Monday, August 31, 2009
A Treat for Bambi
Mmmmm, yummy.
Which will he lick first, Wild Persimmon, or Sweet Acorn?
I have a sinking feeling that the trophy buck in the photo is false advertising for our hunting season.
Well, we have a few goats who may be enticed to walk in front of the 30-06 if the exotically flavored salt licks don't do the trick for Mr. Whitetail.
Flowers on the Side of the Road
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Colin's Haircut
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
School Humor
Math Puns Are the First Sine of Madness
Geometry Is for Squares
If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Precipitate
Arrrrginine - Pirate's Favorite Amino Acid
A Day Without Nuclear Fusion Is a Day Without Sunshine
Absolute Zero Is Cool
Math Mom: If I've Told You N Times, I've Told You N+1 Times ...
When Life Gives You Mold, Make Penicillin
Geometry Is for Squares
If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Precipitate
Arrrrginine - Pirate's Favorite Amino Acid
A Day Without Nuclear Fusion Is a Day Without Sunshine
Absolute Zero Is Cool
Math Mom: If I've Told You N Times, I've Told You N+1 Times ...
When Life Gives You Mold, Make Penicillin
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Chocolate Shakes! (Wink, Wink)
My nephew declares that he won't eat vegetables.
However, he's drinking a quarter of a red cabbage in his "chocolate shake."
It left a purple tinge, which I was sure would tip them off, but was somehow overlooked by the drinkers.
I blended the cabbage with goat milk (3 cups?) till runny, added
1/3 c. cocoa
2/3 sugar
ice
It does taste fantastic.
Monday, August 24, 2009
It's a Piece of Cake
Here are two happy cousins enjoying a piece of trickery cake on the porch at night.
I added 6 carrots, a banana, whole oat flour, whole wheat flour, and flax meal to make it a healthy treat.
But they don't have to know it's good for them, all they have to know is that it's cake.
The shorter days are more apparent this week than they had been.
Tonight the windows are open for the first time in a long time, and I can almost believe that September is close.
Goat Gang
A Watched Goat Never Boils
Claire still hasn't delivered.
Our days revolve around checking on her to see if a baby's on the way out.
The other four milkers are doing a bang up job of producing. I get two gallons a day from them. For a few days, the buck was hanging around the gate, polluting the milk with his odor, but he's been removed from their presence, so things have improved in the taste department.
The Well Educated Kid
Cub Creek Out of the Banks
I decided that today was a good day to liberate the oysters who've been living in a Tupperware bowl on my kitchen counter for a week.
So the dogs and kids headed down to the creek to reunite the oysters with their families.
We had a huge rain last night, and here are the results.
What a wonderful year of rainy weather after the drought years.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Soup and More Soup
What not to do if your parents leave you alone, presumably sleeping peacefully...
The miscreant cousins had a wild bash last night while I milked goats.
How do I know this?
They recorded the evidence on my camera!
They videotaped Colin playing hockey in the hall, which would take too much memory to show you, but trust me, the kid's got talent.
Then I found a photograph of a child eating an Oreo with an unwrapped oatmeal cream pie in the background, and looking as if he's stoned on sugar.
I think I can safely thank Grandfather on behalf of the cousins for the stash of goodies.
Big Scary Snake on the Porch
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Little Chef
"Where Everybody Knows Your Name"
Peaks of Otter Hike
We went on a huge outing (huge for a four year old.) First we ate at Sam's Club, where Colin ate three whole pieces of pizza by himself. Then we shopped for our friend's convenience store.
Off we went into the mountains to enjoy a little cool air, a novelty for us these last couple weeks.
The kids played happily in the stream and never wanted to return to the lowlands.
Photos of the next segment of the journey to follow.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
All Tuckered Out
Goodbye Gandfather
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
More Colin
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Tiny Invisible Spiders
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