A Day in My Life....

I will now walk you through a "quick" view of a day in my life.

The night before, I put a batch of milk kefir to drain and here is the whey waiting for me in the kitchen this morning:



Milked the goats:



Fed the milk foam to Badger:



Washed the milking buckets and things:



Cooked and ate breakfast:



Washed the morning dishes:



Hung up some laundry:



Prepared several packages of kefir grains to mail:



Rode my bike to the post office to mail them:



Admired the day lily plants waiting to give to my daughter:



Admired the hens and chickens from my daughter:



Quit lollygagging around and pumped some iron:



Picked the tomatoes:



Ate a tomato:



Dug a few Yukon Gold potatoes:



Picked some basil:



Picked some peppers:



Picked a few shell - out beans:



And some Swiss chard:



Dug a few sweet potatoes:



Prepared everything to make vegetable soup for lunch:



Made the yummy soup:



Ate lunch:



Washed up the lunch dishes:



Studied scriptures:



Practiced on the piano:



Took dry laundry off of the clothesline and folded it into a basket:



And hung up a few more things to dry:



Put the extra vegetable soup into jars and into the pressure canner:



And washed up the dishes:



Put a comfy chair and a book in the kitchen so I can keep a careful eye on the canner pressure:



Started the canner and then made a batch of chocolate pudding from the recipe my daughter invented 3 years ago:



Took the jars of soup out of the canner:



Washed up the dishes:



Cleaned the bathroom:



Did a little ironing:



Tidied my sewing room:



Ate a little snacky supper:



Washed the bit of supper dishes:



Folded and put away the dry laundry:



Cleaned my house kitty's litter box:



Time to go milk the goats again:



On my way to the barn:



Feed the outside kitty:



Gracie is waiting for some hay:



Abby is all ready to be milked and is eating her grain:



I am sitting on the milking stand, waiting for Gracie to finish eating. She makes a LOT of milk, so it takes her a while to eat all of her grain and I must wait. If I leave the barn, she'll get lonely and start calling me instead of eating. When you milk an animal, you really do get into their emotional life and I have a bond with my girls. Here is my view from where I am sitting:



Reboot the milk and water kefirs:



Wash everything up:



Watch a movie with my husband and drink kefir soda:



Admire the collection of seed packets that came in the mail today from Renee's Garden:



Now for "The Gentlest of All Duties."



Good night everyone. :)

This day in my life is linked up to Simple Lives Thursday #61 !