Citrus Season
It’s citrus season here at Chiot’s Run. Since it’s is season in more temperate regions, we order up boxes of various kinds of citrus to brighten up our days. Right now I’m enjoying Rio Red grapefruit from G & S Groves in TX. Grapefruit is my all time favorite kind of citrus to eat. I also got a box of Valencia oranges for Mr Chiots, which is his favorite.
I’m also working on a box of Meyer lemons from Lemon Ladies Orchard (we’ll be doing a giveaway in a few little bit). Earlier this week I made a batch of lemon curd and it’s AMAZING.
Of course with all the citrus I’m making gallons of my citrus infused vinegar to get me through the cleaning year (see my post about it here).
There’s something so happy about citrus, I LOVE it. Perhaps it’s my tropical roots, or maybe it’s just because it really does brighten up a cold winter day!
What’s your favorite kind of citrus?
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Friday Favorite: The Brown Chiots
It’s hard to believe that the Brown Chiots is 12 years old now. Or at least she will be in the next week or so, we’re not sure when exactly she was born, we got her at the local dog pound in early March and were told she was 7-8 weeks old at the time.
The day after we got her she got sick, really sick. Turned out she had Parvo. It was the weekend and the vet told us to try to make sure she got enough fluids through the weekend and to bring her in on Monday morning if she survived. She made it through the weekend and on Monday morning to the vet she went. They kept her for 2 days and gave her IV fluids and then she came home almost back to 100%. It’s amazing she survived.
She drove us absolutely CRAZY when she was pup, but that’s what puppies do. She ran away, dug holes in the garden, ate plants and did all sorts of destructive things. She was great as far as house training though, never once soiling indoors. She also was fantastic at not tearing things up, she never once ate a shoe or tore up anything she wasn’t supposed to.
Her only vice was tearing up all tissues that didn’t make it into the garbage can. Those she would frolic and play with throwing them around until they were in thousands of tiny shreds all over the floor.
Then at 2 years old she matured into the best dog ever and has been that way ever since. She’s the garden namesake, as she used to love to run around the garden. She still does, though at a much slower pace in her old age. She’s closing in on being the oldest pet we’ve had. There was a cat named Jeffrey that I got in high school who lived to 13 before getting cancer.
What’s the longest lived pet you’ve had?
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Jack Frost
Jack Frost visited my windows the night before last and left this beautiful pattern, it’s unlike any window frost I’ve ever seen. It’s simply stunning!
The super cold weather we’ve been having has been keeping us on our toes, closing blinds at night trying to keep the heat in and the cold outside where it belongs. The other night it was -9 when we were arriving back at home from being out – BRRRR – that’s a little chilly. No doubt some of you see these temps all the time.
What’s the coldest it gets in your area of the country?
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Hello 2014
I hope you woke up this morning with a feeling of hope for the coming year.
It’s a new year – make the most of it!
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JINXED
Well, we did it – we jinxed ourselves. On our podcast on Sunday evening we were talking about how our chicken coop had barely escaped a HUGE branch that fell in the big ice storm. Monday morning when I went out to the coop I saw this:
Yep a big branch right through the side. At least it wasn’t too bad, I will still be able to open the door when the ice melts. We’ve been wanting to rebuild the run anyways, now it looks like that task is going to be moved to the top of the list. We’re considering a hoop house type structure instead of this wood framed one, we’ll see what ends up getting built.
Have you ever had any damage to property from storms?
