Cookin on the Open Fire!

I thought that I would start with all the foods that I did cook on the fire this past week.  We had brats that I prepared in beer, cayenne, Worcestershire sauce, liquid smoke, garlic, and onion powder, then the hubby grilled them on the open fire, I had string beans with cream of mushroom soup, mushrooms, french fried onions, and some shredded cheese, then I did potatoes rubbed with olive oil and salt and pepper and wrapped them in aluminum foil.  I prepare the food, the hubby cooks it!  We are now back from camp and had a wonderful time, it was in the 90's and it was nice to be at the lake where it was a little cooler! Now we are back and it has been raining and cloudy, what a great time to come home!

I will be posting lots more about the vacation.  Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Vacation?

We ended up with 190 bales of hay in the barn yesterday, didn't get up to the lake until after 6 Saturday.  Then the belt on the baler broke and no where to get a new one, had to order one the other day and they said we still won't have it for a couple of days.  In the mean time we have just under half a field of hay on the ground and rain in the forecast.  Called  our friend where we used to buy our hay from and he said he would come over and bale it up for us.  They will be round bales, so, we have to make another trip home to wrap them and get them up off the ground so they don't spoil.   Then one more trip up on Wednesday because the repair man will be here to fix the washer for me.  What a vacation!  We did spend a couple of hours on the lake this morning fishing and caught just a couple of Rock Bass and one sun fish.  But it sure was a great beginning to the day!

Had beans and fried tators on the outdoor fire last night with hot dogs and Kielbasa for supper.  Tonight is lasagna on the outdoor fire!  At least now the rest of the vacation we will be out on the lake a little longer each day!  If nothing else, I will be able to post for a few more days.

Work

No, pictures, I know that it is Sunday Stills day but I didn't have the time or the inclination to take pictures of bugs.  We are moved in at the lake and woke up to a beautiful, calm lake.  We had our coffee and breakfast then headed back to the farm.  The hubby mowed down the whole 12 acres of ground and we will be baling hay today and hopefully getting most of it done.  We had to ask a couple of friends of ours if they would help us bale and they said they will.  That will make the work go a little easier, but not by much that is for sure. 

Then of course my washer decided to go on the fritz.  I have to be back anyway on Wednesday to let the repair guy fix it and post my homework.  This is the first year that we will be spending so much time away from the lake instead of being out on that boat fishing the whole time. 

Hope you all have a wonderful day.  I will post some pictures Thursday of the lake.  I did get my first picture of the Loon and some babies.  Take care and have a good day.

One more Day!

Just one more day and this will be my morning and all day view for the next seven days!  I can not wait.  Of course this year it is going to be broken up with having to come and do hay here at the farm, while we still have good weather with no rain or humidity, because next week around Thursday the hot and really humid weather is coming back.  We can't pick our days of doing hay, mother nature decides for us.  It will be nice to go back to the lake in the afternoon and jump in the nice cool lake after a hot day of doing hay though!  Hopefully we can get it done in just a couple of days rather than taking up the whole week!

In the mean time we are getting ready for the vacation which entails packing, doing last minute laundry, getting all school work done, bills paid.  Hope you are having a good week.

What the heck!

Don't ask me what this picture is about, I have no idea who took it or where.  I just wanted a picture to post with my words.  The weather is lovely this morning, the humidity has gone out of the air and it is sunny with no threat of rain so far!  I had the morning coffee and did chores and then I started to pull  weeds out of the grape arbor, out of the rock garden and then I came back in and had another cup of coffee.  Now I will be going out to do some weed eating and getting rid of some of the weeds out in the horse pastures.  You, who have horses know how finicky horses can be when it comes to eating weeds.

Then this evening we are headed down to the city of Lathem to go to Direct Buy and listen to their spiel.  We get a free tablet for doing it, so what the heck.  I will go and listen for that.  I have been wanting one and now is my chance.

Hope you all have a wonderful day.

Wordless Wednesday

New Addition

Meet Curly.  He is the new family member.  We now have T-bone, Porterhouse and Curly.  He is just a little over two weeks old.   I couldn't resist when the sister-in-law offered him.  Hope you all are having a good week.  We are getting ready for Pecks Lake and doing hay in between the rain drops if possible.  Yesterday was the first full day of no rain in I can't even remember when.  We enjoyed it, too!