Vintage Find

Look at this gorgeous piece I found at an antique fair!

It's to hold your sweater together. 

Those old enough would remember that.

I love it!

Have a Blessed Day

Lisa

Fall Rant.

Don't get me wrong.

I love gardening.

My fingers itch to get all muddy and dirty when spring shows up.

I satisfy my addiction in the winter by babying my house plants.

But by the time September rolls around I want a break from weeding, watering, planting and harvesting.  Usually my last weeding is late September. Then I can relax and start planning for next season. 

Well this year God has some other idea!

We are October 29, 2014. 8:14pm!!! And it's almost 20 degrees Celcius outside!
What's with that!!!??  No I don't want snow right now, but nice cool temps would be nice.

You know, just above freezing.

It's been a hot, hot fall. I think I've had three frosts here. And that's it.

Last week I had to do ANOTHER weeding for pete's sake!

Enough already. 

I also discovered peas growing. They're about a foot tall.

Heaven's to Mergatroid! 

What the heck?

Two days ago, Dave discovered a wood tick on the cat.

I go outside at night and the nightcrawlers and peepers are out.

This is not normal people!

But on the bright side, it is easy on the heating bill.

That's something we can all be thankful about!

I'm just waiting for the bomb to drop.

Wake up one morning with a foot of snow on the ground.

Yup, I can see it happen.

As a matter of fact it's giving snow for Sunday.

Have a Blessed Evening.

Lisa

In the meantime, enjoy some nice fall scenes from my yard.

And another nice view from my yard.

Halloween!

Getting ready for Halloween! This year the girls are getting into the groove also.

I know, I know...

I've become one of  "those"  people.

I dress my dogs.

Have a Blessed Day

Lisa

Oh and if you want to see what I do on TV check out this link.

Where did it go?!

Where did the summer go?

I'm not sure?

I know the summer usually goes by fast, but this is ridiculous.

I'm still looking for it.

If you find it, can you let me know?

The only vacation we had was a few days in Halifax. It was nice to get away from the farm.

This summer we were lucky to have helpers from HelpX.

All three were from France. So far people from France are super helpers!!! And excellent cooks.

Myriam cooked beef bourguigion. Yum! She did the fast method (it took two days). Then the last few weeks we had Sonia and Agathe. They made us crepes sarazzin aux ble noir and dessert crepes.

Awesome!!

Crepe sarrazin with my own goat cheese

Dessert crepe with caramel and ice cream

Our helpers Agathe and Sonia trying clams

Then we had Open Farm day in September. It was a super busy day.

My soap, apple butter and goat fudge

Yours truly teaching how to make soap

 But the summer has been an adventure and my garden turned out super dooper.

My dill

Onions

An entire meal made with the fruits of our labour

Our carrots kinda freaked me out! I didn't realize how big they were!

So now things are slowing down...well...kinda.

Have a Blessed Day

Lisa

Cranberry Almond Biscotti

I've had many people ask for this recipe, so here it is.

I cannot take credit for it. I found the recipe online a few years ago.

I think I found it on Allrecipes.com

Ingredients:

2 1/4 cups flour

1 cup sugar

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

2 egg whites

2 eggs

1 tablespoon vanilla extract (or almond extract for a more almond flavour)

3/4 cups sliced almonds

1 cup sweetened dried cranberries

I also sometimes substitute with dried blueberries

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Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit

Combine dry ingredients in a medium size bowl. Whisk together eggs, egg whites and vanilla (almond extract) in a separate bowl.

Add egg mixture to dry ingredients, mixing until just moist using an electric mixture on medium speed. Add dried cranberries and almonds. Mix thoroughly.

On floured surface, divide batter in half and pat each half into a log approx 14 inches long and 1.5 inches thick. Place on cookie sheet and bake for 30 minutes or until firm. Cool on wire rack.

Reduce oven temperature to 300 degrees F. Cut biscotti into 1/2" slices. Place biscottis on a cookie sheet and bake for an additional 20 minutes. Let cool and store in a loosely covered container.

It's delish! Now I have to get off the computer because we're having a thunder and lightening storm and the power is flickering!

Have a Blessed Evening!

Lisa

Trial Run.

Oh my gosh!!!

Shoot me now!

This new computer is going to be the death of me. You'd think that new things would be easier.

Right!?

Right?!

Wrong.

It just took me 30 minutes to transfer 4 pictures from my camera card to the computer.

Good Grief.

Ok, how have things been here at Spring Peeper Farm?

Busy! Busy! Busy!

Nothing Spectacular, just busy.

The turkeys are doing well. They're in the outside pasture now with the dog and the goats.

But did I tell you before that turkeys are stupid?  I didn't think they were, but guess what?! They are.

I always thought that guinea hens were dumb.  Well like I tell people, when God was giving out brains in the animal kingdom, the guinea hens forgot to get in line. NOW, I think the guinea hens and the turkeys were behind the barn having a party when God was giving out the brains.

I'm not going to bore you with the details of their stupidity, but let's just say they're not the brightest bulbs in the bunch. 

The garden is growing wonderfully. I had beautiful romaine lettuce, the dill almost hit the clouds, the peas were delish and the yellow beans grew in abundance. The picture above is about 3 weeks old.

My garlic was awesome!!! I made dill pickles and dill pickles and more dill pickles. I also pickled some beets today.  I'll be making grape jelly in a few days also.

Jamie has his first job! It's raking low bush blueberries. It's hard, hard backbreaking work, but he wanted a job and he applied for it. But after the first day he didn't want to go again.  We made him go back, It's only for a week and a half and when you make a commitment, you stick to it. He only has two days left. As you can see he gets a bit dirty raking. It looks like he's still got his socks on!

Our plum tree actually produced some plums this year and we were able to pick them before the birds did.

I went to the doctor for my checkup on my arm. It still hurts like the dickens. He looked at the Xray and said, " Well it doesn't look like you have any screws loose." 

Dave thought, " Well maybe not in her arm, but...."

Have a Blessed Evening.

Lisa

I'm still alive and haven't fallen off the face of the earth. It's just that things have been super busy here this summer. We also got a new computer cause our old one was on it's last legs, but not everything has been put on the new one. Including all my pictures. And I hate blogging without pictures. So bear with me for another few weeks and hopefully I'll be back.

Have a Blessed Evening.

p.s. With a new computer comes the issues of WHAT ARE MY PASSWORDS TO EVERYTHING! Ack! I gotta write them down.