Total Cuteness

Angora bunny Sparkle, 15 days old.
Promised to granddaughter Gracie as her pet bunny.
She was named by Gracie.

(Gracie's mom is going to use Sparkle as a therapy bunny
at the grade school where she works.
Gracie's grandma (me) is going to spin the wool into yarn...
for Gracie's mom. :-)

.....Grandma Jean

A Wisconsin Fish Boil

Tonight we had our 1st Annual Family Corn Roast
and Fish Boil,
featuring sweet corn, red potatoes and onions from the garden.
The corn soaked in salt water for 20 hours, and then was roasted over the open fire until it looked like it was totally burnt.

    

The little bit that chars is actually the best part.
Roasted corn has just enough of a different taste
than boiled corn that it is totally worth the effort.

Usually a fish boil uses whitefish or lake trout.
We substituted a fresh caught King Salmon.

For 10 people
Bring to a rolling boil, 2 gallons of water
1 cup salt
3 Tbl. Old Bay Seasoning
(in the seasoning section at grocery store)
3 bay leaves
1 Tbl. ground white pepper

Add 20 whole small red potatoes and 6 carrots.
Boil 15 minutes.

Add 10 medium peeled whole onions
Keep boiling 10 more minutes.

Add salmon serving size chunked, with skin on.
(Ours was a 14 lb-er)
Keep boiling 10 more minutes.

Serve with melted butter.

I can't describe to you how good it was!
(the picture does not do it justice)

A wiffle ball game and popsicle for dessert.
It doesn't get any better than this.......

.....dr momi

Linked To: Homestead Barn Hop #72

Kits

Zsa-Zsa had her babies last Sat.
9 angora kits...in some great colors!
(I'm visioning the yarn already.)

My 4 yr. old grandson Riley looked at the nest and said,
"I see one more egg."
*Ahem*....we had a birds and bees talk.


.....dr momi

Monday in Pictures



I'm learning to make yarn on a drop spindle.
This is made of 100% llama...Pele & Gallante. (not mine)
I love that it is the same color as my weathered chair outside.



....oh shoot your eyes were closed.
Now this time keep your eyes wide open....



:-)

Grandson Ryan is ready to go fishing in his new hat.



 

 



Horehound and Elder flower drying on the kitchen table.
I would like to try my hand at some horehound cough drops this year.



 



Breezy is 5 months old.
It's 90 degrees outside.
She's laying in the sunbeam over the top of the air conditioning vent.
Life is good if you're a dog in our house!



.....dr momi



Sunday In Pictures



You probably noticed I took a blogging break.
I think it did me good.
In the mean time I learned how to needle felt.
(very therapeutic jabbing things with a needle, lol)
I hope to have a small animal for each grandchild for Christmas.





My 10 year old niece Anna,
hung with me a few days.
She learned how to needle felt too.





My wine glass rack serves double
 duty in the summer :-)
Yarrow flowers are drying for
dried flower arrangements.
The leaves have already been dried
as a medicinal herb.












Remember this mysterious track in the garden?













Ya, well, .....we figured it out.
My son's size 13 Nike's.
The rain had washed away the front part
 of the track just leaving the heel imprint.
Mystery solved.  :-)



The grandkids had a great time
at our 4th of July party.
.....so did the adults.  I brought out my
gallon of homemade apple wine.  With
a splash of pineapple vodka in it I
must say YUM :-)



I think Ryan had a smile on his face all night.
It was so hot...the kids had a water fight all
evening until just before the fireworks started.





All the kids got a glow light flashlight
with a whistle on the end.  I found them in the
camping supply section of Wal-Mart.
They were a huge hit....and also a little ear splitting :-)



Posts will still be limited for a while, I'll try to keep some pictures coming...and...get around to reading your posts!

.....dr momi

Sunday In Pictures

I'd like you all to meet Zsa-Zsa.
100 % French Angora.
 Sherman's wife....due mid July
with little fiber bunnies :-)
I did buy a 90 % German Angora
baby also -- sold to me as a wooler (no papers).
I won't be breeding her till this fall or next spring.



