A few days ago, two of the girls (my 16 year-old and 11 year-old) made a batch of homemade root beer, while I was canning jam.
Yesterday, we cooled off with delicious homemade root beer floats. I used our goat's milk (and homemade vanilla extract) for the hand churned ice cream too. Yum! However, the humidity was so thick I had to take a photo from inside the house (lens was steaming up again). We ended up bringing our ice cream maker inside, and attaching the electric motor. At least we had the hand crank, just in case the power went out. We are still having thunderstorms here.
I just checked today's forecast - no rain! Yay! Let's hope it's correct. Everything needs to dry up, so a good wind would be nice, and I need to get laundry out today. I am so thankful for a break in the weather. I just hope the humidity has let up too.
Garden goodies are still coming in, despite the weather. I brought in more green beans, sugar snap peas, and a good handful of strawberries.
Note: I purchased a root beer kit (paying under $15.00) for our homemade rootbeer. We found the kits on sale at our Tractor Supply Company. You can find the same kit on Amazon also.
