being a farmer in these clothes

planted bulbs yesterday. planted rhubarb and rose bushes today. the only things i have left are carnations and some other flower that i could neither pick out of a crowd(of flowers) or that i remember the name of,right now...
but it's cold,so i'm done for today.
speaking of being done...there are so many freakin' rocks in this yard/area,that it takes a special kind of person not to become really frustrated in about 3 minutes of trying to dig a hole of any sort...

attention-span=zero.

did a small entry yesterday,but with the weather,and our only non-dial-up connection being satellite, was thwarted in actually posting.

we got the trees planted the other day.

as well as everything except the flowery-bulbs. today.

made a cranberry pumpkin bread...well,muffins.

turned out good.

my attention span with everything has been non-existent.

snowsnowwsnosnow

potted the asparagus and strawberries yesterday. it's gonna be awhile before stan rototils the garden,though we already had snow happening last night into this morning,though no accumulation. plus strawberries should wait until spring to go outside.

going to get outside and plant some stuff today if it kills me,which, w/the recent weather,might be an occurance.

we finally had to turn on the heat...the main user of the propane that is freakin' expensive.
not managed to get anything curtain-like happening,which i really wanted to do to save on heating expenses. stupi stupid stupid. lazy.

we'll see in like an hour when it will be at the height of warmness.

hazelnut trees!

i've had the intention of getting all of the flowery-type-things that mom got us,in the ground for days,but i get discouraged every time b/c i start with the tiger lily plants that i should have put in 2 months ago,and the area in the front,near the road is rocky and rooty. i know that the others will be easier as the soil around the house is topsoil for about a foot or so,which should be fine.

janice will be here with mark and alex to visit colleges, like binghamton, in a few days...mom is already planning to put them to work digging holes for her to plant stuff. so,i will try to do the same.

mom/stan got us the kitchen table that i've wanted for months! kitchen nook!!

//prove you're different from the rest//

finally finally finally carved one pumpkin.
it now has a bat on it.
i will do the other one today. it will have a cat on it.


going to have a giant,pumpkin-patch next year.(saving the seeds)

some things that we will also have next year,thanks to my mom's cwazy ordering are: a hazelnut tree, cherry trees, rose bushes(what are we,back in portland?), lilac trees, lilies, asparagus, birch trees...and i don't currently remember what else,but i'll know later when i move my cold self to get more coffee. either way...wooo. oh. strawberries!

stan is almost done with the steps to the...porch/deck.

i feel like being lazy today...too bad i have to get all of that stuff from mom into the ground...not easy when your yard is apparently MADE of solid rock,like ours is. plus my hands have started to be in the perpetual state of cold that they will enjoy until about april...

fast cars,danger, fire and knives

yesterday we met with some ladies who jake works with to talk about project-y type-things. as usual,my awkwardness took over. it generally turned into what S.C.A.R meetings and such always turned into...we just managed to make all the weird,old, regular-dudes really uncomfortable...it's sort of like,when we went to see cub's band play and we were THE FREAKS. "punk" band at a skate shop...in elmira,oops.

surely hoping that we can meet again,hopefully somewhere more comfortable...

maybe some pumpkin carving today...

it's cold and fall-y.

i think that i'm not really made to be around people. that's why cats,jake,netflix and the interweb are my BEST FRIENDS. mostly cats right meow(and by cats i mean euronymous.)

//you can't consume much if you sit still and read books//

jalapeno jelly yesterday,finally.

it's very jelly-y. i might have added a little too much pectin...but it works.

we're in the market for more canning supplies.

i guess, on thursday we're finally meeting with the ladies who jake works with to talk about old-lady canning parties! and whatever else we can come up with besides booze-ing. not a book club! as it has been pointed out,we have enough trouble reading the pile of books that we already have...don't need more stress added to that unfortunate-ness.

nap-a-thon

got the fruit leather right this time! apple blackberry. the seeds are unfortunate...maybe next time i should strain those out...that sounds fun/potentially dangerous.

another small guy of tom. sauce.

2nd round of seitan jerky...we should try some with liquid smoke next time. and maybe something citrus-y.

stan has gotten almost all of the porch done! i want to have cat races. right now,there is just the outline of the porch.and the cats tip-toe around it to get to the door(they aren't used to using the side-door) and it's cute and i totally want to have races. even though he's a spaz and would probably cheat,i want euronymous to be my team captain. i wonder if i have a cat-track-suit in my cat-clothes collection? i'm thinking i would remember if i did...little cat-leg-warmers!!!
1-2-3-4 feel the burn!! okokok time to stop being crazy.

i finally gathered the sunflower seeds out of one of the big guys and aside from the seeds that i am saving to plants next year(i'm gonna plant a lot of sunflowers,everywhere) i've got about a quarter of a smarty-pants* to roast/eat/whatever one does with a ton of sunflower seeds. there are still like 3 big ones left standing,but i like watching the birds swoop down and eat the seeds,so i'm willing to let those go.
i need a nap.


