You know it's cold outside when.......

...you go out to do chores and your nostrils freeze together.

...your face gets so cold it hurts.

...your gloves get wet watering the animals and they stick to the metal handles of the wheelbarrow.

...the slop you feed to your old "grandma" horse (and she doesn't finish right away) freezes solid so now she can't eat it.

...you have to use an axe on the water trough so the horses can drink (because it's too expensive to keep the trough heater plugged in!)

...if you don't pick the eggs up soon enough they freeze, expand and crack.

...even though you have two layers of pants on, your upper legs don't feel like they belong to you anymore.

...the horses of bugger-sicles.

 ...and lastly, the "outside watch-dog" has become an inside dog. *wink*

A good day in my kitchen :)

I consider this to be a good day in my kitchen. Lots got done. Of course, I didn't get much done anywhere else!

Homemade pizza for lunch!

Five quarts of pasta sauce made (after peeling all the tomatoes!) and canned.

A double recipe of Giant Carob Chip Cookies baked.

(Recipe from www.veganpantry.com)

One and a half bags of swiss chard washed, blanched, weighed, chopped and frozen. Ok, so this didn't actually get done until the next day :P

But I did get a batch of Lemon Poppy Muffins baked. (From my new cookbook; "The China Study Cookbook"

And made a batch Granola (also from www.veganpantry.com) made and into the oven. This is before it go all nicely toasted and crunchy.

Now to clean up the mess in the kitchen!