Pure Country Kid

Cooking week 1! Potato soup and Coconut Cream Pie!

2010-10-20T19:37:00.005-05:00

The first day I made supper, I chose to do a simple potato soup, bread, and salad. For dessert I made a coconut cream pie, which was my favorite of the night. Here are the recipes:

Pennsylvania Dutch Potato Soup

2 cups diced potatoes
2 tablespoons onion
2 tablespoons margarine
2 tablespoons flour
2 cups milk
1/8 teaspoon celery salt
salt and pepper to taste

Boil potatoes in 1 cup water for 15 minutes or until tender. Brown onion on margarine; blend in flour. Add 1/2 cup milk. Simmer, stirring constantly, until thickened. Add flour mixture, seasonings and remaining milk to potatoes. Cook, stirring occasionally, until thickened.

Note from Rachel: this recipe is easy to make for a larger amount of people, this recipe feeds about two to three people, and I double it to feed six.

Italian Bread

1 package yeast
2 cups lukewarm water
1 tablespoon salt
6 cups flour

Soften yeast in lukewarm water in large bowl; stir in salt. Add flour gradually, mixing well. Turn dough onto floured surface; knead for 15 minutes. Place in greased bowl; cover. Let rise for 2 hours or until doubled in bulk. Turn onto floured surface; knead for 5 minutes. Divide dough into 2 parts; cover. Let rest for 10 minutes. Shape dough into long tapering loaves; place on baking sheet. Let rise for 1 hour. Bake at 425 degrees for 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees; bake for 20 minutes longer.

These recipes are from The Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Cooking.

Coconut Cream Pie

10-inch pie crust:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup shortening
3 tablespoons cold water

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Sift flour ans salt together into a mixing bowl. Cut in shortening with a pastry blender, or your fingers, until mixture resembles coarse corn meal. Sprinkle with water and gather dough together. Press firmly into a ball. Roll out into a circle 1 inch larger then the pie pan you will be using. Fit dough into pie pan and prick bottom and sides with a fork. Leave a generous amount of crust around pan and pinch to form a high, scalloped edge. Bake until crust is golden.

Pie Filling:

5 eggs
3/4 teaspoons salt
1 cup sugar
1 cup coconut flakes, or canned coconut
4 cups mild
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/3 cup cornstarch

Separate eggs, putting whites in a bowl big enough for them to be whipped. Put 3 cups mild into a saucepan over low heat but do not allow it to boil. Put sugar, salad, and cornstarch in a bowl. Stir in remaining milk, 1/4 at a time. Beat egg yolks with fork and stir them into sugar-milk mixture. Pour this mixture slowly into heating milk. Raise flame to medium and cook, stirring constantly, until thick. Add vanilla and coconut and mix well. Whip egg whites with 2 tablespoons sugar until stuff but not dry. Pour filling into baked pie shell. Spread meringue over filling. Bake meringue at 350 degrees until meringue turns golden. Be sure to watch your pie while baking the meringue because it will go from golden brown to burnt fast!

Note from Rachel: I loved this pie, and found it was pretty easy to make, just watch that meringue!

I found this recipe in Great Cooking Ideas.

Thanks so much for reading, and I hope you'll try one of the recipes! If you have any recipes for me to try, or tried one of mine, please comment and tell me about it!

~Rachel~
Kid Chef

I'm Back!

2010-10-16T17:18:00.003-05:00

Hey All,

Sorry for not posting in such a long time! I really have no excuse for it, just that I haven't had the get go to post anything. I'm just letting ya'll know that I'm going to be making a few changes to my blog. I'll be doing a series of posts about my cooking, and posting some of my favorite recipes. Over last summer I became really interested in cooking and am making supper once a week for my family. I will post my favorite recipes and what I've been doing lately about once a week. I'll post again soon!

Rachel

A random picture!

2010-01-25T09:55:00.003-06:00

I figured I should post something new since its been a while. So here is a picture from our vacation to South Dakota of a burro putting its head inside our van. Enjoy!
It was so funny they were so friendly!

~Rachel~

oops.....I really didn't mean to start that on fire.....

