The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

Pound cake! I have had zero poud cake!

 

[microchick]

We just finished off the last of the pumpkin pie for lunch. One piece was left and I asked DH to put it out of its misery so it wasn't tempting me. I like pumpkin pie the day after Christmas and Thanksgiving after it's been refrigerated and is good and cold so I can cut a piece and carry it around so I can munch on it while I'm doing other things.

Sigh. No more till next T'day. I may make a custard or two or maybe some bread but I'm pretty well gorked out on holiday fare.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Goats... natures clean up crew

 

[Alaskan]

Goats... natures clean up crew

I love our goats.... But we STILL can't keep them fenced in.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

You see we made our own fencing... 2x4s and fencing.

 

[Alaskan]

I made the mistake of thinking that my old horse fence would keep in the goats. Laugh with me.

I just really didn't want to buy fencing.

Also, my great big horse pasture was fenced with expensive fiberglass fence posts so they would never short out the electric fence I used.... buying a crazy amount of standard fence (hack, hack, the price, hack... it is a two acre rectangle) and sticking it onto my spendy fiberglass posts.... just


The pain!!!


I thought I could get the horse paddock redone before winter...so it would hold in goats....again....


We keep failing at keeping the goats out of the duck pen/orchard. sheesh we are not competent.

 

[miss heny]

lol five strain hot wire does wonders

 

[politicalcenter]

I made the mistake of thinking that my old horse fence would keep in the goats. Laugh with me.

I just really didn't want to buy fencing.

Also, my great big horse pasture was fenced with expensive fiberglass fence posts so they would never short out the electric fence I used.... buying a crazy amount of standard fence (hack, hack, the price, hack... it is a two acre rectangle) and sticking it onto my spendy fiberglass posts.... just


The pain!!!


I thought I could get the horse paddock redone before winter...so it would hold in goats....again....


We keep failing at keeping the goats out of the duck pen/orchard. sheesh we are not competent.

we put a stiffener along the bottom of the fence so the goats couldn't push out. Just a pipe tied horizontal along the bottom or even a 2x4. Also keep anything they can climb on away from the fence so they can't go over the top. I don't envy the snow up there.

 

[bruceha2000]

as I said the unfavored son and his wife where here over Christmas eve
she asked how I made gravy she watched as I ladled juice from the turkey
to a skillet then put flour in told that was rue .... this morning she wanted to learn how to make gravy
she asked me to show her I did, she now believe She is ready to make gravy

boiling.

Mom made good turkey or beef gravy.
Older sister made good turkey or beef gravy.
Younger sister and I one Thanksgiving 37 years ago when we both lived in New England with mom and older sister still on the west coast ... Not so much. We kept adding flour trying to get it to thicken. After we finished making our pot of glue, we asked. I don't recall if it was mom or older sister.

I now make good turkey or beef gravy. I assume younger sister does as well.

 

[microchick]

we put a stiffener along the bottom of the fence so the goats couldn't push out. Just a pipe tied horizontal along the bottom or even a 2x4. Also keep anything they can climb on away from the fence so they can't go over the top. I don't envy the snow up there.

That just doesn't happen with goats. I remember not too many years ago having a heavy snow with a lot of drifting. We couldn't figure out how our Australian Cattle Dog was getting out of the yard so we went out and followed his foot prints. Sure enough, he was jumping on top of a snow drift and simply stepping over the fence onto the continuing drift. We tried shoveling the snow away from the fence. No solution there. He just 'jumped the mote' and went out chasing rabbits.

It shouldn't have surprised us that he would do that. This is a dog who once chewed through field fencing and unraveled chain link fencing. I still from time to time tell DH that we need to get that dog a cow to take care of. He needs a job.