We just got over an underwhelming “snowstorm” on Saturday, and are heading for another tomorrow: I’m at home, doing freelance work & am up to my eyeballs in homework, so I’m hoping I get out to play in the snow for a few minutes.
All the hard work of spring still seems like a million miles away.
(and yes, the apple trees still need pruning: the weather has not been cooperating at all AND we’ve been lazy. This month, it’s gotta happen this month, or we suck.)
We’ve finally got a coop worked out, and it will be delivered in March, and that means we can get chicks soon after. Yay! No idea of breed yet, but at least we’re making some headway.
I’ve been tinkering a lot in the kitchen: growing various bean sprouts (yummy), making vegan caramels (successful & sticky), and I’m thinking of trying my hand at fermentation, as in pickles, sauerkraut, natto, etc. I LOVE Asian pickles, and can rarely find them or afford them, so I thought I’d get fresh daikon radish & lotus root & make the pickles myself.
And everyone knows I love natto, but no one else does, or even likes hearing about it, so I’ll shut up. I have a fine gallery of natto pictures on Flickr, if you’d like to be frightened by fermenting, stinky beans, be my guest: here’s the link
Don’t say I didn’t warn you, though.
Fermentation is supposed to be a much better source of probiotics than taking acidophillus pills, so I’m strongly considering it. We’ll see.
Otherwise, not much happening around here. Let it snow.
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