Beauty Farming Life

Fighter Weighs 8 Tons, vintage poster image, courtesy of Pennsylvania War Museum This is a really unusual poster.  They say this is "a fine specimen of American manhood", LOL.  It comes from the Pennsylvania Railroad and the purpose was to remind everyone that if they experience slow service on the railroad, it's because they are busy shipping supplies overseas for the war effort.  Each soldier, while weighing 180 lbs here, needed 8 tons of equipment, supplies, food and ammunition shipped to them overseas. Hope your weekend is going well, I posted earlier in the day about part of the weekend here, planting some trees.  More updates later when I can get back in front of the computer. 

SO.......this weekend was time...time to do what I've put off for the last couple of weeks.  First of all, 2nd Family has been going to the house at least once a day to check the trap we set up in the bathroom.  Much like a fisherman who sets his line and waits, only to find nothing on the other end, same with our trap.  Nothing in it and nothing had eaten the bait. On the plus side there was no poop and no shredded floor this time around. There was only one thing left to do.  Go into the attic. The house doesn't have a standard drop down attic staircase, it's one of the "stand on a rickety ladder and push your head up through the opening" types.  Oh and no light up there either.  So it's really one of those "stand on a rickety ladder and push your head up through the opening and into complete darkness " types.  I've seen those movies...they never end well... With trepidation, and great bravery (be nice!) I pushed th...

Aren't these beautiful? Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes It's an assortment of heirloom cherry tomatoes.   I wish I could say we grew them but alas, we found them at a local market the other day.  But my oh my, they are SO good.  Like a bowl of candy!   Garden candy !  I swear, each one has a different taste.  We have no idea what the varieties are but it sure makes us wish we could grow them next year.   Sliced Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes We sliced a bunch of them up and just ate them in a simple salad...well, some of them...many were just eaten with a sprinkling of salt!  We still have a few left to use in another dish.  We'll probably knock the rest of those out sometime later this week.   I'll be honest for a few minutes we just stared at them, they were so pretty, glistening like jewels on the plate, almost too pretty to eat...I did say  almost , ha. How do YOU use cherry tomatoes? Any special dishes?

Flower path and arbor, image courtesy of sunsetliving.com OK, this is total pie in the sky dreaming and wishful thinking.  I don't think our climate would ever let us have something like this but it's pretty nonetheless, right?  Besides, now that Fall is bringing fewer and fewer flowers to all of us, I thought it might be nice for some last blast of color.  This looks like the entrance to some magical, secret garden of some sort.  I think if we ever did have something like this, we'd just get a couple of chairs and sit here right here in the entrance and look at it, LOL. Be inspired!

Cat sleeping on both sides Cat's can get into the most uncomfortable looking positions but sleep like it's the best position ever.  This is Brisbane, doing what we call "sleeping on both sides at the same time", LOL. Whatever works, right?  I think I'd need chiropractic care after this position...or at least a good massage. More later this afternoon!

John Deere Zen Machine Whenever I go to the farm and say I'm spending time on the zen machine, this is what I'm talking about.  I call it that because it's the most relaxing time I have out there.  It's just me, the John Deere X320, and the property...oh, and some headphones with streaming music.  It gives me time to think... The path behind ...to think about what spaces I still need to clear and mow.  Then I look back and see what is behind, those are the moments I realize how much we've done. The path ahead ...and sometimes when it looks like this, and I see the trails I've cleared and the perfect picture in front of me, I don't even think about anything in particular.  Instead, my mind just drifts away to another time in the future and the minutes pass by like seconds, fleeting moments that seem like images from a dream... These are the moments that 2nd Man and I look at each other and say,  "Do we really own this?"   ...

Bones for Salvage vintage poster image, courtesy of Wikicommons Here is a fun poster (and the closest I could get to something 'Halloween themed', ha).  Apparently, during WWII, in the recycling for the war effort, bone were used in ammunition (among other things).  There were actual 'bone collection' boxes/stations around the city. I wonder what would happened today if people were asked to save bones? Hope you are having a great weekend.  It's been fairly productive around these parts, but still very warm in the day and that limits outside time. More later!