Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

[Akrnaf2]

Tha basic:
Mammals : only ruminant with split hooves - need to be slaughtered in a special way, and need to be salted with cosher salt to get rid of blood.
Birds- only the one that there is a tradition of enthing : chickens, water fowels, turkeys, pigeon, dove, Guineafowl, pheasant, quail -
need to be slaughtered in a special way, and need to be salted with cosher salt to get rid of blood.
Fish- only with scale and fins no special way of kiling
No insects, (exept of special locusts, and hunny )no molluscs, no reptiles, no Amphiyan
And no dairy and meat together.

 

[drumstick diva]

That's a deal Benny. I bet I could shear sheep(very slowly) using that.

 

[Akrnaf2]

That's a deal Benny. I bet I could shear sheep(very slowly) using that.

Slowly?!

 

[CanuckBock]

Heel low:

That's a deal Benny. I bet I could shear sheep(very slowly) using that.

Laugh...yup...when the feed store HAS to
tag a product saying what it is...yeh, likely
they are not selling many, eh?? ​

http://alberta.wool.ca/online_sales/?catID=15

I see the sheep shears here are $45 to $47 or so which means mine at under $20 were still a decent buy.

Slowly?!

Takes me about 20 minutes to a half hour per sheepy and for me, electric shears/clippers or hand shears, makes no difference.

I will NEVER be the three minute person and quite frankly when you hear of horrors like they cut the sheep or took a teat off a ewe, slow and steady, careful and kind is my objective!

I find the ele shears get hot and you have to use a spray called "cool lube" to cool them down. So I tend to prefer using the hand shears over the electric ones because of heat.


I am finding all this nasty weather quite depressing...we had a wind storm so bad here I found driving the bus in the storm the worst winds I have EVER driven a bus in. Maybe not the worst winds I have ever experienced, but certainly the worse I have having to drive school bus in. Blah...and no warning the day was going to end that way. I am well aware why I love snow...this fall time (and spring time) scenery is depressing.

So to get thru it...I am thinking back to summery thoughts
Summer scenes like the lambs and Girls dressed up
for Canada Day, eh!
​

It needs to get white soon. I am quite losing my patience about it and all!

Emmy giving Boss Man kisses​

Take Boss Man down to his area of the Pastures and return to get the wee wee boys.

Yup...that be a head decoration on Èder!

Silly er what?

Goes without saying the Girl dogs hear me laughing
so they too have to check out what is up

Give them room Girls...Boys want OUT & ABOUT!
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There's the blue feeder I decided on for the Boys. I have had one of these before, in fact TWO, but lost one when the one ram barn burned to the ground. Promised I could replace it and that was years ago...so now I have.

They are a good sized decent feeder...hay or water even if you wanna.

See how sun faded the other feeder is...
this one was RED if you can imagine!​

So out the widdle boys go...girls give them room

June 12 2017 - Got the Girls' attentions...why???
Run outta photo room...what will the next post be about...
GUESS! ​

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[CanuckBock]

Heel low:

Next post is about...

Food...glorious FOOD! ​

Oct 18 2017
More shrimp but this time I had the energies to
add 2 kinds of bok choy, peas, green onion, etc.​

I forget if I used French bread or Sour Dough bread again ... I do know I made it into garlic toast...

Mighty fine snack before dinner​

Rick put the French Fry cutter together some time ago and by golly, high time to see how it works...

Hot dang it's a good one! ​

So the rest of the dinner I planned yesterday was hamburgers and fries.

One could easily get carried away with the number of taters
one peeled and then cut...
quick and easy​

Beef burgers, mushrooms and cackle berries
fried up to top each cheese topped burger
​

Sliced bread, Harvarti cheese, dill pickles, mushrooms, burger and those fried up fries. Could have added some sliced onions too but ran outta steam and it was chow down time.

Delicious...natch!! ​

Doggone & Chicken UP!

Tara Lee Higgins
Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada

 

[getaclue]

I am finding all this nasty weather quite depressing...we had a wind storm so bad here I found driving the bus in the storm the worst winds I have EVER driven a bus in. Maybe not the worst winds I have ever experienced, but certainly the worse I have having to drive school bus in. Blah...and no warning the day was going to end that way. I am well aware why I love snow...this fall time (and spring time) scenery is depressing.

You can come visit me, and go home in a couple weeks when it snows. We're currently having great weather.

 

[CanuckBock]

You can come visit me, and go home in a couple weeks when it snows. We're currently having great weather.

Oh, I am like so GAME on that KIND invitation! This interim period between the GREEN and the WHITE is driving me batty.

I can't say I don't EAT much but I certainly can do dishes...KP (kitchen patrol) duties, etc. I'd love to have other's cooking to sample, so won't offer to cook. LOL Since you let the c@t outta the bag earlier...oxtail soup would be my first major wanna, eh.

