Feeling Better ~ Sort of ~ Hen Killed

First, thank you all for your good thoughts and prayers.  We are both feeling better, but boy the fatigue is dragging on and on. My day starts pretty good, by by afternoon I am feeling exhausted.

 

The weather here sort of helps me be able to curl up with a book or yarn too.  It's been dreary days the last few days.

Rest was/is on the top of the list, but one food item I totally forgot about (when sick) is applesauce.  Home canned applesauce, from our apples.  The raccoons got our apples this year, as it was a drought year.  Any other year, they leave them alone.  

When it's a very dry season, we seem to have more of a wild animal/rodent problem.  Thankfully, we can buy apples nearby, but still not the same.

I had it on the canning radar, but it totally slipped my mind with our overly busy October.  It's back on the list.  It truly is the best tasting, but if we are too late for our area's apple season, I can atleast stock up a few jars of organic apple sauce.  

I can also check with one new (small, within a tolerable drive) self sufficient farm for a bartar or sale (I found out the wife cans and pressure cans).

Applesauce is not only good for when you are feeling ill, but for baking/cooking and for simply enjoying.

I typically have more soup options on hand, so adding more to the freezer is on the agenda - chicken and rice soup and maybe one more.

Keeping bread in the freezer is on the agenda as well. I have stopped baking it, as my husband has no self control when it is baked.  I will be trying a few new einkorn recipes maybe, and even possibly sourdough yet.

I will be making a list of seeds we need for our medicinal herb garden as well.  

On the sad report of the post - a hawk killed my buff orpington sometime late yesterday (before sunset).  I have not seen, nor heard a hawk here either.

(it came back for more, and you can see how well it blends in with the trees)

It's the first time in all the years for a hawk to get one.  We had let them out into the run, and headed to go get some supplies (more on that later) and we may have even interrupted it when we got home.  Hard to tell, other than we'll be needing to build the new run (with a roof on it) as soon as possible.  Not to mention, that I will be needing the brooder box in the spring now too.  

I think my husband feels bad, because I kept explaining to him that they are not protected from predators in the current run.

I have no carpentry skills to work on it by myself, and I'm sure he'd say I cannot unless someone was here anyway.  I will be working alongside him, so I can learn more.  He does have a full time job, but we can't delay this any longer, and more projects are underway now.

Feeling Better ~ Sort of ~ Hen Killed  © November 2024 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart