tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15122450178321325502024-02-19T10:47:07.332-06:00Wild Moon CottageJulihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13317638499215072455noreply@blogger.comBlogger576125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1512245017832132550.post-36612738106642811592016-12-21T13:11:00.000-06:002016-12-21T13:11:29.344-06:00Blessed Yule!!We are so very Blessed!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A nice wood stock. Mostly red and white oak<br /></td></tr>
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<br />Julia Catfeatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06187108742626830250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1512245017832132550.post-34609598122378450282016-10-07T02:08:00.001-05:002016-10-07T02:08:43.952-05:0010.7.16<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
What a prosperous day! It was full of sun, new beginnings and fresh starts!</div>
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While in town a friend of ours who has two Fennic Foxes drove by and had one with her. He was wonderful and amazing! He loved his person so much and she loved them dearly. I don't advocate keeping exotic animals as pets but there are those few people who treat them better than a great many human children are treated.</div>
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And speaking of Foxes.... Our beloved little Fox got a wonderful home! As I we were waiting for his new people to arrive, I had second thoughts. I care about every creature we take in and each one carries a piece of my heart with them. I try not to but it's not in me to feel otherwise. Fox though, he was little different.</div>
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I actually found myself hoping the people wouldn't show up. Our rougher life just didn't suite him physically but he thrived here mentally and emotionally. He loved the wildness and the bravado of having Nemo (110 lb LGD) to back him up. But his little body suffered for it daily. Flea allergy, rolling in every dead thing he could find, not enough hair for the colder winters...</div>
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All of that was swept away when the woman pulled up and got out. She smiled and I saw angel wings. I knew instantly that she was the best person for Fox. Fox felt comfortable with her, nervous but not afraid.</div>
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I cried as I pulled away, leaving him in her care. Part at the loss of a friend and part relief that he would have what he really needed and be loved and happy.</div>
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When I got home I had the kittens to tend to. Little balls of furry love. Eating wonderfully and even starting to show interest in dry food. They're all using the litter box perfectly. They are little fuzzy dolls and I spend time with each of them individually.</div>
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I'm not a good or kind person. I don't want to love them or take care of them. I don't want to worry about them, stay up late for them, clean up after them. And, on the thankfully rare occasions it comes to it, I hate to bury them.</div>
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But, at the same time, when I see them happy and healthy, it feeds my soul. Their smiling eyes are payback ten fold.</div>
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Live long and prosper, Fox. We love you.</div>
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I’ve had a similar dream 3 times now, for 3 nights. In each dream it’s bitterly cold outside and in. I’m in a run down old shack twice (each one different though) and an old abandoned house in the 3rd dream. It’s myself, my son when he was little and another person. We have very little but plenty of firewood. I make huge fires in metal containers, sometimes woodstove, sometimes not. The burning wood spills out onto the wooden floors but I don’t feel worried tha<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">t the fire will spread. Only in that we need to stay warm.</span></div>
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The dwellings are all old and run down. Sparse except for lots of firewood and tons of blankets on mattresses to sleep on.</div>
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In the last dream, one of my cats kept trying to sleep in the red hot coals of a fire. She tried several times and I kept pulling her out. The last time she jumped in and writhed around. I was horrified and pulled her out expecting to get burned but didn’t. When I got her to some cold water and aloe I realized she hadn’t been burned at all either.</div>
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and chile peppers, onions, garlic, pokeberries, carrots, bell peppers, mugwort,
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The apples are barnyard apples from some gracious folks
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I cool air dry my medicinals because even a small amount of
heat can cause oil loss. So bags and bundles hanging all over! And both
electric dehydrators and two solar screen dehydrators going. Herbs are drying
and apples, blueberries, carrots, cayenne and chiles are done drying. Taking a
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The table and chairs I recently traded for. <br />They're old and I love them.</div>
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Magic hangs heavy in the air. Layers upon layers. I breathe it in and am filled with it. It smells like the forest. Feels like a lovers embrace.. Tastes like dew.</div>
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The ground beneath my feet is damp. A leaf falls and catches in my hair. In the distance I hear the cracking <span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">of a small twig and know I'm not alone. Something catches my attention and I look up.</span></div>
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I did some wild harvesting this morning, Started around 6am and got home
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I found more than I expected. But I went out alone and enjoyed it immensely. I
went looking specifically to find and mark wild coffee and crab apples. Didn’t
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for a rest, cold tea and a big bowl of my homemade granola with dried
raspberries and goats milk. Poppy is getting much better on the stand so we’re
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">From the homestead today we got 9 eggs, a pint of milk,
Vervain, wormwood, yarrow, mugwort, peppermint, spearmint, Thuja, grape leaves
tansy, lemonbalm, polk berries and leaves, plantain, lambs quarters, blue
catnip (spicy flavored, I use for teas only), gooseberries, <span style="background: white;">Echinacea
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brier and grape tendrils, plantain, the first drying dock seeds, sorrel,
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drying etc. Most will go toward winter stores. I always start thinking about
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Herbal Muscle Balm works on sore, pulled and tired muscles, joints, sprains and
regular aches and pains. It works well for arthritic pain and helps reduce
swelling. It has a mild numbing effect and a topical pain reliever. It works at
the spot and into the deep tissue as it's absorbed. It gives longer lasting
relief than most other muscle rubs. It's thicker than the salves but not as
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Salve is antibacterial and antifungal, It can be used on cuts, sores, scrapes,
bruises and even on puncture wounds (which many similar salves cannot). It can
be used to heal badly dry cracked skin. It reduces scaring & swelling and
causes bruising to disperse within minutes. It contains a very mild topical
pain reliever, which is especially good for children. I started making it in
1994 and it's honestly the best topical antibiotic I have ever used. A little
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Drawing Salve can be used to draw out Infection, Splinters, Stingers etc.. It
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s been some time since I posted. I’ve had several emails
asking me about my blog and if I intend to abandon it for facebook. I do not.
But, I have a limited amount of data and it takes less to post to FB than here
because I have do business (selling my wares and such) on FB anyway. I made my
FB public so that blog folk could read there but so many people don’t like FB,
which I truly understand. So, I will try to do some catching up here and also
try to be mindful and keep my blog up :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Things have been going mostly smoothly. I had a huge
financial setback in January with the death of business partner. That may get
worked out but it will be some time. It was a set back in several ways, the
worst being that I counted on a portion of the money to go back into the
business and was severely shorted all the way around. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A thing about such a simple, frugal life is that a very
small thing is amplified ten times or more. This is great most of the time but
when that small thing is bad, it can be devastating. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And so I pick myself up and start again……….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve finally officially added tinctures to my wares. I’ve
made them for private use for many years but last year I started selling them a
bit and have now added them to my store. I had concerns but they’ve been a
great success and I sell out faster than I can get tincture bottles. I’m
basically out now and waiting on another shipment. Eventually I get up enough
to buy a larger bulk but things are getting there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Although I’m currently out of bottles, the tinctures I
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">>Sleep Tincture <br />
>Brain Tincture <br />
> Thuja occidentalis <br />
>Gland Cleanser Tincture (Rosemary Gladstar’s formula) <br />
>Echinacea e<br />
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Tonic <br />
>Hawthorn <br />
>Valerian <br />
>Bergamot<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #141823;">White </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="color: #141823;">Willow</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: #141823;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve gotten a couple of offers to put my goods in stores
again but no one wants the babyfood jars. So, I’ve ordered tins for them and
we’ll see how it goes. I’m just making my 3 best sellers now… Muscle Balm,
Black Walnut Salve and Herbal Antibiotic Salve. I have perfected a special lip
balm recipe I’m very proud and will start selling it when I can get the
supplies I need to make larger batches. Each salve or balm has to have it’s own
dedicated equipment so there’s never any cross contamination. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And my goods are now in the Farm, Fork & Fiddle in <st1:place><st1:city>Gainesville</st1:city>,
<st1:state>Mo.</st1:state></st1:place> <a href="http://www.farmforkfiddle.com/">www.FarmForkFiddle.com</a> </span></div>
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address labels and writing in the individual item. They work great and I love
that they still look organic and homemade. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve temporarily lost my laundry yard because one of my poor
laundry trees is quite dead. It was dead when we moved here so it’s begun to
decay and could fall at any moment. Poor thing. So we moved the lines over and
they amount to half or less than I had. I’m getting used to them but we really
need to get that tree down soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve decided to sell out of Nigerian Dwarf goats. They’re
wonderful little things but not working out as I had hoped and hard on the
back. I’m going to stick with larger goats and go back to having them just for
milk rather than trying to raise any for income. I’m keeping Poppy, beautiful
full blooded Alpine. And her doeling Daisy, half Alpine and half LaMancha.