2009-12-01T14:51:00.012-06:00

You most likely got a hint from the title I kinda started an oil fire....again I'm going to have to say oops! Here's the story:

About 10am Monday, November 30, 2009

I'm taking the lid off of a small saucepan of boiling vegetable oil and moving it away when the oil went up in a burst of flames. I screamed when the wave of heat hit me. My sister 'Becca ran over and splashed water on a paper towel that had caught on fire but some of it hit the oil and up goes another burst. My grandma and grandpa then came running over because they heard me scream I guess. Grandma tells us to get out of the kitchen so we go into the dining room to wait for mom who then comes running over and grandma goes to call the fire department. By then my brother J.J. had come around the corner and saw the fire. Once he saw it he started crying right away thinking that he was going to die. He has gotten himself all worked up now and grandpa is putting salt on the oil which makes it flame up again. We finally get J.J. outside and try to calm him down when up drives our neighbor Mr. Bell, a firefighter, who got the message over his walkie talkie and came over to help. He asks if the fire is out yet and we said last we knew it wasn't. He went in and helped grandpa, who had already gotten it out, into his room away from the smoke. I went back into the house to get something I don't remember what but as I was going back out I walked by Mr. Bell and this was our conversation:

Me: oops! (in a very innocent tone)

Mr. Bell: Is that your mess? (or something like that)

Me: yep! (with a little bit of a grin on my face)

Mr. Bell just shook his head and I walked by him. I head out to the barn where mom and 'Becca had taken J.J. and the dogs to wait until it was ok to go back into the house. Before Mr. Bell left he came over to the barn to check on J.J. because he had been crying when he got there and wanted to make sure he was ok. He was fine he had just gotten a little scared, but honestly I would have been to if I had been 9 and walked around the corner into the kitchen and found a pan of oil flaming, so I don't blame him for getting scared. After the fire department left we went back into the house and looked to see if anything much got burnt and thankfully not much was ruined. Only a cutting board, a small saucepan, part of a ceiling fan, and the cover to the clock on the stove warped. Three cupboard doors had to be refinished because they were right over the stove and they turned black because of the smoke and fire, but Grandpa had that done within a day. We had to wash down the whole first floor of the house because of the ash, but washing it made it smear so now we have to repaint the kitchen and dinning room walls and the kitchen ceiling because of the flames. Did you know that ash can get inside closed cabinets? We had to clean out every single one of them because of it. Which means we had to wash every single piece of mom's china, plus everything in all the other cabinets. But other then a lot of the cleaning and some painting nothing other then the few things I mentioned earlier nothing was really destroyed or anything like that. I will post pictures of before cleaning and after cleaning in a few days!

~Rachel~

I'm leaving

2009-09-19T12:46:00.002-05:00

I think I'm going to take my blog off the charts but if I get to many people protesting about my leaving I might stay I will post again with the answer. I think I just might take a break until something exciting happends.

~Rachel~

Our new blog!

2009-08-27T09:27:00.001-05:00

Becca and I have created a readers blog! It is www.countryreaders.blogspot.com We will be posting about what books we like and recommend. I hope you enjoy!

~Rachel~

ahh....the joys of crashing bikes....awesome cuts!

2009-08-24T10:44:00.004-05:00

As you already guessed I crashed my bike.........into. . well, something. I'm not positive what I crashed into all I know is I ended up on the ground with a few cuts, and I had to ride five more miles home. I should back up a little bit in my story for you. Yesterday my brother J.J.(not his real name it's his nickname) wanted to prove to me that he could ride the whole five mile trail. We rode the trail twice, ending up being a little over 12 miles. We had already ridden over to our aunt's house and we were starting back on the trail headed for home. The trail starts with twisty hills so your going down while trying to make these turns. I didn't have my brakes on quite tight enough so I ended up on the ground with a few cuts. No biggie, it didn't hurt, I wasn't harmed, I just left a little skin on the trail was all! Here are a few pictures of my cuts.

Before I cleaned it after riding 5 more miles

cleaning it

after it was cleaned

cleaning it today

what it looks like now

There you go! Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

~Rachel~

State Fair!!!

