Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Hens and Roos]

very nice looking!

 

[Baymule]

Love the outdoor furniture, that looks so nice. I like your canning set up too. I do all mine in the house, maybe I should think about an outdoor way to process my garden produce.

 

[RollingAcres]

We processed all of the corn this morning, about a dozen ears as on the cob and the rest we are freezing as cut corn. All together 120 ears. The rest of the day was cutting grass and running in to town to get cattle panels for another shelter and to finish the catch pen. We try to do as much of this kind of thing outside as we can to keep the mess and the steam from the stove outside instead of inside. The camp stove does a better job with the big pan of water than our kitchen stove.

We were out there about an hour and a half and had forgotten that we put the dogs in a 'stay' when they first came out so they were ready to run when we finally noticed them.

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Wow such well behaved dogs!
I really like your idea of using the camp stove outside for canning.

 

[Mike CHS]

Love the outdoor furniture, that looks so nice. I like your canning set up too. I do all mine in the house, maybe I should think about an outdoor way to process my garden produce.

We toyed with the idea of building a summer type kitchen but decided that we are going to put a carport where we did the processing. Since we usually have a nice breeze on the hill it stays pretty comfortable if you can stay out of the sun. That big camp stove boils the water fast also.

 

[Bruce]

LOVE the bench/picnic table design Mike!!! That is super slick, hinged seat back becomes the tabletop.


And since you need to make another, it is a perfect time to work with your "student". He will have a "prototype" to reference when trying to make sense of the drawings. And if you did it without drawings, you need to make them so he can learn how to build from a plan

Looking back I just realized that Teresa is using the "half table" as a work surface. That is great, plenty of knee and foot room!

 

[Mike CHS]

They do come in handy.

 

[Mike CHS]

Other than feeding the critters this morning we took the day off to go shopping in Nashville. We had things to do but I have been wrestling with the chain saw for the last two days cutting and hauling downed white oak trees and my back was telling me to take a day off. There is also a 4H Chicken Chain sale at one of the show barns this afternoon that we are going to check out.

I'm posting a couple of Turkey pictures just because I think they turned out good. One is of Cheep Cheep the supposedly wild turkey. We don't handle her at all hoping to keep her on the wild side but she has no fear of people so I'm not sure how that will work out for her. She is the only one of our feathered critters that has a name. The Turkey pair is still amazing me at how fast they grow. In the one picture there is a Delaware hen that is the same age as the giant turkeys.

 

[CntryBoy777]

They do get big....and they have turned really nice looking. I've always liked the looks of a wild turkey, does she hang with the others, or sorta keeps to herself?.....just wondering if there is any attention given to the tom by her.

 

[Mike CHS]

The turkey pair spend a lot of time with her and even protect her from the hens when they get feisty. She is so fast though that the hens can't mess with her. The male spends a lot of time strutting his stuff around her though.

 

[Bruce]

Sounds like she will stay around. Like a lot of strays, life is a lot easier when you get in good with the people.