They’ll give more than enough milk and bless us with kids once a year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I still have Sage and Oak, my two Shetland sheep. Due to be
sheared this Sunday. I was able to trade salves for a lovely handmade drop
spindle and learned to use it. I already have a little ball of wonderfully
primitive lumpy yarn :) I Love spinning with the spindle, it’s so
much easier and controllable than the rock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two of the rescue cats found a home! Thank The Mother!! Hawk
and Rider, the last two of the 5 kittens I took in a nursed after the big
tornadoes in <st1:state>Arkansas</st1:state> a few years
back. They went together to be barn cats and I think they’ll have a wonderful
life there. I miss them a little, silly as it sounds, it’s hard to give them up
no matter how much I didn’t want them in the first place. I always worry for
them. But I think this will be the perfect home for these guys :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Just put 3 doz eggs in the incubator last night. We usually
have a hatch rate of 60 %, which I understand is actually very high for the
little still air incubator type we have. Hopefully we’ll have at least that
this time. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*Red bud (flowers)
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*Violets (flowers and leaves) jelly, medicinals, raw in salads &
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*Dandelion (flowers,leaves and roots) medicinals, raw in salads, fritters,
jelly, wine, soups, tonics, tinctures....<br />
<span class="textexposedshow">*Red Cedar (tips and berries) medicinals, mead,
cooking, wild yeast, fermenting, tinctures</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">*White and Red Clover (leaves) raw salads, white
flowers for food, red for medicinals, tinctures, salves.... but not blooming
yet.</span><br />
<span class="textexposedshow">*Dock (leaves) fresh eating for salads, on
sandwiches, cooked, soups, stews. (root) can be eaten and used medicinally.</span><br />
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care harvesting from young plants. And take care to harvest ethically so there
will always be plenty</span></span></div>
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olive oil and pepper. Twice baked potato/squash made with left over grilled
squash, mashed with potato and heaped back into the potato skin, baked until
lightly browned on top and a gravy spoon of chicken juice on top. Green beans
canned last year with pepper and our onion and a touch of tumeric. Violet jelly
from last year, for the chicken. Non gmo corn flour muffins, lightly sweet. </span></div>
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with violets, dandelions, clover, assorted greens with homemade ranch. Baked
potatoes with freshly churned butter, chopped wild onions, sea salt and pepper.
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Daisy, born Jan 2016</div>
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I can’t believe it’s already December! The year has gone
very quickly. I suppose having much to do, and not getting it all done, makes
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Thus far, we’ve been blessed to have mostly good weather and
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The days have been a little crazy but in, mostly, good and
bountiful ways. Our Thanksgiving as wonderful! Filled with so much thanks and
good food. Last Friday was my birthday, a grand day! I’m now 52 and proud to be
so! I got a jar of pumpkin butter and two new shawl wraps. Puuurrrfect!</div>
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52 years old with bags under my eyes from a long day :)</div>
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Nik got his first deer on his second hunting day. I feel
terrible for the deer but we’re so very thankful for the meat!! And I’m so
proud of Nik!!</div>
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Nik and his friend Jared and their deers, poor things</div>
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We’ve had no milk or eggs for a while now. We’re down to 9
hens and all are molting. And as for milk, I traded our old milk goat for fence
posts and firewood. Our other does are, hopefully, pregnant. So, I’m having to
buy eggs and milk and it always seems so weird to do so.</div>
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Goatwise, we have 3 new ones over the last month or so. A full
little Nigerian Dwarf buck with blue eyes and very pretty coat with reddish
skin, which I didn’t want but took because he was part of the deal. I estimate
him to be 8 to 10 months. Turns out I’m very glad we got him. He’s very sweet
and a beauty. I named him Cedar. I’m still not sure what I’ll do with him but
he gets along great with our other ND buck, <st1:city>Hickory</st1:city>,
and the does… Poppy, Ivy and <st1:city>Willow</st1:city>.
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Ivy is the second goat we got and may be bred to Cedar. She
was believed to be full ND as well but I’m certain she’s a mini Alpine (half Alpine
and half ND). She’s 2 and may become our second milker, we’ll see. She’s a
lovely thing and has a good temperament but is a queen. I bartered Ivy and
Cedar from a friend..</div>
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All were wonderful boons but the 3<sup>rd</sup> one was
particularly a boon. A sister-friend emailed and asked if I was interested in
buying a doe from them. I needed a good full sized Milk doe for my hands but
figured I wouldn’t be able to buy one until next summer. But I’m going to be
able to make payments and we got to bring her home now. Her name is Poppy,
she’s 1 1/2 and she’s a beautiful full blooded Alpine. Sweet and gentle
temperament and, hopefully bred to a full LaMancha. I believe Poppy will be our
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We still have our ND blue eyed buck, <st1:city>Hickory</st1:city>
(bartered for fall 2014) and our full ND doe, <st1:city>Willow</st1:city>,
(bartered for early summer 2015). All the does are believed to be pregnant with
Willow due in March, Poppy due in January and Ivy due unknown. This is both a
boon and a drawback. I didn’t want anyone due until April (breeding in late
Nov.) but life had other plans and we’ll hopefully have healthy births all
around. It will be Ivy’s 2<sup>nd</sup> kidding and Poppy & Willow’s 1<sup>st</sup>.
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If Poppy has a doe we’ll likely keep her but sell the rest
for homestead income. My current goat goal is to raise a few quality ND kids
and maybe some mini Alpine and mixes to sell each year and have a couple of
milking does for our milk and dairy, dairy for some of the animals and some to
sell as well. We took a big homestead loss in 2013, when I got so sick and we
lost both our goats which also took our dairy and kid sales. Now we’re getting
back to it And so, our goatherd is renewed.
