Steven: October 2005 Archives

Mowing: - the yard - the orchard - 2 fields around the chicken barn - clearings around the livestock barn - trim around the house, the boxwoods, the fences, the roadside ditches Clear everything from the side porch and store it properly in the barn. Continue filling the sink hole where the pool heater gas tank is buried and the rain settled the earth. Take everything I have been throwing out of the house and attic to the landfill. Fill the back of the Excursion with all the things I need to take to the Good Will. Lay with me in the dark and dream about our baby. ******* The last time I posted a photo of my house several people commented they had never seen my house before then. Here are a couple photos. The front of the house and the back. The back view was taken before they destroyed my yard constructing the pool -which is still no where near being finished because of 8 straight days of rain. It is now 2 feet deep in rain water. Front of house Back of HouseThe huge bush at the back of the house, nearly reaching the second story roof, is a boxwood. The boxwoods here are the same age as the house. We have at least 25 that size or bigger. They look like trees not shrubs. Koi Pond Path to the Koi Pond Water Garden Damson Orchard I am off to order a truck load of mulch in preparation for the coming winter. We need about 200 cubic feet. Anyone care to volunteer to come help spread it? We do have a front end loader and cart but it will still require lots of shoveling and raking.

I have created a journal just for my recipes. I have only imported the recipes that were in posts here. I plan to add many more. Home Grown Recipes ******* On the advice of MommaK I ordered this BBQ sauce for my Christmas baskets. All I can say is if you like good BBQ then order this sauce before I buy it all and there is none left for you. I cooked a pork tenderloin this week. We have eaten about 1/4 of it. The rest I was going to chop for BBQ and put in the freezer. Tonight for supper I chopped all the meat up. It was alot. We used 2 bottles of the sauce to make wet BBQ. My husband is a lover of BBQ and he said to me 3 different times before dinner just from licking the spoon, "That is really good BBQ sauce." He NEVER repeats himself or makes a big deal out of food or flavors. Steven's stamp of approval means something! Order it now and enjoy some good BBQ this fall. (I bought a case *blush*) I also made coleslaw. ******* Him: Go to google and seacrh groundhog in images. Me: ok (going to google) Him: page 14 Me: (clicking over to page 14) Him: Shaking his head Me: Does it shock you to see yourself on google? Him (still shaking his head) See the google here. See the actual photo here. Why am I telling yout his. We are infested with groundhogs again. Everything he had repaired in the barn has been un-repaired by groundhogs. Frustrating is a mild word for this problem. ******* For the second time in a week Steven has gotten the tractor stuck in our muck of mud from over a week of rain. Dummy me forgot to get the camera on both occassions so I have no photos. The mud was so thick and caked on the tractor he had to wash it with the pressure washer. ******* What's on TV tonight?