Dairy Daze...and Now Beyond

These are pretty good; hubby likes them, and a couple of people have requested the recipe, so without further ado (except to add a note or two) here is the recipe: (Note #1: You can make these with whatever ground meat you wish, I presume, just season it a bit more.) (Note #2: I didn't have seasoned bread crumbs, so I used plain and sprinkled on some oregano and savory...it was really good.) Parmesan Pork Zucchini Boats Ingredients 4 Medium zucchini 1 lb. Bulk pork sausage 1 Small onion, chopped 1 Garlic clove, minced 2/3 cup Seasoned bread crumbs 1/2 cup Plus 2 tbsp. shredded Parmesan cheese, divided 1 Egg, beaten 1/4 tsp. Salt 1/2 cup Water Preparation Cut each zucchini in half lengthwise. Scoop out seeds and pulp, leaving a 1/4 inch shell; set aside. Chop pulp; set aside. In a large skillet, cook sausage and onion over medium heat until meat is no longer pink; drain. Add garlic and zucchini pulp; saute for 3-5 minutes or until tender. Remove from the heat. Stir in the bread crum...

In a previous post....a couple of years ago in fact, I grouched about our insurance carrier. Since then we have changed policies and things have gone along without incident. Until yesterday, that is. Yesterday at approx 3:30 PM, while I was trying to fry chicken, mash potatoes and stir the gravy all at the same time, the phone rang. The timing in and of itself is very annoying. The lady said she was from our insurance company and that we had not paid since April. Hmmm... I distinctly remember writing the checks. I told her so. She said she'd look into it and get back to us. When she called back hubby answered. She advised him there'd been a mistake. So hubby asks: "Oh, so our account is OK?" Lady: "Oh, I don't know, you are under a group policy, I only handle individual policies. You will have to call the people who do handle group policies." (Say what?) Hubby: "Do you have the number?" Lady rattles it off. Hubby: "So why don...

Hello friends. Here is what appears to be my weekly post, although I really would like to be one of those overachieving bloggers who posts every day of the week, somehow that just isn't working out for me at this time of year. Mostly it's because I am too busy in the garden. Plus other various dairy duties call my name. I found the recipe for the above pie over at the blog run by The Lumberjack's Wife -who's husband is really in sober fact an electrician. But never mind that; go over there and say "hello" to her. Her blog is much more entertaining than mine is. At any rate, the Chocolate-Lined Strawberry pie is awesome. And easy. Of course my pie is not as picturesque as the photo she had posted, but that's OK. It probably tastes as good. ******************** Today we discovered a heifer has disappeared...just hopped the fence. Gone. Kaput. Who knows? She was imminently due to calve. Hubby says that by now she's either dead or taking care of her calf. ...

OK. I only have 6 minutes to blog...where do I begin? Ummm Friday: we got a new calf from #87 who was VERY attached to calf. We brought cow and calf in. Put calf in pen. Sunday: #87 decided calf must be back where she gave birth to it, so broke down fence to get back there...almost a mile back up the road. Hubby took calf back up to her yesterday. Sunday: I found different cow, fondly called Tornado Head, with a stillborn calf. Cow will not leave site for 2 days, even though hubby drug dead calf away. Today. I went up to do feeding. Heifer #75 in labor, making no progress. Tornado Head still refuses to leave birth site, she's looking pretty rough. #87 has hidden calf. We bundle Ellen off to her Grandma's and go do some cow chasing. We get #75 back to farm here, hubby has to pull the calf. Nice heifer calf, but #75 refuses to have anything to do with it. (Meaning I have to clean all the yuck off of it, thaw colostrum to feed it...etc) Back we go up the road to the ...