Saturday Day Trip

Last week....

We made a trip to two libraries in one day. Here is our display of our son's interests at the moment for schooling/learning.

 I made homemade naan bread to go with a spicy dinner we had one eve.

 And this little guy no bigger than my pinkie nail was in my garden bed walking around.

 Saturday Day Trip.

Our first time to the state fair. Our son said it was worth it for the pigeons but it was pouring rain. So much that there were many flooded areas of the fairgrounds and our feet got soaked literally up to our shins at a few points. But who is going to let rain stop the fun? We looked at the art building, the shopping-for sale building and of course what we came for- the agricultural building. All the rides were closed as well as most of the food places due to the pour down. But we only really came for one thing...and that was so our son could see different pigeon breeds, take photos of ones he liked so that he can learn more information about them and be able to purchase and show pigeons here next year and at other shows through the year. The best part of visiting the pigeons was that the head of the pigeon club we just joined for the state was there and we got to chat with him for quite a while. He had been raising pigeons as a hobby from the age of 12...and now he is 72. A wealth of information and happy to share it with our son. We are looking forward to the clubs meeting and swap and sale next month where our son hopes to perhaps purchase a bird or two. 

After that we left and our son picked Denny's for lunch then we drove home to get into hot baths and dry clothes. Still a good day despite the weather.

And a beautiful full double rainbow to guide us home.

 Blessed day, fun day.

Stay-at-home Saturday

Today's Agenda: stay at home. Yard work, indoor cleaning, spending time with animals. Relaxing.

I was able to spent some time with the garden this morning - thinning the radish and turnips. The covers hubbie got from work then he built a frame with pvc pipe. They are working great at keeping the grasshoppers away and will work at keeping the plants warmer when frost comes as well. Everything is growing good. We just got in a 2nd bout of lettuce last week (first one didn't sprout due to our heat) and 4 have already sprouted -they are loving the October cool down. Another go at Kale will go in next weekend. The grasshoppers took out the first round of Kale so they never grew.


We have 4 beds for our fall garden - 2 smaller and 2 larger. We are growing; turnips, kale, sweet peas, snap peas, carrots, romaine lettuce, mix lettuce, green lettuce, spinach, kale and radish.

We had wanted to do garlic and onions but due to trying to keep costs at minimum to zero we're pretty sure we are not going to do them this year - perhaps next year.

We did just ordered microgreens though for the first time as we can grown them indoors through the winter and they were at a great price. We're thinking about doing sprouts down the road too and ordering them from the same place below.
We got basic salad mix microgreens here:  trueleafmarket - - micro-greens-planting-seed_basic-salad-mix-microgreen

 Snap Peas

 Turnips

Sweet Peas

Our chickens:

Dave the Rooster of the Coop

 Everyone loving the pig straw. They make nests in it, bury in it, fling it around and make a mess with it! White fluffy butts are our Silkies - Tater Tot and Sweet Potato. Dave the Roo and the little brown and black one is Pistachio.

 Our new babies that have just gone out with the others are in the back - Henry is the white mottled one, Almond is the brown and black. Coco is in the front of the pool- she is our son's favorite bird since his beloved Acorn passed.

 More Silkies - beige is Sally and the white is Snow White. After going through a molt they are just getting back in their fluff and feathering and starting to look normal once again!

Storm is coming today.

 Last weekend our son made a recipe from his library book - Rainbow chard quiche along with a side of garlic thyme roasted potatoes and a bit of bacon on the side for our meat loving daughter.

 Some of our meals this week:

 We are all in the FALL mood! (so that means a few soups!)

Slow Cooker Jambalaya - (we are swapping out the chicken and adding shrimp instead but keeping it a meat dish) 

recipe: budgetbytes.com/slow-cooker-jambalaya

Vegetarian Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup  served with crusty bread- (our FAVORITE, SO good!!) recipe: tabsandtidbits.com/slow-cooker-split-pea-soup

  Vegan Creamy Tomato Soup  / along with some grilled cheese sandwiches

recipe: blissfulbasil.com/dreamy-vegan-tomato-soup

Grilled Jamaican Jerk Eggplant over Rice and a side of Kale

recipe: minimalistbaker.com/jamaican-jerk-grilled-eggplant-30-minutes

Plus we are doing a fish night with fish, roasted potatoes and green beans then a leftover night as well.  We tend to eat mainly vegetarian (5+ nights per week) then 1-2 meat dishes (for daughter/and hubbie). On meat nights we always have tons of veggie options as well though.

Family Saturday staying at home.