Lamb and a recipe book

Lil' man in September 2003-sheep in field*recipe revised on onion amount* (my apologies for the mistake)*I have been collecting my revised or self created recipes for years. I had always hoped to make them into a book to add to my kitchen shelf collection. well the opportunity came knocking just the other day. Yahoo photos is shutting down and focusing on Flickr. since I had pics with them they sent me an alert and offered to transfer my pictures...

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Online Furniture Store in a Fight

Luxury furniture makers and their affiliated sellers are taking aim at Europe by Net, an Internet company based in London. It is run by Julie Edwards and is offering $11,000 Italian sofas for $8,000. Why the controversy? Read the full story on this online furniture store fig...

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Mid week update

The chickens were sent to camp yesterday. They came back small and not very meaty.I stopped letting them gorge all day on food since they were dying off- one every week. We started with 16 and by yesterday we had 9 left.Being just 3 weeks younger then the delaware hens, did not leave me impressed with their growth. They should have been at least the same size since they are bred to gain so much weight 3 times the average chickens rate..So another lesson learned. It was not cost efficient for us. they went through a bag of feed every 2 weeks...

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"Holy crap!"

I screamed as I flew out of the tomato patch. Of course all goats, chickens, & ducks ran for the hills, leaving me in their dust. What happened, you may ask.Well, I was working my way through all the tomato plants, gingerly lifting all stems & branches in search of any ripe fruit. I noticed 2 purple Russian orbs laying at a plants base ( I think it is a mixer since it appears to grow red & purple fruit- more on that later). As I stepped...

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A weekend of discoveries, growth, and firsts...

*I had to delete this post from yesterday 8/13/07, due to problems with the slideshow. This is the exact post, but I have listed links to the picture slideshows instead. my apologies to dial- up users.*This has been a beautiful weekend. The weather was tolerable to stay outside all day and run barefoot through the freshly mown grass. Play hide and seek with the kids, and spend lots of time with the The Captain as a family. He spent the better part of the morning climbing the magic tree with the kids. Lil' man is not long enough to climb over to...

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Meteor show, Fernie Bottle jaw pic, transplanting peppermint

If you have not heard yet, here ya go.Perseid Meteor shower peaks this weekend. Here is the link to Yahoo's news post and here is one for Sky& telescope magazine."The Perseids are one of the two strongest and most reliable annual meteor showers. (The other is December's Geminids.) And while some showers produce brief bursts lasting just a few hours, the Perseids have a broad peak. So don't despair if clouds are forecast for Sunday night — or...

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floorplan post- playing with Flickr blog feature

Williamstown floorplan-my changes Originally uploaded by The farmchick This is the floor plan idealistic for what works for us. A false wall which would hide the pantry door entrance coming from the kitchen is desired. The door to the1/2 bathroom would be on the blue side and add a shower stall. This prevents dirty bodies from traipsing through the house. There is plenty of space to do it, since i removed the washer dryer closet...

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Fernie's condition, tomato bragging, and a house

Fernie has Bottle jaw. She has had it for awhile with nothing effecting it with what I have done. Roseanna, the woman I bought Cleopatra from, generously gave her time and own supplies to come help out. She came up after driving the 2 hours north here and administered the much needed medicines I could not afford to buy. The Cydectin is $70 a bottle-OUCH! Plus she got a BoSe injection, an iron injection and some Vitamin A&D injection. I have the...

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Looking for your opinion on these pictures....

Remember the curbside find of the old 8 pane windows? I am finally collaging pictures to display in the panes. One of the windows is missing 2 panes from the end, so I will arrange the panes so when laying sideways- 4 on top & 4 on bottom, there will be one missing pane on each end of the top row. So below, imagine 2 pictures on the top row and 4 for the bottom row.This picture has been updated/edited august 7, 2007 8:11 pm***8I have removed/replaced...

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A weekend of mourning....

The Captain's "Nan" has passed away. I was so fortunate to have met her and share in our lives. Panda was her first "great grand child" and held a special place in her heart. She loved all her "babies", but Panda being the oldest and was the only one for 4 years and the twinkle of her eye. She was a true Lady. I have not met many, but being that she was to turn 90 this year, should help give the idea of her ways. The Captain's mother was the only...

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