You got room for two humans, three dogs, a bakers' dozen sheep, two llamas, & multitudes of land/waterfowl?? I have contemplated skipping winter one of these years and caravanning to some place having summer when we are having winter.

Have a girlfriend who stayed a while in Australia and talked to me about when they moved to a different cattle station one year...she luckily had birds (and ACDs)...but thought how strange it all seemed to people as they stopped to refuel and all the barnyard noises that were heard!

Staying put for season rotations...they can be like being pregnant...no way outta it unless you want to be knocked out & c-sectioned...and then you need to recover from all those belly stitches!

<< cough cough >>
​

When I was a kid, my grandparents used to take me fishing with them. Being a kid, after awhile it was boooooooring. I learned to stay up late the night before, then when I got bored, to take a nap. It never failed that when I would get just about asleep, I'd have to get up to catch a stupid fish that got on my line. A lot of times, I was the only one that got fish, or I would catch the most. I swore it was because I wanted to sleep, and they knew it.

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BTW I love how you managed your earlier "fishing excursions" with your grandparents. I think being trapped in any small space with OLD people that do not enthrall you with good conversations (&/or lots of good food!) would be agony (aka boring for a kid as you so nicely explained). As I kid I would likely take some babysitting money, buy some fish and give it to them..."Can we not go fishing now?"

Fishing company is very specially chosen. I took a girlfriend from school out once...river fishing with worms...she would not bait her own hook and had me crossing the river back and forth each time she lost it--which seemed to be quite often. I finally asked her, "Don't you like sun tanning?" and thankfully, she chose to deepen her tan and I got to concentrate on actually fishing for a while.


Lacy is officially entered for her November dog show (Gr Ch Vucko and owner are going Sat & Sunday, not sure if Parker is entered in conformation but she's doing conformation, beginner rally & obedience at the US National Specialty--Go Parky Go!)...going to deworm the sheep for the second time this weekend (just figuring out the doses for each one now) and I have even started on bagged rations and some lawn ornaments too.

Cleaned Emmy and Lacy's pens yesterday and today, I just hauled out the Halloween bus treats (no candy, always toys and games and stickers and things) to go over and see if I need to top anything up for the big day on Tuesday.

Tha basic:
Mammals : only ruminant with split hooves - need to be slaughtered in a special way, and need to be salted with cosher salt to get rid of blood.
Birds- only the one that there is a tradition of enthing : chickens, water fowels, turkeys, pigeon, dove, Guineafowl, pheasant, quail -
need to be slaughtered in a special way, and need to be salted with cosher salt to get rid of blood.
Fish- only with scale and fins no special way of kiling
No insects, (exept of special locusts, and hunny )no molluscs, no reptiles, no Amphiyan
And no dairy and meat together.

See NO dairy and meat together would be something really where I would fall down.

​

A no meat pizza, no meat lasagne...because I don't know if having no cheese on pizza or no cheese on lasagne makes them pizza or lasagne...course vegetarian pizza and lasagne exist. I think the no dairy plus meat is the one item that would be strangest to me--that and no pigs or shrimp. I am always dumping dairy into our diets in combo with meat to ensure bone density for old ones such as me. Need my calcium and meat fix.

​

Our swans are not kosher, owls (kinda yuck!), flamingos (what a strange dish that would be!)...vultures, ostriches, and happy to see ravens and crows are not kosher!

NO insects...oh darn...like I prefer those...supposedly our cereal and breads have lots of insects in the flour making process! Creeping things like weasels, lizards, things like snails and snakes...good by me not to eat too!

Do you get into trouble if unintentionally, something not kosher is consumed by you? What can you do to make up for the error? Your intent was good but mistakes can be made completely innocently.

Finned fish with scales could be that sharks are unclean for some (and not like I eat shark thanks!)? and then caviar from sturgeon is variable...but salmon eggs would be fine. My head swims on these interpretations!

I DO like that no special way of killing fish with scales/fins is allowed.


Four ruminants not allowed...camel (but maybe allowed??), hyrax (had to go see what those where!), hare (what about a rabbit, is that a hare?), and pigs. But that is too simplified...according to this link!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_animals

Ten ruminants allowed...ox, sheep, goat, deer, gazelle, mouflon, antelope, wild goat, roe deer, and ibex. Again, all kinda open to interpretations as per that above link plus it seems the definition of some of these animals is very subjective.

All I can say is thank heavens something like salmon or trout could be served to you and your wife. I would be so paranoid that I unwittenly gave you something not proper...

​

 

[Akrnaf2]

Oh, I am like so GAME on that KIND invitation! This interim period between the GREEN and the WHITE is driving me batty.

I can't say I don't EAT much but I certainly can do dishes...KP (kitchen patrol) duties, etc. I'd love to have other's cooking to sample, so won't offer to cook. LOL Since you let the c@t outta the bag earlier...oxtail soup would be my first major wanna, eh.

