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[Stumpfarmer]

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Yay for finding a person to take care of the flicker, but

for getting to meet Mickey Dolenz. I've had a crush on him since Circus Boy, when I was a preschooler and he was taking third and fourth grade on the Chatsworth lot.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I wonder if CL's pastured Cornish X will have stronger bones than the commercial ones? One of my culiary objections* is that the things are so fragile that there's almost always bone blood leaking from the epipheses and sometimes from the sides of the long bones.

I still am not free-ranging. The objection now is that the resident brancher (newly flying baby hawk) is hanging out in the orchard all day, right across the fence from my yard. Too much probability of predatory attempts. So part of the reason I'm tired and cranky and having low BG like whoa is that I'm cutting grass, bedstraw, et'c for all four pens, and harvesting red worms out of the compost; it's amazing that I can spend a half-hour picking worms out of compost and Maggie, Terre and Suzzy can eat them all in about zero seconds. Elvis is a little less head-long: he tends to sneak up on them.

Last night I screwed up and cooked one end of a pound of hamburger while I was thawing it, so the Hamburgs got that mixed with the heel of a loaf of bakery bread and the horrible steamed carrots from a frozen meal I had for lunch (carrots are not friendly to my BG, especially cooked ones). They were suspicious of it for about ten minutes, but it was all gone by bedtime. This is very good news: when my husband and I have hamburger for dinner, there's always about 3-5 oz leftover, so it will from this day hence go into the chicken pot.





*Others are: basically tasteless, poor texture, usually much too fat, wings too small for making good consome.

 

[Chickielady]

Stumpfarmer...I must say, DH is in love with the arm roast, and the burger is awesome.
Better than any we have ever had!
See this is why I did not want any burger, cuz we are used to crud...
The rib steaks were on the greasy side, but like you said, the steer was out longer than he should have been...none the less, it was very tasty!!!!!
I am saving the (POT) roast for last....it is MY favorite.
I LOVE rump roast, cross rib roast, 7 bone roast, you get the message.
A Celtic "Boiled Dinner" is my idea of a great meal.
Carrots, potatoes and a half a cabbage~~~YUMMMMMMMYY!!!
Then the next day is "hav-a-gins" and sandwiches.
Send me detailes, with all the roast I can get.
And thank you again!!

 

[Chickielady]

My Cornballs are running & flying up & roosting like an ordinary chicken.
I do not offfer feed 24/7, but only so much a day per bird, and they are spending way more time eating grass.
And none are so big as to be crippled !
Next week they will be 6 weeks old.
Amazing what grass & sunshine does for a body!!

 

[Chickielady]

Stumpfarmer: Please be advised that these "Cornballs" I have are indeed Hatchery Cornish Cross.........BUT
The white rocks and Dark Cornish I have for further breeding is NOT.
So..from now on, any meaties here will be of our own breeding..
#1 Dark Cornish over Buckeyes
and
#2 Dark Cornish over Rocks.
Then we shall see what is "throwing" the best bird.

The "Cornballs" we have now are standard hatchery butcher birds.
Yet they are stronger and healthier for being free ranged, and happy, and happy makes all the difference.
they are eating squash scraps, and grasses, and sunshine, bugs, worms and all other things naturally denied commercial meat birds.

They are happy!!

 

[Chickielady]

Hooray for Broodytood giving a washer & dryer to T-Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What an awesome champion she is!!!!!!!!!!
Toni is besides herself.....in all the other conundrum I had wanted to post a photo of my cucmbers (thousands!!!!!!!!!)
Note: every flower has a cucmber on it...these are all females:

And Sweeties' hive:

So.........now I get to paint the hive, Tol-tatto style as I want to...
Harvested well over 80 garlic yesterday, drying in sweetie's 'Forte"
and Onions anyday now.............
Replanted Arugula and 2 kinds of nice gourmet lettuce.."spreckles butterhead" and "merlot" and very dark red, and "Cos" a mainstay, and Arugula again...

 

[Chickielady]

OK, I am obviousley talking to myself...where is all the oldsters?????????
OK, Bye!!
Log on once every five days and no one even misses my sorry

Bye all~~~

BTW, was very sick from wheat ingested by DH's garlic bread...somehow it keeps happening but I haven't the nerve to tell him no more wheat in this house!
But the pain tells me other wise, that and along with the increased chance of lymphoma.........

So I am going back to bed now, bye all!!!

 

[Ogress]

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I used to live down the street from Michael Nesmith, and then I moved and Mickey Dolenz lived up the hill on the same street! Never met either, though I did know Mickey Dolenz's sister, though I can't remember her name. I took a child development class with her. She is a little slow/special needs, but still very sharp and a good person. The professor started a discussion on abortion and this one bimbo spoke up that she believed that genetic testing ought to be mandatory and that anyone carrying a less than perfect child should be required to abort it. Mickey's sister stood up and pretty much read her the riot act. She knows she is different, but she is very happy to be alive and she does not consider herself a drain on society, and neither did anyone else besides maybe the gal who could be good pals with Hitler and a couple of her equally airheaded friends (th 3 sat in the back of the class with their big blonde hair and spent most of their time applying make-up and filing their nails - DH would say in college to earn their MRS). She was all bent out of shape and resorted to name calling, while Micky's sister never stooped so low, though she was shouting while she told them how great the quality of her life is.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Well, good, glad you liked it. The Ground Beef is so unlike what gets sold in stores as to be unrecognizable as the same stuff, isn't it?

 

[Chickielady]

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Well, good, glad you liked it. The Ground Beef is so unlike what gets sold in stores as to be unrecognizable as the same stuff, isn't it?

OMG it is awesome, we most definetly want more!
Almost a shame to use it mixed as in taco meat for example...one needs to prepare it and eat it like a steak...awesome !!