*a smarty-pants is about a quart

//if you watch a river long enough,you'll see your own body float by.//

probably doing another batch of tomato sauce today...

kitchen table has changed so much!

holes dug for new porch/cat graves.

going to finish sewing the backpatch on my sweatshirt today...should i start sewing the sweatshirt that was cut off of me, back together? it's become more of a joke than anything,but it would be HILARIOUS if i was wearing a sweatshirt that the emts had to cut off of me. even more hilarious would be if i were wearing the pants...

i think planting the fruit orchard is going to happen today! peach and pear trees are all we have so far,but we'll see what happens.

pumpkin carving may also be happening.
it's time to get all halloween-y!

last night i made apple butter. it was time-consuming/totally boring. it's really a good reason to have canning parties. i could have really used some people to hang out with/talk to/entertain me while i had to continuously stir it.

stan ripped our front steps out in preparation for the porch he is going to be starting soon.

possibly some seitan smoking today as we totally have the mequite chips and it's so so nice out.

//everyday goes down in history//

finished bringing in the garden yesterday(yes,it's all in the house).

jake is weighing all of our jalapenos at work,since the only recipe that i have for jalapeno jelly gives weights.

we really should acquire a food scale.

the idea that i had for jam-jar-decorating was flawed,so now my brain will continue to brainstorm...

i keep forgetting that we still have a zillion apples,so probably apple butter will be happening.

oh! made the pumpkin pudding yesterday. it's okaaaaay. it called for brown sugar,which we didn't have,so,as with the cookies that we used to sell for money, we used regular sugar and molasses. it turned out too molasses-y. woops. well,it's probably good for me and my lack-of-iron thing...

pumpkin pie is next! i'm good at pie. wish that i still had the fall-cookie-cutters that mom sent to me in oregon,that got left there. i'll just add it to the tab that i am tallying of all of the stuff that bitch-face owes us that i will never see...man,i think the debates, last night, made me bitter at the world and now it will be part of my day today. SWEET!
EDIT(AND RANT):i was just thinking that it comes off as me just sounding bitter and SAYING that she owes us, but we actually sent her money because she said that she would send a bunch of our stuff that we accidentally left there,which she said that she would do...alas,i don't see almost anything...including jake's bmx bike. hope that whoever has it is appreciating that it's worth a bit of money...actually,i wouldn't be surprised if she sold it. that is now the second time that we have sent someone money to send stuff that we were big retards about leaving places,when we moved and not seen the stuff. i guess the lesson is to fucking stop moving...and that kami and marie are the same person. ugh.

i mean,i'm cold and on my way to actually starting my day.

i like pudding,pudding is good.

ok.
basically everything that is producing in our garden is done/done for.

stan's gonna start our porch and rototil the garden area next week.

i also asked him about the fruit trees that mom bought us and i guess the front yard(the part that is not garden-tastic) will be made into a fruit orchard. yes!

ok. now i will start/continue the jalepeno jam-making,squash soup preparation, seed gathering. the last thing being something else that stan un-confused me about...i guess some of the seeds that mom gifted us with were hybrid seeds,therefore they aren't intended to produce seeds..what?ever.

time for tomato sorting. and sunflower-seed gathering and pumpkin pie/pudding making. i like me some pudding.

//there'll be time enough for countin' when the dealing's done//

big frost last night...
gonna try to bring in everything from the garden that is left(yes,i know that i should have done it yesterday...)

there are still a ton of tomatoes and acorn squashies...

made some salsa yesterday.

saved a an incredibly cute field mouse from death. tony was just carrying it around. when he let it go,you could see her little heart going a mile a minute. i made jake take it into the woods. he said that she seemed more confident with being able to run away and that she probably didn't have an instant mousey heart-attack,like we predicted.

my brain is going a mile-a-minute. so happy that jake has a half-day today...!

pumpkin pie or pumpkin pudding? haven't made the pudding yet,so it's a gamble...
there's also a pumpkin-bread recipe that i want to try...we need more pumpkins!
pumpkinspumpkinspumpkinspumpkins.

//i suggested to him that America teemed with people who were homesick in bittersweet ways//

half a smarty-pants of tomatoes.

there's some blight on a couple of the plants,i dunno what that is about,but it's looking like it's happening to about a quarter of the zillion-too many plants that we have...there's still so many that i hope get ripe before snow happens

brought an acorn squash in. still about 8-10 left...maybe some squash soup in the next week...i could freeze that if it turns out to be an adequate amount.

mom bought us a peach and pear tree, we just have to figure out a time/place to put them in the ground...

had a bonfire 2 nights ago.

still waiting on pumpkins,but i don't really know why.
pie and jack o' lanterns. possibly some pumpkin pudding...

today is such a good day for pumpkin beer. very harvest-y. at least...cold.

still not enough ripe jalapenos for the jelly,but soon.

jake's been talking with some ladies who he works with about having a jam-making/booze/random project-y party and one of the girls wants to do a book-club,too. i hope that he nixed that,like i told him to...so many books to read already.

i feel like i keep repeating myself...time for more projects and less being lazy! too bad tv is so good...

um. gunshots. great. hunting is freaking awesome.

//coin collecting's a lot like life;it stopped being fun a long time ago.//

the apple-pie casserole actually turned out a-okay.

brought in almost all of the herbs and dried them. actually got a lot more than i thought would be there.

it's cold.

there are almost enough jalapenos to make the previously-mentioned jam.

a guy at jake's job keeps bringing him apples from his trees,so i think i'll try my hand at apple-butter this time.

pumpkin pie this week!(not pumpkin casserole.)

in the next couple of days,we're going to bring in the plethora of acorn squash that we grew and make an apple risotto, to be eaten out of acorn squash bowls.


there's also a history of wassail in the last cook-book that mom go us,and it's actually really interesting. i want to have a harvest-a-thon with, among other things, traditional wassail.