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Also in bartering I got two big boxes of sewing stuff. One
had supplies (stuffed full) and one had fabric. Tons of elastic (which I was
very low on), all sorts of Rick Rack and edging, trim, Velcro, buttons, clasps,
sizing, heavy wonderful old pinking shears, a rotary cutter with extra
blades, snaps, hooks, pattern book, patterns,
crochet book, and fabric including several yards each of two different gauzes
(excellent for summer skirts, dress and curtains).</div>
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I’m making Irish Bog shoes for 2 friends and started cutting
out the first pair today. When I’m more confident and have more experience
making them, it will go very quickly. But for now I worry about ruining the
leather so always take a long time. I’ve made moccasins before but never these
wonderful Bog shoes, so easy and useful. I’ve started on the bigger of the two
because it’s close to my own size. I can’t wait to get the hang of it and start
making them to barter with! </div>
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I’m also working on bags with round bottoms, that stand up
on their own, somewhat. 2 new skirts, one to keep, one to barter. Large sized
reusable shopping bags. A dress and a top. Moonpads. And a bright <st1:place>Holiday</st1:place>
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But I can’t even really complain about those things. They’re
so small compared to other things and we’re so incredibly blessed.</div>
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light eggshell (birthday gifts)</div>
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Tarp barn for hay storage over winter</div>
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*Chicken with mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans and copper
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*BBQ ham on homemade rolls with organic corn and local
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*Oatmeal – Irish oats with our elderberries, dried
cranberries, local honey, organic cinnamon served with homemade wheat bread
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*Vegetarian soft tacos from …. Spanish rice – rice steamed
in tomato sauce then add onions, peppers, garlic and spices. Refried pinto
beans (milk is the secret to creamy beans). Leftover organic corn and a mix of
commercial and homemade shredded cheeses on a homemade tortilla. With shredded
dandelion and violet leaves, homemade garden salsa and sour cream.</div>
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diced and lightly fried in olive oil with fresh cracked pepper and sea salt,
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To make caramel filled chocolates…. Make your caramel. The
last batch was crockpot caramel from homemade sweetened condensed milk. Allow
it to cool until firm. Melt chocolate in homemade double boiler. Use a spoon to
drop chocolate on butcher paper or whatever you use. Use the spoon to flatten
our like a coin. Drop a small dollop of caramel on each one and then use spoon
to cover each with chocolate. My favorite is dark chocolate. I also added a
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thoroughly. Drop by Tablespoonfuls onto butcher paper and allow to cool and
harden. The ratio of chocolate and nuts
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time I make it but the base and basics are generally the same. This is how I
made it today. All ingredients except for the olive oil, rice and flour came
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cups of liquid as the dried ingredients reconstitute. You can add a little more
if needed but it may water down the soup. Cook low until everything is cooked
and tender. (if the rice is cold, heat it slightly in a pan with about a
Tablespoon of water. Just so it doesn’t cool down the main pan. Add the rice
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It’s easy to make, very easy to eat, nutritious and real.
It’s also very easy to exchange for what you have. No rice? Use another starch
or grain…. potatoes, other grains or homemade pasta. The liquid can be home
canned vegetable or meat broth or a mix of water, broth and milk. To make it
heartier you can add precooked meat. I often add venison or chicken. Or tear up
old bread or biscuits and add just before serving. This makes the soup more
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Don’t have homemade? Use what you do have. We do the best we
can, I’ve had to scrounge for food on the street, there’s no wrong way. If you
can use organic, homemade, homegrown etc… all the better, but if you can’t, no
worries! Eat what you have and be so thankful
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heat stove (where I do most of my winter cooking) on the fire, in a fireplace,
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It’s great served in a bread bowl, in a bowl with a wild
salad on the side, with a fresh hot butter roll, with fresh tortillas, homemade
crackers, How ever you want it. Tonight I had it in a cup, with a fresh warm
biscuit :)</div>
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I love this time of year! It’s been a very dry Fall for us
but they’re predicting a wetter than usual winter. I dread it but we do need
the water. Hopefully it will be warm enough that ours comes in the form of rain
instead of ice or snow.</div>
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I’ve finished drying the last of the apples. I’ve been doing
this for many years and still amazes me how you can start out with so much and
end up with so little. Around 12 apples fit into 2 quart jars once dried. Of
course once piece of dried cinnamon apple is soooo good, it almost equals a
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I still have more squash and pumpkins to dry and I’ll be
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It was down in the in the 30s the other night, around 38, so
the day was about getting all the potted plants inside. The hard part is
finding a place to put them. </div>
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I made chocolates for the Kith & Kin potluck. White,
dark and milk chocolate with our own black walnuts and purchased English
walnuts, our own and purchased sunflower seeds, our own pumpkin seeds and our
own cayenne. I made dark chocolate pumpkin seed clusters… dark, milk and white
chocolate walnut and sunflower seed clusters…. Milk and white chocolate
sunflower seed cluster and dark chocolate cayenne drops. They’re magically
delicious! </div>
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The Kith & kin Trade Gathering turned out wonderfully.
We sat around a table, like family, and shared and talked together. I learned
how to card wool by hand, without carders. Very simple and anyone interested in
spinning should know it but I could find no reference to it online. Every place
I searched said you had to have carders but I knew that ancient folk didn’t and
still managed to turn wool into yarn. </div>
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something as simple as a stone or stick. A drop spindle is on my list and a
spinning wheel too but I can do it without either.</div>
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We got our other sheep on sunday. A lovely black Shetland
wether. His name was Evan, Nik named him Evan Oaken-Horn, we’ve been calling him
Oak. He’s a companion for Sage and I really wanted black wool :) We
got him from a wonderful woman who raises them north of Ava. She has a big,
beautiful flock, all colors and so sweet. It made me want a tiny flock here.
Shetland sheep are a primitive, landrace breed and produce wool, meat and milk. Very hardy in every way. When we get all fenced in I might just get a few ewes :)</div>
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When we first put Oak in with Sage, Sage was terrified of
him. That was last evening and now they’re eating together :) I
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About The Rose Line</div>
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About banding male smallstock and horns</div>
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Hand carding wool without carders</div>
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Horseradish root</div>
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Burdock root</div>
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Wild ginger</div>
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Cultivated ginger</div>
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Ginseng (tiny amount)</div>
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Dandelion root</div>
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Chicory (small amount)</div>
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Sweater</div>
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Emerald Bell Peppers</div>
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Motherwort plant and seeds</div>
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A black shetland sheep wether</div>
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Organic Life magazine </div>
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Jar of dried Gala apples</div>
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Baby food jars</div>
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Mule magazines</div>
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80 lbs of dirty Gulf wax</div>
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*Baked potatoes topped with baked beans and horse radish
coleslaw</div>
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*Omelets with our eggs, our onions, local peppers and local
mushrooms with potato cakes (from leftover mashed potatoes) and toasted
homemade potato flour bread and homemade butter. </div>
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*Ham salad made with commercial mayo and our onions, on oat/wheat
bread with shredded violet and dandelion leaves. Apple slices on the side</div>
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*Fast food breakfast wraps – directions below</div>
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*Spaghetti – organic whole wheat pasta with my homemade and
a heap of parmesan. Organic green beans with real butter, pepper and onion.
Meager wild salad of violet leaves, dandelion and dock. </div>
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*Biscuits and vegetarian pepper gravy (olive oil base and
organic flour base with Daikon radish tops) with home-canned green beans cooked
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*Lemon spice tea, made with black pekoe, lemon balm and a
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chopped onion and sweet pepper, sea salt and black pepper powder. Whisk well
and scramble in medium hot CI skillet. Fry ham in separate CI skillet. Drain
but leave a little grease and then cook potatoes (shredded, diced or sliced
thin). Use homemade or commercial tortillas precooked but not warmed. On each
tortilla add cheese then meat, potatoes and ham. Fold and place single file on
cookie sheet to freeze. When frozen through, carefully put each one in a
storage container or large freezer baggie etc. You can also wrap individually
in plastic wrap for taking to lunch. You can reheat them in a microwave, oven,
grill or woodstove. To heat in microwave – heat uncovered on safe plate for 1
minute. For oven, grill or woodstove – wrap in foil or place on CI skillet and
cover with something ovenproof. In hot oven around 1 minute, top of hot
woodstove 1 to 2 minutes, on low coals 1 minute. On woodstove and coals, turn
halfway through. Just check it to see that it’s hot through and cheese is
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You can use the same basic idea to make all sorts of fast
food wraps. One of my favorites is chicken, cheese, bacon, rice, lettuce and
ranch (homemade or commercial). Just assemble everything but the lettuce and
ranch – add them after reheating. </div>
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There is worry, there always is for me this time of year. I
think it comes from deep inside, from memories of past winters 100s of years
ago. And from this life also, from hard things happening this time of year.
