5/10/2020
(Above: Crispy and still-warm strawberry & blueberry galettes.)
Active Summary: After waking this morning, I partook of the early day’s regimen in a slightly different sequence. I wrote, helped Padre with the beef pasture check, and then participated in some calisthenic exercises. This was ensued by my making Madre her Mother’s Day gift: strawberry and blueberry galettes (used this recipe and made my own substitutions for some of the ingredients / tools* that were required). The dough-making was the longest portion, taking about 45 minutes while the berry filling only took about 7 minutes. Complete labor took about 1 hour, because I had to clean up around the pastries mid-bake**. This may sound like a lot of time, but when feasting upon the pastry – the crispy crust surrounding the sweet and slightly tart berry filling – I am glad to say it was well worth the effort.
Before preparing lunch, I ventured outside where I checked on the tomato plants and the freezers in the freezer room. The freezers were fine, but one of the tomato plants appeared to have a little bit of leaf damage. On closer inspection, I found two 1-inch long hornworms. Once again, after peeling them from the tomato stalks, I fed them to the cows. To conclude the morning, I took a shower in the Jacobhouse and then made a lunch of: bacon (for Madre), potato slices fried in bacon grease, and cross-cut beef shanks (for Padre and I). I also produced a bowl of butter-and-cream cheese frosting to accompany the galettes.
(8:45 PM Update:) This afternoon began with some Master Blend inventory / customer management. I next worked on some writing for a little while, took a rest, and then tended to a beef customer before helping Padre with cattle-related tasks. These lattermost tasks included: feeding/catching bovines, aiding in embryo transfers, checking / treating a couple little calves, breaking up fodder via pitchfork, and performing the duskly beef pasture check. After all this, I participated in a little bit of paint-time in the Master Blend freezer room, and I checked all of the tomato plants (found a hornworm on one of them).
A hornworm plucked from a tomato plant in Garden #2 this afternoon, moments before its imminent consumption by a red wagyu bull. 
Mushrooms seasoned with garlic and rosemary (placed in this evening’s omelet). 
Padre’s pizza topped with fresh mozzarella cheese. 
Another picture of the galette. It was just that good.
Final Note: I have just returned from a delicious meal of mushroom omelet, Aneta’s cabbage salad, a small slice of Padre-made pizza, and another sizeable piece of galette. Now, I’m going to post this entry and engage in some leisure.
*I somehow do not have a rolling pin in Jacobhouse, so I instead used the tortilla press to squeeze the butter-rich dough into micro-layers. This worked, but next time I think I’ll have a rolling pin on hand.
**The recipe called for turning the pastries around mid-bake, so I did. On doing so, however, I found that two of the galettes had ruptured, allowing the berry filling to flow out onto the wax-paper. Fortunately, the mixture had congealed enough by that point to form a jelly-like substance, so I simply spooned the majority back into the galette.