We’re leveling more and ready for more chips — running the tractor over the bed of wood chips compacts them really well!
Then we were ready to dump some more
And spread them out
A little farther every day
Yamitsuki Shio Cabbage
Ingredients:
1.5 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp sesame seeds
1/2 tsp Chinese-style chicken bouillon powder
1/2 tsp grated garlic clove
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
half of a green cabbage, sliced into squares
Method:
Mix together everything except the cabbage. Mix into the cabbage and allow to sit for a few hours in the fridge. Serve.
Farm Path – Starting to Chip
Well, it’s a start! It takes seven to eight bucket loads of chips to fill up the truck, and two loads got us this far … this is gonna take a while!
Farm Path — Starting to Level
We’re starting to level out the farm road for wood chipping
Kale Flower Salad
The flowering tips of a kale plant are nice, crispy bites with a broccoli flavor. We’ve been having a lot of kale flower salads — kale, flowering tips, dried cranberries, pecans, croutons, pickled beans, garlic, pickled green tomatoes, a little cheese, and garlic vinaigrette. Very tasty! Anya has perfected her salad recipe!
Farm Path
The farm access path is, unfortunately, a bit of a soggy, muddy mess! We’re going to level it out with the tractor and drop a bunch of wood chips to help keep the path solid.
Mulching the Orchard
We’ve been collecting wood chips
And mulching the orchard — every plant has a nice island of mulch around it.
Restarting Ford 2110 After Running Out Of Diesel
We found a lot of instructions online for restarting a tractor after running out of diesel. It boils down to following the fuel line out of the tank and bleeding everything. The bleed screw on the fuel filter was pretty obvious – Philips head screwdriver, open it up, let it bubble until fuel flows, then lock it down. The injectors were obvious — and I need to check what size wrench we used. But the middle one … not so much. Figured I’d put a picture for anyone else who has the bad fortune to run out of fuel in their tractor. After bleeding air from the fuel filter, move on to this screw. An 11/16″ wrench to loosen the bolt head and a flat-head screwdriver. From there, move to the injectors. Voila, the tractor goes vroom again.
Kitten Cake
Well, sorta. For Dumplin’s birthday, Anya made the cats “kitten cake” — crushed peanuts (he loves peanuts), tuna, and sprinkles of shredded mozzarella. They loved it … Anya wasn’t sure about crunchy peanuts with tuna 🙂
Cat Treats – With Pumpkin!
We grew pumpkins last year, and I wanted to make something for the cats too
8 oz cooked tuna
1 egg
1 oz shredded carrot
1 oz cooked pumpkin, mashed
1 oz olive oil
1 pinch catnip
7 oz oat flour
Preheat the oven to 350F
Mix everything except the oat flour together, the slowly stir in the flour to form a dough.
Spread on baking tray about 1/2″ thick & cook for 10-15 minutes. Cut into small rectangles and allow to cool. Serve to happy kittens!