But, all I can do is my best to prevent and prepare, the rest is beyond me and
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I’m working on getting down to the bare minimum of
smallstock and outside work for winter. The barn is filled with hay. Working
toward filling all the feed bins. The larder is stocked and still being added
to. We’re very low on wood but that should be coming in the next few weeks.
Will be putting in the cistern pump very soon. Working hard to find an electric
water heater. We’re working on filling the freezer with meat.… As is, aside from the need for firewood, we
would survive the winter. That’s a good and powerful thing but my goal is
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And going through the pantry, taking note of what we need
more of, making sure things get rotated etc.. I had planned to empty the
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Still dehydrating pumpkin and squash. Some will keep fresh
for months of eating but I want to be sure we have some for deeper into
winter :) Drying apples, pear and peppers too. What
bounty! I’m going to try drying some spiced raw pumpkin and see how it tastes
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Since getting my studio moved back to the enclosed back
porch I’m able to work but also to work more often because it’s right there. I
moved it from there to the stone house to have more room but, while it’s
smaller space, it’s better light, easier to heat in winter and so much more
accessible. I’ve finished two of the Spirit Dolls I was working one before and
have started 3 other projects :) I also changed the Juju Dolls name again.
I had changed to Totem dolls but that didn’t feel right to me at all. They’ve
always felt like Spirit Dolls and so that’s what they are.</div>
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I took a wonderful little walk about along the Bryant one
Sunday. I went alone and relished in being away from home but also being at
home. I did wish for a canine companion, I miss Star so much, but I had a
glorious time just the same. I didn’t have a lot of time and I stopped to
examine and enjoy too often so I didn’t make it as far as planned before I had
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I’ve also been getting more blankets, flannel sheets,
jackets and warm clothing out of the trunks and hanging to freshen or washing
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Working on cleaning out the storage part of the barn and in
the cottage. It’s much too easy to accumulate more than you need. I’m selling a
few things but mainly giving things to the charities and on the new Ozarks Free
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*Grilled cheese with smoked swiss/cheddar on farmhouse
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*Chicken & Rice- leftover brown rice with pieces of
leftover chicken, bell peppers, onion and mushrooms. </div>
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*Baked cheesy penne. Cooked organic penne with my homemade
all-purpose sauce, extra garlic and oregano from the gardens, topped with
shredded cheddar and mozzarella. Baked until cheese bubbles. Served with wild
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*Rice wraps – leftover chicken and rice on homemade
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*3 Sisters Chili – ground venison (with a little beef fat),
non gmo corn, squash and black beans with herbs, spices, peppers, onions, tomatoes.
Slow cooked, served with rustic flat bread and topped with a dollop of homemade
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*Chicken and dumplings – leftover chicken, fresh homemade
broth, homemade biscuit dough dropped in by small spoonfuls, a little butter,
garlic, onion, black pepper.</div>
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*peanut butter granola</div>
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*non gmo corn chips and homemade salsa</div>
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*peanut butter and chocolate chip oatmeal cookies</div>
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*Pear bake – pears with cinnamon topped with a sweet biscuit
dough and baked until golden. A giant spoonful in a bowl with a splash of fresh
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*Milkshakes made with homemade goat milk chocolate ice cream</div>
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*Crockpot chicken (oregano, onion, peppers) with brown rice and
peppered peas (with butter and freshly cracked white pepper). The chicken
cooked in the crockpot while I was on a walk about at the Bryant. I precooked
the carrots the day before and finished cooking when I got home.</div>
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*fresh apple juice</div>
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I Love this time of year!!
Chilly mornings, warm days, cool nights. Mist on the hills and magic in the air :)</div>
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I’ve been doing a lot of drying… squash, pumpkin, peppers,
pears, onions, ginger, apples.. Made some pear sauce and candied some ginger.
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We bucked hay all day last Sunday. It’s been years and I
wasn’t feeling good and probably only did ¼ or less of what the guys did, and
was still sore the next day. But it was good hard work, we enjoyed it and being
able to help a friend a little. We also got hay for ourselves!</div>
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I’ve gotten almost my whole studio moved back onto the
enclosed back porch. It was a huge black snake spending time in the Stone
House. Henry, I reckon. Anyway, I can work again!!!! Thank the Mother!!!</div>
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How to stack hay for safer travel</div>
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A box full of Green Bell Peppers</div>
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A huge long squash</div>
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A bunch of pinkish orange pumpkins</div>
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Heavy denim curtains</div>
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2 months of natural Prairie grass hay</div>
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Elk butter (it tastes just like butter!)</div>
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Shoulder of venison</div>
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Big bouquet of dried Sage Grass</div>
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Squash, pumpkins and peppers beyond our bartering</div>
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Homemade venison and barely soup with carrots, celery, lambs
quarters, dock, onion and mushrooms. Served with homemade whole wheat soup
crackers.</div>
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Butternut squash stuffed with wild rice, savory herbs and
spices, onion, peppers, spinach and poke.</div>
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BBQ venison on homemade organic corn flour rolls, steamed
organic broccoli with cheese.</div>
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Egg and smoked cheese sandwiches on homemade oat bread with
carrot sticks on the side.</div>
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Cheese & Meat plate, summer sausage, smoked <st1:city>gouda</st1:city>,
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Raw apples and pears</div>
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Homemade peanut butter granola</div>
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Pumpkin muffins</div>
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Biscuits and wild raspberry preserves</div>
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Cooked pears with caramel</div>
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Baked apples with cinnamon and butter</div>
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Goat milk ice cream with pear sauce</div>
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Pumpkin bread with walnuts</div>
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Grilled split chicken with grilled squash, carrots and
potatoes.</div>
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Venison kabobs – cubed and marinated over night. With
potatoes, carrots, onion, squash and green bell peppers. Served on steamed
brown rice.</div>
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-Drinks-</div>
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Hot tea with goat milk and honey</div>
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Cold black pekoe and raspberry zinger</div>
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Cold Black pekoe with orange peel and honey</div>
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Ice cold goat milk (reg and chocolate)</div>
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Milk shake of ice cold goat milk and frozen banana</div>
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Cold Black pekoe</div>
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Mint tea (hot and cold)</div>
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Lemon Balm tea (hot and cold)</div>
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Hot chamomile tea</div>
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the portable firepit I got for 3.00. It was all rusty, the top screen all smashed in and the bottom rusted through. I cleaned and sanded, pushed the screen back out and painted it with heat proof paint I had leftover from painting the outside of the rusty grill oven from last year. I still need to find a metal piece for the bottom but it's usable now and looks almost new :)</div>
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Aug. 18 Tuesday</div>
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Chilly this morning and absolutely stunning. We have mist
almost every night and early morning. In the morning, when I look across the
clearing, to the edge of the upper forest, it looks like gossamer decorating
Her cathedral. Another gift on the huge list of blessings.</div>
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Something has gotten into my studio/workshop and is really
creeping me out. I can’t find it but it’s left foul evidence on the floor and
on my work table. I’ve started work on moving my studio back into the back
porch which has halted some of my work. </div>
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This evening I’m reading about spinning wool by hand
(without a spinning wheel)</div>
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The day’s harvest – </div>
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Vervain</div>
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3 chicken eggs</div>
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Grass seed heads</div>
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-Breakfast- granola and water</div>
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-Lunch- ham on oat bread wth commercial mustard and veg
sticks. La Croix</div>
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-Supper- vegetarian chicken patty on oat bread with homemade olive oil mayo and fresh tomato, oven fries with rosemary, pepper and
sea salt. La Croix</div>
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-Evening Tea- granola
and a glass of raw milk</div>
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August 19, Wednesday</div>
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Rain and storms and we needed them. I love the rain and
thunder rolling across the hills. It was also a bit chilly and the damp seeped
in and made me want to hibernate :) </div>
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I got some writing done, worked on my Memoirs and another
book. Then sewed most of the rest of the day.
