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As much as my husband and I had planned on having several episodes of our show shot by now, advertisers secured, and the series greenlit by the network, things happen sometimes. It turns out that we're working so hard on homesteading that we frankly haven't had time to shoot a show about homesteading. It's still on the radar screen, but maybe a little further out than we would have liked. Today I made sourdough cornbread that came out GREAT (here's the link: http://www.recipegoldmine.com/sourdough/sourdough23.html). It's very light and a bit shortbread-like. We also had leftover soup from the other day, so that made for a very nice supper. We've been most concerned of late with growing food. Today alone I planted sweet corn, watermelons, mung beans, Amish paste tomatoes, Principe Borghese tomatoes (the best for sun drying), pac choi, and lettuce. Last week I put in carrots and more potatoes, the week before that saw me putting in green beans. This is only part of what's growing out there -- there's also pumpkins, strawberries, more tomatoes, green onions, yellow onion sets, eggplant, cilantro, peanuts, and a little bit of winter spinach and cauliflower I haven't picked yet. I'm stocking up on canning jars too -- hopefully our plans to complete a root cellar this summer will work out so we have somewhere to put all this food! LOL The past 2 days have seen us frantically cutting & burning brush before the end of burn season which was yesterday. Just before the chainsaw ran out of gas we broke through the brush to the lower part of the driveway, so now we have a complete circuit for our new fenceline. A new sheep pasture at last! As soon as it's done and we can afford them, I hope to get 3 Shetlands to add to our 2 California Reds for a nice spinner's flock. We sheared the sheep a few weeks ago and I've been working my way through the 10 pounds of fleece with hand cards. A local shop has my yarns on consignment, and I've been having fun using Kool-Aid to dye the wool all kinds of interesting color combinations.
That's all I can think of for now. If anyone needs any inexpensive website work done, please contact us at http://www.acornheads.com! We need the money! LOL |
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