Once again, it's been two weeks or more since I've posted, and I'm posting two days late to boot. Not a great streak.
However, what I lack in consistency, I make up for in...
Moxie? Quality? Je ne se qua?
Really badly spelled French?
Really badly spelled French?
Oh well. Moving on.
1.) Christmas with Hot Dogs.
Christmas Eve.
We decided on a less than traditional meal for Christmas day this year.
My Sister-in-law and her family came over for dinner. We ate and visited outside, both to minimize risk and because our house is tiny - thankfully, the weather was in the 70s and gorgeous.
Since we were eating outside anyway, we decided to have grilled hot dogs and sausages, a veggie platter, chips, and beans. Basically, we had 4th of July cookout food in December.
The desserts were more traditional though. It's just not Christmas without cookies and pie.
2.) Grey fish, Flat fish, Dead fish, Cooked fish
Chris has started bringing enough fish home to eat. He's getting better at catching them, and he's also made the discovery that a lot of tourists and hobby fishermen on the pier near the Island don't want to keep their fish for some reason.
A couple nights ago, a fisherman gave him a couple huge flounder (a really freaky looking fish with both eyes on one side of its body...tasty though) and we had enough to feed us, two extra adults (my brother was in town with his wife), and we had a whole 'nother flounder and several trout left over. Took us a couple days to eat the rest up.
3.) Rum Balls.
They are very yummy, surprisingly potent, and a great way to use up the glut of individually wrapped graham crackers that your kid keeps bringing home from school.
You're welcome. (Don't worry, I'm behaving. I only had one or two).
4.) How to Use Toddler Wasted Toothpaste
Turns out, when your three year old squeezes a bunch of toothpaste into your neti pot...
You can combine it with that little packet of bath salts with glitter that you've had for the past three years but never used,
And use it to clean the sink with the toilet brush.
Whitest and shiniest that I've ever seen it. Cleaned all the soap scum right up.
5.) Chex Mix-it-up
This is what I made for Christmas gifts for all the grown-ups this year. I don't know of anyone who doesn't like Chex-Mix, and even if they don't, food is easy to throw or give away.
And it made the house smell really nice.
And it made the house smell really nice.
6.) Chicken Nightclub
Our hens have stopped laying...we think (more on that in a moment).
The wintertime lack of light is a prime suspect (chickens need so many hours a day in order to lay eggs), so we installed two cabinet lights in the coop and are giving them two extra hours of light in the morning and the evening.
As a result, they now crowd in the coop and move around restlessly for two hours after dark, effectively turning their coop into the chicken equivalent of a nightclub.
The wintertime lack of light is a prime suspect (chickens need so many hours a day in order to lay eggs), so we installed two cabinet lights in the coop and are giving them two extra hours of light in the morning and the evening.
As a result, they now crowd in the coop and move around restlessly for two hours after dark, effectively turning their coop into the chicken equivalent of a nightclub.
We recently made another discovery that could also explain the lack of eggs (and why the chicken feed kept vanishing so stinkin' fast)...
7.) Big Ugly Night Creature Stealing Food
We found some interesting looking scat (animal poop) in the feed house, so Chris set up the trail cam and we caught some footage of this ugly little fellow...
We caught and dispatched him, but caught footage of ANOTHER opossum...and a mouse...and a rat. So the war ain't over yet.
Stay tuned.
See the rest of this week's takes here.
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