My life is filled with random happenings that may not seem important to others but that I want to remember. I enjoy going back through old posts every once in a while and remembering fun times. The enthusiasm included in starting this blog many many years ago is long past, but repentance is always available. Every day :)
Many of the following pictures will have zombie duckies in them... zombie duck selfies are now pretty much required for dissemination to family members.
Saw this booth at Bluffdale town days and sent the idea on to Bethanie, Jenny, and Angela. Jared is petting a violin.
While walking to work from the train one day, I saw this lineup of cop cars under the bridge by the station... is this a bad place in town?
I often say 'lets go to the fair!" on Saturday mornings when I really mean "lets go to the farmers market!". And then one Saturday Emily got really excited when I messed up cuz there really was a county fair that day! So that evening after chores we went over.
We ran into some former and current ward members whose children are involved in 4H or FFA. It was fun to see them in their natural habitat. I enjoyed looking at some of the crafts.
Why do I always judge the crocheted and knitted items according to my own inflated sense of self achievement?
My blog, my opinions.
Emily and Aaron enjoyed the fair food. Emily really wanted a turkey leg but they had run out :(
Took a picture of Emily and Aaron without them noticing, which turned out pretty good.
Emily tried taking one of me...
I embraced the awkwardness.
There were bears.. they looked rather sad and ratty but worthy of a ducky picture.
I like hootenanny pancakes and often make them for breakfast. Uses eggs and milk of which we have plenty during the summer! Did you know hootenanny means a party? Like a hoedown? Just looked it up on Google.
For Labor day, we kept up the tradition of watching the Soldier Hollow Sheepdog Trials. As always, it was way fun.
Zombie duckies enjoy it too.
Because it was labor day, we didn't get the whole Utah Helm crew to come with us...
We just got the best of the bunch :)
Usually get a pretty good group for Sunday dinner though! Bailey was in Idaho... she's come the other weeks... And JAG was there, just in the back with the tractors. We made gyro's again in honor of the sheepdog trials. This time I made naan bread instead of pitas. So much easier and quicker and doesn't heat up the house as much.
On actual labor day we canned peaches (28?)... and the last few plums! Wanted to try it although they ended up looking kinda like brains... or eyeballs. They all came out of their skins. Too ripe?
I also run the morning milking though the cream separator on the mornings I'm not headed to work. Its a new tradition so we can start doing more with the goats cream.
Unfortunately, the last few times I've made ice cream using this cream its been very grainy, like sugared buttery cream bits surrounded with sugary frozen milk. I've been afraid to try and blend it in case I make butter instead of helping the cream homogenize. I think the grainyness is caused by a couple issues... 1) we used to freeze just the skimmings, meaning each small layer essentially flash froze. Now a full cup trying to freeze gives everything time to separate. 2) the cream from the separator is not as rich as skimmings so there is more milk to separate from the cream.
Still haven't decided how to fix this problem. For now, Emily suggested if I want to make ice cream on Sunday, I shouldn't freeze the cream. Any other suggestions?
I have also been furiously working on crocheting baby stuff. Unfortunately I let my stash get quite low (totally out!) so I've been scrambling to catch up. Note to self... keep your stash trimmed and full! (October Conference should help me get ahead a bit)
Aaron got the tractor ready for Jared to take to our local IFA antique tractor show... I didn't get to go but Emily, Aaron, and Jared stayed the whole time so I guess they enjoyed it!
All those tractors got Aaron excited so he went out and got the little garden tractor working!
Here Emily is in the pasture trying it out.
I wasn't enthusiastic enough so it s a good thing Emily was excited.
Look at that dirt!
Part of the reason I wasn't excited enough was I needed Aaron to help me find the leak that caused our water bill to be 3 times its normal size in August... 3 days, 10 uprooted plants, and ~$1000 later its all fixed. Don't mind learning more about home ownership, but I like the less expensive lessons better.
So after a hard days work of learning, its nice to relax in front of the TV with a virgin margarita or a glass of new wine :)
