Yesterday morning I was in town but this time it wasn't to pickup grain, it ended up being just an empty barrel drop off. I was under the impression there would be more grain out but apparently what I had gotten the day before was all there was. I dropped the empties at the first brewery before bombing down to downtown.
I hit the Steam Plant and tossed the empties over the gate where they made a nice loud resounding thud as they landed. The sound was largely covered by the passing train on the tracks overhead.
I drove by the 3rd brewery to check if there was any grain out and finding none I jetted home with a quick stop for gas. The Nom Nom in Mead had gas for $4.20/gal while everywhere else around is at $4.45/gal. I got home and dropped the trailer in the yard.
I had let the birds out and was on my way back into the house and I stopped to throw a bit. After some warming up I started getting my throw dialed and managed to get oh so close to a maximum. Just a hair away. Once I warm up I am getting a much better consistent grouping. Slowly but surely I am figuring my throw out.
The croockneck squash seeds I planted have done nothing so I went out and filled in the spots with the new Noche squash seeds I got. I only have two rows of summer squash this year but I want full rows if I have them planted.
It was after noon and the winds weren't going to work for flying, I had a bit over an hour till I needed to go pickup the boys from school which was just enough time for me to get some weedeating done. I started with the area below the craft studio and around the garden fence. This is also the path to the trail up the hill so it is a lot nicer having it all cleared.
Then I started on the edge of the driveway and worked my way around the play set then down to the lower garden. I was trying to get the thinner areas but they are a pain with the weedeater. I then headed across the creek where I have the Arbs planted and where my Wormwood are growing. I found more of them this year and was able to cut around them with the exception of one that I hit by accident.
They have some nice growth on them and should give me a rather large harvest this year. I actually need to go drag the tub of last year's out of the pantry and add it to the chicken feed and to the dog's food in the mornings.
I finished up the area around the play set as I headed back up the hill from the creek. I have to leave a lot of stuff uncut as there are flowers that still need to bloom and the wild strawberries are in the mix as well.
After picking the boys up from school I made room in the kitchen and then started cutting up the rhubarb. I started with the biggest and fattest stalks which all got put into the kettle on the stove.
There was a bunch of nice small stalks that I cut up and saved for us to use now for crisps and what-not.
5 pounds on the dot went in the fridge while the rest was heating on the stove.
I had it on low and let it go all afternoon. It took forever for the rhubarb pieces to turn to mush but they finally all did near dinner time. I ended up leaving it on the stove overnight to cool and today I will try to strain it out the best I can. The juice I want to run through the freeze drier.
My beet row had not popped and I think it was the seeds I used, so I grabbed MY seeds that came from plants a few years ago which I know are viable and got them in the ground in all the empty spots in the row.
Then I had to reseed the cucumber and sunflower spots that had been eaten by the vole/mole/gopher in the pole garden. Not too many but more than should have been.
After we got through the Gold Rush episodes it was soaking time which my sore back needed, though it wasn't quite enough as my right shoulder is still pretty sore and tight.
The winds might be conducive to flying this afternoon or at least some kiting and ground handling. I need to make a batch of tortillas soon, deal with the rhubarb juice, rake the cut grasses and haul to the sheep, I have to check on the melon garden and the germination rates, the other shelving needs to be built in the Tardis, and I have a number of things sitting out that need to be put back where they belong.
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