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What is this new bit about steaming—not boiling eggs? Someone sent me a little contraption which sits on the counter and you poke a pinhole in the fat end of an egg and set it on a tray with not very much water and you turn it on---the thing makes steam for a few minutes shuts itself off you put the eggs in cold water and they all peel perfectly..  I have tried everything I think including immersing the boiled eggs in cold water so I don't think that's the actionable factor here..  now I see there's a plain old news article about steaming eggs instead of boiling and that makes them peel perfectly... I may have missed the bit about poking the pin  hole in the fat end I don't know--- but whoever wrote that article was thrilled with eggs that peeled..  As anyone would be. 

 

My crises of the day is to get all the fluffies off the fences before Janine gets here.  she has the strange idea that hanging laundry in the nice fresh air in the breezes and the rain and the sun and stuff like that makes it look like we're a third world country instead of a farm with sweet smelling bedding. but her feelings in that matter are quite strong--So I better get the laundry in before tomorrow I hope it gets dry.. I once had a deal. where I put a dog crate on top of my car filled it with wet  dog laundry and drove up and down 95 and it was dry.. Whatever works.

she is on her way up through Pennsylvania picking up a pony of some kind and I believe a standard bred... as part of this rescue network---- there is a farm somewhere that specializes in retired standard breds -- or trotters as I would call them---so she may be only providing taxi service but I think the pony comes here. 

 

And then there's the continuing search for a pair of puppies for me to play with in this daycare project.

I really think that would be kind of fun---puppies add an element of surprise you never know what they're going to do--- and they look so happy-it's not easy to buy a puppy in the United states-- some of the Breeders---actually most of them--- try and protect the puppies with all sorts of questions to a potential buyer---and when I get to the question of how many dogs do you own or even worse how many animals do you own---some people think that's the puppy farm and they won't sell me a puppy

when an actual fact I rehome a puppy. Only when it gets adequately trained. so it will have a much happier life then an untrained dog.   My dogs do have a bit of a reputation of their own-- more than once I have had people approach me and ask ” is that one of carlene's dogs?”  so I will continue to struggle---  actually it's more fun than struggle but I'm on it.