Cuteness

And his name is Mignon. I love living on a farm.

One thing leads to another

As I was going about, minding my own business, doing online stuff, I came across something like this: “Oatmeal with cranberries, ginger, and walnuts.” I got to thinking: “Oooh, that sounds good!” (Mind you, I’d been awake 4 hours already; woke up coughing at 4:30…) So, I went off to the kitchen to cook up some oats. Simple, right? Oats, water, boil. Easy. Sure.

I managed to mess it up… Thankfully I didn’t burn the oats, or ruin the batch beyond edibility. I just created mush. That’s what happens when you don’t add quite enough oats for the amount of water you put in. Just sayin’.

Anyway, the whole time I was making that, I had this song stuck in my head. I can only suppose the word “ginger” in the above description caused my brain to connect it to this random song. I certainly haven’t seen or heard or thought of this in a long time!

Now I shall return to my oatmeal, after which I will probably work on some cough tea –  which also has ginger in it (though it doesn’t really taste like it).

Farm Blessings

Claire and Kyle caught up the couple of Angus calves that have been “free ranging” for the past couple of months! They were beginning to really roam, and were becoming a danger not only to themselves, but also to the surrounding community. They very nearly got run over several times! So, we’re glad they’re caught up, but, judging from the racket they’re still making, I don’t think they’re too happy about it.

Clarabelle finally calved last night!!! We’re really excited, and incredibly thankful that she calved before the storms hit.

Also, during the pretty major storms that came through last night, as far as we know, we sustained no damage! Praise the Lord! It’s been a great week!

Sometimes

When you’re looking through pictures from the past year you come across pictures like this.

When you have a portrait session, you end up with pictures like this.

You realize that your favorite group picture from said portrait session is this.

Nope, this was not the one chosen…

Tennessee Weather

One day it’s this:

With ice on the roads, snow in the air, and me only wanting to curl up with a latte and good book or movie.

Only a couple days later it’s this:

Still a bit cool for my taste, but I ventured out without a coat to capture this scene. Though I still wanted to curl up with a latte and a good book…

What I’ve been listening to lately

A couple of my favorites anyway. Warning: ’80s fashion attack. Wow.

 

General Randomness

Well, life has been continuing along as usual lately. School, for those still doing it, resumed Tuesday morning. We’re expecting Clarabelle to have a calf pretty much any minute, but that doesn’t mean a whole lot. We’ve sort of been expecting that since we moved…

I’ve been re-reading my Sherlock Holmes book. Frankly, the more I read it the less satisfied I am with the Robert Downey, Jr. movie. I’ve not yet seen the “Game of Shadows”, so that could very well change my opinion for the better. Don’t get me wrong, I still really, really liked the movie. I just don’t think RDJr was the best choice to play Sherlock. And I wish they had chosen one of the actual stories to do, instead of making something up and throwing in allusions, which were never completely satisfactorily explained in my opinion (the opening scene? Where’s the science behind that girl?), to black magic. Okay, that was NOT what I came on here to write about. Well, now you know, if you didn’t already, that I’m something of a Sherlock Holmes fan. Those stories are among my all-time favorites.

One of Mama’s stocking items was a bundle of dark chocolate bars. One night, shortly after Christmas, we did a blind taste test. The options were Ghirardelli, Godiva, Green and Black, and Lindt. The Ghirardelli won because it was the most truly chocolate-y of the bunch. The Lindt lost. Godiva got second, Green and Black third. Had I chosen, I probably would have put Godiva first. It was a very interesting chocolate, spice-y, nutty, and a tad bit fruity. I thought it was the most special chocolate-eating experience of them all. True, Ghirardelli was definitely the best if you’re going to pure chocolate. Green and Black would have lost had I been the judge. It was WAY too fruity for my taste.

We got a new piece of furniture! It’s a secretary from the Centerville Marketplace. It hides our TV and accessories quite nicely, I think. We’re all pleased with it.

And, if it wasn’t obvious already, my Lightroom free trial ran out yesterday. Someday maybe I’ll have a spare $100 waiting to be used. *uncontrollable laughter* Yeah, right. Oh, well. I’m saving for a new lens right now; maybe after that…

To sum up the gathering of randomness, here’s a Chesterton quote for you:

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.