Sunday September 20, 2009
Quiet day, took the jeep into town to do some shopping for necessities. We finally found ginger ale. When we returned I made tuna salad with fresh onion and Irish celery and spread it on the best tasting wholewheat bread. A very nice lunch.
Spent the afternoon doing product research for the farm. It is so great having wireless access here at home.
Enjoyed a lovely home cooked meal and watched a surprisingly entertaining movie on RTE 2 TV, “Kinky Boots.” It is based on a true story, try watch it if you ever get the chance.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Deer-moving clean-up, and preparation for this Saturday’s poultry event at the farm.
Kevin and I donned our weatherproof slickers to pressure wash the transport trailer. We’ll save the cleaning of the “yard” for a rainy day, literally.
We helped move all the bouncy pillows from the field then collected the electric fence from the adjoining pasture. And boy, has electric fencing changed since I was young. No need for insulators. It’s not even wire. It looks like seam binding tape and is strung on plastic posts with metal tips that are simply pushed into the ground. And it’s extremely light weight. What an improvement!
Our world got bigger today. When Greg was showing us around the property there was so much to see, and we went around so many corners and down so many roads and into and through so many outbuildings and took turns and circled around . . . . that I did not realize the enclosed courtyard with the hothouse is indeed the backyard to our house. We have no actual back door, and the entrance is through the main courtyard, and, well, what can I say, I discovered it by accident. I was actually standing outside, looking at the hidden view from my kitchen window and went “Aha!”
So, I picked fresh vine-ripened tomatoes and watered the squash and admired the strawberries, while nibbling green grapes off their vines. “Twas delightful. Then I picked apples from the tree for baking some cobbler now that our oven is clean. I like this farm living.
I cut up some tomatoes to add to the ripe avocado I bought for 69 euro cents (about $1) and will have that tomorrow. Mmmmm.
Dinner and a DVD tonight and then off to dreamland. Another great day.
Quiet day, took the jeep into town to do some shopping for necessities. We finally found ginger ale. When we returned I made tuna salad with fresh onion and Irish celery and spread it on the best tasting wholewheat bread. A very nice lunch.
Spent the afternoon doing product research for the farm. It is so great having wireless access here at home.
Enjoyed a lovely home cooked meal and watched a surprisingly entertaining movie on RTE 2 TV, “Kinky Boots.” It is based on a true story, try watch it if you ever get the chance.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Deer-moving clean-up, and preparation for this Saturday’s poultry event at the farm.
Kevin and I donned our weatherproof slickers to pressure wash the transport trailer. We’ll save the cleaning of the “yard” for a rainy day, literally.
We helped move all the bouncy pillows from the field then collected the electric fence from the adjoining pasture. And boy, has electric fencing changed since I was young. No need for insulators. It’s not even wire. It looks like seam binding tape and is strung on plastic posts with metal tips that are simply pushed into the ground. And it’s extremely light weight. What an improvement!Our world got bigger today. When Greg was showing us around the property there was so much to see, and we went around so many corners and down so many roads and into and through so many outbuildings and took turns and circled around . . . . that I did not realize the enclosed courtyard with the hothouse is indeed the backyard to our house. We have no actual back door, and the entrance is through the main courtyard, and, well, what can I say, I discovered it by accident. I was actually standing outside, looking at the hidden view from my kitchen window and went “Aha!”
So, I picked fresh vine-ripened tomatoes and watered the squash and admired the strawberries, while nibbling green grapes off their vines. “Twas delightful. Then I picked apples from the tree for baking some cobbler now that our oven is clean. I like this farm living.
I cut up some tomatoes to add to the ripe avocado I bought for 69 euro cents (about $1) and will have that tomorrow. Mmmmm.
Dinner and a DVD tonight and then off to dreamland. Another great day.
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