Sun. 09/12/10

The kitten curls up with the lamp to peruse the latest issue of "Popular Mechanics".

I made waffles on the woodstove this morning. The batter is in the bowl on the stool by the door. You can see batter oozing out of the waffle iron.
I place both halves of the cast-iron waffle ironn on the stove to heat them. Then I pour some batter on one half, then put the other half over it, hooking the "hinge" as I do. After a minute or so I turn the whole thing over for another minute. Depending on the heat of the woodstove, it cooks faster than my electric waffle iron. We have to start the generator to use the electric one.

I use a welding glove that comes up halfway to my elbow when I'm working around the woodstove. Here you can see one of the waffles, which were very delicious. One of my favorite ways to eat them is to put butter on them (real butter. Not margarine crap), then huckleberry syrup and whipped cream!

I went up to milk Kathleen's goat after breakfast since they were going to be gone, and on the way home I drained a couple of persistant puddles. We keep a small shovel in the car, which came in handy. You can see the handle standing up toward the left of the picture, where I dug a trench for the water to drain out of. One or the other of us do this a couple times a year, since they eventually fill in with silt and gravel as it runs out.

Steven worked on his motorcycle today. He's got it on a cement block (oh, how redneck!!!) and has just taken off the front tire and is setting it aside. He had to replace the seals on the shock absorber. We also have a new tire for the front, which he'll be mounting when he's done with the seals. We also had to buy a new battery for the motorcycle.
It's worth keeping it running. It gets 50 mpg.

"Odie" thinks that being petted is more important than letting Steven work on the bike!