2009-08-18T08:38:00.005-05:00

As I told you before Becca and I were selected to perform our dance at the state fair. We performed it last Sunday, it went really good and was alot of fun!!!! I have pictures from when we were wondering around the fair so here they are!

This was a miniature cow! I want one to go with our

Mini horses!

This is a Mini Silky Fainting Goat!!!!

I want one!!!!! It was really cute!!!

This is a Mini Donkey I want one of these

to go with our Mini horses also

These are two Alpaca's that were there

This is an Elk that they had there - I don't want

one of these!

This is the second place boar he weighed in at 1,071

I think. I know the owner's grandkids so that

was pretty cool!

This is the champion Big Boar I think he weighed 1,117

but I'm not sure about that.

This is the sign in the big bull pen.

The Big Black himself! He weighed in at 3,404 pounds

Pictures from Fair!!!!

2009-08-08T13:38:00.004-05:00

Hanging out before showing

Reserve Champion showmanship

Showing obedience

Modeling my outfit

Showing in Rally Class

Dancing for Share the Fun!!!

We got Selected for State!!!

Doing rabbit showmanship

Showing rabbits! Sorry I'm blinking!
I will try to find a better picture later and

put it up.

The Chair that I refinished!

There you go! that was my fair week in a VERY short version!!

~Rachel~

3 reds, 26 blues, 3 purple, 5 honorable mention, 3 participation - ah the joys of fair!!!!

2009-08-04T17:17:00.008-05:00

As I told you before I had to catch up on sleep before I posted. . . I'm fully awake now....finally, so here goes:

Saturday: Judging day!

On Saturday I woke up at 6:30 am and started to prepare myself for the hectic day, Then I waited until Becca got home from babysitting the neighbors and we got started. First we picked the vegetables, then we chose what vegetables went to fair which ones that looked alike, same size etc. blahblahblah . . . we do that for each vegetable that's 11 times!!!!! Plus we have to do the market basket.

Finally we loaded everything into the van and off we go!!! Time to face the judges!!! It took about 4 and a half to 5 hours to get all 30 of my non-animal projects judged. After everything is judged we get to go home and relax until the next day, or so we thought. When we got home it turns out that Dad had picked all three rows of the beans so we got to snap beans when we got home.

Sunday: Taking animals to the fair grounds!

We would usually go to church but since we had the beans snapped we had to can them so we got to listen to the canner rattle all day instead. That evening we had to take the animals into the fair grounds and volunteer at the pizza and pop stand!!! So we loaded up the 9 rabbits and 7 chickens and took off! We got there, unloaded the rabbits, put the chickens in their cages and started over to the pizza and pop stand. We volunteered there for an hour and a half then we got to go home!!!!!

Monday: Dog Show, Fashion Show

We got to the fair grounds at about 7:45am and checked in our dogs for the show. We went and got our show numbers, pinned them on our arms and waited for the show to start. We did run over to the bunny barn and chicken barn to do chores while mom held the dogs in the South Arena for us. The show started at 9:15am and ended at 3:00pm - that was a long day for the dogs! I received 3rd in obedience, 3rd in agility, and Reserve Champion in showmanship -although I had won it last year so I couldn't win it again this year so I did as good as I could. At 5:00pm we had the fashion show - that's always a drag we have to walk across the stage and model an outfit. I'm not one to have all of the attention pointed at me so I don't really enjoy that part of the fair so much. After that we hung around for the queen contest - that's always alot of fun to watch. We FINALLY got to go home after that.

Tuesday: Dog Show, Pet Show, Share the Fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You might be asking why is there another dog show? Well, now we have the rally class. Guess what?!?!?!? I won Champion Junior Rally Class!!!!!!! I received a trophy and everything for it! It was cool!!!!!!!! I also had the pet show at the same time, I received a purple ribbon for my rabbit.

Later on that day Becca and I had Share the Fun!!!!!!!! We did an Irish Step Dance called Battle of the Sisters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was SOOOOOOOOOOOO much FUN!!!!!!!!!! We were selected to go the Iowa State Fair and perform it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!

