After a morning in the kitchen, and some friendly delightful customers, i headed upstairs to work on weaving my last rug on this warp. I started with army green and added the end border stripe I did narrow grey and then the pink beige that was the narrow border stripe on the previous rug of mostly blue. You can see that prior rug on the cloth beam …
Ken made a large coop on wheels for our laying hens. Since chickens like to scratch, a stationary coop usually means the area all around the coop gets scratched to bare ground and there is too much concentration of manure. A portable coop allows the farmer to provide birds with fresh pasture and the safety of an enclosed predator proof coop at night. Ken’s “egg mobile has worked so well he could use …
This season we have a great crop of beautiful ripe peppers. I chopped and froze (no blanching) some for future use. At Ken’s request I made some ripe pepper jam, and today I made sofrito. Sofrito is a combination of vegetables that are cooked slowly with fat or oil to reduce moisture and preserve color and flavor. What started as two cast iron skillets of onions, peppers and some garlic became four small freezer jam …
