Happy St. Patricks Day! We celebratated the day with yet ANOTHER snow day out of school...we must have had 10 inches on the ground this morning. Please, oh please, let this be the last of it this spring!
My poor garden plot, buried under that snow are early spring seeds... I hope they make it! I've got twig stakes and chicken wire around it to keep the chickens and ducks out, but I'm hoping to turn it into a colonial style woven twig fence...eventually.
:Sigh: winter blues.
My boys found the hidden 'pot of gold' at the end of the rainbow that the leprechaun leaves every year...
Green breakfast! In the background is a really beautiful toile curtain the former owner delivered to us... hanging over the door to keep out the cold.
My new soap label! ! Right now it's $2 for a standard bar of sheep milk soap, and $4 for a felted wool bar.
Since it was miserable out, I decided it was a good day for washing wool...this is from my 2 Tunis ewes. It is the softest wool!!!
...And then I realized it's too cold to hang it outside to dry, so we're working around heaps of damp wool. ;-)
Now this is another project I was working on today... My husband and I are on a low carb diet and I don't like paying high prices for special flour. I get coconuts for $1.50 each, and this is my first attempt at making coconut milk & flour from scratch. :) This is the coconut meal with the milk draining off into a pitcher, after I poured about 8 cups of boiling water on top of 4 cups shredded fresh coconut & blended in the blender to 5 minutes.
So easy! Here is the milk in jars which is absolutely creamy and delicious! the 'pulp' is about to go into the oven to dry out for flour.
In the meantime...hungry animals wait...
Awesome surprise... 10 baby rabbits born from my young NZ-California mix rabbit. They look like they are floating in a fluffy cloud! :)
Sir Lambs A lot, chillin.
Dagny is going to help me rake up some hay... she's getting big!
Kitty... looking innocent... unfortunately my 6 little chicks disappeared from their cage, which apparently wasn't as safe as I thought. :(
Mr Bojangles, looking for a snack.
Back inside, my daughter gets stuck in a laundry basket.... ;-)
And my coconut flour is finished! I made an amazing low carb coconut cupcake in the microwave... comfort food for a cold day!
3 TBSP coconut flour, 1 egg, 1 TBSP coconut oil, 1/2 tsp bkg pwdr, splenda or xylitol to taste...whip together in a mug and microwave for 1:30, and add a butter & cream cheese frosting with coconut flavoring and xylitol.
3 TBSP coconut flour, 1 egg, 1 TBSP coconut oil, 1/2 tsp bkg pwdr, splenda or xylitol to taste...whip together in a mug and microwave for 1:30, and add a butter & cream cheese frosting with coconut flavoring and xylitol.
Didn't totally hit the spot for comfort food, so we cooked up some cabbage, hamburger, lamb, bacon, garlic & onion in our dutch oven for St. Patricks Day dinner... delicious!!!
My youngest prefers to spear his...
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