Wednesday: Rabbit show!!!!!!!!

The rabbit show is always alot of fun!!!!! We always have a good time hanging out during it, we tend to chose someone to poke fun at and this time it was Lee. He stuck his rabbit up his shirt and it would pop out his neckhole or arm hole it was sooo funny!!!! I received a blue and 1st place senior doe Holland Lop but didn't receive best of breed and a red for fur because she was shedding.

Thursday: NOTHING!!!!!!!!!HANGING OUT!!!!!!!!HAVING FUN!!!!!!!!!!

That says it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Although we did have awards and stuff but mostly we just hung out and had fun!!! I did hurt my ankle some how while moving. It its still a little stiff but it is better now!!!! Dad came with the white van at 5 and we loaded up the rabbits and chickens and he headed home with them. He came back at 8 and we loaded up our two vans worth of projects at 8pm. Oh and don't forget the fireworks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was fun!!!!!!!

~Rachel~

(I will post pictures in a few days)

Motorcycle ride!

2009-07-24T09:15:00.004-05:00

Ok I know I said that I wouldn't be able to post until after fair but I've got a spare moment and I wanted to share about my crazy uncle. My uncle got a Harley! I know most of you won't care about this but I like motorcycles and hope to have one when I'm older... (it has to be after I'm grown and on my own says my parents!) Here are a few pictures of me on it. My uncle gave me a ride about a mile down the road and back. It was fun!

byebye!

My posture isn't the best in this picture but I think I
was laughing so that can explain it!

I'm still here!

2009-07-22T08:29:00.003-05:00

OK so I thought I would let you know that I'm still alive, but won't be posting for at least another week. I'm finishing up 4-H projects this week and then the fair is next week. It ends on the 30th so I hope to post as soon as I've caught up on sleep and can type! Haha I'm kidding about the typing but not about sleeping. I will let you know all of my placings in shows and such soon!

~Rachel~

Pictures from one of the storms

2009-06-29T15:41:00.005-05:00

So here are some pictures I took of an on-coming storm one evening a week or so ago.

Those were just some of the pictures I took. We just got a lot of wind and some rain but not very much. It did get cooler after the rain went through.

~Rachel~

Update on Grandpas arm

2009-06-29T15:25:00.005-05:00

Its almost healed! FINALLY! So there is only one spot that is still a scab now. My picture isn't the best but it will do.

See the scar isn't it cool?

~Rachel~

update on grandpas arm

2009-06-13T12:35:00.003-05:00

I told you I would put a new picture of Grandpa's arm up on my blog so here it is.

Its looking better!

I don't have much to say right now so I will let this entertain you for a while.

~Rachel~

What Grandpa did to his arm and how to skin a catfish

2009-06-08T15:38:00.006-05:00

Thursday night while 'becca and I were at dog Grandpa had a little accident with the belt sander. What happened was that Grandpa was holding the sander upside down because he was sanding a handle. Well the handle preceded to slip and.......now all of those that use sanders can just imagine this happening.......he got part of his arm ripped off. Now most of you will be saying gross but I've gotten used to it by now. This was the first time that its happened with a sander most of the time its just a knife or something like that but as people say there's always a first for everything! So here is a picture. You don't have to look at it if you don't want to but you can.

Kinda gross right? This is after 4 days so it looks
a little better. I thought I shouldn't put a REALLY
gross picture on.

Just a lesson learned for everyone - NEVER have a sander between your legs and sanding something - you can see why not!

So I received 3 votes yes to put up the story of how we skin the catfish. So here goes.

First you take the fish and hit it on the head with a hammer until it doesn't move
Second you cut the skin all the way around the fish right in front of the fin
Third you nail the fish to a table or board whatever your using
Fourth you pull the skin off the fish
Fifth you cut of the flays
Sixth you wash the flays
Seventh you cook the fish
Eighth you enjoy a catfish dinner!!!

There you go!!! I'll keep you posted on what happens and put up a new picture of grandpas arm in about a week.

