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Lookie what I found in the garden yesterday!?! Apparently they overwintered just fine unbeknownst to me. No idea what I'm going to do with them though. But they're happily in the fridge patiently waiting... Big on…
The cider hubby pressed today. Some has already been drunk and given away, the rest in the freezer. Now hubby's all impressed that Granny Smith apples keep for a long time (yes, especially if you keep them cold honey!…
What we (well, mostly hubby) did today. A cider press borrowed from his coworker. Squishing apples into pulp, then watching the juice flow! We got about 8 quarts. I strained floaties. 7 of the quarts. Dh ha…
Eating carrots from the garden. Including a purple carrot. The tiniest, cutest pepper. Also the *only* pepper from our garden this year. Live and learn. Chicken Stock. And a sad attempt at Chicken Noodle Sou…
Garlic area. pH - 8ish Nitrogen - B Phosphorus - C.5 Potassium - C.5 I had "help" breaking up the cloves. Killarney, Elkephant, Inchelium, Chesnok Red, Chet's, Music garlics. Ran out of room before I got the Inchel…
Little guy went on a nursing strike yesterday. Nursed at 8am and 8pm and that was it. I pumped sometime that afternoon and only got 3oz. Today he nursed 3 times before lunch though, so I felt better about that. …
Ground turkey I got on sale (well, technically raincheck) a week or two ago. Now it's portioned up and in the freezer. Btw, if you throw your ground turkey (or beef) in a food processor, you'll get the fine ground meat…
Blah. It's cold in the house (67*). I can't use the upstairs wood stove because it's new and dh needs to break it in while I get the kids out of the house for a few hours (i.e. the paint inside it needs to burn off bec…
Crappy trim. This is after dh took out the windows, one by one with those snazzy super-duper suction cup thingies, and replaced a bunch of the rotten wood and recaulked and all that good stuff. On the roof. See how t…
Dad's in the hospital, I think. Yesterday he had a consultation for a gamma knife procedure or something. If he was a good candidate, they were going to do it today. I've left two messages for Mom to see how they are,…