Hello everyone, Pekoe is doing just fine, she is getting 2 daily doses of a liquid antibiotic, she doesn’t fight me about taking it though I suspect it’s not her favorite thing in the world…

Now on to more fun stuff, I am always looking for easy ways to make foods from scratch, one of my favorite foods is noodles, yes, they are cheap and easy enough to buy from the store, but what if you want to make something that calls for noodles, and you are out of noodles? What if going to the store is out of the question? Well, I ran across an easy recipe for egg noodles, they are made with just a few ingredients that most of us will have around the house, who doesn’t have regular flour, eggs, salt and water??? The best part is you do not need any fancy equipment. I do own (and use) a pasta machine, one of those little gadgets that you clamp to the table and crank, crank, crank your pasta dough through, I love mine! I use it for other things besides pasta, I have been known to make tortillas with it too…

The pasta machine is NOT necessary to make this recipe. Here is where I got the recipe from and a copy of the recipe:

https://www.associatedcontent.com/article/470394/how_to_make_homemade_egg_noodles.html?cat=22

It has been brought to my attention that the article that I copied and pasted here, might not actually be copyrighted by the author who wrote it, when she published it to Associated Content, it became their content, and even through I gave a complete link to the site and a prompt to visit it, in order to be ethical, I will have to remove the majority of this message, I will leave the recipe (re-written to avoid any copyright issues), please visit the link to see the entire message, it’s worth reading.

Homemade Egg Noodles

4 eggs
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1/8 cup of water

You will need a cutting board, a deep mixing bowl, a fork, a large serrated knife and a rolling pin. Get some newspapers or brown paper bags for drying the noodles.

These measurements are approximate, with any dough, you will need to go by the feel of the dough.

Break the eggs into a bowl, whip them with your fork, add the water and salt, mix well. Add 1 cup flour and stir until blended. Stir in the rest of the flour a little at a time until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. You

Here are some pictures, just to update everyone on what’s going on here on the mountain.

In the garden, the garden is growing very well, the peas have run their course and are looking a bit tattered, I left the remaining peas on the vines to dry and I will plant those for a fall crop. Here is a picture of most of the garden.

These are the broccoli, they are just now putting on heads (the GOOD part!), I planted more but they haven’t come up yet.

The lettuce is going crazy, these are over a foot tall, I pick ONE plant, I break it off a couple of inches from the ground and that is enough for 2 individual salads. It’s hard to see, but there are a few okra plants peeking through, they are the ones with the purple stems. You can also see bush beans in the background.

The summer squash is starting to do something, finally! But it seems that I may have more than I can eat…

These are the cutest watermelons I have ever seen! They are small, individual sized watermelons, since we had limited space, I trained them up a trellis, so I had to support the fruit.

We have been having lots of rain, the creek is running here.

This is the creek and in the background you can see a volcanic plug, I understand that we live in a caldera, fortunately the volcanic activity ceased a L O N G time ago…

One of the interesting cacti that grows around here.

A tiny, tiny wildflower.

I was told that there is a mountain orchid growing around here, I have tried to find out more info on them, I thought I had found them only to learn that it was not the orchid, I asked what it looked like and was told, I would know it when I saw it, it’s very unique looking and will not look like anything else.

Well, I think I found it, this was growing between my neighbor’s property and our property, it’s growing up inside a rock wall (no mortar, it’s dry stacked), I have to assume this is the mountain orchid in question, it’s a rare plant and is supposed to only grow here, anyhoo, here are the images, the plant is about a foot tall, the flowers are the size of a quarter. The entire plant is purple, the stem and the leaves(?) are the same color, the flower is a lighter shade of purple.

A distant view of the house. The original (main) part is on the right, the bedroom addition is in the middle, and on the left is the deck.

This is the bedroom addition, this picture was taken on the north facing side of the house, this room has lots of windows and it’s own door to go in …

Good news! I went to another vet in another town, it’s farther away, but the quote I got from them will be quite a bit easier on the old pocketbook! It should be $200 or less, and she wouldn’t have to spend the night at the vet, I will have to take her in 2x, , the first time will be to get her vaccinations (dernit!) and start a round of antibiotics, the next appt will be for the teeth cleaning, extractions and such. I’m going to call them tomorrow and set her first appt for next Monday, a friend that lives out here is taking me, she takes her dogs there and is very happy with this vet.

WOOT!!!

Here are some pix of Pekoe, much the same way we consider our children, I think she is the cutest dog in the whole world, but that is how it’s supposed to be :) I took these pix today, she is a very happy and fairly healthy dog, she just needs her teeth taken care of and she will have lots of years left in her.

Wretha

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Well, this is the 100th post, woo hoo!

I just received some pix from my dil of her pregnant belly (that’s my grand daughter in there!) and my son, I am so proud of both of them!

Now for the funnies:

This is Baby Girl, used to belong to my son and dil, now she belongs to my Dad, she is half pomeranian and half chihuahua. She is sporting a fresh haircut, she took after the pom side and normally has fluffy/puffy long hair.

My son playing in a store, I don’t know, can you see a resemblance between him and Baby Girl???

My son wearing a wig, kinda cute, huh? Hope none of his Army buddies see this! :)

My Dad, I just don’t know where my son gets his sense of humor…

Wretha

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Hello all, I have come to the conclusion that I need to take my little dog to the vet, she is a long haired Chihuahua, her name is Pekoe. She is 9 years old, she has been my companion and baby for a long time. She is a very healthy dog with the exception of her teeth, typical of Chihuahuas, she has developed teeth problems, they need to be cleaned, she has several loose teeth that will have to be pulled, and she has an infection in her mouth.

I am asking, for those of you who wish to help (and if you don’t want to or can’t that’s OK too) for donations to offset the vet bill, I called the vet and found out it would cost between $300 and $400 to get this taken care of, it may be higher than that because she is not current on her shots and they will want to do that too (though I would prefer NOT to do that part, I think the law forces us to get rabies shots for our dogs). Anyhoo, if you wish to help, please consider donating, any amount is OK, 100% of all donated funds will go toward this bill (with the exception of what PayPal takes for their fees).

I hope to be able to take her to the vet on Monday Aug 11.

Wretha

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