~Rachel~

1 and a.....flip

2009-05-31T18:03:00.006-05:00

We went fishing in our pond the same day that we caught the snakes. We caught 10 cats and some bluegills and a few bass I think. The largest cat I caught was 1 and 3/4 pounds.
Sorry the one fish is kinda blurry I guess it moved
when we took the picture.

We had those cats for supper that night. They tasted kind of how the pond smelled but other than that they were pretty good. I won't bore you with the details of how you clean the fish unless I get enough comments telling me they want to know.

~Rachel~

Snakes!!!!

2009-05-25T14:33:00.005-05:00

Ok so we were fishing for catfish this morning in our pond. 'becca had gotten a fish on the hook but the line had broken. So the fish got away with hook, bobber and all. A little later my brother saw the bobber come up to the top so we figured we'd better get it back. Mom and I pushed the boat into the pond and JJ (his nick name) and I jumped in and started for it. We got it and as we were on our way back to the shallow end when Fritzy one of our dogs started to yip and bark at something so mom went over to see what it was and it was a four foot long snake!!!! Mom called for my dad and he came over with a net and 'becca brought a bucket. This whole time JJ and I are going bonkers because we are stuck on the pond not getting to see it and everything so JJ literally jumped out of the boat onto the deep end (of water) bank. Well I decide that's as good as anything so I follow while mom holds the boat still. I was bare foot so I went over to get my shoes as mom starts to pull the boat twards the shallow end of the pond. Well the excitement wasn't over yet!!! I went and put on my flip flops and as I was walking back up the bank....I almost stepped on another snake!!!! I let out a little ahhh but JJ's was more a AHHHHH and quite a bit more high pitched which got me laughing!!! So as it turned out I almost stepped on the bigger of the two!!! Dad said it was about 5 feet long! The other snake was only about 4 feet long. So I ran up and called our uncle who likes snakes and stuff like that. He came about an hour later to get them and said that they were Fox snakes. When he looked at them we got a picture of the larger one.

So there was our excitement for today!!!!

~Rachel~

Picture of my arm!!!!

2009-05-12T11:24:00.002-05:00

I voted for Shawn Johnson and her partner Mark on Dancing with the Stars last night!!!!!! I voted for them 10 times!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 on our phone and 5 on my grandmas and grandpas phone!!!! I hope they get through tonight's elimination!!!!!!!!!!

~Rachel~

Pictures from Recital

2009-05-12T10:41:00.003-05:00

These boys played the Darling boys in our recital.
Left to Right (who they played in the recital):
Adult Michael, Young John, Adult John, Young Michael

Is Angel just cute?????

Darling Jenny!!!!!

Livia was eating when we took this picture!!!!

we look better in this one!!!!!

These were pictures from our recital. The theme this year was Remembering Neverland so like remembering childhood. It was ALOT of fun!!!!!! We were in the Irish Step Suite. Our opening piece of the suite was that we were celebrating our grandmas birthday (grandma was played by Miss Ellis who is the director of the studio). It was sooooooo much fun!!!!!!!!!!!! I still won't quit talking about it!!!!!!!!!! (as you can already see). Then the beginning Irish Dancers danced Siege of Ennis with help from the teachers assistants Rebecca, Anne, and Sarah. Then the Intermediate Irish Dancers danced the Family Knot with help from Olvia and I. Then our troupe danced Afternoon with the Cousins. I personally think that our dance was the best!!!!!!!!!! (Of course I like my class best!) I lifted Jenny, Rebecca lifted Anne, and Olvia lifted Sarah in part of the dance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We all had huge smiles on our faces after we were done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As you can see I REALLY enjoyed it and can't wait to do it again!!!!!!!!!!!

Italian Dinner Pictures and Story

2009-04-25T12:10:00.004-05:00

You know what happens when you misread a recipe? You end up grating chocolate chips. Most of you are going to be laughing your head off but it wasn't that funny!!!

The finished Tiramaisu

Ravioli

Gotta have the pepper in the soup!!!

The soup once it was all done!!!

