Just another Day on the Farm

I awoke with energy and well rested, breakfast was egg, onion and some canned mushrooms, with spices, it was yummy, Dh added in two toast with raspberry jam, I had apple cider vinegar/honey tea and hubby had hot chocolate.

Don’t the sprouts look wonderful, sweet, crunchy and fresh!

The morning was all about work, work and more work with the horse’s  and the house, we shoveled out a pathway to my one big clothes line, I want to be able to start hanging more things out now a day’s, still will need to dry hubbies work cloths and my good cloths, but the rest of the house stuff, the critter bedding etc can all be line dried, it will save me another 50 plus to slow down using the dryer.

Lunch was the leftover stirfry, I put about two to three cups of light white broth into a pot, added in the leftover stirfry and then about a cup of whole milk, and heated it up till just simmering, then I thickened it with cornstarch.. and it was our lunch, yum..

The afternoon passed in a blur of warm sunshine, laundry, housework and farm work, we are working to pull back another inch or two of bedding/manure off the fence line by the feeder area, each pull back creates a pile, each pile gets loaded into the sled and hauled to a garden area, and dumped, each day that sun warms the area just enough that we can pull off another inch or so down the line.. we really need to do this because between the snow and the bedding/manure pack that poor fence is getting lower and lower, this will help the fence come back up in size, and its a good workout each day to get one more pile done and moved for garden use.

Supper is planned, we are having herbed and parm breaded steak with rice and purple cabbage salad.

Dessert is some canned peaches in their lovely juice.. Life is good.. Now if I could just climb over the eight to ten plus foot banks of snow to get in to look at getting some taps, but given its still so cold, I don’t think I am missing my run yet but I do want to get to it this week, is the sap running in your area yet or are you on “ice” like I am?

We really didn’t get to sleep in today, we need to go pick up a feed order, we wanted to get to the church basement second hand shop, found a awesome warm soft blanket for the hounds, and a lovely double flannel sheet set, I have plans for it, it will be a coming post for sure, four lovely new cobalt blue, three big coffee cups or soup/stew cups, a new (to us) pair of black jeans for hubby and two quart canning jars and one new bit water jug, as my regular one has decided that it wants to leak , it can be used in a number of ways still but not tipped and drank from..  Grand total of 6.50, Wish they had more jars at 25 cents each, I would snap up a few more hundred to be sure.

Then we needed to go the store, yup, I bought ten pounds worth of carrots, I am not cheating on this one, they are for horse training treats.

Breakfast was Toasted bread with roast beef on it for me, and Peanut butter for hubby, Lunch was two porgies each and leftover soup, Supper was a lovely stirfry, with a full pint of my sprouted mung beans, leaving me with half a quart jar for use tomorrow, don’t you love that half a cup of dried beans can turn into a quart full of lovely yummy fresh food just before your own eyes!

Got a visit with friend in the early afternoon, along with some work on the farm done, and then headed out for a late afternoon ride, it was good in some ways and challenging in others, but overall everyone arrived safe and sound back home and tomorrow is new day.

This evening, I think I am going to take my hubby on head to head on Sod Busters a board game and see who can homestead better out in the wild west 🙂

Breakfast was Dippy eggs and toast, more egg then toast.. lunch was a huge roast beef sandwhich with mustard and I was missing having anything fresh to go on it. I wanted greens, cheese, tomato or peppers.. I stared at my sandwhich, and frowned.

Then I made a itty bitty cabbage salad and put it on my sandwhich, not bad, not bad at all..

Then hubby wanted porgies for supper, and I said, sure no problem (thinking we had a bag in the freezer) opps, nope, so homemade it was.. I don’t normally make homemade porgies, so they turned out huge but tasty..

Three was enough for a full meal, I made them with mashed spuds, steak, garlic and soft sheep milk cheese.

I think I might have overdid the workouts yesterday, I did a knee strengthing one in the morning, then I did a horse training session, then I did extra outside chores, and ended up taking a walk and breaking snow.. I was done right after supper, crash! a bit sore on Saturday morning, but stetching will work it out, I am so riding both days of the weekend!

Well, I can’t say that the day was a bad one, breakfast was eggs and a bit of beef bacon. Lunch was soup, and supper was a slice of fresh bread, with fresh hot sliced beef for me, and soup for DH, Dessert was a apple spice cake, drinks were water, and tea with honey or apple cider vinager with honey.

The soup was super yummy but easy to make, I put a pat of coconut oil in the bottom of my pan, one large onion diced, one pound of burger, cooked till done, then I added in a quart of bone broth, one large can of mixed beans, one large can of mushrooms, included the juice from both the beans an the mushrooms to the soup, salt, pepper to taste.

I was active for the day, which was nice, in and out on the farm, took a little walk, groomed some hounds, groomed the horse’s,

Baked a oatmeal, buckwheat, molasses, egg and sheep milk bread for hubby’s toast in the mornings. It turned out quite well.. nice crumb, yummy taste.