Larry sent another text asking if 9 am tomorrow morning would work to pick up the calves instead of noon. Sure. Will have to set an alarm, and try and get to bed earlier tonight. Although they are adorable, I think I'm really ready to see the back of those 2 calves. Cleaning up after Bambi and Mabel is hard enough, the additional 2 just add poop to the pile :) Wonder how Bambi is going to take them going ? Probably just 3 weeks until Dolly drops her 3rd calf and then as soon as the snow starts we are moving all the Jersey girls to the lower barn. Will have to put in a huge quantity of straw this year for them as the concrete floor gets very cold, especially for babies and causes mastitis on udders of the cows. Going to be a lot of shoveling this Winter for me. Maybe I should just bring the manure spreader down to the lower barn so that I can shovel it directly.
Jackie came over this afternoon latish to pick apples, to press for apple cider. I drove into some brambles with the buggy, making us both itch like crazy. Sorry Jackie. Had a shower tonight and my arms are still stinging, sort of like those little prickly pear hair thorns. There are still lots of apples on the trees, but probably more on the ground.
Last night I made chicken nuggets. They came out OK but think I'll do a little more herbs and spices in the panko crumb coating. Popped them into the freezer. This afternoon I cut one of my pieces of biltong - it's too salty ! Damn. Will have to try again. Think that leaving it in the salt mixture for a few days was too long. Now I need some more good meat to try again. I'm eating it, but it's major salt. Jackies suggestion, cook some vegetables and at the last minute add the sliced biltong and serve. Hot biltong in a meall ? To a South African that's just weird, even sacrilegious. The texture is perfect, the coriander good (I crushed it in my pestle and mortar) it's just the salt.
Saw Anni go into the chicken house today while I was in the kitchen. Think she must be stealing eggs. Going to have to do something about that. Get too few eggs as it is, not willing to share them with her.