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This time of the year is jackfruit season at Lee Lee, a Vietnamese grocery store in the Phoenix area. You don’t have to buy an entire fruit, the guys can chop and wrap as much as you’d like to take home. John bought me a tray full because he knows I don’t care for the […]

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As canning season continues, John brought home another huge load of tomatoes, bell peppers, and chile peppers from Rob’s farm today. Last year he made pickled peppers and they turned out really nice, so tonight, to ensure the peppers would be as fresh as they could be, we sliced about 20 pounds of bell peppers and ended up […]

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Celia gave me about 2/3 of a quart of goat milk yesterday so what do I do? Make yogurt! I followed instructions and used 2 frozen yogurt cubes from the first batch as starter. I started around 9 AM and curiosity got the better of me around 4 PM. It is pretty liquidy but tastes wonderful. […]

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Thanks to our homemade goat yogurt bounty I’ve had mango lassi for breakfast every day this week, using mangos that I froze last year during mango season at Lee Lee’s as well as some fresh ones that John picked up (apparently mango season is on again now). To make mango lassi I pretty much just […]

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Celia was able to make it out our way today, for lunch and an afternoon of fiber dyeing. Last year I got some acid dye samples in “primary colors” (red, yellow, blue, and black) and they were finally put to use. Before Celia arrived I mixed up the dye stock solution according to instructions. John […]

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We got up at 5 AM after almost oversleeping because I accidentally had set the alam clock to 4.45 PM. Luckily John has been turning into the human alarm recently! Driving up North was pleasant and we arrived at the Sheep is Life celebration in Tuba City around 9.30 AM. As we approached, John said, “If this is it […]

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As usual we got out early to drive out to Tonopah to help Rob with the Farm Stand. However, the highlight of today was a short hop over to Chile Acres once I was done with the CSA boxes for the local pickups. Celia and Jimmie were not due home until later today and Mary […]

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After a busy morning at Tonopah Rob’s farm stand where I boxed up almost scores of CSA boxes John dropped me off at Chile Acres just before lunch. I visited the new foal Lunar, helped clean out his stall, and just had an all around good time. The friendly horse above is Oachelita, who is one of my […]

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I was eating beans and rice for lunch in the office when I chomped on something hard. It didn’t hurt, but I was definitely in shock. I found the problem quickly, a little pebble in my food! I felt my teeth with my tongue and they seemed ok at first, but then I discovered a sharp […]

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Yesterday we decided to make this our last lemonade day of the fast. John has been getting so involved into menu planning so that all he could think about was food and eating. This was very frustrating for him to say the least! I didn’t have that problem because I’m so distracted with all kinds […]

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