Grinding Day

We're sloggin' thru the Meat-a-palooza 2011....Day Four grinds on... Actually Tuesday really was grinding day. We lost our cold weat...

Even MORE meat! All meat! All the time!

Monday is wasting away and here I am. Meat drunk. I love meat. I spent all day Monday doing the rest of the cutting. Of course I had my hand...

Meat, meat, meat, and more meat!

Meat! Glorious meat! What a day....here are some quick pix from Sunday. The sides of the pork were huge... Technically this is just the cent...

Turning pigz into pork

Did everyone hear the great 'huzzah' yesterday when the evil pigz were slain? Whoot! Here is the before.... and the after. By the wa...

Part Two: The arrival

Part Two:  The scene: Just inside the mighty gate at the border of OFG's lands The caravan was just coming into sight. A mighty carria...

Taking one for the team

No one on this earth loves to play fetch more than Dog#1. He's mad for the game and could play all day. Here's mud in your eye.... S...

Part One: At first light

The scene:  A pale sun rose on two figures high on a hill overlooking the enemy's encampment. The first red rays of dawn streaked across...

Comings and goings

Actually its mostly "goings."  We've had a few losses - some of the old guard. Penny is the beautiful grey Toulouse shown here...

So I got one of those Facebook thingys.....

Hey, look at me! I'm keeping up with technology and finally got one of them Facebook thingys. You can find me as Ohio Farmgirl there . A...

One Potato, two potato....

Does everyone know how great it is to can potatoes? What a great project! Quarts of potatoes and pints of sweets. I've been canning pota...