Friday April 4 2008

Baklava

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Made some baklava today. Not sure why except that I had the ingredients for it. I made it once or twice before years ago. The phyllo dough had been in the freezer for a while and needed to be used. I wish you were here to sit down and have a cup of tea and have some with us. Joe was wanting it to be done before it ever got out of the oven, but he always does that. Rock Springs has a lot of immigrant families from Europe, and I got a few good recipes from some of those ladies. Another I liked a lot was Poticia - had apples and walnuts rolled in a sweet bread dough. I can't find this recipe any more, don't know what happened to it. And Skorpa was another type of bread that you toasted in the oven.

Got some Mexican chicken tortilla soup made for dinner. It has made a big pot full. This is a new recipe, but came from Carrie so I know it has to be good. It's a cream soup instead of a clear broth and you put crumbled tostadas and cheese in the bowl with the soup. Joe liked it. Seems like the whole day is gone so quickly and don't know where it went, but cleaned the bathroom and did some laundry.

Its been another really nice warm day, and no wind. There's a lot of water out in the bare spots. Below are a few pictures of the yard.

Looking at the Back Yard - Keep in Mind that The corral top horizontal pole is about 7' high. The "silver" thing is the snow machine sled, which has laid there all winter. It's upside down. In the beginning it was leaning on the big berm the snowplow left there, which is melted now. It was about as high as the truck window. We've never had to use the sled, and also never even started up a snow machine, except Joe rode his a couple of times before we got the road plowed. I didn't ride a machine this year.

This is from the back shop door looking north at the drift in the front corral.

This is looking at Big Kahuna from inside the back corral standing about at the barn door. I stuck two photos together to get it all in.

Looking at the two 1000 gallon propane tanks that sit in back of the corrals. The yellow and green "things" are the lids that protect the valves on top of the tanks. Raven walking on the drift. When she came back she squatted at the bottom right and said "Help, I can't get down!!