Monday, July 30, 2012

What Do Other People Do On the Weekend?

Do they rack wine?
Here is the pink lemonade wine in its bottle. The taste is quite nice. I think we will be making a lot of it.

Do they make yogurt and bake pigs ears?
I usually make 2 quarts of yogurt because that is normally all we can use up before it goes bad and, of course, you don't want it to go bad because  you have to have some left to make your next batch.
As for the pigs ears, Romeo can eat all those in one week....easily.

Do they slice bacon and make their own sausage?
I sliced up two chunks of bacon and took out a bag of pork pieces and made sausage with it. I think that is my last bag for sausage but there may be one more somewhere in that freezer. I had about 6 bags of bacon and 6 of sausage. This is the spicy sausage that we like best.
I lost the little blade to my meat grinder--can't find the thing anywhere but a few weeks ago I picked up a grinder/slicer at the thrift store for $7. It's called The Kitchen Works and boy, does it work good. Phil is rather disgusted since he paid over $80 for the one he bought me and it struggles to grind meat and takes forever and this thing just whips right through it. I didn't even have to get the meat really cold first. (I will order another blade for the other one though).


Do they pick hazelnuts?
These are the very first ones. I noticed a few had opened up so snatched them up before they fell. There will be enough to probably fill this bucket later. I would like to see if I can make hazelnut butter with them. 

Do they have to water the garden?
Do they have to fight with the pig to get his feed dish back and nailed back on?
Do they have to move baby quail out to their greenhouse?
Do they have to secure their pens so baby chicks don't get out and eaten?

Anyway, that is what I did this weekend. It wasn't busy all the time though, I did watch almost a whole movie yesterday evening.



23 comments:

  1. Sounds like a wonderful weekend, I gardened, canned tomato sauce, and picked a bunch of veggies. Having hazel nuts is so cool! How many years does it take before they start bearing?

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    1. Gee, I don't really remember how many years it took but seems like it was only like 3 before I got a few hazelnuts. Now the bushes are monsters that are trying to take over their spot and the driveway too.

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  2. Trust me when I say that 80% of the population have a much more boring weekend than yours...LOL! I'll take your weekend any day though. :) I still don't know how you do it all.

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  3. I honestly don`t know where you and Phil find the time for all this, do you ever sit?

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    1. I tried to sit still and watch that movie. It wasn't a bad movie but I just couldn't finish it.

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  4. After your pig-butchering antics, I suspect that the movie you watched was "Texas Chainsaw Massacres"!
    In comparison with yours I had a relatively relaxing weekend - but then I did have to leave home at 4 p.m. on Sunday to set off on my next business trip...
    BTW, to me "Racking" wine involves storing the bottles in my wine-rack! :)

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    1. Nope, I was watching Ned Kelly, which was a good film but seemed to drag on a bit and I will just watch the rest of it some other time.
      I need a wine rack. I am sure one can be made out of...pallets :)

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  5. wow you sure were busy!!! everything looks great

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  6. Hmm I don't do most of those. Sometimes I water the garden on the weekend, but usually not. I do work in the garden, but I've yet to ever make wine (though I saw my mom doing it when I was growing up), or have any animal besides a dog.

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  7. I always say the same about what other people do at the weekend - I can never work it out. I was brought up never to say you bored or you got given a job to do, I've never even watched a game of football as there is always something more intereting to be doing!

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    1. My boring times are at work. I make plans during the week for the things I get to do on the weekend.

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  8. I think they go to the mall and play golf!! LOL! I didn't get as much done as you, but I did pressure can (after shelling) 2 bushels of field peas, and then canned 20 jars of bread and butter pickles, and 10 qts. of tomato sauce. Desperately need to pick some green beans, starting some chow-chow to let sit in fridge over night and can either before or after work tomorrow. Much more fun than strolling the mall!

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    1. Well, that is a lot of canning Mary. It takes a lot more time to do that. I haven't made chow chow in a while but I do have a recipe for it that I really like.

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    2. I try to do up a lot of chow-chow every year because it gets gone pretty quick around here!

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  9. Thats a lot of work for one person to do... I would have been exhausted. Great hazelnut harvest though..!

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    1. Nah, it just looks like a lot when you lump it together in one post. I wasn't really all that busy.

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  10. Hi Becky!
    We took care of a 2 and three-year-old this weekend and had a birthday party with twenty-six people! We cooked out for them and made homemade ice cream! The hubs had to weed-eat and mow before all of this could take place. It was in the nineties that evening still, so we all just sweated it out! Glad we're back to the work week! Blessings from Bama!

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  11. Well I've picked hazelnuts before, but usually on a weekday...personnally I watched Olympics, made stock and tormented my children.

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    1. Oh tormenting is good! and so are the Olympics. We have enjoyed watching them as well (but then the Americans win so much, lol, sorry, couldn't resist!)

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  12. Hi Becky, WOW! Everything looks great.

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  13. yep..i do a lot too. my friends tell me that i wear them out just telling them what i am doing or have done. this past week i cooked and canned alot of beef and chicken, dehydrated alot of veggies, got all my daily chores out of the way and found time for my homemakers club and my bookreading club projects too. i was raised in the country and we always stayed busy doing something that needed doing..and alot of what we did was fun and interesting too although there were some things that i did not like doing like ironing.

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  14. Life has changed for people through the years. It used to be that people HAD to spend time cultivating a garden and caring for animals just to survive (grocery stores were for the rich people who could afford to buy their food). Now, people hop in the car to go to the store to buy one thing, with no thought to the future. They spend their time "hunting and gathering" at the mall, instead of in the woods or garden. They buy their pre-packaged dinners, children don't learn at their parents elbows how to cook or care for a home. And even scads of adults don't even know how to make/prepare/preserve even the basic of foods. Laziness and commercialism are ruining the health of the populace because "margarine is better for your health than real butter" and "hydrogenated vegetable oils are better for your health than lard". No wonder there are so many health problems in the world today.

    I tip my hat to anyone who lives the life of self sufficiency.

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  15. I love this post :) thanks so much!

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