Restful Sunday (not)
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altivoFirst knock down the round pen. Take Tess out to the pasture since her pen is broken down. Then go to grocery store early to avoid mess in town due to street festival. Come home, unpack groceries, watch load of hay pull into the lane. Once wagon is parked in the arena, reassemble the pen, and go get Tess off the grass and into the shade. Watch her drink half a bucket of water.
Interrupt hay stacking to go to the apple orchard. Damn, our favorite one is already closed for the season. Go to second choice place. They are still picking and have some pre-picked in the cooler. Decide to pick, and get a peck of Winesap (old fashioned cider variety, good for cooking, long keeping) but do so by picking through the windfalls. Actually many of those have fallen from the tree as people picked the apple next to them, but they didn't bother to pick up the one they dropped. Also got another peck of mixed Red Delicious (OK if fresh from tree, mealy if kept too long) and Blushing Golden. Picked a half peck of Jonagored from the cooler. Trees were nearly bare, I'm betting that place will be closed in a day or two.
Now unload and stack 140 bales of hay. Roll empty hay wagon out of arena and into pickup location. Easier than last time, for whatever reason. Clean loose hay off wagon bed. Go back in and have late lunch. One more load of hay like this one, probably tomorrow, and we're done with that for the year.
Change part of the water on the flax soaking in the dogs' kiddie pool. Note that it seems to be almost ready to dry. Maybe tomorrow. Actually succeed in pulling a fiber from one stem and twisting and plying it while wet. Very fine stuff if we can really get much of this from it.
Start to go out to clean stalls (my day for that) but Gary offers to do that if I'll bake apple muffins. I have a new recipe for those from @Dodge_horse on Twitter. I agree, and stay in to bake. Also make black bean dip, and marinate two small steaks. Run out to help feed critters and bed them all down. Then back in to make salad and shower while Gary starts charcoal. By now it is dark.
Let Gary shower while I make baked potatoes and the last two ears of sweet corn. Quite possibly the last barbecue of the year. Turns out pretty decent, even the cheap steaks. Feed dog and cat, clean up, put in some laundry so I have clothes for work tomorrow.
Shortly we will try the muffins that have been cooling on a high shelf to avoid dog pilferage, and then go to bed. Very full day it was.
Interrupt hay stacking to go to the apple orchard. Damn, our favorite one is already closed for the season. Go to second choice place. They are still picking and have some pre-picked in the cooler. Decide to pick, and get a peck of Winesap (old fashioned cider variety, good for cooking, long keeping) but do so by picking through the windfalls. Actually many of those have fallen from the tree as people picked the apple next to them, but they didn't bother to pick up the one they dropped. Also got another peck of mixed Red Delicious (OK if fresh from tree, mealy if kept too long) and Blushing Golden. Picked a half peck of Jonagored from the cooler. Trees were nearly bare, I'm betting that place will be closed in a day or two.
Now unload and stack 140 bales of hay. Roll empty hay wagon out of arena and into pickup location. Easier than last time, for whatever reason. Clean loose hay off wagon bed. Go back in and have late lunch. One more load of hay like this one, probably tomorrow, and we're done with that for the year.
Change part of the water on the flax soaking in the dogs' kiddie pool. Note that it seems to be almost ready to dry. Maybe tomorrow. Actually succeed in pulling a fiber from one stem and twisting and plying it while wet. Very fine stuff if we can really get much of this from it.
Start to go out to clean stalls (my day for that) but Gary offers to do that if I'll bake apple muffins. I have a new recipe for those from @Dodge_horse on Twitter. I agree, and stay in to bake. Also make black bean dip, and marinate two small steaks. Run out to help feed critters and bed them all down. Then back in to make salad and shower while Gary starts charcoal. By now it is dark.
Let Gary shower while I make baked potatoes and the last two ears of sweet corn. Quite possibly the last barbecue of the year. Turns out pretty decent, even the cheap steaks. Feed dog and cat, clean up, put in some laundry so I have clothes for work tomorrow.
Shortly we will try the muffins that have been cooling on a high shelf to avoid dog pilferage, and then go to bed. Very full day it was.
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Date: 2011-10-11 07:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-11 02:27 pm (UTC)It's really true. If most Americans would just quit the passive entertainment like television, movies, and so forth, they'd find themselves doing these things. We have turned into a nation of couch potato consumers.