11/6/19
(Above: The interesting thing about pea seeds is that they are merely shriveled up peas.)
(8:19 PM Preface): I’ve been attempting to put together the video tour today, but it has thus far been to no avail. Two hours have elapsed, but all I have to show for it is about ten megabytes of the video uploaded. Ten out of two-hundred and eighty four. To add to this, it took about 20 minutes to upload images for this post. Needless to say, I’m pretty fed up with this whole situation at the moment, and I’m pretty sure that this isn’t Walden. I still wonder if I must give up the internet – or at least its daily use – to find that elusive place.
Active Summary: After Padre and I completed our morning beef pasture check, I returned to Jacobhouse, made bread dough, and then wrote for a little over an hour. This was followed by my baking the bread, tending to a Master Blend customer, and then finished off the morning by fixing the bathroom’s pocket door. The lattermost activity took a little bit of time, but I was able to find a solution that did not involve glue: wire ties*.
(6:27 PM Update): This afternoon, I began taking footage for the Jacobhouse tour, helped out on the farm for a while, and then procured the garden-seed shipment from Old-house.
TIL: Today I learned how to cook and eat (pre-cleaned) soft-shelled crab. To cook the crabs (6 of them), I dredged each in a mixture of flour, salt, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, and paprika. Next, I tossed some butter in a cast iron skillet pre-heated to medium. The crabs followed, and I covered the pan with a lid. The cooking time was 8 minutes total and ended with my pulling them off when they had turned a bright red. To feast upon the crabs, I placed them on the morning’s fresh, homemade bread with lettuce, tomato, and a sauce made via mixing mayonnaise with Harbison bread-n-butter pickles.
Commentary: Well, I made a tour video today, but I only have access to some ridiculously slow internet, so all that I’ll be able to post this evening are pictures of the seed packs I received in the mail.
Kale. I wonder what garden fresh kale will taste like… 
Arugula – a delicious and spicy compliment to salads. 
Heirloom spinach – the first heirloom vegetable I think I’ve ever aspired to grow. 
Broccoli. That’s about all that can be said. 
Misato winter (water melon) radish. Green on the outside. Pink on the inside. 
Salsify. A root that shall perhaps taste of oysters.
Final Note: Now that I possess the seeds for Jacobhouse’s garden, I intend to research their various planting methods tonight. Tomorrow morning, I reckon I will be sowing them.
*In that past, I’ve used the same type of wire ties to seal Moo-Magic compost bags. They are reminiscent of zip-ties except made out of metal, and they are much more tightenable through use of a hook-tool. (Picture got deleted during tour shenanigans.)