One Fine Acre - 2023 4H Steer Project Update

[OneFineAcre]

Maurine and I are both coming up with our list of 10 goats to sell
It will definitely include 3 does who won Jr Championships and one who won Best In Show.

 

[Southern by choice]

Most of our cuts will be in March after kidding- if the udder isn't perfect they will have to be moved on.
We will be in big trouble if we end up with lovely udders on everyone.

Do you think you two will pick the same 10 goats?

GW and I are usually on the same page.

 

[Hens and Roos]

hope you both come up with the same 10!

 

[OneFineAcre]

Miss Teen Zebulon pageant tonight
Rachel did not win
She did really well though.
Maurine was worried that there would be an embarrassing moment like tripping in high heals, or freezing on her onstage question
No, she did great
Nailed her dance/gymnastics routine.
Was beautiful in her evening gown.

Finished off the evening by hitting a deer with my car on the way home
Minor damage to an old car with high miles
But I hit him pretty darn hard.
He ran off but I think he is going to have a bad night

 

[Southern by choice]

Did she enjoy the experience?
Funny how momma was all nervous.

Sorry about the deer. Thankfully you are ok.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Did she enjoy the experience?
Funny how momma was all nervous.

Sorry about the deer. Thankfully you are ok.

I think she did.
Will know more tomorrow
I feel bad about the deer.
Not to worried about the car
The headlight is relocated but works
Honestly the car is probably worth $500
Maybe $700 before the deer

The deer had to have been badly injured considering how hard I struck him

 

[babsbag]

Glad that she had a good time and no bad moments. And glad that you didn't get hurt hitting the deer.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Did she enjoy the experience?
Funny how momma was all nervous.

Sorry about the deer. Thankfully you are ok.

So actually Rachel is bummed
She didn't expect to win
But there were 5 contestants
She wasn't 2nd runner up
She wasn't first runner up
And she didn't win
So she feels like she came in last
I don't know what to say
She did great
The girl who won definitely did best.
But there wasn't that much difference in the others
Her talent was much better than 2 of them and as good or better than the other

 

[OneFineAcre]

New milk fridge in the yellow garage

I will be happy to not have my fridge full if milk

And the freezer space will help
With 2 hogs and a steer in the large and small chest freezer you can't find anything you want.
Wanted a beef roast tonight and couldn't find one.

So we got one if those big Fred Flinstone sirloin steak and cooked like a roast
I didn't want a steak and wanted some gravy

OMG was it good

Going to share my secret gravy recipe

When you cook your roast put 1 1/2 cups of water in your Pyrex dish
Add a pack of French onion soup

Add your roast

Cook

So you have this great broth to make gravy
The secret is to thicken using pancake mix
Discovered by accident when we didn't have any flour or corn starch.
Its the best

 

[farmerjan]

Tip for not being able to find things in freezers. I use smaller sized cardboard boxes to contain things in the freezers. All ground beef goes in one (or 2) all ribeyes in one, sirloins in another, etc and so forth. Use a sharpie/magic marker on the outside of the box. Boxes are disposable if they get torn or pulled apart. I have found some that fit exactly on the shelves of the upright so can look at the outside for what is in the box. In the chest freezer it just is easier to pull up a smaller box of similiar cuts of meat than to go digging through the whole thing. Saves time, protects the bags from pin holes from constantly moving the vacuum pack bags; protects from frostbit fingers too.