july 23 2023

Thanks to ?judy price?( I hope I have that right......). for sending us the slow cooker--- I am going to try and have the old fashioned Sunday stew today---  bunch of chicken and veggies in a pot – not too scientific...it usta work.....

 

 pasta report—he really is ready to have a more permeant home than this—even  the vet said he would be a great dog for someone who does not want to climb mountains but would like to walk around the neighborhood with a nice dog. He went on to say  perfect for someone who does not know a lot about dogs... his opinion was that the shoulder is  permanent and probably would mean that leg would be shorter than the other—he thought that having only  3 totally functional legs was the reason he had trouble  keeping up with lackey—I worried it was  his heart—but brian said heart and lungs were fine. Or pasta could stay here as permanent resident... – I do like training a puppy so I would like to “start again’   go read the poem “somebody said that it couldn’t be done” ---AGAIN

 

And then we have ... the hay... time for another load from salsbury---  for all you learning about horses and hay........ with the rain the pasture grass has been wonderful so we have not needed as much hay but now we come to august .. usually dryer and less grass growing—so we better move in more hay to be ready ..  go buy a bale if you can....   I wonder what the horses think of mark cutting the lawn--- all that good food going to waste????.. chickens too will take a lawn down to mud given half a chance..

 

Fyi of the day--- for those into chickens-----I saw one bird farmer who tried to keep green grass available for his chickens by having a frame  of 2 x 6 with that ½ inch “rabbit wire”  across the top—the theory being the chickens could not scratch and kill the roots and could just eat the  stuff that sticks thru the wire...  his seemed to work...  I never had much luck with it... but it was interesting...

 

And I am still looking for a few  bantam chickens--  they might be an interesting addition  to my senior visits—anything unusual would do wonders—and since pasta no longer fits in the pram, I need something that will fit—there is always wanda—who will be back from Carolinas on ? Wednesday?