We often refer to Snickers as “our old lady cat.” We obtained her in May of 2000 from some friends. She and her litter mates were born on March 15th of 2000. The rest of the litter looked much like any other farm cats, but Snickers decidedly looked like a Siamese.
The picture below illustrates what we feel is her secret activity once everyone is in bed and sound asleep!
We enjoy yogurt and since we have goat milk most of the year and at present plenty of good cow’s milk from Darryl’s cow, Josie, we make it regularly. The following photos and comments show how we make it.
One doesn’t have to do a lot of research to discover that the white, enriched and bleached flour most of our breads and baked goods are made from is not a healthful product. There are many good articles on the internet but you might just read this one entitled the Ugly Truths About White Flour.
We have used whole wheat flour for many years but much of that time it was flour purchased at the grocery store. Even that has it’s problems. More recently we were buying our flour through a food co-op and getting the flour made from organically grown wheat. Wheat prices and flour prices began to skyrocket this past year. We found that buying the wheat was more economical than buying flour. So, grinding our own flour became something we felt we needed to do. We also found that using flour that has been ground fresh we were getting more good from the natural nutriments in the grain.
This past summer we purchased a grain mill so we could grind our own flour and our own corn meal. We bought The Family Grain Mill with an electric motor and received a hand base with it, which allows us to grind by hand if electricity isn’t available. Below are some pictures of the mill in operation.
I presently have a Dell computer that is six years old. The main complaint is that it is lacking in memory. I can add memory. To take it from the present 512MB to 1GB will cost less than $40.00. Or, I can buy a new Dell with 3GB of memory.
I presently have the Windows XP operating system and the new computer would have the Vista system. I’m told that the adjustment wouldn’t be too difficult. But, my main concern is with my word processing program. I have used Word Perfect ever since I first started using a word processing program. As far as I can determine the Word Perfect Version 10 that I currently am using isn’t compatible with Vista. Some internet sites I visited indicate that there may (or maybe not) be a way to get it to work. I know I could learn Word, which we have a copy of, but all of my files are saved in Word Perfect. My limited experience in the past was that in a conversion there was a loss of some of the formatting.
Since I have a book (my autobiography) and numerous articles written and saved in Word Perfect I really hate to change to Word and even attempt a conversion. An updated version of Word Perfect is over $100.00, which I don’t really want to have to spend.
To buy or not to buy is the question.
As a child I “collected” various items; rocks, buttons and so on. One of my collections was of “Indian beads.” Indian beads were not literally beads made by the Indians, although they may have been used by some. They were trilobite fossils. I would spend hours searching through the gravel we brought up from the creek to put onto our lane. It was while doing this that I found my first arrowhead. That began a new collection. Over the years I found many arrowheads or pieces of arrowheads. My dad had some he had found that he gave me as well as some that he had obtained in boxes of “junk” he had bought at a sale somewhere. I have found a few since reaching adulthood, even a few here in Kentucky. Many Sunday afternoons were spent with my cousin, Marvin Kirby, walking through fields hunting for arrowheads. And, I also hunted alone. I still have my collection, the better ones mounted on a board, pictured below.
(Remember, if you would like to see a bigger view of these pictures just click on the picture.)
In addition to an older mobile home and the unfinished cabin (that became our house) that was on Cedar Ridge Farm when Darryl and Anne purchased it there was “an old Kentucky home.” Just down the hill from where our house stands was an old, dilapidated log cabin. Apparently it was still being occupied as of 25-30 years ago. The picture below was given to Darryl by the tax assessor. At the time it was taken the cabin was still being lived in. However, there was no date on the photo.
Everywhere one turned someone was saying “Happy New Year!” Am I the only one who shakes their head and wonders, “What, a new year beginning in the middle of winter?”
out. The daffodils are popping out of the ground and are breaking into bloom. New baby lambs and baby goat kids are being born. The redbud trees are in full bloom. And, just when is all of that? It isn’t January 1st! Try springtime!
It must have been the same people who came up with this mid-winter start for a year that came up with starting a new day in the middle of the night. 
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