OR-Why Canning Is a Dangerous Thing
I had a couple more creative titles for this blog. I can't remember them. Regardless, I'm minorly concerned about becoming a hoarder. If I had a deep freezer or knew how to can, we'd be in trouble. I always worry that with our three dogs, cat, rabbit and two ponies (and soon to be aquired kitten) that I'm on my way to becoming an animal hoarder. At least at this point, I can feed and adequately care for our animals. Joe always threatens that if I become one of the people on 'Animal Hoarders' he'll leave me. I threaten that if he leaves me I'll become one of those people. Its a vicious circle.
Regarding the canning, Joe and I always have a well stocked pantry. We'd have an even better stocked freezer if we had a deep freezer or I knew how to can. Here's the problem. When I go to the store, I purchase fruit that ends up going bad before I get around to eating it-generally about two weeks. This is because I purchase fruit on this principle-75% because its a good price, 15% because I should and the remainder because I intend on using or eating it. I typically don't. So when I can, I've been cutting it up and putting it in the freezer. Or baking banana bread like I did today. (The recipe didn't have eggs in it so either its supposed to be like that or I copied it wrong. We'll see I guess.) I have some cherries that I picked through and will make little cherry pies with and some strawberries waiting for a pound cake. I would do more of this hoarding of fruits in the freezer if I had a deep freeze. If I knew how to can, it would be on for fruits and vegetables too.
The hoarding doesn't end with food either. If you look in our basement, you'd realize that we have a rather impressive collection of stuff for two young people that have had a mismash of household items. I claim we should have a yard sale, even if just one day, to get rid of some of the excess. Joe doesn't think we'd have enough. I claim we haven't looked hard enough. When we move, I'm going to make it my mission to clear the clutter. Its not that I'm opposed to it, just that I think I'll find a use for the empty horse treat container or the movie popcorn bucket we got at the drive in.
So all my hoarding aside, what else has been going on? Well, Joe and I went out on Saturday night. We ate Mexican. It was so good! I had a seafood chimichonga. Unfortunately, Mexican isn't a food that should be eaten before going out. My stomach was seriously not pleased. Despite even all the pepto bismol I ate too. After dinner, Joe and I went out to Dillsburg and to
Haar's Drive-In. We saw Cars 2 and Super 8. Both were good. We had to sit in the car to watch though. I had set up the lawn chairs trying to avoid the cars in front of us and just when I was satisfied, some bitch in a Land Rover pulled in front of us.
Joe and I went out and drove Nell on Saturday morning before the farrier came. I drove Nell first and didn't use a whip. She did really good so I was pretty happy. We went out yesterday morning too and tried to repeat the same thing. Except that Nell decided to have none of it. She was doing pretty good but then she spooked and started jumping up and down. I didn't bale this time and managed to get her stopped. I don't know what's going on with her. Its frustrating.
I've had some pretty frustrating cases lately at work. Mostly people not wanting to do what I wanted them too or things not turning out the way they should. The owner of the dog that I diagnosed (or at least strongly suspected) with lymphoma decided not to come back to us because she wasn't happy with how her dog was treated. There were some unfortunate issues however, I feel in the grand scheme of things, I did right by that dog. Sorry those tests took so long and were so expensive. I had a blocked cat on Wednesday and the owner elected to treat it. And its bladder ruptured so we ended up euthanizing it. Sad. I saw a dog that the owner was convinced had a tumor and I concurred. It was pale so I suspected that it was bleeding into its belly. The owner understood and I suggested radiographs and maybe a belly tap. They took the dog home and it died overnight. Then the owner accused me of not wanting to do anything. I saw a cat that had been hit by a car (suspected) that had a leg broken in two places and I think a broken back. It took the owner a while to decide to euthanize the cat. Ugh. Come on people. Luckily, the tail mass that TH would have referred, looks great!
On Thursday, I got called out to a calving. I'm horrible at calving because I'm 5'6" and have short arms and poor hand strength. Unfortunately, many of our clients are also this height making them less than useful. We struggled and struggled to get the head up and around. Eventually, we did get it up but after I called TH for his long armed assistance. I couldn't get the last leg and within a matter of seconds of him being there, the calf came flying out. These farmers are very good and very independant. Its the same place where I tried cutting the botched roll and toggle. These farmers roll and toggle their LDAs. I cut the cow and found tons of adhesions. They admitted the RT did not go as planned and this was obviously why. I sewed the cow up and said to ship her.
I'm not sure what else is going on. Joe and I have been doing the
Dave Ramsey Financial Peace stuff. I want to save money! Joe isn't convinced I'm into it but he's totally wrong.
Pinterest is still my obsession. I've been cooking quite a bit off of it. With little success. Cinnamon roll pancakes (burned the cinnamon roll filling), cookie dough brownies (couldn't get the cookie dough to set up-probably because I used margarine), shortbread carmel bars (too crumby) and cheesy potatoe casserole (not cheesy enough and don't use as much panko!). I haven't made many of my pinned craft projects. I have a quilting project in mind first AFTER I fix my huge white coat! That's this afternoon!
