Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[B&B Happy goats]

Store bought cream corn from a can looks and smells like dog vomit-or worse. It tastes like a bowl of sugar with yellow stuff in it.
I make my own cream corn-no way I'm eating that store bought canned crap. Gross.

You are so funny Bay, I make my own also from fresh corn

 

[Baymule]

I shuck the corn. I drop the tail gate on the truck, place a board on it and stack up the corn. With a meat cleaver, I chop both ends and rip off shucks and silks. I am fast. Shucks get swept into a waiting wagon or trash bag to be taken to livestock.

I take the corn in the house, wash and scrub it, then blanch it. I cool it in cold water, then stack it up in a wash pan. I sharpen my paring knives and make several passes in the same spot on the cob. I twist the corn around until it is all cut off, then I scrape the cob to get the milk out. Bag it up and freeze it.

To make bacon fried cream corn, I first cook an iron skillet of bacon. Pour off some of the fat, then put the cream corn in the skillet while hot. Crumble the bacon over the top and bake in the oven until the edges of the corn around the skillet turn brown. Darn good stuff!

 

[Latestarter]

Was misting when I finished goat chores last night. Let Mel in the yard so he could get on the porch for cover. Left both dogs out last night as it wasn't cold at all. Was super happy to wake up this morning to sunshine peaking around the heavy cloud cover. Hey, at least it's not solid overcast, there's visible blue sky, sunlight, and it's relatively warm with a light breeze. Started out the day by holding baby goats while standing in the sun, what could be better? Both mommas are doing a fine job. Babies are doing great. The little buckling is something else again... Talk about an attention hog. He cries any time momma is out of sight and of course she runs right back to calm him. I had to carry him out to the pasture with me so she could get to eat some hay. She's bagged up fairly decent now so I know he's getting plenty of milk.

Was digging in my freezer yesterday and found some really beautiful thick sliced pork chops that I'd bought. Problem is they sure look great but were tough as shoe leather. Took 2 out and threw them in the crock pot with BBQ sauce on low. Hopefully they'll fall apart by this afternoon.

Was going to shovel out the goat mansion today but am putting it off till tomorrow. Rain supposed to be moving in tomorrow afternoon followed by much lower temps. I want to get the pee soaked shavings & poop removed and get a good bed of fresh shavings down for the kids to snuggle into to keep warm at night. Surprisingly, the moms haven't been peeing inside the kid enclosures... they've been stepping outside them to go. Wish I could get ALL of them to step outside the mansion to pee. The pellets are dry and can be swept, so no problem.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Even though it probably feels really short to ya, glad ya had a break in the weather to enjoy and get a few things accomplished....I don't really envy ya for the cold and work, but I sure do envy having the new little ones to watch, keep up with, and interact with.........shoot!!....I just miss having some animals to dicker with.......when we get this property we will have to do some clean-up and see what we can do....I know ya are having as much Fun as the body allows ya to have....

 

[Mike CHS]

I don't bother to watch the weather much anymore. I just note what the Texans are getting and assume we get the same tomorrow at least as long as there isn't a lot of north winds.

 

[Latestarter]

Well, couldn't sit indoors all day today and decided since I'm outside anyway I ought to do something productive... Didn't like the look of the cloud cover as it's thickening up pretty well. Even though rain isn't supposed to start till tomorrow afternoon. Started out by bringing the goats a big old bowl of froot loops and honey nut cheerios mixed. Then got to work forking out the foot deep layer of pee/poop/rain laden hay waste from under and around the hay feeder in the boy's pen. Man did that stink! Glad it's done. Need to refill their feeder tonight as they've emptied it. Gets empty a lot faster when throwing in broken up flakes as opposed to a whole bale. Two big full wheel barrows of nastiness hauled off to the compost area. Heavy and difficult to roll on the still squishy ground.

Then I figured I might as well go ahead and do the goats mansion as well... another 2 full wheel barrows of soggy/poopy wood chips. Between the 2 I imagine there's gonna be some very happy worms under there and "down stream" when it rains. Might go get 1 more bag of chips to add to the babies enclosures. Want to make sure it's deep enough that they can settle down into it when the cold gets here. It's comin'. But not here yet. today was around 63° Tomorrow is supposed to be even warmer... around 66°.

Ripped the loin part off the pork chops in the crock pot after cooking for like 6 hours and it was barely edible/chewable. The chops are still hard as a rock. Turned the crock pot to high, added some orange juice (citric acid), and will try them again before bed. Hate when I end up with poor quality meat. And these were purchased at a HEB too! Normally their meat is the best.

Too many alerts to go through right now as it's just about time to go do animal chores. Have to say, a nice hot shower is gonna feel awfully nice tonight!

 

[greybeard]

Ripped the loin part off the pork chops in the crock pot after cooking for like 6 hours and it was barely edible/chewable. The chops are still hard as a rock. Turned the crock pot to high, added some orange juice (citric acid), and will try them again before bed. Hate when I end up with poor quality meat. And these were purchased at a HEB too! Normally their meat is the best.

Any chance they were in the freezer long enough to get freezer burn?

 

[Latestarter]

No freezer burn. They were like this when I bought them as well. That's why I did a crock pot with them. Had hoped that would make some difference. That's also why they were buried at the bottom of the freezer... Eating them now. I was able to pull them apart and they are very "grainy"... like a bunch of toothpicks on the plate. Chew up like toothpicks as well... Very dry.

 

[Rammy]

You think because they were buried in the feezer it damaged the meat?

 

[Baymule]

So...….are you going to plant a garden to take advantage of all that compost?