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

Akrnaf2 · Oct 20, 2017

getaclue said:
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.

Indeed! When the winter start (ouer winter! Tara it is barley your summer, :lau

, average of 12-15C° and maby 1 or 2 times subzero temp and no snow ofcors! ) I start making soups I love lentils soup and dry yellow peas soup!

CanuckBock · Oct 21, 2017

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Akrnaf2 said:
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!

OK, so it is more a contract between your keeping your faith, your Creator and trying to "be good."

Humans are imperfect but thankfully it counts when we try to uphold high ethics. Good...only you and the Supreme Being to answer to. I do understand better now. Thank you. :hugs

Akrnaf2 said:
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.

A family that respects each others' beliefs and wishes and honours that is a blessing! I would hope that more humans would be that respectful to others; it would be a much better world, eh.

Akrnaf2 said:
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!

I overlooked the fact that rabbits and hares are mammals that get nutrition from plant based feeds...so would be knocked off the list without the split hooves. Thank you.

NO wildebeest (NO GNUS!) for me either...not sure I could munch on giraffe, but never say never. If you prepared and cooked it for me...no doubts it would be the BEST giraffe could be! :lol:

Akrnaf2 said:
Tara this is done by your inspiration!

And how perfect is that then...to incite cooking for Shabat! :yesss:

Akrnaf2 said:
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!
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I can only imagine the smell, the taste...oh my... :ya

I am unfamiliar with several ingredients you have used...parsley root, Kohlrabi (texture like broccoli stem...but sweeter...will need to try that when I find it), and Fennel. Those would be great for soup and perhaps new "roots" for things like stew! Inspiring!

I love the size of the veg in that bowl!

You can vary a recipe simply by the size of the chopped ingredients. A fine one, a chunk one...changes the whole taste and indeed, the texture.

Rick likes everything minced up...I like chunks.

getaclue said:
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.

Thank you...invitation appreciated but I suspect you are far from my "one day away in day time only" limits for travel. :lau

I am betting it was delicious...Benny inspires and torments all within the same posts! :highfive:

Akrnaf2 said:
Indeed! When the winter start (ouer winter! Tara it is barley your summer, , average of 12-15C° and maby 1 or 2 times subzero temp and no snow ofcors! ) I start making soups I love lentils soup and dry yellow peas soup!

Do keep mindful Benny, we get 90's and 100's here and I hate, HATE the heat...can't physically work in it and I like to work (as one see from my silliness yesterday--butt dragging today!!). :rolleyes:

Another favourite of mine...pea soup. My mother would make it from green peas and I suspect the yellow peas would impart a different flavour and certainly a different look. Lentils, not too familiar with those but again, likely another one worth trying.

So dragging butt today, eh. But that is OK... :yesss:

From 14:00 to 18:00, was a whirlwind of activity. I dewormed the Dorper ewes and lambs, I started serious on the concrete lawn ornaments (putting them into swing by piles so I can start hauling them to dry storage), and I stowed away all three pallets of bagged poultry rations...never happened without photos...here goes. :lau

Tidy piles of silliness...

Old Mother Hubbard went to the Feed Room
"Oh my...my room runneth near OVER!"

Course I had to re-pile several smaller towers of bags to even begin stowing away the 120 bags. I like being organized and like your freezer(s) or fridges(s), oldest out first so you rotate your supplies and don't waste any! LOL

First row of three on the left is the whole yellow corn (40 bags), skip the second pile (and NO DD...that is not a squished SHEEP...that is two of my wool rugs I store in there--any arthritic dog loves them for laying on but no arthritic dogs currently here now), third pile with yellow labels is poultry layer ration and 40 of those. Way in the back is another 40 duck/goose grower, 40 bags of those.

Back to photos...

So got the sheep dewormed, piles of ornaments together, all 120 bags put by, pallets they came on moved, 2 oat straw round bales covered up more with the tarps that formerly covered the feed, feed containers for the birds all topped (like to do that on the weekends for the week coming up), then on the way to get Foamy...