In the evening I did some more reading on wool, carding, spinning etc..
I plan on making candles in the next few days and got some wick soaking.</div>
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The day’s harvest – </div>
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5 chicken eggs</div>
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1 very tiny duck egg</div>
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A few Juniper v. berries</div>
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Vervain</div>
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Salad greens – dock, lamb quarters, sorrel, dandelion, wild
lettuce, clover</div>
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-Breakfast- oatmeal with honey and cinnamon. Hot Irish
breakfast tea.</div>
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-Lunch- ham sandwich
on oat bread. Raspberry tea.</div>
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-Supper- soft tacos with beef, black beans, rice, cheese,
garden onions, peppers, tomatoes on homemade tortillas. Raspberry tea</div>
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-Evening Tea- natural peanut butter and local honey on the
last of the oat bread. Hot chamomile.</div>
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August 20, Thursday</div>
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A bright and chilly morning!
I grabbed a shawl as soon as I got up and put the kettle on for some hot
tea. </div>
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Pepper’s birthday is tomorrow, that’s been so much on my
mind. She loved her birthday and loved telling people her birthday was coming
up. She’s at peace and things are as they should be but my heart is missing
another piece and my soul feels thinner and more worn.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Finished shearing the sheep. Bartered for and picked up a
new cast iron manual pitcher spout water pump for the cistern. Got a load of
hay (Nik did most of the work). Worked on running the solar shower into the
house. Got some things out of my studio. Still can’t figure out what’s in
there. There was a third big splat of something on the floor and in the same
area. It came from the rafters above but there’s nothing there.</span></div>
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Pump for the cistern</div>
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<o:p>Sweet Sage. He's so laid back, calm, gentle, patient and wise.</o:p></div>
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The day’s harvest – </div>
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3 hen eggs</div>
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Poke berries</div>
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Grass heads for seeds</div>
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Unidentified flowers for the vase</div>
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2 bags of wonderful, raw Shetland wool</div>
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-Breakfast- commercial apple bars and dry cereal. Hot Irish
breakfast tea with organic cow milk and local honey</div>
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-Lunch- ham sandwich, commercial potato chips. Cold Black
pekoe</div>
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-Supper- </div>
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-Evening Tea- </div>
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Aug. 21, Friday</div>
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Happy Birthday Pepper, I love you</div>
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Cool and overcast, a fine Irish day. One of my favorite
kinds :) </div>
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We’ve been having trouble with aol again and can’t get online very often. </div>
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I’m keeping the goats in the pens for now because the big
ones are near birthing time and this is about the same time last year that I
saw the big beautiful Bobcat. Plus we have plentiful Song Dogs, who generally
don’t bother anyone but might be drawn to. and Nemo has to be up during the day
because of his car chasing. I’m hoping
to have a larger area permanently fenced in before winter. Right now the goats
and sheep freerange or get tied out in places, which I’ll still do for mowing
purposes, but they need a safer area that Nemo can watch over. The big does go
into the horse pen but the NDs, Sage and babies can get right out. Even the big
does can get out of there.</div>
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Did laundry but it didn’t get dry enough outside so it’s
back inside to dry. Cleaning wood today, furniture, window frames etc. I’m all
natural for most of my cleaning but I still use Murphy’s for wood. It’s 98%
natural, I think. And I like the scent. I learned from my friend Barbara P to
add a few drops of lavender. I add lavender oil to all sorts of things for
cleaning and more, but hadn’t thought of adding it to the Murphys.</div>
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We had our first turkey poult hatch out today and a second
is on it’s way! I’m not sure what Bourbon
Reds look like as poults. I’ve gotten a brooder ready :)</div>
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The day’s harvest – </div>
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5 hen eggs</div>
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Poke Berries</div>
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-Breakfast- hot tea
with organic cow’s milk and local honey</div>
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-Lunch- leftover taco meat, black beans and rice in a bowl
with clover and magenta lambs quarters. Water.</div>
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-Supper- vegetarian
chicken patty with mushrooms and carrots. La Croix</div>
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-Evening Tea- apple
crumble with last fall’s apples from the freezer. Hot tea</div>
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Aug. 22, Saturday</div>
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I woke with a headache and not feeling well. I think it’s a
sinus thing. Aspirin for breakfast *~*</div>
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It was supposed to storm all day but nary a drop has fallen
since I woke. </div>
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Got some sewing done. I’m working on making some gathering
aprons. Also finished taking in some skirts and a cotton slip with eyelet trim
made from a bed skirt ( Thank you for the idea, Barbara!!!!). Of the gathering aprons, I’ll be making both
half and full. </div>
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Created a new chick brooder, which seems to be working much
better. It’s a metal cage which I wrapped in plastic, covered the top with
foil, except for the space for the heat lamp and added an old blanket on top,
far away from the lamp but will help hold the heat on the cool side. The poults
are doing well, staying under the light but not huddling. </div>
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The day’s harvest – </div>
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3 hen eggs</div>
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-Breakfast- Cooked apples with cinnamon and honey. Hot tea
with milk</div>
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-Lunch- tea</div>
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-Supper- leftover piece of chicken and tea</div>
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Julia Catfeatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06187108742626830250noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1512245017832132550.post-6383669858202262162015-08-18T02:14:00.000-05:002015-08-18T02:14:03.754-05:00week of 8.11th to the 17th 2015<br />
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Aug 11, Tuesday</div>
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The day was gorgeous! High 80s, low humidity, wonderful
breeze. A perfect day for working outside. </div>
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Painted some outdoor furniture - painted a big, old cast
candle holder - weeded in the garden - gathered tomatoes - gathered polk berries
and prepared and drying for year round use - cleaned rabbit hutches - raked and
cleaned a little around the barn - wandered out around the pond with Anya and
cats as escorts - then moseyed down to the orchard with Fox and cats as
escorts.</div>
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This evening I’m reading and learning more about shearing,
carding, and skirting wool fleece.</div>
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-Breakfast – egg sandwich with melted goat cheese and fresh
tomato slices on toasted honey oat bread. water to drink. </div>
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-Lunch - small, leftover breaded, oven fried steak on bread
with homemade olive oil mayo. Raspberry ice tea to drink.</div>
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-Supper – leftover chicken with the last jar of applesauce
from last year (made from wonderful little barnyard apples with lots of
cinnamon) and oven fried potatoes. More Raspberry ice tea to drink.</div>
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-Evening Tea – Berry Bake made with our raspberries and local
blackberries from town. A cup of chamomile tea.</div>
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Berry Bake (or Apple,
Pear, Peach Bake etc)</div>
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Melt a little butter in a dutch oven and layer fruit at
least an inch thick. Depending on natural sweetness, drizzle honey or sprinkle
sugar (cane or brown) over the fruit and dot with a little unsalted butter. Add
any spices you want in the fruit here too. Cinnamon and clove for apples and
pumpkin etc.. I don’t add anything to the berries but a little honey or sugar.</div>
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Make a batch of biscuit dough to drop biscuit consistency
