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maryjane
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 Posted - Sep 17 2018 : 04:33:14 AM
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The weather has been mild but sunny--just the way we like it.
Nothing seems to speak fall like an autumn crocus (saffron). The green coming up around mine are next year's phlox.
Our garden reigns right now. Yesterday, I enjoyed the best cantaloupe I've ever eaten in my life--consistently ripe to the skin, soft, but not too soft, and FLAVORFUL. Just perfect. Doesn't this make your mouth water?
When I saw this nest, I immediately thought of the famous painting, The Scream.
May your week ahead be kind to you.
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MaryJane Butters, author of Milk Cow Kitchen ~ striving for the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain ~ |
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NellieBelle
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Posted - Sep 17 2018 : 10:16:38 AM
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| That is a cool wasp nest. And the beautiful crocus, I need to go see if mine are up yet. Hot, hot, hot is the word here. So your melon would taste mighty refreshing about now. Lumber and sheetrock, plywood etc. getting put in attic this afternoon. The men are going to be miserable today. |
To laugh is human but to moo is bovine. Author Unknown |
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maryjane
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Posted - Sep 20 2018 : 4:42:51 PM
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Ashley tried a batch of Scamorza cheese today. She couldn't find much about how to dry it, so we have it on the kitchen counter with a fan turned on low. I said I'd be happy to watch it like a hawk. Yum.
She started with a batch of mozzarella making sure it was worked well before sculpting and hanging it. Total experiment. What ever will it do??? |
MaryJane Butters, author of Milk Cow Kitchen ~ striving for the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain ~ |
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NellieBelle
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Posted - Sep 22 2018 : 07:12:00 AM
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| Good morning! Anxious to hear how the Scamorza turns out. It's been an exhausting week. Hard on my nerves. Nellie is lame in one foot. The vet was here this past Tues. to take a look. It's swollen. We lowered her to the ground as she wasn't going to let us just lift her foot up to figure it out and work on it. Finally we found a small hole near the anterior portion of her hoof. So he thinks there may be an abscess. Perhaps she stepped on something. I'm hoping it's not in her foot. We treated it as best we could and he gave her an antibiotic that didn't require holding back the milk,(but we do anyway) and she is still having a difficult time getting around. When my animals hurt, I hurt. Wring my hands, pace the floor time anxious. So I will see how she is Monday, and if no improvement. Another visit to vet or him here. Attic work continues, as does fall planting of garlic, hydrangea, autumn sedum and trillium. Soon going to check bees and get them ready for winter. 44 degrees this morning. Stacking firewood. 8 little bantam chicks hatched (Millie Fleur). And hopefully next my little favorites, Quail Antwerp Belgian. Millie went past her second heat, so I believe she is pregnant. I will watch Darla tomorrow and Monday to see if she comes back in or if her AI took. That's about it for Prairie Nectar farm. |
To laugh is human but to moo is bovine. Author Unknown |
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maryjane
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Posted - Sep 23 2018 : 05:39:30 AM
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That's a drag about Nellie's foot. We went through that with Miss Daisy. Eventually it healed, but it was worrisome and touch and go for several days.
Good news about Millie. You have yourself a pretty good AI guy, Janet.
Little quail and new bantams--so wonderful to watch and think about.
Nick and I drove to Home Depot in Lewiston yesterday to pick up some birch hardwood flooring I purchased for the floor in my 1958 Yellowstone trailer. It's hard to tell from their swatches if something will match but once I got it home and put it against the new wood walls, it was perfect. They had the most beautiful display of mums I've ever seen. It was tempting but I still have plenty of flowers in bloom.
It was cloudy yesterday but we're supposed to get a week of sunny, warm days, starting today. Watermelon sunshine!
I've been reading Braiding Sweetgrass (my neighbor recommended it). I put the audio version on my iPhone so that when I drive I can still be "reading." As it turns out, I love her soothing voice and realize how great it is to listen to her speak her native tongue for me so I don't butcher it. The author's ancestors were People of the Maple Nation or Canoe People (Wisconsin)--Potawatomi. In Potawatomi 101, rocks are animate, as are mountains and water and fire and places--beings that are imbued with spirit. It is the "grammar of animacy" and how their language is constructed. "Imagine seeing your grandmother standing at the stove in her apron and then saying of her, 'Look, it is making soup. It has gray hair.'" In the grammar of a commodity language like English (as opposed to a gift economy), you would never refer to a human as an it. Indigenous languages address the living world as family, also. In English you are either a human or a thing.
One of my favorite ways to end my day is to pick pears and offer them one by one through the fence to the girls (I tend to give Ester Lily more because she isn't so shy when it comes to pears). Anyway, you have to pick fruit right now with a pair of gloves on because of the yellow jackets. One of them got stuck in my hair bun. As I struggled to free it, I remembered to say, "Someone is in my hair." Someone, not something.
In other words, I'm going to be acting even more loopy now, walking around talking to plants and trees and honey bees. I already speak to my girls as "humans," and now I have permission to expand on that:)
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NellieBelle
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Posted - Sep 23 2018 : 08:13:32 AM
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| Good morning MaryJane! I will have to look into the book or audio version of Braided Sweetgrass. I'm in the middle of "Being Mortal" by Atul Gawande. Nellie is no worse or better this morning. I sat with her and we visited with her head in my lap. I want her well, and feeling like herself. Swelling is noticeable. She still makes her way to the hay and pasture, just takes her longer. Her appetite remains good. I'm hopeful this will end well. I have to pick out wood plank flooring for my attic. I've been looking at hickory, but still haven't decided on anything yet. Enjoy your day! And the Scamorza?? |
To laugh is human but to moo is bovine. Author Unknown |
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maryjane
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Posted - Sep 24 2018 : 08:22:36 AM
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Gawande has several books. They all look good. Let me know what you think of Being Mortal.
How is your beloved Nellie this morning? I'm pulling for slow but sure. And steady.
I put the scamorza in our cheese cellar. It had developed a skin while hanging so I thought that might be the best place for it. I'll talk to Ashley tomorrow and maybe cut one of them open to see what we have. Stay tuned!
They are many beautiful wood floorings available these days. When I insisted on real wood for my Airstream so many years ago, I had to re-use flooring from an old basketball court, but now there are hundreds of new varieties to choose from. Makes it fun.
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