Monday Funday

 Rod and I took Beau and went out 

to the farm to do some measuring

for the new A/C unit.

While he was doing that, I went

down to the garden where Kyle

was running "Nelson" the sprinkling tractor.

He's watering the peas.

We are ANXIOUSLY watching for them

to SPROUT!

(Grow peas, grow!!!)

(Nothing yet, but it's only been a few days.)

Anyhow.

I finished pulling the old okra from

last season's garden.

(My fingers are sore tonight!)

And then we headed back to the house.

Rod called to get the AC unit on order.

And I called to make a butcher appointment

for the hogs.

He said, Oh good, I just had a cancellation.

I can get you in here on May 27.

WHAT???????

I'm used to getting a butcher date within

a week or 2 at the most!

Yikes!

So.... I guess we will continue to feed

these two big boys until then.

Or... maybe we'll take them to the 

sale barn and sell them for whatever we

can get, feed the two smaller ones and

they will be ready to butcher by their date.

(The longer you feed them, they don't

grow bigger, they just get fatter. And although

fat is good, it's not what you want...)

We'll see.

The market is on Thursdays and they

sell pigs FIRST and it's like an hour or

two away, so we would have to load up

at the crack of dawn.

(Probably load up the night before

and just leave them in the trailer overnight.)

Anyhow.

It was WARM out there today!

Yes, it says 82.

On March 9.

And no, we are NOT in Florida or even Arizona.

Tomorrow will be 68.

Which is still warm for March,

but Peas like COOL weather.

So, while I love it when it's hot,

I'm hoping for several more weeks of

a little more mild temp.

Sheesh.

Anyhow.

I just finished teaching tonight's class.

Now I'm going to whip up some spaghetti

for dinner.

I grabbed some chicken quarters

(leg and thigh) out of the big freezer in the shop

(and another bag of okra - might need to plant

... well, HARVEST... more next year...)

but I don't want to cook it tonight.

Last night I made a really yummy meatloaf.

It was delicious!

We had that and mashed potatoes and some

of the spaghetti squash we grew in the

backyard this past summer.

I cooked it up and froze it in 3 serving bags.

YUM.

Ok, better go make dinner.

Happy Daylight Savings to all the Non-Arizona

peeps! (ugh)  Did you see British Columbia

decided to stick with Daylight Savings permanently?

No switching back...

I hope Kansas does the same.

I prefer lighter evenings.

I remember when we first moved here,

I taught until 9:00 and about 8:30 Kyle was

outside my window, firing up the BBQ and

making us some dinner.

While it was still light!

That was fun!

Ok.

I really have to go this time.

NITE!