Anything AND everything!

[Bossroo]

My wife and I made 24 servings of Kugelis with plum jam as a topping for Thanksgiving dinner at our son's house. His wife's parents, brother , 2 sisters and their 5 small children came. Our son was the only one that had eaten it before. Everyone ate their portion and REALLY LOVED it. Then they had some along pumpkin pie, dream bars and banana cream pie for desert. When we went home, all that was left was a few crumbs in the pan.

 

[Mini Horses]

Thanksgiving day, I ate & didn't cook -- ate with DD & GrD.

Today, I had leftovers for breakfast.

Then out early to drive tractor down to DD & move a couple FEL of cut logs up by the splitter. While there I spied & moved some large logs from last yr to same spot. Give her something to do. LOL. Since I was headed back up front I pushed into a huge pile of dirt and carried a load up to my house to fill a couple holes that I'm tired of stumbling into (son's dog left them for me). It went so well, that I got 2 more FELs and finished all around the plum tree -- yep dog, then chickens enhanced them.

The day warmed up so very well, that I headed to a large round pen I had been using for stallion containment, not now needed. So finished picking up stalks of some tall weed bushes that had taken over & finished the center pile to burn later today. I had thought I would dismantle the fence and while in there decided it would be perfect for a close garden area! Already well fenced, by water & electric -- fertilized & nice soil Sounds like a good deal & saves me moving some other fence. So chickens are happily helping me clean up weed seeds right now. Feb I will have weaning piggies to house for about a month until sold....they can plow & be easy to see, show, catch. Then I can rake & seed. Perfect place for tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, onions, etc. that I want close. Repurposed! It's 70' across, so a nice sized plot for that purpose.

Then I offloaded a round bale of hay onto a pallet in the field for 14 little mares to munch for a week or so......between their scavenging the almost done for the year fields.

Will get back out there right after a sandwich! Plenty more to do on such a great day. Happy for nice weather today and I never shop on Black Friday!!!

 

[Bruce]

Geez @Mini Horses are you in the Army? You got a whole lot more done than I will all day and it wasn't even 1:30 PM.

 

[Mini Horses]

Gotta do it! I unloaded another roll of hay. Loaded & went to dump, came home to do chores -- collect eggs, feed, fill troughs, etc. Then, went to lower fields to check & feed pigs and one has begun a nest!! They should be due 12/1 & 12/5 but, looks like Rosie is thinking a day or two earlier.....hustled around & got a few piles of nice dry cut grass for her to line her nest and she did that!! Right on top of the stemy crap she had in it. None was there this AM. Put more for her sister to lay in, nearby and also filled one of the pig huts with it.

I'm putting a thread up with pics. Exciting!

 

[Alexz7272]

@Bossroo I am so happy your family loved Kugelis!! Plum jam is AMAZING! It makes me so happy to hear even distant Lithuanians sharing traditions, we are so few as it is, we gotta stick together
Will you be doing any Christmas traditions? We are starting to prepare now, if you have any questions feel free to ask!

 

[Alexz7272]

Spending some time with my nephew and this picture was too adorable not to share. I love this little guy so much

 

[TAH]

He is cute

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Cutie patootey!

 

[CntryBoy777]

Looks like he's following in his Aunt's footsteps!!...already has his Arms full of Animals!!...

 

[Bossroo]

@Bossroo I am so happy your family loved Kugelis!! Plum jam is AMAZING! It makes me so happy to hear even distant Lithuanians sharing traditions, we are so few as it is, we gotta stick together
Will you be doing any Christmas traditions? We are starting to prepare now, if you have any questions feel free to ask!

I just made some headcheeze by boiling down the turkey carcass after it cools down, remove the meat from the bones and cover the meat in the turkey broth and let it cool down in a bowl until it gels. I remember my grandmother hand feed by stuffing feed to a young goose for 3 months to get it so fat that it can hardly stand for Christmas goose. Then after processing it she would render down the fat and everyone would want to eat the crispy leftovers from the fat. Then when the fat cools down we would spread it ( shmulte ) on home baked bread. Simply fabulous !!! I haven't had it for more years than I can remember.