We finished with the big stuff at Goodin Acres this week. We have all the branches, etc picked up and burned, all the trees have had ivy removed, the ground around all of the trees has been sprayed with round up in an attempt to kill the ivy. We cleaned off the access road that goes from the pasture down to the creek - there had been a fallen tree which Travis helped cut up last week. So this week we pulled up all of the debris using a chain pulled by the ATV
Dad went a bit further off the end of the road to cut down a small tree that had been snapped off by a fallen limb.
Now everything is up in the pasture waiting for transport to our burn pile
Here is the mask I use with the brush cutter....works great unless you are exerting a lot of energy and heating up.....there is a bit of fog inside the mask...but not chunks of bark or blackberry stems in your eyes or face.
Bev bought forty pounds of frozen (but partially thawed) boned chicken breasts, and together we canned that chicken into 20 quart jars. It was actually pretty easy because the chicken. being very cold, was easy to cut up.
To be more efficient with the jars, we should have waited until the pieces of chicken in the jars had thawed a bit more and settled.....then we could have added a few more pieces per jar.
The cooking part is the time consuming part of the process. Once you put the jars in the canner, the elapsed time to taking them out of the canner is about three hours - that includes time to heat up the contents of the jars, time to processes at 11 pounds of pressure, and time for contents of cooker to cool down so the top can be opened.
Some time ago I had started "re-working" the brick flower beds at the entrances to the eight greenhouses. Over the years the bricks had been "kicked" out of alignment and moles had done their damage. It all looked horrible. This week, I decided I would not start a new week without finishing this unpleasant task.
Yep - such an eyesore!!
Renewed!
An early morning photo of the entrances with cool shade arches
Bev, via an internet site, bought a caterpillar to chrysalis, to butterfly kit for her kids. On Sunday, the butterflies emerged - or do they hatch - from their cocoons. The kids were really excited!!
Bev - or maybe it was Paul - got a rocket that they shot up into the air in the Serres' field.
They did three launches which were all successful. The rocket goes up so high that it could not be seen with the background of blue sky and clouds (why wasn't the rocket painted orange rather than white with blue fins?). There was a strong wind blowing---eventually we could see the parachute and rocket being blown towards the big fir trees at Jessica's house. Miraculously, the rocket/parachute floated over the trees and landed in the driveway of the house. Great fun!
We're doing a lot of Family History. For several days I struggled with one large group of ancestral family members. It got so complicated, for me, that I did what detectives do in the movies. They write notes for themselves, tape the notes on a wall, and then figure out "who done it". It worked for me, and I was finally able to determine when George married Lee- and everything worked after that. Only difference was that I put the notes on a table rather than on a wall
Cute kid pictures of Copeland and Holland
Bev made some pretzels that she learned about on Matt Trone's youtube channel. We were the lucky recipients of her efforts.
We're still good - no headache, no sore throat, no temperature, no cough, no heavy cats lying on our chests.
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