Thursday, June 11, 2015

SUMMER STARTS!!

by Robin

Where did the past 6 wks go?  We finished up school, made it through 2 performances of a play


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and did more horse volunteer work to create a fundraising calendar.
  








I can tell you what else, a lot of it went into fishing & fun outdoor stuff.  Be sure to check out my www.robinsreports.blogspot.com to see all the fishing we've done!!



We did some boat fishing but also my eldest and I fished from land too because we found a spot where the flounder are running through.  Not huge but they're here and we're eating on them!



I made Flounder & grits.

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Then, I made Lane Snapper & grits too.

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That was more like last week.

This week, I filleted the fish we caught over the weekend and ate the smaller ones and froze back the King fish for a day when the smoker is going full force.


So yesterday, I was canning all the tomatoes I have been accumulating.  Of course, we've eating tomato & cucumber salad about every other day.  But, I wanted to can these before they turned bad.

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Here is the final result.  2 quarts of paste tomatoes, 2 quarts of campari tomatoes and 1 quart of big &
campari tomatoes.

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When I was done, we saw the weather reports that a big storm was headed our way.  I picked all the tomatoes I could get, plus okra, jalapenos and one bell pepper.  My shelf is filled again!!!!   We put up hens too.

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And it came...
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And came....
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And came down until it made pools everywhere!
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And lake-front property.
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It was a crazy 3.5" of rain in about 45 minutes.  No damage from the winds, thankfully.

It cooled us down and brought out all the frogs last night.  My *real* pool was full of them.  We also had a sleep-over of teen boys at the house.  They had a pretty good time with trying to catch frogs. Our hunting chihuahua probably killed about 6 of them.    It was funny & disgusting all at the same time.

So, we know we're in for round 2 with the storms.  Today may just be a good book day.

Blessings,
Robin


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