and add a little extra sugar if you want a sweeter dough or save it for the
top. Drop by spoonfuls on top of the fruit and smooth the globs together a
little here and there. Be careful though, not to push the dough into the fruit
to much. </div>
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If you want a sugared top, which is very good with apples,
sprinkle a little sugar over your dough. For apples or pumpkin I usually
sprinkle a little cinnamon too. </div>
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Bake covered, until wooden skewer comes out clean (careful
not to poke it into the fruit) and top is lightly browned. </div>
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You can use pumpkin or sweet potato but I always cook both
of these until they’re soft before adding. Combinations are wonderful. Apple
and any berry, cherry berry, apple and pumpkin, apple raisin or cranberry
…. I also sometimes add walnuts or
pecans to fruit.</div>
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Aug. 12, Wednesday </div>
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Another absolutely beautiful day! Perfect weather for summer
doings.</div>
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Only got a few things done today but they were big things
and took much of the day. Mowed (easy but takes a lot of time. Thankfully it’s
something I enjoy), got Sage the sheep partially sheared (took over an hour and
didn’t get to the main fleece (back) yet), painted the indoor wood rack, burned
trash, cleaned more around the property, bagged up dry herbs</div>
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-Breakfast – sausage gravy and potato potpie. Water</div>
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-Lunch – leftover pinto and navy beans turned into baked
beans with bread and butter, Ice tea</div>
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-Supper – Ice tea</div>
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-Evening Tea – animal crackers and chamomile</div>
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Aug 13, Thursday</div>
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Town day and beautiful weather for it. In the mid 80’s with
low humidity. Always plenty to do on
town day. Bank, feed store, grocery sore, parking lot for an hour free wifi,
walmart, stopped by some friend’s house and picked up my new (very old) treadle
sewing machine I bartered for. It’s in a lot worse shape than I expected but
it’s still very beautiful and (I think) fixable. </div>
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- Breakfast – water</div>
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- Lunch - A big bacon
burger in town with an unsweet ice tea</div>
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- Supper – raw carrots, cauliflower, broccoli and cherry
toms with commercial yogurt ranch dressing. Raspberry ice tea.</div>
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- Evening Tea -
Kisses and black pekoe. It’s been cool enough in the evenings to have
hot tea.</div>
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Another beautiful day! How blessed we are :) </div>
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Aside from the usual…. I did 3 loads of laundry. Mowed the
laundry yard, back and campsite. Still working toward painting in the kitchen.
There are a lo of little things hat need tending… pulling off old board,
filling holes, filling cracks large and small, a little sanding etc.. I could
probably get it all done much faster, if I didn’t do anything else. But this is
working well, doing a little at a time then going on to something else. I
finished painting the indoor woodrack and the base of the portable fire pit. </div>
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- Breakfast -
homemade granola and water.</div>
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-Lunch- Jasmine rice with broccoli and cauliflower, with
sharp cheddar and cracked pepper. Ice cold La Croix</div>
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- Supper – </div>
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Aug. 15, Saturday</div>
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Gathered up all tarps and hung on lines to clean and see
what we have for winter use. </div>
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-supper- homemade pasta in parmesan white sauce with onion,
cracked peppercorns and peas.</div>
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Beautiful day! </div>
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We visited a friend who had just gotten home from the
hospital and took them a basket of things to make life a little easier for the
next few days. From there to get a load of hay. And then home for Sunday Dinner.</div>
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-Breakfast – commercial apple fruit bars and water</div>
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-Lunch- commercial sweet roll and commercial raspberry ice
tea</div>
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-Supper- grilled pork steaks, grilled carrots, celery, peas
in pods and cherry tomatoes and cooked sweet corn with cow butter and black
pepper. Iced vanilla tea. Delicious!</div>
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-Evening Tea- grilled peaches with goat’s milk ice cream and
a cup of black pekoe.</div>
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Looked like it might start raining at anytime but never did.
A little more humid but still a lovely day. </div>
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Cleaned around the barn, checked on things for the storms
coming, moved some things to safer areas, checked feed supplies and made lists
of what’s needed, worked more on the
kitchen (having trouble removing some of the old tile board), prepared the wood
area for more firewood, started clearing out for the next fencing to go up.</div>
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5 chicken eggs</div>
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1 duck egg</div>
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Sage leaves</div>
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4 carrots</div>
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Queen Ann’s dried seed heads</div>
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-Lunch- leftover pizza, raw veggies and yogurt ranch dip.
Ice black pekoe</div>
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-Supper- leftover chicken, leftover swt corn, leftover
pasta, honey oat bread. Ice black pekoe</div>
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-Evening Tea- dry sweet cereal and a glass of cold raw cow’s
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Julia Catfeatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06187108742626830250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1512245017832132550.post-33379617908176392042015-08-11T00:54:00.001-05:002015-08-11T00:54:32.324-05:00Aug. 10, 2015<br />
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I missed most of the day for sleeping. I don’t know why but
I was unable to sleep during the night and so napped for some hours today. I
needed the sleep, to be sure, but I really missed being a part of the day.</div>
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Something has taken all our duck eggs. There were 4 <st1:city>Ancona</st1:city>
nests and one <st1:city>Pekin</st1:city> nest, all with
eggs. This morning all the eggs were gone. No shells or evidence, they were
just gone. I was suspicious because Grace, the <st1:city>Pekin</st1:city>
hen, has been sitting on hers regularly, which means we would have had more
ducklings in another couple of weeks. She was off them longer than usual this
morning so I checked and there are none left to sit on. </div>
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We have a very large black snake (Henry), who lives under
Rabbitville. He keeps away his deadlier fellows and in exchange, takes an
occasional egg. But, he only takes one at a time and I find the regurgitated
shell the next day. This is probably a raccoon. I’ve left the barn door open so
Nemo can go in. Hopefully he will sort it out and we can remove the culprit.
The loss of all the duck eggs is a hard thing. I have a waiting list for
ducklings and we needed duck meat for the winter stores. But things will work
out, they always do :)</div>
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Last Thursday I did some bartering and got us a beautiful
little full blooded (no papers) spotted, Nigerian Dwarf doe. Her name is <st1:city>Willow</st1:city>
and she’s fitting right in. The plan is for her and <st1:city>Hickory</st1:city>
(our full blooded, blue eyed, moon spots, Nigerian Dwarf buckling from last
fall) to add homestead income, meat and milk. </div>
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We also have two full size dairy does due late this month or
early Sept.. Selling the weaned kids should give us a little profit toward
winter animal prep and a good fresh supply of milk/dairy for many months.</div>
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We currently have 5 regular laying hens with 3 more to start
soon and eight more to start next spring, so that should keep us in eggs. Plus
duck eggs, if I start gathering them. Just the thing for rich winter breads and
pastries. </div>
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We don’t have ducks or chickens for butcher though, which I
had hoped t have by now. That will leave the meat very lean for the fall and
winter. But I’ve concentrated on rebuilding our smallstock and pens etc rather
than breeding. </div>
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We’ve not had rabbit babies in a year because of rebuilding
the rabbitry. But it’s close to done so breeding has started again. We’re down
to 5 Mini Rex, 2 does and 3 bucks. The plan here is to continue raising the rex
for sale/trade but to add a larger meat breed as well. I love the Mini Rex but
it take 4 to 5 to feed all the meat eaters for a day. A larger meat breed would
make that 2 rabbits for a day. That’s feeding Nik, 3 dogs (1 huge) and 8 cats.
