Shhhh…it is quiet right now. We went down to Punta Gorda today and it was amazingly quiet; I actually got through bank queues in record time. Everyone is laying low before the Christmas and New Year festivities. It is so nice just to experience this quiet…and back on the farm, none of the animals know about Christmas so it is nothing different. So, shhhh…don’t tell the geese it’s Christmas soon…they might get rowdier and demand a Christmas party!
Anyway we are preparing for Christmas:
We are going to roast a turkey in a huge dutch oven for Christmas and we have never done it before. So, tonight we are doing a test run with a chicken. Gnome is going to dig a pit, fill it up with coals and then stick the dutch oven in the hole and cover it up…kinda like an underground cast iron oven. We managed to find an 8lb chicken so I think we are going to be eating chicken sandwiches until Christmas day.
Anyway, I also would like to show my usual pictures of plants and vegetables around the farm:
What beautiful plants: tobacco. I just like looking at these plants; the leaves are so big and luscious. The flowers have a unique exotic floral scent that comes out on balmy nights:
Peanut butter fruit; when these ripen to a deep red colour, they taste just like peanut butter. The birds always get them so you need to get up early for these ones!
Vetiver: the roots are distilled to produce the classic vetiver essential oil. You need lots and lots of these plants to get a 1/2 oz of oil!
Can’t help it: I love looking at my vegetables! This is serosi or bitter gourd.
Ooooh, another butterfly. Aren’t they lovely…
Hope the chicken cooks well….
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