The Quarantine Continues

As the quarantine and volatile weather continues, we keep ourselves busy,

 just without any lookers-on. 

The boys are coping with a nice little school room. I think they spend some of their study time and most of their other time in a huge blanket fort in the basement. 

We started the month with snow.  The nice thing about snow in this season, is that it doesn't last very long. 

 Jim has been busy working outside on the nice days building rafters for a new chicken house/garden shed that has turned from a dream into reality due to a windfall of free wood.   

He also had a order a load of small rock for a job and with the leftover, extended our front sidewalk to a nice looking rock way instead of weedy grass.

It looks so nice, finished! 

Our chickens don't care anything about milk and egg shortages, so we are getting between 12 and 16 eggs a day.  One of our favorite ways to eat them is deviled.  I've learned a few tricks on how to boil new eggs so the shells come off easily. 

The eggs should be at least three days old and at room temperature. Put water in a sauce pan that will cover the eggs, put A LOT of salt in and let it come to a boil.  Using a slotted spoon put the eggs in the boiling water and boil for 15 minutes.  Cool in ice water and peel when cool.  The salt is important, because sometimes the eggs will crack and the salt contains the egg white so it doesn't all leak out and keeps in it one place.

I was hungry for fried polenta, so I made some.  It wasn't quite as good as I remember.  I think making a smaller batch next time would be good.  

We had a hard freeze the second week in April so I picked most of my daffodils so I could enjoy them. All the ones I didn't pick were done for, but I see ones that weren't blooming are struggling onward. 

My daughter was featured for her work on their facebook page.

I think.

And..

Happy Birthday to Jim this month.  We had better birthdays alone because we got these lovely homemade cards!

This is the only time he gets Lucky Charms!

It would be nice to see them, though.