I don’t care for rabbit and it’s hard for me to eat what I kill. For meat twice
a week, that would be up to 10 mini rex or 4 <st1:country-region>new
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The vegetable garden is starting to dwindle. A few tomatoes
every few days. It didn’t do well this year at all. A few squash, peppers,
tomatoes, onions, greens…. Next year,
there’s always hope for next year
:) And I have some fall planting
to do, which may do better. The Ozarks has a fairly long growing season, thank
The Mother.</div>
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Wild and herb harvest have been very good and I have a lot
drying now. </div>
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I’m hoping to get a top back on the cold frame before the
weather turns. The old top broke when a limb fell on it and I’ve not gotten it
replaced. I have two old, very heavy, glass doors I may try to use. Plexiglass
would be much lighter and easier to handle. We’ll see, there are advantages and
disadvantages to both. The doors are much heavier but insulated.</div>
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We have turkey eggs in the incubator. I trade rabbits for 21
Royal Palm and 4 Bourbon Red. Plucked fresh from under the turkey hens. Which
actually makes it a bit trickier in hatching them because I have no idea when
to stop turning. But it’s worth the trying. There was one cracked egg which got
tossed so we’re down to 20 RPs. </div>
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Like our Nigerian Dwarf and Oberhasli goats, Shetland/Leicester
sheep, <st1:city>Ancona</st1:city> and Welsh Harlequin
ducks and Autralorp, Buff Orpington and Plymoth Rock chickens, both the Royal
Palm and Bourbon Red are heritage breeds. The RPs in particular are what I want
t raise for trade, meat and eggs. They’re the smallest of the full size turkeys
and will fit better here. But the Bourbons don’t seem a lot bigger than the RPs
in person. I was surprised at that. And the BRs are beautiful birds. </div>
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I had gotten away from keeping a harvest journal but am
getting back into it. It’s an important tool in many ways. To be able to see
what’s usually in season in your exact area and to monitor harvests from year
to year…. It’s also a joy to read on
lazy days and remember harvests past. I keep it by weeks and try to note the
days as well. I note what I harvested, where I found it, how much and how the
whole plant/plants looked. The basic weather that season or week or month etc…
I was reading through and found that the raspberry harvest 2011, from our
cultivated wild patch, was abundant thought the berries were smallish they were
still quite juicy even with the drought of that year.</div>
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This week, in addition to regular chores, I’m working on …
sewing an apron or two, two Spirit Totem art dolls, preparing to paint the
kitchen cabinets, walls and floor, enlarging some animal pens, preparing to
fence in more area, harvesting and preserving foods and medicinals, shearing
the sheep, reorganizing the cottage, bartering for a lovely working treadle
sewing machine, inventorying the pantry and freezer and cleaning the freezer
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Nik gave me a most excellent gift last week. A book I have
wanted for years! The Garden Cottage Dairies, by Fiona Houston. I can’t stop
reading it, I absolutely love it! It’s wonderful to read the first hand
accounts of a modern woman living the old ways. I live many of them now but am
striving to move further that way each year. There are plenty of wonderful
accounts of life in the day but it’s very different to live that way now. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Cottage-Diaries-Eighteenth-Century/dp/1887354662/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2_har?ie=UTF8&qid=1436561257&sr=8-1&keywords=cottage+garden+diary">http://www.amazon.com/Garden-Cottage-Diaries-Eighteenth-Century/dp/1887354662/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2_har?ie=UTF8&qid=1436561257&sr=8-1&keywords=cottage+garden+diary</a></div>
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How incredibly grateful I am to be so nourished by life. I
live daily, surrounded by profound beauty. A slice of homemade bread on a stoneware plate, the gentle eyes on a loving dog, my feet and knowing how far they've carried me with the hope that they carry me many miles more. I am truly blessed.</div>
Julia Catfeatherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06187108742626830250noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1512245017832132550.post-48349975920403313802015-07-18T15:32:00.001-05:002015-07-18T15:32:24.072-05:007.18.15 Pictures from around the cottageJust in from gathering my lunch. A huge salad of wild lettuce, magenta lambs quarters, dock, and clover from the property, and tomatoes and onion from the garden. I added homemade croutons, a sliced boiled egg and homemade honey mustard dressing. I made the dressing with spicy, stone ground mustard, local honey and all natural sunflower oil. that was good but it wasn't creamy enough so I added a tablespoon of homemade mayo and it's wonderful!<br />
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I've been working on rebuilding the rabbitry. The biggest colony was destroyed a while back and we never rebuilt, as planned. But through some wild moon wheeling and dealing this week, I got two huge doe hutches and 4 large buck hutches. With what I already had, rabbitville is looking great and the buns are very happy! I stopped all breeding as the hutches and space got smaller but now they can start again before winter.<br />
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They still have the smaller colony but I think I'm going to turn that into a huge do hitch as well. I've spent the last year assessing what the most economical breeds would be, space, food, meat, litters etc etc.. and I believe a larger meat rabbit would truly be best. If only because in procuring meat I would have to do less killing for the same amount of meat. I love the Mini Rex though so we'll see. I have adequate room now for larger rabbits. We'll see. I'll take pictures of the new rabbitville soon.<br />
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Anya is doing wonderfully. I've left the wrap off the last two days and the wound has come together more and is starting to scab over. No sing of infection or any other trauma to the area. Still haven't found where or what she did it on and there should have been a lot of blood. Definitively not an animal.<br />
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And here are the photos :)<br />
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This is Mr. Fox or Fox No-Ears. He's the Cottage butler, he escorts us from and to the door and to check the mail. He is also the alarm system and partner to Captain Nemo, cottage security.</div>
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Here you can seen his poor torn off ear. The top circle is torn off completely and the bottom is a shred of skin. He's fine just as he is, I don;t know if I'll take him to have the skin trimmed up. We have come to love him very much.</div>
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This is Old Hen, 14 years old!!! with two if her chicks. The other two are nearby. None are actually hers but she hatched them out and raised them like her own. She an excellent mother.</div>
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Lavender or Lilac and her ducklings</div>
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Mullein, or more accurately, Minion Mullein. Paneer is raising him but he follows me everywhere! We also call him Puppy Mullein.</div>
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Mullein is 25% LaMancha, 25%Saanen, 16% each Nubian, Kiko and Boer. He has LaMancha elf ears, light Boer colored head, dairy buck rear and meat buck shoulders. He's one of the sweetest and smartest goats we've ever had.</div>
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Sweet, old Raspberry. We call him Black Buddha because when he's sitting up he's a head and a big fat belly. He's getting old though and in this summer's heat and humidity he sleeps a lot. </div>
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Bounty. I have tomatoes and onions from our garden but these are all from a friend. The week was so prosperous! I traded for all this and more last Monday.</div>
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Hoe Very Blessed we are :)</div>
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For lunch I had a simple peanut butter and jam sandwich.
Just peanut butter, jam and bread, just a sandwich. But it became so much more.
