Our baby plants have become toddler plants. The cabbage leaves have grown large enough to shade the stuff around them. The lettuce looks strong and is putting on its second set of true leaves. Praise God! Last year I had so little success getting plants started, but these look great. They aren't too leggy and are growing strong. Broccoli is next on the list to get started.
Those sausages my husband made turned out pretty good, but pretty hot. He just loves hot dogs so he had to find a solution in this self-sufficient lifestyle. He's enjoying fine tuning the recipes to be exactly what he wants. Our youngest likes them a lot, but after chewing up a bite he runs around saying, "hot... hot..."
After this success, my husband is saying that we need to get beefy done into just hamburger.
That's right. Score for lower-carbon living! We cleaned out the laundry room and set up racks to dry clothes. We dry clothes outside in the summer, but the winter has required running the dryer. I've read that electricity used for heat is the most inefficient. We were able to get about three loads on these racks and they dried in under a day. Praise God!
Tomorrow jerky turns ten weeks old. Our friends with a family cow wean their calves at ten weeks. But I think the dairy we got Christina from keeps their calves on milk for four months. Since we've started making jerky wait to nurse until we're done milking, the process has become pretty comfortable. With over four gallons a day coming in the house, we don't need more milk. We're thinking about letting him keep going for the time being.
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