It's raining, it's pouring.....

[tabaqui]

And it's lovely, if a bit detrimental to our basement. Ah, well. It's also rather chilly, which means i'm doing the ever-so-fashionable socks+slippers combo. Whoo!



Yesterday was a trip south-east (about forty-five minutes) to where my mom in law lives. She has a 'farm', with a number of garden plots, a greenhouse (home made), goats, chickens, guinea fowl, ducks, a lamb, and three dogs.

Two people in the family were having a birthday this month, and one person just graduated from High School, so we were having a sort of celabratory-mashup BBQ and visit. It was quite nice! Ate good food, visited with all the family, saw the nearly-100 chicks that just hatched in the last three days, and watched the cousins plus my SO and his brother play Frisbee with, like...five Frisbees. Hehe. It got *very* chilly - yay for hoodies! - and the sunset was gorgeous.

Came home with about five-dozen eggs, including a dozen green ones from the Easter chickens, and a dozen duck eggs. Can't wait to try them! Soon, i'm promised some strawberry plants. And there was no drama-llama! Always good (if not usual).

I was going to do that fic-meme-thing that trishabooms and sweptawaybayou both tagged me in, but i can't brain today.

Instead, I leave you with the link to my Tumblr (where i basically reblog the pretty and fannish stuff i like, so i'll have it all collected somewhere). First person who gets the url/title gets an internet cookie. :)

CheyneLightning

Comments

[arliss]

Followed you. I'm arliss there, too.

[tabaqui]

Hee! Okay. Um - it's not terribly exciting, but...you might find some other Tumblrs you like via my rebloggs. :)

[arliss]

No drama llama here. Mostly landscapes, waterfalls, micro-still lifes, the occasional terminally cute animal, and a good bit of fandom. Some serious topics, too, but mostly the serene. "Tumblr is my balm for the abrasions of life."

[tabaqui]

Niiiiiice. :) I mostly am there for eye candy, nature, and art. Well, and the White House and historycrushes, heh.

[blueswan]

Hurray for fun drama-free family gatherings.

I'm following you, in case you wonder why justasmidgeonofthis suddenly showed up. I'm into reblogging pretty stuff myself.

[tabaqui]

Yes, yay! Always nicer when the drama-llama does not appear!

Heh, okay. I don't reblog a lot, so i might be pretty boring to follow. But then, if you're following a lot of different things, you won't notice how seldom i reblog! :)

[crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com]

Baby chicks!! No drama!! Frisbees!! Critters!! And what is UP with the weather we're having here in the middle? It's hot and it's cold, it's up and it's down. Basically, it's a Katy Perry song in the Midwest.

[tabaqui]

*snickers madly*

I know! This time last year it was triple digits outside. Just...wtf.

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

Family BBQ!

Sometimes a great thing!


I'm convinced the Tumblr is not for senior citizens. *be all dizzy and woo*

[tabaqui]

Sometimes! :)

Heeee. It's not bad if you treat it as visual media. It's there for pretty art and eye-candy, and that is *it*. You can't discuss, talk, or debate, you can only 'heart' and reblogg and move on.

Which, you know, sometimes is cool. Sometimes i *like* just looking at pictures from fuckyeahhistorycrushes and mydaguerreotypeboyfriend and spn_batcave. No brain required.

[stir-of-echoes.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you had a lovely day. Plus chicks, they're so cute and fluffy and I like them very much.

At first I thought it said home made goats, chickens, guinea fowl, ducks, a lamb, and three dogs then I realised my lack of sleep brain read it wrong :)

[tabaqui]

They are cute! I loved all the little 'peep peep peep'ing.

*snerk*

Home-made goat. That would be...well, a disaster, on my part. All crooked with one leg shorter and the eyes all funny. :)

[angels3.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a great visit!

[tabaqui]

Thanks! It was since to sit under the trees and just chat.

[corbyinoz.livejournal.com]

Righto - green eggs?? I'll ask. And it all sounds like a great time.

[tabaqui]

Heee! Oh, i should have been more clear. They're just green *shells*. Like they were dyed for Easter. The egg inside is the same color as regular eggs.

[anelith.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a good time was had by all! We sometimes buy eggs from a local farm and it's so fun to open the box and see what colors we got. There are often green ones but on very lucky occasions we get some with a pale cranberry color. I wish I had more sensitive taste buds because I'm sure a more refined palate could tell them apart by taste, but I just like the pretty colors.

[tabaqui]

It was! We all remarked upon how nice it was that mom-in-law hadn't gone of the deep end over something, as she is wont to do.

I think the eggs being colors are *so* neat. I'm going to have to take a picture of the green ones, because the range of greens is awesome.

I dunno if they *do* taste different. I don't think so. Now the duck eggs, though - they could very well have a different flavor. Mom-in-law says no, but then...she smokes. So we shall see.

[tortilla_lady.livejournal.com]

I love baby chicks, used to chase them when I was little and would try to catch them. It was a game to keep us occupied while they slaughtered the pig. My uncle lived on a ranch that still did things very rustic-like. Not much electricity was used and almost everything they ate was home grown/produced. Little city girl me would have cried when the pig was killed, lol.

The eggs sound awesome, pictures would be cool. So glad you had a good time and there was no drama. It is always great when you hang with fam/in-law fam and no drama appears. (Except when the drama doesn't involve you, is funny, and makes for a great story) ^_^

[tabaqui]

My youngest niece was there (not quite two) and she was *intent* on catching a duck. Man, did she want a duck, heh.

It is nice! Moar family stuff like *that*, please. :)

[uninv1ted.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I would love to try duck eggs!

Your mom's place sounds brilliant.

[tabaqui]

I know! I want to try them, too, i hope they're tasty.

Well, mom-in-law. It's a bit more work than i wanna deal with on a daily basis, but she and my sis-and-law like that sort of stuff, so....
:)

I'll take all the fresh eggs and tomatoes they'll give me.