Homestead happenings ~ October 22

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Today I am printing out a recipe from a forum for the cat and dog's birthday.

Our cat is one. Our dog has never had a birthday, so it is his birthday too, he is about 10. It is a recipe with liverwurst and beef baby food and wholemeal flour. We will make it in the morning.

Today the basil is being planted out.

I have forgotten what else I was going to say, with 7 people everyone seems to talk at once. It rains on and off, we were outside in the garden and a mountain shower came by.

Have a great day.

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We are also planting out tansy, which I loved when we were at the farmhouse. There was a modern restaurant and they planted it to accent the bright colors of the restaurant walls.

I could make a moth repellant wreath with our wormwood for the wardrobes.

www.taoherbfarm.com/herbs/herbs/tansy.htm

[ellise]

br I have tansy growing and I just love it. But I never knew you could use it to cook with. I have yellow and pink and white.

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Old-fashioned tansy recipe:

www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/t/tansy-05.html

I have the pennyroyal to put in the wreath too, it is a very pretty creeper.

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It turns out what I call pennyroyal was moneywort.

Our dd8 is just putting her cat cake into the oven. I am sure the dog will like it anyway. It was hard just buying simple beef baby food, dh said if you had a baby in this town you would have to buy a case when you went to the regional centre to shop.

I don't know whether to plant my Solomon's Seal in the shade or sun. DH bought it from the street, it came from a ladies garden. Usually my Mum planted it in the shade. I guess it depends on how our weather compares to Carolina.

DS14 got to taste liverwurst he likes it.