The cold winter weather continues here on the farm. Brisk mornings with thick mist meld into intermittently sunny and raining days. The solar panels work hard in the sun creating power between showers. The generator is working a bit in the evenings now to top up the batteries and charge appliances.
This morning I unzipped the annex to greet our neighbours the rams who are very much at home harvesting the grass under the solar panels. Believe it or not the grass is higher under the panels. Something to do with the warmer soil there I think.
One of last seasons lambs was a bit caught up in the blackberry bush behind the van as well and had to be rescued. Must be green grass in there somewhere. It nicked off without even a baa as a thankyou.
The rams have been helping us tune the tv satellite dish. K obviously has it wrong because they reposition it each morning.
However they were nowhere to be seen yesterday mid afternoon when I put lamb shanks on the wood fire. I always feel a bit funny cooking lamb where next seasons' meat can smell the aroma....but that's farming.
Simple food all in one pot. Can tomatoes, potato, carrot, sweet potato, my Italian herb mix and some red wine. It spent the afternoon on top of the wood heater in the shed. We were sorting through boxes (and yes K did throw some things out) smelling the lamb cooking away.
I love lamb shanks. K does not. So I did dumplings as well. I got most of the shank. He got most of the dumplings. Harmony in marriage at its best.
Cheers Sue.
A Ferg on the Move
This morning I unzipped the annex to greet our neighbours the rams who are very much at home harvesting the grass under the solar panels. Believe it or not the grass is higher under the panels. Something to do with the warmer soil there I think.
One of last seasons lambs was a bit caught up in the blackberry bush behind the van as well and had to be rescued. Must be green grass in there somewhere. It nicked off without even a baa as a thankyou.
The rams have been helping us tune the tv satellite dish. K obviously has it wrong because they reposition it each morning.
However they were nowhere to be seen yesterday mid afternoon when I put lamb shanks on the wood fire. I always feel a bit funny cooking lamb where next seasons' meat can smell the aroma....but that's farming.
Simple food all in one pot. Can tomatoes, potato, carrot, sweet potato, my Italian herb mix and some red wine. It spent the afternoon on top of the wood heater in the shed. We were sorting through boxes (and yes K did throw some things out) smelling the lamb cooking away.
I love lamb shanks. K does not. So I did dumplings as well. I got most of the shank. He got most of the dumplings. Harmony in marriage at its best.
Cheers Sue.
A Ferg on the Move
Love your blogs so far-that dry humour brings out a laugh reading it.....rams repositioning the dish-that was hilarious. Cheralee has the same with their cows. We were eating (insert name of cow) last time we were over with lots more of her in the freezer. No wonder they all give us a wide berth when we are in the paddocks :)
ReplyDeleteThey do look at us with some suspicion. Poor things.
DeleteThis gave me several laughs this morning - thank you!
ReplyDeleteGlad to cheer up your train trip.
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