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We HATE cows!!![edit] |
| Posted by Nad on 21 September 2016 at 12:38 |
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This post has the following tags: Our forth year on the land
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 I chased them out and they went back the way they'd come in - this time they'd pushed their way through the south-eastern gate. They've destroyed the entire new vege patch set up that we'd been working on to replace the last vege patch they destroyed! Beth was just starting to get some hope and inspiration back about planting and they've succeeded in destroying that too :-( She wants to get a gun to shoot them whenever they enter, and I feel like stopping being a vegetarian just so I can feel like I'm making a daily contribution to their suffering!!! It's a constant battle trying to keep those hideous bloated monstrosities off the land. It looks like we really need to put another fence around the planted area since the main fence is so long that they're likely to regularly find a problem along it somewhere no matter how well we try and maintain it. |
Just enough too much[edit] |
| Posted by Nad on 15 September 2016 at 19:36 |
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| You might remember my post a year or so ago entitled Too hot to handle! about my home made red Habanero sauce. Beth's Dad's just sent down a bunch more for us in the mail from his tree so I can make some more soon - I'll wear gloves this time!
When we went to Nova Petropolis a few weeks ago I found a commercial one which was pretty hot and had a nice flavour, but yesterday when we went to Caxias I found a new one which you can see in the right-hand picture below (my home-made one is on the left, and the one from Nova Petropolis in the middle). It's quite innocent-looking and it's only because I happened to recognise the name "Bhut Jolokia", which is one of the hottest kinds of chilli pepper in the world, that I even thought to give it a try. 
It turns out it's the hottest sauce I've ever found from a shop before, it's at least as hot as the one I made myself, but has a good flavour as well! You can do a search for "Bhut Jolokia" on YouTube to see what happens when people eat them pure, but it usually goes something like this: 
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New garage in the field finished[edit] |
| Posted by Nad on 12 September 2016 at 21:24 |
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| We've just finished the new little garage in the field for the new car today. We've been chipping away at it over the last few weeks.
Some planning would have been a good idea though because we forgot to make it wide enough for the car doors to open! Still, it does the trick even though it's a bit of a squeeze :-) But we're already thinking of other uses for it now - Beth's making use of the different micro-climates it provides to plant different kinds of trees and vegetables on different sides of it, and I'm thinking of putting a work bench in there so it can be my workshop. We could then make it five metres longer with the new part a metre wider for the car. 
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