Getting near dog run run time--someone's at the gates...
Just who are the Girls
getting all Hairy & Waggy tailed about?

It be DAD...Rick is home...RICK!

So night ends as it always does...routines and such. Run the dawgs, put the rams away, put Foamy away, check on everyone for night time, then inside to do dog dinners...human dinner, lunch for the next day if Rick works...Saturday today, so he stayed late on Friday to ensure he did not have to work the weekend also. :hmm

Craving for Perogies...

My version of Salisbury steak...

Beef burger, crushed crackers, egg, spices, celery and onion chopped fine, cream of mushroom soup, cream/milk and fresh mushrooms. TA DA...dinner is done as is this post. Later, eh.

Doggone & Chicken UP!

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

drumstick diva · Oct 21, 2017

Lacey raising her hackles over Rick's arrival ! Doesn't she recognize the truck?

CanuckBock · Oct 22, 2017

drumstick diva said:
Lacey raising her hackles over Rick's arrival ! Doesn't she recognize the truck?

They know all TWENTY ONE trucks DD...

Remember, they are adult ACDs now and the arrival of anyone is call for sounding the alarm! :lol:

The only difference between an intruder and Dad...the waggy tails!!

getaclue · Oct 22, 2017

I was about to say, their demeanor would be very different, if it were a stranger. You'd know immediately.

CanuckBock · Oct 24, 2017

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getaclue said:
I was about to say, their demeanor would be very different, if it were a stranger. You'd know immediately.

Lacy was surprised by Rick...her hackles (Hyena?) were all up because, well, we never go get Foamy without Dad already home so it had to be an INTRUDER at the GATES...and well, yeh, whole routine was gone. Lacy is very set in her schedule and routine. If I hear barking in the afternoon, that's her internal clock saying, "Tis DOG run run time...DOG TIME!" Don't matter if she is off by an hour or two, that dog knows what that dog girl KNOWS! :lol:

Anything and everything out of the ordinary is noted by the Lace. Very strict about things in order, on time, what must be, will be. :cool:

Room temperature outside today...means I can wash my seed potatoes and dry them without fear of freezing them to mush! Spectacular!

Ready, set, got her all ready and done did! :frow

Pen, pencils, glitter stickers, boxed stickers, tattoos,
kaleidoscope, slinky, ring & necklace,
glow ring & glow necklace, pre-inked stamp, notepad, erasers,
and a decorative bag to hold it all in
(widdle fingers drop the toys & then the tears flow!
absolutely NO WAY that's happen' eh!!)

We are not allowed to feed the students since so many have allergies and think on it...for Trick or Treat day...what, they are lacking in sugar and candy?? :lau

Costs Rick and I a small fortune (fella behind me at the store started up whining..."You buying up things for the entire school?" and I replied, "Why yes, I drive SCHOOL BUS!..." And yup, I got way more than a classroom of kids on my bus!) and we could cop out and buy a cheap bag of rot your teeth candy but you know...you're only a KID once...unless of course, you happen to me be...revisiting your permanent SECOND childhood since I never really had a FIRST one. :rolleyes:

Alas...another thing off my bucket list!
Got me seven BLACK Flamingos...yuppers!

Not expensive...like two bucks a piece but BLACK Flamingos. They are MINE! :woot

One day, some day...get zombie flamingos to add to the stand, colony, a flamboyance of non-traditional, mutant non-PINK Flamingoes!

But some of the pricing is stunned...must be the SEASON...$26?? Listed on the same site is skeleton ratz, same outrageous pricing! Nope, got my skeleton ratz for like $1.50 to two bucks (Canuck ones too)! So I will wait. One day, some day...zombie Flamingoes will adorn our abode! :hmm

For the Foodies amongst us...yesterday's done up dinner...

Oct 23, 2017

All day crock potted pork ribs in BBQ sauce, mixed rice, and carrots/cauliflower.

Tonight I better stop cooking new and use up some of the leftovers...those are always an adventure...little of this, that and the kitchen sink. <BURP!!!>

Doggone & Chicken UP!

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