This piggie has cauliflower ears.. must be all that rugby out in the field.
So, how many days until the end of September? We have run into a problem I did not foresee. We have eaten all the greens, there are no more tasty greens in the garden at the moment. The kale is decimated, it will come back though but not today. And as I am only eating out of the garden for all of September, and the bugs ate all the beans and no running to the freezer for a bag of peas, I am going to have to get imaginative. Scurvy looms. The new greens are still in the formative stage in the garden. My staggered planting staggered to a halt! oops.
I can start picking baby greens from this lettuce patch in a week or so. But not yet. I may have to think about turning celery into a vegetable instead of just using it for stock. I have plenty of celery. Mum used to make a celery soup when we were kids. I might try to make that today.
Old barn flock!
Young barn Flock. Son of the Son of Neanderthal Man otherwise known as Bob has stolen one of my Peghorn Leghorns. Cheeky Bloody Rooster.
Egoli has turned into quite the hunter. Tiba the other marmalade cat left me and went to live with the neighbours. They went fishing last week and I was feeding their cat, a good mile away, when Tiba strolled in. Snap!
Boo has learnt to jump the barn gates. I am going to show him this picture when he is older just to embarress him. Talk about struggle!
Blueberry pound cake made with honey.
Dinner.
The Granny Smiths are small but plentiful. They will take a while to pick but we will make a good apple cider from this tree and a few others in the area. Plus today I will make another apple pie. Apple pie keeps the scurvy away you know! And the old people here used to fry apples as a side dish, I can see why now.
Good morning. I hope you are all going to have a lovely day.
your friend on the farm, celi
c
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88 responses to “So, How Many Days are there in September?”
You might have to resort to mustard and cress and bean sprouts!
Well, Celi, it seems to me there’s no shame in having done an extraordinary three weeks, for heaven’s sake! I don’t see the point of possibly compromising your health. I’m sure you aren’t; God knows you’re a whole lot wiser than I am, it’s just that this is a very deliberate scientific experiment and experiments more often than not fail. I’m sure you’ve heard about the fact that Michael Jordan missed more baskets than any one in the history of basketball. I’ve said my piece!
Not to worry darling, I am certainly not starving! There is still lamb in the freezer, bread in the cupboard and piles of apples and tomatoes.. and grapes at the back door, I will be fine for another couple of weeks.. but thank you for worrying.. c
Well, not quite. It isn’t as if you can afford to drop ten, twenty pounds or whatever!
If you have any violets you should know that their leaves make excellent eating. You could also cook up some milkweed (if you could find any with decent leaves at this time of year). A while back I told you that you would need to boil them in several changes of water, but I recently learned that this is not true at all. Just boil them and eat them.
NO i did not know that violet leaves are good eating, i knew about the flowers, and we do still have plenty of good green milkweed, I shall boil some up tomorrow! Thank you! c
That is the cutest little piggy I’ve ever seen but his expression seems to be that he knows you’re making fun of his unique ears. I’m amazed at how loaded your apple tree is…reminds me that I haven’t made any apple crisp in quite a while.
I second the apples fried with the pork chops! Cinnamon is a great spice for keeping the blood sugar in check in diabetics!
That’a good to know.. thank you sherry.. c
You had me at blueberry, but then I think I got dizzy when you said “with honey.” Those bees make some pretty amazing stuff…
they sure do, i am lucky to have such generous ones.. c
Celery with onion [hope you have those!] makes a good stirfry also! And very good stuffed. And those green peppers are almost there. And only eleven days to go . . . Oh, yesterday’s last Elizabethan Feathers joust photo looks just GREAT as my computer background! [Oh, and have just been to the docs and am just a tad worried . . . onward and forward . . .
My onions are gone.. maybe I will stuff some capsicums for dinner tonight, what an excellent idea. I hope the docs news was not too terrible, keep eating your beetroot and drinking that water, surely we can beat this thing or at least keep it in control. What a bugger. c
Chives for a bit of onion zing?
Apples on the tree! Never seen that. You probably could make stones look yummy. Lovely pix
Boo is hilarious.
My greens succession did not succeed. My heart sank as I paid for a head of organic romaine lettuce at the supermarket. But when your 15 yr old daughter wishes for salad at dinner, well, that’s a good thing.
It is indeed. I would find her a lettuce at any price.. c