Eggrolls with the kiddo

Last weekend Autum and I decided to make eggrolls and three different dippinh sauces. She made all the sauces with my help on gathering ingredients. We had a hot mustard, sweet & sour, and a spicy soy sauce. They were all delicious! She helped me roll up the ingredients including cabbage, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, and a touch of cream cheese. I fried them up in our fancy wok and we proceeded to feast. 

We've decided that we need to start posting more.

This is the year we hope to finish up lots of the stuff that we had to start and leave in limbo while we were building and settling in.

Thus far we are making really good progress in getting our shed finally gone through. Since we both had to move in a hurry and then had the summer/fall to build the place before we froze to death... many things were just thrown haphazardly into storage. That coupled with the amount of stuff that kept appearing for us to find a home for just lead to an entire building filled with way too much unorganized crap.

For 3 years we've been hauling out everything until we find what we need and then dumping it all back in to get to what needed to be done. This ended when I was putting new shocks on the car. I needed my spring compressors. I spend a day and a half looking for them because I'd already decided this would be the LAST time things got left in disarray.

It is now 2 weeks later and it's finally all getting put properly back together. Work and life gets priority, as we've decided nothing gets to get in the way of living from here on out. On the 1st weekend 43 boxes went to the trash. Crys* is now going through and listing for sale, 12 boxes of books. I'm going through my tools and categorizing everything for easier access later on. There's lots more room and we don't trip in there anymore. We hope to mostly finish up tomorrow.

That is all. Oh the critters are all good, and life is swell. :D

New Years Day 2014

New Years Day 2014, a photo by polyartgirl on Flickr.

An umeshu and champagne kind of day... We relaxed, cooked, and did a whole lotta nothing all day long.

Caprese lunch

IMG_0160, a photo by polyartgirl on Flickr.

I'm loving my new camera! This delicious light snack held us over while the lasagna cooked. I'm moving toward lighter foods and losing some more weight.

I believe a "diet" or whatever you want to call it, can be delicious and beautiful!

Beer is bottled!

Today I am working around the homestead while Crys* is up at Tin Cup with her family. I would have loved to go along with but we've been doing so much this summer it's hard to get to the work we gotta get done before winter settles in.

It's also been raining its ass off around here so everything is REALLY soggy. Green too. It's a lot like living in Ireland at the present time.

Just finished pouring a concrete floor for the chicken house, to help keep it clean and critter free since they'll be laying soon. After this I'll go rewire some in the solar house and get ready to take out the generator panel. It isn't very useful for us and it's taking up space on the wall. We're going to see if a friend wants to buy the generator. If he does we'll get a bigger one that will run our electric kiln.

After that I have to prep for bottling my first batch of beer. I'll probably prep today and bottle tomorrow. Unless I blow up the power system........

one never knows