Leaky Window Be Gone

We've got a leak somewhere around the rear window. So we're taking the window and trim off to re-seal them. I may not have needed to actually take the seats out. Live and learn. Saving the last panel and seatbelt for my Chief Assistant Engineer Cadet.

Is This How You Do It Butter

We had a half empty carton of cream in the fridge so I decided it was high time Claire learned to make butter. She already knew. Well, kinda. She didn't know the way I do it. Cream, salt and thirty minutes in the Kitchen Aid. Pearce got a little nostalgic and joined in.

Finished Product

Cookie Cooking Christmas

Homemade Advent

We (meaning I) forgot to get purple candles on time. So, Pearce whipped up some purple paint on his paint mixer and he and I painted some TP and a paper towel roll cut into 1/3s. Then we got some electric tea lights and voila we have advent candles.

It’s Christmas Time Again

Found a Filé Tree

Found an ear of corn I had missed. Now I've got more seeds for next year. That always makes me smile.

Farm Studies

I needed to get the grass in for composting but Pearce didn't want to get a shower before we went to eat. He's also got a test tomorrow. So, he drove the truck and I loaded the grass. During the down times while I was tossing grass into the bed he was rereading his notes.

Plucked and Shucked

P and his Hairstylist

Guess What’s Going on the Table Tonight

Science Is So Cool

...About a mile below camp I was startled to come upon a pony trail, so deeply cut into the soft chalk that I knew each horse must be carrying a burden. It had been made within the hour, and as I was anxious to find out what it meant, I took the back trail to the river. There I found that a large band of warriors had sought shelter from the rain in a willow thicket, tying bunches of the. twigs together and throwing deer or antelope skins over them to shed the water. They had squatted within these shelters until the storm had passed, and then cooked their breakfasts, as the live coals in many of the ash heaps testified. 

There were no squaws or children along; it makes no difference whether women are white or red, they always lose some of their belongings wherever they go, and there was none of such property at this camp. 

The ponies had been tied to the bushes and not allowed to graze, showing that the party had not expected to camp here, but had simply taken shelter from the rain to avoid the discomfort of traveling with wet buckskin moccasins and leggings. I learned later that it was a large band of Kiowas, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes, under their famous chief, Crazy Horse, going north to join commands with Sitting Bull, in Montana...

Charles H. Sternberg, The Life of a Fossil Hunter

This guy on his first fossil hunt crosses the path of Crazy Horse on his way to Little Big Horn less than an hour after they went through. It's almost like something out Indiana Jones.

Rat Patootie

We got a huge eggplant, some red onions, and yellow bell peppers in the veggie box at school yesterday. So, I decided ratatouille was going on the menu, for Kristi and myself at least, at our house. Well, there's no better way to get the minions into food they're not used to than letting them help when they ask.
I cut up the onions, Claire added the tomato paste and sautéed them. Pearce cut up the tomatoes and I got on the zucchini and peppers. I also did for the Aubergine (look at me being polley view francey).
Claire also cut some lavender and rosemary off the pots on the porch. I got the oregano because it's the newest and smallest of the herbs.
Well, it's all in the crockpot now and we'll see what we see in a few hours. The kids and I are going to finish watching Ratatouille.

Grilling in the Rain

Grilling burgers and dogs in the rain with Claire Bear and listening to Big Band music. Thinking of Papa.

Big City Greens

If this goes well guess what I might be growing this fall

Dinner on Deck

Go for Launch

New Day, New Mower

Hail Hydra

Bird Girl