The first bite I took was big and, as I slowly chewed and tasted, I remembered
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The first thing I tasted was the wheat bread I had made a
few days ago. I remembered scooping out the flour and bagging it up at the
store. I recalled the sticky texture while kneading the dough, the smell of the
yeast while it was rising, the warmth of the pan when I took it from the little
camp oven on the grill. I remembered slicing the bread and nibbling a piece
that broke off and thinking how good it would be as a sandwich.</div>
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The next taste was the raspberry jam. I remembered the
sweat, and scratches and pestilent bugs while gathering those sweet little
berries. I remembered the bright burst of flavor with each one I popped into my
mouth and then bemoaning the fact that I was eating more than I was saving. I
remember catching my reflection as I passed the mirror and laughing out loud at
my raspberry lipstick. I remember the wonderful raspberry smell that filled the
house as I cooked the jam and the hot stickiness when I ladled it into the
jars. I remember thinking how grateful I would be every time I opened one of
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And then I tasted the peanut butter and time began to fold.
I recalled buying it at the store and double checking the country of origin and
ingredients. Even though I check it every time I buy it. Then it brought back
memories of when Nik was little and I made homemade peanut butter with raw
peanuts and oil. And then of eating P&Js with Pepper when we were kids. I
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aside and closed my eyes. I could hear sea gulls and the ocean washing upon the
sand. I recalled a day that I made peanut butter and honey sandwiches, which my
Love and I took to the beach. We sat on a towel and watched the waves roll in,
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And I remember my thoughts from way back then. They were of
the future and where I wished I could be. My wish then, over 30 years ago, was
to live simply, quietly and peacefully. Off grid, by hand, with the Earth.
Somewhere alone in the deep country, with my Love and a horse, dogs, cats,
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hand not long after that day of peanut butter and honey sandwiches. But today’s
raspberry jam and peanut butter reminded me that I am so incredibly blessed,
that most of my dreams have come true and that a sandwich isn’t always just a
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It was 95 today and humid but not nearly as humid as it has
been and no rain at all. I love the rain and have all my life. There’s no
better or more fulfilling dance than the one done barefoot, in the rain. In
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What the rain knows, what it has experienced and then shares
with those it rains on …the rain falling on my head today may have been in the
river <st1:place>Nile</st1:place> or the Amazon or come from <st1:place>Antarctica</st1:place>
last week. The water running down my neck swam with crocodiles, pink dolphins
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We woke to a little bad news. Sometime during the night Anya
cut her lower leg pretty badly. It must have been early night because the blood
was quite dry. She’s not limping or favoring it at all, a very good sign. I
treated it first with my walnut salve, which is healing and antiseptic, but
mainly because it has lavender in it to keep the flies away until I could clean
and tend it better. It’s now been washed and cleaned out with iodine solution
and loosely wrapped with vet tape to keep it clean. It is bad enough to need
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Worse than the cut is that we can’t find what she cut it on.
It had to have been sharp and fairly large and I’m afraid she could do it again
but we searched her pen and found nothing at all that looked to have been able
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She is so sweet and kind and patient. A thousand pounds of
stomping thunder stood quietly and carefully while I worked. Even when I know
it was sore or stung. The world could learn so much from folk like her. I am
honored to know her and have her part of our family.</div>
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Anyway, she will be fine. Selfishly I hope she’s well enough to go wandering with me in a few weeks. I had planned to go this week but will wait however long it takes for her to be completely healed properly. But it’s a big harvest time and my lists of wants and needs and hope to finds is long.</div>
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I’ve been harvesting every day it hasn’t rained and sometimes when it has. I’ve gathered an abundance of Yarrow, cinquefoil, mulberry leaves, raspberry leaves, with hazel leaves, queen anne’s plant, flower and seeds, persimmon leaves, blk walnut leaves, hickory sticks, sassafras leaves and sticks, wormwood, mugwort, tansy, Echinacea plant, red and white clover, dock leaves, sorrel, stinging nettle, wild lettuce, lambs quarters, mints, hyssop, motherwort and on and on.</div>
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I’ve been making tulle caps for the elderberries and actually got a compliment on the one near the driveway :) I left plenty for the birds so we should all have enough. That tulle was a great investment! I’ve used it for several things and am so grateful to have found it. I’m a yard sale, used, secondhand, thrift, trade, barter kind of person but it’s been so useful I would consider buying it new.</div>
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The big Good news of the day is Mullein :) I forgot to take a picture but will get one tomorrow. He’s a lovely little elf eared mutt goat buckling. 25% LaMancha, 25% Saanen, 16% each Nubian, Kiko and Boer. He has a Saanen head, LaMancha ears and Boer body. He’s white with a light brown cast on his shoulders and head, kind of a pale Boer coloring. He’s a wonderful, beautiful little sweetheart! I traded for him in May, before he was born. What a blessing he is to us.</div>
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No one ever claimed the little throw away dog that showed up here a month or so ago, so we’ve named him Fox and made him one of us as well. His ears have been ripped off and are in shreds. They were mostly healed when we found him but even more so now. Whatever happened to him, someone did love him and we are thankful to that person. He’s a dirty little ragamuffin at the moment, and smells like a dead thing. He’s due for a bath this week and then photos :)</div>
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Aside from Fox and Mullein, we also have 10 new ducklings and baby goats due soon! And I may be trading for Royal Palm turkey hatching eggs soon. We've not had turkeys since the Burrow and I've wanted Royal Palms for ages. A heritage breed, beautiful white with black markings, and smallish to fit in our little homestead.</div>
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Like the crazing on a well used pitcher,</div>
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All the cooking pots, drinking glasses, bathtubs filled.</div>
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Like the torn and mended old quilt,</div>
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Like the frayed and bare rope swing,</div>
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Like the web of scars on an ancient soul,</div>
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Lives lived, goals reached, dreams lost.</div>
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The stories, I, could tell.</div>
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energy, even small gripes. But I am abut to do some just the same. The Ozark’s
humidity is one of only two gripes I have about living here. The other is that
the cold seems colder in winter but that may also just be the wet cold. If had to choose I guess I would take the
humidity over the painful cold. I can take 100 degree days as long as there’s
shade and the humidity is low. When it’s high I can’t breathe well and not being
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exhausted and just now drying out from the day's chores. Today included picking
raspberries. We have a little slightly cultivated patch of wild raspberries.
The little sweet ones that take twice as much work and twice as much time so
that we’re twice as grateful for them!
There’s more to pick tomorrow and more this year than last. The first
year there were tons but 2013 and 14, when I was sick, I let them go so there
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am wearing raspberry lipstick as I type. I’m planning on making jelly and
drying. Plus eating fresh of course. And a raspberry crustata, my favorite. Some
of the jelly will be mixed with mulberry, if I can get a share before the
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raspberries, gooseberries, mulberries, blueberry, blk walnut, beautyberry, red
raspberry, persimmon, elderberry, pecan, wild plum, pawpaw, and more. Not all
are producing yet, the pecan won’t produce food for a few more years and the
pawpaw is struggling. But most are producing and we have a huge amount more of
wild and cultivated foods like lambs quarters, queen annes lace, plantain,
sheep sorrel, wild lettuce and on and on. We’re so blessed to have such a
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picking I started working on new drying screens. The old ones are still sturdy and
useful but I need more space. Growing my own herbs for my business takes a lot
of drying and I never have enough room. Let a lone food drying for the pantry.
The only drawback is having to move them if it should rain. I have tarped them
on occasion but last year I lost a whole screen of herbs to mold because they
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tulle. It’s like what you might cut squares of and fill with bird seed to throw
at handfastings. I have at least 101 uses for it. I’m making covers for the
electric food dehydrators, we have fruit flies sometimes and one of the
dehydrators heats but has no fan. I’m also going to make new covers for the big
food drying screens. I have an old sheer curtain but it’s a little thicker and
I think it slows the drying process. It will find use elsewhere. What’s left of
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