Yesterday we finished straining the yoghurt,
Made farmers cheese for tomorrows pizza. 
Pickled gherkins, 
Started a dough for pizza bianca, shifted chickens, loaded the plonkers for their final journey (with their beer dinner and beer breakfast this morning, drove the tractor around the block to the other barn, weeded gardens, hunted for eggs (Pania the peahen is sitting on some of them – if we are not careful we will have a peahen raising barn chickens- we will have to call them all Cuckoo), moved cows from one field to another, put on veils and checked the hive for honey (none in the roundy things at all) and tried not to be too too optimistic about Daisy though her stitches are holding in there and she is milking well out of the damaged quarter.
Today we will begin to repair all the broken fences and walls around the rat house paddock. These plonkers were particularly destructive. And after making the nut crackers and oatmeal cookies that I am craving, we will bottle the honey mead and the ladybird wine. Maybe we will taste a little too. Then go out and do battle with the head high thistles in the Daisy Field!
I hope you all have a wonderful day.
Your friend on the farmy
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
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So many different things to do each day.
Yes, lyes! A Donkey!! I love donkeys…mini ones! 🙂 C. is that cheese under the cup and weight and why the weight? Also please give us your recipe for the nut crackers and gherkins. I love your kitchen! All that beautiful stainless steel and glass jars! Do bees like thistle? 🙂
Bees LOVE thistle.. yes that is a weight to get the last of the whey out of the cheese.. NUT Crackers. 1 egg. 1 clove garlic, 2 tblsp water, pulse in 2 cups assorted nuts and seeds (all in mini food processor), flatten onto baking sheet between two sheets of baking paper, take off the top sheet, bake at 390 for 15 -20 minutes.. we have a second batch in the oven now.. c
Thistles! I detest thistles. We have the giant Nodding Thistle, Canada Thistle and the Yellow Bull Thistle here that I battle all the time. Donkey’s and goats will eat thistles as certain stages of the thistle life—-if you are interested. Donkey’s also make great guard animals! Goats will eat Dock, if you have that HUGE GIANT nasty bore of a weed.
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
Do you ever rest?
Miss C, are the Plonkers butchered for you, or do you do this yourselves too? I am really curious about how much meat those Plonkers will become. Is it gross to ask for photo’s of finished product, Please. Glad to hear Daisy seems to be mending well. 🙂 Laura
I’m so sorry we didn’t make it out again before Sasha went to market. Too much on our schedule this summer, but I see a little light in the schedule soon. We are certainly looking forward to some wonderful, organically fed pork though. Our freezer is just waiting to be filled!!!
What a busy day…it’s nonstop, this business of feeding oneself. Your productivity galvanizes me into action!
You never cease to amaze me Celi, you are so industrious in the kitchen, never mind what you have to do outside with the animals! Where do you find the time?
You are always so busy! Wonderful pics Celi …
Whew…..you are like a whirling dervish. Makes me dizzy just reading about all you do. I kind of got used to seeing the plonkers. By now they are already gone. Glad Daisy is still holding her own, too. Do you ever make Kimchee?
May the ladybird wine fortify you with all that hard work. But nice work, eh?
What is ladybird wine…where I come from ladybirds are a bug… busy bee…
Oh thanks for the nut cracker recipe C. Really stupid question here but do you just break up the baked sheet into pieces or cut before baking? And one more question…is there a nut that you prefer over another, say like almonds instead of walnuts? Or is it just a matter of taste? Maybe you could post of photo of them sometime for us 🙂 You are a wonder!
I like sunflower and pumpkin seed and walnuts and flax seeds.. but I do think it would be up to taste.. just run a knife over hot from the oven and break up when cold.. I love them, an excellent snack.. c
Perfect! Thank-you Cinders! I think that snacking on those while sipping the Ladybird wine out on the veranda in the early evening would be divine!
I can’t wait to see the pizza!