These pictures are from the Italian dinner that my family and I made. Our menu was:

Bruschette

Fruit Balls

Fettucine Alfredo

Ravioli

Barley Soup with Sausage

Granita di limone

Tiramisu

Biscotti

We had planed on doing a little Irish step dancing for our guests for our after dinner entertainment but those plans were changed. Just as we were going to have our Biscotti two of our mini horses ran down our driveway. I will spare you all of the details but I will say that it didn't take but about 30 minutes to get them and take them home at the most. So once we got them home we were to tired to dance so we decided to save that for another time.

~Rachel~

2009-04-20T11:35:00.008-05:00

Here are some Cowgirl pic's that we took this winter.

I like this one!!!!!

You know me just had to put something goofy on!!!

I just had to put this pic of me on here!!! I love it!!!

Here are some pic's of us dancing at a performance.

This is us dancing Ferry Reel with special guest Jason.
It was a lot of fun dancing with him!!!!

This is us dancing Four Hand Reel

The end of Four Hand Reel

Going..........

Going............

Gone.........

OK so sorry for not posting in a while.....OK so maybe its been a little longer for than a while. But let's just forget about that!!! We cut down the cedar trees to avoid cedar apple rust in our apple trees.

I have a few stories to tell

2009-02-28T17:38:00.006-06:00

First of all sorry, for not posting in a while. I have been pretty busy as you will be able to tell in this post. OK, so I'm getting ahead of myself. I will have to start on Tuesday, February 10th . That was the day my aunt and uncle left for Florida and we got to watch their dog Bella for ten days. It was going well until I let them outside on Wednesday the 18th. I went to check on them after about 30 minutes and they weren't anywhere in the yard. When you find out that your aunt and uncle's dog and your dog is missing it isn't fun. So we (my sister and I) go outside and start calling them. I walk out into the neighbors field and up onto their hill all of this time I am calling and thinking what do I tell them if the dogs don't show up? I start walking back to the house because I hadn't put a coat on and was starting to get a little chilly. I went in and called my mom (who was in town) and told her what happened. She said just to keep calling their names and they would come back hopefully. So that was what happened. Rebecca (my sister) went out and kept calling their names while I prayed that both of them would come back safe and sound and soon enough I heard the dogs collars jingling so I rushed down the stairs and there they were! I had to give Bella a bath because she had gone swimming in the creek with the geese and got all muddy. While most of this was going on I was also thinking on what had happened a year ago that day. My very first rabbit Floppy had died. His life is a whole other post so I'll do that some other day for now though I have another story to tell this time about our mini horses.

So a week after that happened at about 8:30am I was just going to go and do school and I got a call for our neighbor (not the one with the field). I answered just how I always do except I heard one the the last things that I wanted to hear. It was: your mini horses are running down the middle of the road. So since I was the only one home (Rebecca was in town with Mom) other than our grandparents I asked if he could help me catch them and he said sure. So I went and called to my grandparents that the horses were out and I had to go and catch them. I stuffed my feet in the closest boots that were there and ran out the door and into the barn, grabbed the halters and lead ropes and started running down the drive way. As I was running I was looking to see where they were and I saw that the traffic had stopped on either side of the road down a ways. So as you can guess I started running, I jumped into our neighbors car as he pulled out of his driveway and we were off. So once we got to where the horses had stopped I jumped out and went over to Storm who doesn't like vehicles and was stopped in fright in the middle of the road. I guided him off the road and then he took off before I could get his halter on him. So then they didn't quit running until they ran into a fence. Which was about 3/4th's of a mile away from our house. So I started running and then one our 4-H members mom pulled up beside me and offered me a ride, I said thanks and jumped in. Once the horses stopped running, I jumped out of her car before it had even slowed down and headed toward the horses. Have I mentioned that there were three? Thunder, Lightning, and Storm. So as soon as I got near them they would take a big circle around me before I could get a hold of one of them. Finally I did get a hold of Thunder and put his halter on him and our neighbor tied him to an electric poll. Then Storm went in the houses fenced in yard. He stopped to eat and that gave me just enough time to get a hold of him and put his halter on him and then proceed to tie him to a fence post. So then that left Lightning the Blonde. Sorry, but I just had to say that. Because he is blonde and he is stupid. So he just kept on running......After a while he went into the yard that Storm had gone into and was running around in there (it was a pretty big yard and it lead back to the lake). So after a while he went and found the opening to the lake and he was smart enough to know not to go onto the lake. So he went back up to where Storm was and got himself stuck in Storm's rope so that gave me just enough time to get a hold of him and get his halter on. Then our neighbor took him and tied him to another electric poll. Then we went and got his tractor and drove it to them and hooked up Thunder and Storm. Then just as we were hooking up Lightning the sheriff pulls up. He said he got a call that there were some horses lose and running up the road but he was given the wrong road number so he was a little late getting there. He asked if we needed any help getting them back and I said that I thought that we would have it under control. We went slow and we were doing really good until there was a dead cat that got Storm started because he doesn't like smaller animals. So he started to get a mad and stomp on it so I had to go over and comfort him. That part was the only funny part to me. So just as we were almost home my grandparents pulled out of the driveway and I was like well their a little late! (Grandpa and Grandma didn't hear what I said and didn't think about it again until Grandma realized she hadn't seen me in a long time) So we got all of the horses back into the barn and Lightning got a big boot in his behind as he went in. So there you go, that was what happened. The dogs are safe in the right homes and the horses are safe in their nice warm barn. All and all it was about an hour and half from the time Mr. Bell called and we got the horses back to the barn!