Sherman is 1/2 inch away from being ready to shear.
Don't you just want to feel it?
I bought a new-used carding machine and
can't wait to blend his color with a forest green
dyed alpaca/wool blend.  .....ready to experiment!

On a side note....Zsa-Zsa was the first girl that Sherman
ever bred.  He knew just what to do :-)
....and I got an education on how rabbits "do it".
They fall over at the end....very weird to see!!!



Our multi-family garden.
4 of the 5 kids are taking care of their own small gardens here.
A-hem.....my part of the garden is NOT in the foreground :-)
In the back is the sweet corn for everyone.
My husband plants and tends it.
We have a saying around here that the corn needs to be
"knee high by the 4th of July".  Well, this year it
is already waist high and starting to tassel.



The pumpkin patch is on the plot of land
 that the pigs cleared last year.
The kids (adults) are competing to see
who can grow the biggest pumpkin.
Rabbit manure has been in high demand!
(We may be ready for pigs again next summer.
This worked excellent for clearing
quack grass without spraying.)



So....my husband and I were trying to figure out what
made this track in the garden.  I thought maybe
a bunny.  He then informed me that it would have had to
been a 100 # bunny to make such a deep impression. :-)
Did we do it with the hoe? --- couldn't duplicate it.
It's about 3 inches wide and 4 inches long.













(I think it's the heel of a boot/shoe.....but who's?)
.....dr momi

Need A Funny Caption

What's your caption for this week?

Last Week:

Can't talk right now. I'm kinda busy.

Last week's caption is by Marilyn.

Thanks so much for playing!

Other captions were:

It's not easy to breathe and eat corn at the same time! :)

By Lois over At:

From Lois' Hand

"I just love it so much...I think I'll kiss it!"

By Jacky over at:

Dicky Bird's Nest

'I'm going to eat this corn like a typewriter.'

By Kim over at:

Life at Golden Pines

Ah, do we have dental floss?

By Dog Trot Farm over at:

Dog Trot Farm

                                       num,hm,uh-ohg.yasho,ieo,num
                                                           By judy


     This is a picture of my grandson Brayden.  He really enjoys his corn on the cob :-)  "Can't talk right now.  I'm kinda busy." was the perfect caption Marilyn.  He is all business while he's eating it. :-)  His mom just informed me his new saying is "I can't, I'm busy" everytime they asked him to do something lol!

     Loved all the captions, they keep me laughing!  And, I so love all the comments even when a caption isn't popping into your head. :-)

.....dr momi

Weird Egg

The egg is hard like a regular shell.
Weird.
Layed by a 4 year old hen.


(special thanks to my hand model -- niece Anna :-)

.....dr momi

Need A Funny Caption

What's your caption for this week?

Last Week

"Don't look down! Don't look down!"

Last week's caption is by Marissa over at:

Life On Our Mountain

Please hop over to her blog and check out the pics

of her beautiful cat Luna. So-o-o-o cute!

Other captions were:

"Now if I can scrunch a little bit more to my left...yep, that's it.

I don't think they can see me.."

By River Bend Farm over at:

RiverBend Farm

                                         'Me's big wildcat! RARRR!'

By TexWisGirl over at:

The Run *A* Round Ranch Report

Do I look like a cat or a squirrel?

By Kim over at:

Life at Golden Pines

"I just LOVE this tree I'm hugging."

By Lois over at:

From Lois' Hands

you may have escaped Tom ,but you Jerry are my next delicious

meal, if only I could lift my other leg around here ,

"darn that last can of tuna mom fed me......"

By judy

     "I KNOW I got up here all by myself but PLEASE help me get down!!"

By Candy C. over at:

Lazy J Bar C Farm

                                  "No, I'm not stuck. Why do you ask?"

By Mama Pea over at:

A Home Grown Journal

This is a picture of a friends cat.

We were doing a "photo shoot" and Putters was being silly :-)

.....dr momi

My Favorite Flower

False Indigo

Lasts long as a cut flower.
It has beautiful purple pods in the fall
for dried arrangements.
It's foliage makes a beautiful "green"
with any other flower arrangement.
....and last but not least,
it grows in zone 3!

.....jean