The Front Porch Swing

[Windy Bay Farm]

I think I've made chowder, though we don't call it that here...it's just thickened soup.    Chowder is more a New England thingy, isn't it?  Like clam chowda, crab chowda and corn chowda..... 

Ya'll need to come to Nova Scotia for a visit and have some good, down home seafood chowder; fixed with cream, baby shrimp, lobster, scallops and haddock and all the seasonings one could ask for. All seafood is fresh from the local fisherman and simply delicious. All the fresh lobster you can eat around these parts !

 

[lovingmyhens]

This evening I buried my oldest horse. Allie was probably over thirty, an appendix quarter horse, originally called Chana Rose. Nicely bred but abused before I got her. I think I bought her mostly because I wanted to get her out of her crappy situation and hoped we could develop a partnership.

Well it was never a great riding partnership (and I have the broken pelvis to attest to that) but though she wasn't the right horse for me I was the right owner for her. I cared for her, I gave her good home good pasture, good horse buddies, good beet pulp hay bran mash, good love.

She ate her breakfast this morning! She wandered out, as she usually does, a little stiff and staggery, but nibbled grass, and looked fine.

Then at two o'clock this afternoon we noticed she was down in the field, and when we ran to check, dead.

Very kind neighbour with backhoe came to bury her. Very sweet sensitive guy, knew just how to set her in. Even the dragging part was not too tough. It's interesting how people can make bad things better just with their kind ways.

She was a tough independent old girl. Never much liked me I think. Just was her own creature. Never made any trouble. Never had a day sick. Vet said this was probably a heart attack. Typical Allie. Just to lay down in her field and go like that. Without me getting a chance to say goodbye.

I'd be willing to bet that she liked you just fine!!

 

[perchie.girl]

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Thats what it is here.... Same for cremation.... too. I really love the idea of nameplate and tree.

deb

 

[Beekissed]

Ya'll need to come to Nova Scotia for a visit and have some good, down home seafood chowder; fixed with cream, baby shrimp, lobster, scallops and haddock and all the seasonings one could ask for. All seafood is fresh from the local fisherman and simply delicious. All the fresh lobster you can eat around these parts !

Oh, that sounds simply delicious!!! I wish I could eat stuff like that but I am cursed with a deathly allergy to shellfish....dang it.

 

[Triple Willow]

Thats what it is here....  Same for cremation.... too.   I really love the idea of nameplate and tree. 

deb

Large livestock removal is free around here. But they use the carcass further.

 

[perchie.girl]

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It may depend on why the animal died. And if the animal had had medical attention. and yep they do take them to a rendering plant. for Dog food. The deal is here they have to come from about 125 miles away... schedualing can mean the carcas lays as much as three to four days before they can get there.


deb

 

[Triple Willow]

It may depend on why the animal died.  And if the animal had had medical attention.  and yep they do take them to a rendering plant.  for Dog food.  The deal is here they have to come from about 125 miles away... schedualing can mean the carcas lays as much as three to four days before they can get there.


deb

Yes it is a rendering plant that will come get them.

 

[Triple Willow]

I posted this on the wrong thread (on the FF thread). I be very tard. lol Anyway, here ...


Anybody on this here porch got a good "leek" recipe...? I am expanding my horizons... lol Us hillbillies around here don't usually eat leaks. I'm gonna try some. What do I do to them?

 

[perchie.girl]

I posted this on the wrong thread (on the FF thread). I be very tard. lol Anyway, here ...


Anybody on this here porch got a good "leek" recipe...? I am expanding my horizons... lol Us hillbillies around here don't usually eat leaks. I'm gonna try some. What do I do to them?

Ooh sounds like I want this reciepe too. Here is one:
Vichyssoise or Leek and potato soup

http://mimithorisson.com/2012/06/05/creme-vichyssoise/

I want to do Gaspachio too. one day

deb

 

[RoseMarie1]

Hey there Rose! How are you doing? How's the weather in MS?

Oh I'm doing fine TW thank you for asking. My muscles and joints are hurting from all this rain we've been having and from the way they are talking it's around until the end of this next week. I'm beginning to think I might need to start an ark. ;-) I'm going to slap some epsom salts on my tomato plants so they wont get that rot stuff on the bottom of them.