Next post I'll talk about chickens!

Rachel

I won't be posting for a while

2009-02-13T16:15:00.002-06:00

OK so our computer is going to the shop and we won't be getting it back until next week so I won't to posting until at least Tuesday. Sorry for not posting all that much.

Goofy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-01-31T12:26:00.006-06:00

OK so maybe I was a little bored that day.........or maybe I just wasn't with it........maybe I didn't get enough sleep that night........I think it was all of the above!!!!!!!!!

more New York pics

2009-01-29T15:39:00.002-06:00

I put this on for a few coffee lovers I know(possibly including me)

New York Pics

2009-01-29T15:12:00.002-06:00

the shadow of Empire State Builing taken from the 86th floor

some building in New York City

the twin towers were here

2009-01-29T15:06:00.003-06:00

where the twin towers used to be

I went to New York City this fall and here is a pic.

Winter pictures

2009-01-23T15:38:00.009-06:00

Liam snowboarding

Isn't this snowball busting on Liam cool?

Jack loves snow ALOT!

Jonathan crashed!

Liam crashed into Jonathan!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while but here are some pictures of sleding and snowball fights.

My supper

2009-01-08T18:11:00.003-06:00

So I wanted to make supper and I didn't really know what to make so I made up a recipe. I know that isn't something you hear coming from a 12 year old every day. So this is what I did: told my mom that I wanted to cook and she said that was fine and for me to write a list of what I needed so she could pick it up for me. So I ended up making applesauce cake for the desert and Bruschette for the side with lemon herb chicken as the main dish. Bruschette is basically toasted bread with tomatoes, garlic, and olive oil. I found a recipe for the Bruschette and the applesauce cake(thankfully). I asked my dad if he could help and he of course said he could. Then he asked what he was suppose to do and I said I didn't know. He then asked what the recipe was and I said that I was making it up. He just gave me a weird look like do you really know what you are doing? So I juiced the lemons and added the herbs to the juice (dad had been browning the chicken as I did this) then we added the juice to the chicken and let it simmer while we made the Bruschette. So we completed the Bruschette without too many mishaps and the meal was done! I had made the cake earlier in the day. So everyone liked the chicken, Bruschette, and Applesauce cake and if I say so myself it was pretty good!

~Rachel~ (as my dad and grandpa now call me Chef Rachele')

2008

2008-12-30T16:18:00.000-06:00

So this year has been pretty busy for me. I went on two vacations this year! One to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Canada and the other to New York City! Plus I was and I am still busy in 4-H, this year I took 27 non-animal projects and 1 dog and 3 rabbits. My sister and I also did Share the Fun which is a fun talent show for the 4-H'ers to show their talent. Three of the groups go on and perform at the state fair, my sister and I were chosen to advance and danced at the state fair.