Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

What type of peppers were in the mix?

It was mostly Red and Green Bell Peppers and some of my Jalapenas. The Jalapenas are almost too hot to eat but have a super good taste. Mixing them all together dilutes it some but works good for a kick without having to simmer a recipe for hours. We do the same with celery and onions.

 

[RollingAcres]

I LOVE jalapenos and I normally pickle them. But I like your idea of grinding them up into powder.

 

[Bruce]

Probably same holds true for maple syrup..lots of tree taps to get a gallon

Yep. 40 gallons of sap for 1 gallon of syrup .... and a lot of boiling. Though the bigger operations are now using reverse osmosis to concentrate the sugar and don't have to boil nearly so long.

 

[Devonviolet]

We tagged and weighed the lambs - The ram lamb (TN39) was 7.5 and the ewe lamb (TN40) was 7.75 long and lanky with more of the Katahdin look than their dam.

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Congratulations on #11's beautiful twin lamb's. There is nothing like watching young lambs or kids play in the field.

 

[Mike CHS]

As much work as we did on our home renovation we never our main exterior doors never did get past the primer stage and since we have some decent weather we have the time to be able to keep the doors down in the shop while the paint cures. We have glass on our storm doors and the weather has been mild so we will just do without doors for a bit. We usually don't lock them anyway unless we are going out of town.

I'm finally getting down to the last big bag of okra from last year's garden and had a taste for Jambalaya. This is actually Pastalaya that doesn't have the pasta added yet.

 

[RollingAcres]

Looks good! I love jambalaya! Ate a lot of that and gumbo when I lived in Louisiana.

 

[Baymule]

What color are you painting the doors?

 

[Mike CHS]

They are sort of a tan color. I was skeptical since the trim is whit and the walls are a light blue. I'll post a picture to show the contrast.

 

[Mike CHS]

The Amish produce auction opened this week. This early they sell bedding plants and since Mother's
Day is coming up they had several hundred hanging flower pots. We picked up 5 flats of tomatoes and peppers for an average of $10 a flat plus a half dozen dwarf Patio Tomato plants. Teresa got 5 of the potted flower pots and a couple English Ivy hanging pots for $3 and $6 respectively. We also got a 25 pound box of sweet potatoes for $6.

We did this last year and potted up the 6 packs of plants to singles and they quickly paid for themselves.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Geeze, that's awesome - what a great haul!