Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Baymule]

The red headed turkey buzzards used to be plentiful but are being crowded out by the black headed Mexican vultures. Not an improvement!

 

[farmerjan]

We are also losing many of our red headed turkey buzzards here. The black Mexican buzzards will gang up on the turkey buzzards at a kill. They will also destroy the eggs in a turkey buzzards nest if they can find them and they are more agile than the turkey buzzards in general. HATE THEM (black ones) with a real passion.

 

[Bruce]

They are no good pieces of SH!T......

So how do you REALLY feel about black vultures Jan?

I must have the turkey kind? They don't hang except at a savage site. Thankfully!!I

I guess that is what we have as well. I see them soaring occasionally. Only saw 2 on the ground one time, just inside the woods by the west field. I guess they were snacking on a dead woodchuck that somehow ended up there.

 

[Mike CHS]

We got the raised garden beds that have been idle tilled today before the rain got here. I had piled on leaves from the fall and then sheep manure that I had been taking out of the stall and it had composted pretty good. I could go into the earth worm business from the thousands of them that were there.

I wanted something different for supper tonight and made pork chops with a Honey Garlic Sauce that was really good.

 

[Baymule]

Honey garlic sauce recipe please?

 

[Mike CHS]

Here you go - I reserved the sauce since and used some over the chops when they were served.

Easy Honey Garlic Pork Chops Recipe​

Easy Honey Garlic Pork Chops made simple, with the most amazing and addictive 4-ingredient honey garlic sauce that is so good you’ll want it on everything! Quick and easy to make, your new family favourite pork recipe is here!


Ingredients

• 4 pork chops bone in or out
• Salt and pepper, to season
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
• 6 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1/4 cup water (or chicken broth) I used broth
• 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar (or apple cider vinegar, or any white vinegar)

Instructions

• Preheat oven broiler (or grill) on medium-high heat. Season chops with salt, pepper and garlic powder just before cooking.
• Heat oil in a pan or skillet over medium high heat until hot. Sear chops on both sides until golden and cooked through (about 4-5 minutes each side). Transfer to a plate; set aside.
• Reduce heat to medium. Melt butter in the same pan, scraping up any browned bits from the bottom of the pan. Sauté garlic until fragrant (about 30 seconds). Add the honey, water and vinegar. Increase heat to medium-high and continue to cook until the sauce reduces down and thickens slightly, while stirring occasionally.
• Add pork back into the pan, baste generously with the sauce and broil/grill for 1-2 minutes, or until edges are slightly charred. I dipped the chops in the sauce then transferred to another pan to go under the broiler.
• Garnish with parsley and serve over vegetables, rice, pasta or with a salad.

 

[Mike CHS]

I just saw on Facebook that the High School in the town I went to school in won the Missouri state championship for their basketball class. I am still in good contact with most of my friends from High School and many of the kids on the current team have the same last names of the teams that I played on so it's pretty cool. Campbell has a population of around 1900 which is about the same as when I lived there. I played tackle on the basketball team that I played on so that probably wouldn't work now.

 

[Bruce]

Um, tackle? What basketball position is that? I only know of Center, forward and guard.

Or is this one of those "I went to a basketball game and a football game broke out" things?

Congratulations to your friends' kids!

 

[Mini Horses]

Recipe sounds really tasty. Have to try that.

Now, tackle in basketball. . Isn't that a foul?

 

[Mike CHS]

Recipe sounds really tasty. Have to try that.

Now, tackle in basketball. . Isn't that a foul?

We had a different kind of league. I wouldn't condone it now but my only job on our team was to take out the other teams best player. In three years of playing, I never played more than three minutes before I fouled out,