You got room for two humans, three dogs, a bakers' dozen sheep, two llamas, & multitudes of land/waterfowl?? I have contemplated skipping winter one of these years and caravanning to some place having summer when we are having winter.

Have a girlfriend who stayed a while in Australia and talked to me about when they moved to a different cattle station one year...she luckily had birds (and ACDs)...but thought how strange it all seemed to people as they stopped to refuel and all the barnyard noises that were heard!

Staying put for season rotations...they can be like being pregnant...no way outta it unless you want to be knocked out & c-sectioned...and then you need to recover from all those belly stitches!

<< cough cough >>
​

​

BTW I love how you managed your earlier "fishing excursions" with your grandparents. I think being trapped in any small space with OLD people that do not enthrall you with good conversations (&/or lots of good food!) would be agony (aka boring for a kid as you so nicely explained). As I kid I would likely take some babysitting money, buy some fish and give it to them..."Can we not go fishing now?"

Fishing company is very specially chosen. I took a girlfriend from school out once...river fishing with worms...she would not bait her own hook and had me crossing the river back and forth each time she lost it--which seemed to be quite often. I finally asked her, "Don't you like sun tanning?" and thankfully, she chose to deepen her tan and I got to concentrate on actually fishing for a while.


Lacy is officially entered for her November dog show (Gr Ch Vucko and owner are going Sat & Sunday, not sure if Parker is entered in conformation but she's doing conformation, beginner rally & obedience at the US National Specialty--Go Parky Go!)...going to deworm the sheep for the second time this weekend (just figuring out the doses for each one now) and I have even started on bagged rations and some lawn ornaments too.

Cleaned Emmy and Lacy's pens yesterday and today, I just hauled out the Halloween bus treats (no candy, always toys and games and stickers and things) to go over and see if I need to top anything up for the big day on Tuesday.



See NO dairy and meat together would be something really where I would fall down.

​

A no meat pizza, no meat lasagne...because I don't know if having no cheese on pizza or no cheese on lasagne makes them pizza or lasagne...course vegetarian pizza and lasagne exist. I think the no dairy plus meat is the one item that would be strangest to me--that and no pigs or shrimp. I am always dumping dairy into our diets in combo with meat to ensure bone density for old ones such as me. Need my calcium and meat fix.

​

Our swans are not kosher, owls (kinda yuck!), flamingos (what a strange dish that would be!)...vultures, ostriches, and happy to see ravens and crows are not kosher!

NO insects...oh darn...like I prefer those...supposedly our cereal and breads have lots of insects in the flour making process! Creeping things like weasels, lizards, things like snails and snakes...good by me not to eat too!

Do you get into trouble if unintentionally, something not kosher is consumed by you? What can you do to make up for the error? Your intent was good but mistakes can be made completely innocently.

Finned fish with scales could be that sharks are unclean for some (and not like I eat shark thanks!)? and then caviar from sturgeon is variable...but salmon eggs would be fine. My head swims on these interpretations!

I DO like that no special way of killing fish with scales/fins is allowed.


Four ruminants not allowed...camel (but maybe allowed??), hyrax (had to go see what those where!), hare (what about a rabbit, is that a hare?), and pigs. But that is too simplified...according to this link!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_animals

Ten ruminants allowed...ox, sheep, goat, deer, gazelle, mouflon, antelope, wild goat, roe deer, and ibex. Again, all kinda open to interpretations as per that above link plus it seems the definition of some of these animals is very subjective.

All I can say is thank heavens something like salmon or trout could be served to you and your wife. I would be so paranoid that I unwittenly gave you something not proper...

​

Don't worry to much!
Nothing realy happens if a mistake have been made, it is somthing of believe, and tradion, at least from my part!
My Dearest wife eat everything, she came from a less religious family, so we have an agreement that nothing non cosher enters ouer citchen but outside everyone do what he/she Pleases.
In mammals they HAVE TO BE RUMINANT AND HAVE SPLIT HOOVES, so no hare, rabbit and no camel (it has a connecting pad in its foot sole) but in the last century some rabbinical scholar have restricted the mammals cosher breeds we can eat to the ones that we have a tradition of eating, do no Giraffes, Yaks, wilder beast for me!
Although a grilled giraffe tie sounds wonderful!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Tara this is done by your inspiration!
Wonderful beef, and ox tail with vegetables soup for Shabat dinner
Beef muscle
Oxtail
Beef marrow bones
Onions
Leeks
Carrots
Colorby
Fennel
Parsly root
Zucchini,
Celery

First try!

 

[getaclue]

Tara, anytime you want to come down, just let me know. I'll get the oxtails.
Benny, that looks soooooo good. I bet it smelled wonderful while cooking too.