Recipe

OK, if you want to try your hand an doing chili beans you can go HERE. I've also posted recipes to use them along with it. Happy Canning!

Fall canning and a small vent...

OK, it's been a day. Mom is canning chili beans today. SOOOOOOO much better than the store kind. I'll be posting the recipe later on. Anyway, I helped... :) I filled all 31 qts with the kidney beans. Yes you read that right, 31 qts.  Divide that by 7 and that's 4 canner's full plus 4. 

Next weekend I'll be canning chicken, chicken noodle soup, chicken stock. I'm going to be sick of chicken by Sunday. We'll also be canning some beef. At least it's one way to get the kitchen warm. 

OK on to my tiny little rant.

Here it is... I had these darling little bull calves. So I posted them on Craigslist because they were driving me batty! ARGH... Anyway, this guy replies and I call him and he says he'll take them. Fine and dandy... Well I had to run to town, so I told the family what the deal was and NOT to let them go with out cash. He was getting a dag gum good deal here. And I needed them gone... 5 less bottle twice a day, that's 5 gallons more milk in the tank everyday! woo hoo!!!!! It's a good woo hoo, not a sarcastic one. :)


I get home, he's here, I go out, mom is with him. Finally he says... well one of them gots scours, I told him he was fine this morning. He wanted me to take less, I said NO. That I had several other people who wanted them if he didn't and that he could take 4 at $85 each if he didn't want to take the one who he said was sick, or he didn't have to take any of them. It didn't make any difference to me. He decided to take the five at $325.00. I said a few other things also... but I'm going to keep this short if at all possible for me.


NOW this is a person who said "I KNOW cattle I've been around em my whole life." Beware of the MAN who says this. I just inwardly rolled my eyes. This showed when one baby calf jumped the same 18" piece of wood and got out 3 times. NOW me being me...I just let him keep doing this. AFTER all he KNEW cattle. I did have pity on the calf and closed the CATTLE PANEL that was 3' from the back of his trailer, funny thing is it stopped him, so we finally caught him. To top it off this guy was a *shudder* contractor!!!!!!!!!!!  A know it all contractor, "farmer", handy man, ... ugh...... I told him what all MY babies had  had. I won't miss the little fellers, mom on the other hand won't miss them, but feels sorry for them. ME I just don't want to be stuck with 20 BULLS like I was this year.  OH and has anyone EVER heard of "cutting" baby bull calves the day they are born? I think that's awful! It's it stress enough to be born then to have someone come and do that. Egads! I think that's awful, besides and not to be gross, but what are the dogs going to gorge themselves on in the Spring?! :)

I think this year, rather than being a disgruntled dairy farmer for Halloween, I'm going to be a contractor... after all I have a truck and a cell phone and I can bluff (or learn to... really I'm learning from the best, what with as many awful contractors I've come across) . That's scary isn't it. :)  

Random Pictures...

Let my people GO...

Proud Members of FREE the Little Goat's Society

Our southern view...

Random Fall color... 

The day of more than just one Title

It could have been the following yesterday:

Rain Drops, So many RAIN DROPS...

And the Thunder Rolls, thankfully the lightening didn't strike...

Over fields, and through the creek, to get back HOME... (on foot BTW) yes I ran the truck out of gas across the creek... Thankfully the creek wasn't to high for me to cross on foot, in sneakers, in almost darkness with NO flashlight, no rain coat, ugh...

WHATS for dinner....

Why won't the phone work?!?! It's because of all the rain...

Tractor tires and nails aren't a match...

Goats, it's a love, frustration kinda thing...

The Prodigal calf returns...

That's it I've HAD it with these bull calves, they are out of here!!!!

Rain...

We had one heavenly day of  NO rain, NO clouds (so to speak...OK so their were a few out there, but not like it's been for, ohhh...... WEEKS) the sun was shining, mud drying... sorta, and today the evil twin is back to haunt us. Yes, you guessed it... RAIN!!! blasted, horrible moisture in drop form.

I think it's time to build an ark, I really do. Sigh...

I wonder, can you get sea sick on land?

ARGH

OK, I'll say it. I'M NOT a fan of the CWT. It's not helping (OH forgive me according to Scoot Brown they have... a WHOLE whopping $0.66 per hundred. WOW and I thought it was because the GUVment was forcing the processors to pay more by bumping up the cheese prices).

THIS article made me mad, a little sick, and I wanted to cry. Good for me my tears are dried up for the moment. What gets me is the this journalist focused on the cow numbers. What about where most of the farms came from in this last go around? UMMM East of the Mississippi.  Oh well... why fight it...

Would you just LOOK at this weather forecast. Do I look like a duck here?!