Website work (and coconut ice cream).

4/19/2020

(Above: A lunch of grilled sirloin, baked potato, and cucumber salad. The latter-most is somewhere in the background.)

Active Summary: Today began with calisthenic exercises, a beef pasture check where Padre and I unsuccessfully attempted to walk up a heifer who was having calving difficulties*, and about 1.5 hours worth of writing. This was ensued by some Master Blend website work (attempting to find a way to easily integrate inventory into the online store) and then by a trip down to the Harbison farm market. After procuring the weekly produce, I returned home, washed/put the vegetation away, and prepared lunch. Before eating lunch, I also tended to two Master Blend drive-in customers.

Mushrooms found in the beef pasture this morning.
The Brahman cow that we helped give birth two nights ago standing beside her sizeable calf.
Lizard copulation found upon the front deck of Jacobhouse.
Last night’s dinner: Fritatta atop a bed of leftover salad.

(5:55 PM Update:) Afternoon activities thus far have included more Master Blend website work and farm tasks (feeding bovines, checking calves, pitch-forking feed, and etc.). Now I am about to conclude an hour-long break. The power has just gone out.

Final Update (7:33 PM): Now that the duskly ride around the beef pasture has been completed and the electric has come back on ahead of schedule**, I plan on making something sweet – some coconut ice cream perhaps – and enjoying it with some fruit over at the studio.

Coconut ice cream materials; I found that adding a couple tablespoons of coconut oil to the mixture really thickened it up.
Coconut ice-cream with vanilla, coconut shreds, and walnut. Originally it was to be plain vanilla, but I think I will need to use white sugar for that (the coconut sugar grants a flavor that is not suitable for a vanilla ice cream).

* She ended up calving on her own, and the calf has already gained its feet and nursed.

** 9:30 PM was the originally scheduled time for reconnected power.