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Homemade Ice Cream

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Made our first batch of homemade ice cream for the season TODAY!  An early Mother’s Day gift from Mike & the boys.  🙂

We use a White Mountain hand-crank ice cream maker (it used to be Mike’s Grandma’s) – and each boy took turns churning…

Here’s our vanilla ice cream recipe.

Whisk together:

6c cream

6c milk

3T vanilla

2-1/4c evaporated cane juice

3 pinches of sea salt

MY FAVORITE FLAVOR is Coffee, so after the first batch of vanilla, they made another batch & whisked in 1/4c instant coffee granules to the above recipe.  YUM! 🙂

And what do 3 ornery boys look like when there’s a crazy woman “blogging” them as they work???

I LOVE MY BOYS, LOL! 🙂

“Moonwalking”…

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Grandma saw on the news that Saturday night was to be a “supermoon”.  She wanted to go on a “moonwalk” to watch it come up, so we did. 🙂

It took awhile for it to come up above the treeline, but we had fun waiting.  (My phone doesn’t take the best pictures at night, but I think you’ll get the gist…)

mud boot – left foot – size 7 (men’s)

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I love finding uses for items that can no longer be used for their intended purpose.  (Like old t-shirts into rags, light bulbs into crafts, etc…)

But, alas, I cannot find a use for a perfectly good left-footed mud boot…

We all have a pair of these boots, and they are an important staple of farm-chore life.  They keep our feet dry & mud-free because they are tall & easily sprayed off.

After months of wear, I ALWAYS get a hole in my right boot where my foot bends.  Oh, I keep wearing my boots, hole & all, for as long as I can.  But once I feel like I’m walking on a sponge, if we have the funds, I get a new pair.  This always leaves me in a bit of a dilemma, though, because I hate to throw out a perfectly good left-footed boot!

So, I welcome any ideas for a men’s, left-footed, size 7 (women’s size 9) mud boot…

Or it sure would be fun to find someone with the same issue on the other foot –  we could do a mud boot swap, lol! 🙂

It’s official: We’ve gone bananas!

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We bought the last of ALL the bananas at our local grocery store this week… Spent an evening peeling & chunking them for freezing.

I guess we should be set to make our kefir shakes for a little while, lol! 🙂

Sadly, our Waynesburg IGA is closing its doors very soon. 😦 Even though we didn’t need to shop here a lot, it sure was nice to have it for when we DID need something.  Ours prayers go out to all the people who have lost their jobs, and for our community – at the loss of another local business.

The “PAW STRAW”

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Isn’t this adorable?  We forgot all about this, until today, lol!  When our cats can’t get into a bucket to lap up remaining calf milk, they soak their paw in the milk & lick it off…  When we saw Blake doing it today, we all started laughing and said, “THE PAW STRAW!” all at the same time! 🙂  Oh, these barn cats are just soooo entertaining…