old photo's, gruyere, weekend project

I was cleaning out a desk drawer and found this photo that I took of Mike and Big Shadow, must of been early 1990's. I showed it to Mike and said, "I want this young, lean guy back" :) [Actually, Mike was riding here, in the riding ring, where we're living now. At the time, and for many years, we lived across the county. Wild, that we eventually moved here.]


He picked up this photo and said, "I'll take her back." :) No fair, that's going back 35 years! to 1974, I'm a senior in high school. Look how short that dress was, I am really surprised that my southern conservative Daddy let me out of the house looking like that, I really am. Leaning against a tree was appropriate though, I always loved the woods over the classroom.


Brawn and Bliss looking over at the goats on the hill.


Emergency Flu Mask. that photo was emailed to me.

Today, Mike got a couple of gruyere cheese/sliced ham/turkey bacon sandwiches.

Then, I topped some broccoli with gruyere but if you want to see the real deal, go to Kathy's at Noble Pig for the Broccoli Gruyere Gratin

Last weekend's project was the dog fencing. This weekend, windbreaks on each end of the barn for the goats. I don't like making the barn dark inside so I (I'm the brains and the bliss, and Mike is the brawn) bought some rolls of thick plastic. Some might say our old barn is looking more like a greenhouse than a barn but I do like to take advantage of the sun. We've only lived here for a few months, we need to do several winterizing projects, and I'm always trying to stretch a dollar (I'm also the accountant).

I forgot that the goats sometimes pick at plastic, but so far so good, this is a little thicker than the usual stuff, hopefully they'll leave it alone.

Hinged doors also close so we can batton the hatches when the winter winds start howling up here in the NC Appalachians.

As you can see, Purkey is still with us. We've had two excellent weather weekends in a row. I also want to hang that thick plastic all around the poultry coop and we'd like to enlarge the coop to include the 26 guinea's but we'll see if we have the time, money, and good weather to get it done.