Chicken Train

Ridiculous gardening list (to be accomplished in 6 working days, 3 of them being church days as well): DONE!

Elizabeth: so sleepy and tired from simultaneous farming and Insanity.

Carpal tunnel surgery: Tuesday. Kinda ready for the break.

FUN!

Beautiful

 

 

Regina Spektor ~ No Surprises ~ Radiohead.
A heart that’s full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won’t heal

You look so tired and unhappy
Bring down the government
They don’t, they don’t speak for us
I’ll take a quiet life
A handshake of carbon monoxide

No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
Silent, silent

This is my final fit, my final bellyache with

No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises please

Such a pretty house, such a pretty garden

No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)
No alarms and no surprises please (let me out of here)

A Drawing

Yogurt Win; Fitness Fail

Thicker and creamier than last time, even.

But no fitness this morning. Turned off that alarm and went back to sleep. :(

Two things of cheese hanging right now. One with pink himalayan salt. I'll add loverly herbs and whatnot to that one tomorrow. Yums!

Yogurt Fail?

Well, pretty sure I just royally messed that batch up.

1. The milk boiled over
2. Didn't properly wash the measuring cup
3. Splashed some water into the milk with the measuring cup
4. Didn't pour the milk/yogurt mix in very slowly
5. Had to pick up my jars with my hand because the tongs weren't where I thought they were

And the worst part is, I won't know for sure if I've failed until 11:30.
That's waaaaay past my Insanity bedtime, people.
And if I miss Insanity in the morning, that'll just up the FAILURE level of this week.

Blergh.

Now to scrub a milky stove and sterilize my cheeseclothes, just in case by some miracle this venture works.

Quiltin' at the Tamp & Grind

Farming and Fire

 I am on a ridiculous mission to till up a new, rather massive, garden bed in the back. By the end of February. A giant part of this plan was disposing of a sprawling burn pile out in the 'field'. It was added to by some... less than helpful gents, and as such was now more of a sprawling continent than a burn pile. First things first - dissemble the pile. I sorted the sticks and limbs I removed by size... dunno why. Turned out to be pretty helpful, actually, as we fed them back to the fire...

 The next part of my plan involved bribing my brother and his girlfriend with pizza and beer to come out and help me burn the giant thing. Jess even used the weedeater on all that retarded hedge crap out there and cleared a lot of land for me. They basically rock.

(Jess got it lit. Jason said the gasoline I poured on was mostly water. It wasn't - Jess almost died when it caught.)





Christmas trees burn beautifully, by the way.

The End! We got it all burned. Which totally surprised me - thought for sure it would be a two-day burn. But no - all gone!!

Next: clear the grass and till the ground. :)








Old and new seedlings undera light now. They're not growing so well (to be expected, given the conditions I'm forcing on them.) Hoping this helps!

Blergh

 

Could use a little of this in my life right now.

Just sayin'.

28 degree temps are not for me. Not right now. 

My gardening list is long and must be accomplished.

Soon.

Curds and Whey

Winter Came

Winter Weather, Eh?

So this whole winter storm warning hasn't delivered thus far.

But hey! Afternoon off (due to ice, obviously), lounging in my hoodie, tea, goat cheese, pepper jelly & crackers and working on this while watching Alice in Wonderland? Pretty decent trade-off, really.

An Informative Post

Top Ten Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack
(The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks)

1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use yoiur head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don't need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

Of Seedlings and Chickens

 

A Ghetto Covered Chicken Coop

Claudette Colbert, Petunia & Drusilla

Clarence & Norman

(Horace was camera shy)