Recipes

For all you bakers out there.....you will love this site.

I got this sent to me in an e-mail and thought I would pass it on to all of you.

http://www.northpole.com/Kitchen/Cookbook/

Random Photos

Had a few minutes this morning so I thought I would post some random photos that I have taken over the last few weeks.

Chad's little mishap....he ran the beans over and had to scoop them up. I usually do that once a year or so too but not that bad. Had to post his to show you that I am not the only one that "screws up"! Isn't he lucky that I happen to have the camera with me that day??!!

Parents night for volleyball was a few weeks ago. Tonight they play first round of Districts....we are seeded #4 so we play the #1 seed and they are a really good team.

Just another random harvest photo.

Teenager redeems herself!

As I posted before...I have been getting some attitude from my teenage daughter Courtney but this weekend she totally redeemed herself!

First of all it has been one tough week...harvesting corn, working cows and calves, harvesting corn, trying to keep up with the house (and not succeeding very well) harvesting corn, of course trying to get some blogging time in (which I was very limited in this week....sorry...I will catch up with all of you soon) and I have been fighting a nasty cold to top it off...oh, and did I mention that we are harvesting corn. Anyway, my very lovely daughter (when she wants to be) made and brought breakfast treats (turnovers) to the field and made dinner and brought it to the field for us on Saturday. She also vacuumed, swept and scrubbed floors, washed-dried and folded laundry, washed the dishes in the dishwasher, put them away and filled the dishwasher again. She has also been doing the pig chores for me in the evenings....what a load off my shoulders! Ok, so she can be a great kid when she wants to!!



We got done at 8:00 tonight and now that the housework and laundry are caught up....I finally have a chance to check in with a few of you.



Hope you all have a great week!

Corn Harvest

We began corn harvest several days ago. My father-in-law always runs the combine but he and my mother-in-law went to a concert in SF on Wednesday night. Jeremy got to run the combine for the first time. I was running the grain cart beside him and it was kinda fun watching him up there in that "big green machine". I couldn't help but take a few pictures of him.
This one I thought was really "cool"...if you look hard you can see the moon coming up right underneath the auger that is sticking out.

Butchering 101 (not for those with a weak stomach)

We had a little mishap working cows today....we had one go down and got trampled by several others and she died. We quickly bled her out and then we called several butchers in the area but they were all too full to take her in. So..... we called a good friend of ours (Pat) and he and my father-in-law (Al) are going to grind her by themselves for hamburger. I ran to the house the first chance I got to get my camera...they were already well into the process.

Here is Pat skinning her...he is almost finished with the process.

A closer view

All skinned!

Now the "gutting" process.

Here come the guts!

Pat and Al were laughing at me taking pictures of the process for my blogging

friends!

This is the heart....it is HUGE! Pat is pretty proud displaying this for all of you!

The pile of guts...the big white things are her stomachs...she has 4 of them. I wanted to cut them open but they warned me that it gets too "stinky".

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They cut her into quarters (didn't get pictures of that as I had to leave for the field)....they will let her hang like that until tomorrow night and then take the meat off the bone and grind it. Don't know if I will be around for that or not....I have a feeling I will be in the field.

Not much time to post today.....working our calves and preg testing the cows.....then to the field to combine some more corn. The corn dryer is fixed so we are at it full force again. Hope you all have a great day!

Teenagers.....GRRRR

We just got a really good start on corn harvest and now the corn dryer is broke down. There is a guy here right now fixing it so hopefully we can get going soon.

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On another note.....beware all of you with young daughters! Right now my lovely teenage daughter thinks I am the meanest mom on earth and "all of her friends even think I am a b*tch". She wants to know why I can't be "cool" like her dad. For all of you raising teenage daughters or that have already raised teenage daughters.....HELP!