Schoonover Farm Blog

Here are images from the party yesterday at Jay and Russ’.

What an amazing game and win!!!!

Tuesday we went to Bellingham to get a new battery for my phone and try to get my laptop fixed.  I was able to get the battery, but my laptop is toast.  It is sad as I did a lot of work including this blog on that computer.

But since we were in Bellingham we stopped by the Marine Life Center.  It is about to undergo restoration and some of the big fish have been removed.  But it was still fascinating with the marine life that was there.  It was really fun to see.

We also saw the movie Lynden at the Pickford Film Center.  It was interesting to watch as well as thought provoking.  We got done just in time to pick up my phone.

Other than that we have been hanging on the farm.  Here are the hens that like to be fed bread treats on the shearing stand.

And the croci as blooming.  It seems early.  We have been pruning the fruit trees when the weather is decent and are almost done.

Last evening I made an Old-Fashioned Old-Fashioned from my Doctors and Distillers book.  Apparently in the late 1800’s bartenders were making improved cocktails with flavored liqueurs, sometimes multiple in the same drink.  Then in the 1880’s there was a backlash to this, and some drinkers started asking for an old-fashioned Whiskey Cocktail.  Then after the World Wars the Old-Fashioned “slipped again” with an orange slice and cherry muddled in the bottom, sometimes with soda water or Sprite used.  So after 2000 there was a backlash to this, and the Old-Fashioned Old-Fashioned started showing up in “better cocktail bars”.  So I tried this O-F O-F and liked it, but must say I like my grandfather’s better.  Give me an orange slice and a cherry any day!  But I learned that this was a trend after WWII when my grandfather was a young man.  I am curious now what his father’s favorite cocktail was like.

Today was more farm stuff.  I have been feeding the turnips and collard greens to the animals to give them some greens in their diet as well as bamboo from the orchard.  They all seem to appreciate it.

I have started watching the winter Olympics while weaving.  Yesterday was curling and downhill skiing.  Today was women’s hockey, snowboard big air, and more curling.

Today was the 2nd Burniversary.  It has been 2 years since the worst day of my life and I assume Tom’s too.  I remember hearing the explosion, seeing the fireball and then the screams.  I remember seeing him fighting intubation in the ER.  I remember watching him being flown away in a helicopter.  The long drive to Harborview.  And seeing him all bandaged up like a mummy in the Burn ICU.  Thankfully we made it through, and we are both doing great.  His only real scarring now is where the skin graft was placed on his upper right arm.  So thankful that it all turned out like it did.  But we have new respect for fire safety so this will never ever happen again.

Plus it is one year today that Roscoe leapt into Tom’s arms and asked to come in the house on a snowy day.  He has been in ever since.  He is turning into a chubby cat that loves to be petted.  He is usually very sweet when he wants petted, a light tap of the paw on your arm.  Here he is now in his favorite chair.  I woke him up for the photo so he looks a little tired.