

Cross by church

Back side of chicken coop

 

[farmerjan]

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