Sunday, September 27, 2009

A Little Golf...at The IDAHO Club in Sandpoint, ID

The Idaho Club in Sandpoint, ID
Hole 16 break...waiting at the tee box
Hole 16 - jump the water and then dog-leg to the left

Jump the grass/marsh area and then dog-leg to the right

This might look like I was going to be coming in for a great drive but really it went straight into the grass just off the tee box and well I lost my fourth or fifth ball...oops!

Hole 5...NARROW!!! Oh yah, we lost at least two balls off of the tee box...

Friendly moose on the course...

The course was SUPER hard but A LOT of fun other than losing a billion balls but from what everyone else was saying...that is normal! Hope to play again soon.













Monday, September 21, 2009

Found a YUMMY recipe for all of our zucchini

Okay I found this recipe and boy is yummy!

Zucchini Banana Bread (makes great muffins (12) with a half recipe)

3c Flour
2c Quick Oatmeal
4t Baking Powder
2t Salt
2t Cinnamon (or more if you like more)
2 Large Bananas, mashed
1 1/2c Sugar
1 1/2c Oil
4 Eggs
3c Grated Zucchini
1t Vanilla
3/4c walnuts (optional)

Beat sugar and oil, then add eggs - Mix until creamy then add the mashed bananas and zucchini. Add in salt, cinnamon, vanilla. Then mix in the flour and quick oatmeal slowly (sort of folding it in to your mix), then add nuts if you like. Put mixture into a greased loaf pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 to 40 minutes - makes 3 to 4 pans.

I made a half portion and filled a regular size muffin tin (12) with the batter to the just about the top. I baked at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes - they were PERFECT and YUMMY! I wish I had a picture!

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Elk Farm in Rose Lake Area

On our way home from Missoula this weekend, we decided to make a short drive past an Elk Farm in the Rose Lake, ID area.

I had to take a picture of this Tom...I know, not an Elk! Maybe one day I'll get one...


The group of Elk at the farm, you can see the fence that keeps them in.

This is a wild Cow Elk that was outside of the fence. She was quite nervous about Earl, Kuuma and I in the car...she just wasn't too sure of us.



This is a video of a farmed Bull Elk that is "in love" with the wild Cow Elk outside of the fence. You can hear Earl and I sounding like the biggest dorks but you can also hear the Bull Elk bugle to the Cow Elk on the outside of the fence. They were both trying to figure out the best way to get to each other...LOVE.

All of the Bull Elk had their antlers trimmed down pretty short, we assume so they do not try to kill each other while they are in their fenced area this time of year. They tend to argue over the ladies a bit when they are in their rut.


Enjoy!

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Weekend at the Cabin - Front Porch Roof - THE BEGINNING...

Of course, a shot of Kuuma doing her "usual thing" at the cabin - on post waiting for chipmunks to run right in front of her face.

The first few TGI's in place

Earl taking time to smile for the camera

At the half way there point

We had a great system - Earl and Charlie would put the TGI's and spacer blocks in place, and Brian and I would cut the TGI's and spacer blocks to fit
See the next post below for the finished product!

Weekend at the Cabin - Front Porch Roof - FINISHED!

The view from the top of the TGI's all of the way across the roof line

Side view of the cabin and porch roof

All of us very happy we were able to finish - all in one day - with the TGI's

Earl and I up on the roof

Another roof shot!

Next, to finish putting down the plywood over the TGI's...


Sunday, August 16, 2009

We've struck Yukon Gold...

So we pulled up our Yukon Gold Potatoes because we were not sure if there was a "bug" or not...the plant was looking droopy and the leaves looked like they had been eaten on. The big ones are the size a baseballs and the small ones the size of walnuts. We hope there really wasn't a "bug" so we can enjoy our harvest!


Saturday, August 15, 2009

We've been canning...

Man oh man...cannig is a lot of work! We have cucumber and zucchini overload - we give a bunch away and we still have more than we can eat fresh. We canned last week, zucchini pickles, and this weekend, we canned the cucumber dill pickles and zucchini relish you can see above. There are four quarts and one pint of dill pickles and eight half-pints of relish.