Wanna Go For A Ride?

     Zoey loves to run...down to Wally's and thru the old horse pasture between our properties.  Jeff usually gets onto the Cub Cadet to go after her and gives her a ride back home in the utility trailer behind the tractor.  She loves that!  He also takes her down to the mailbox that way.  Fanny, on the other hand, does not 'run away'.  She walks...almost strolls...away from the house into the horse pasture.  Jeff uses the Cub Cadet to track her down, too, but he tends to 'herd' her home...she won't get into the trailer (don't think she'd fit, anyway!) or get too close to it (it makes too much noise for her.)  Fanny usually won't even stay outside if Jeff is mowing the lawn on the Cub Cadet!  Zoey wants to be in the trailer but he won't let her so she's either tethered or inside baying and barking up a storm when he's mowing!
   Yesterday my college friend Maggie stopped for a few minutes with her husband, Horst.  They brought us a bag of homegrown veggies and several jars of homemade jam.  Maggie had given me a jar of her strawberry jam earlier this summer and I've been enjoying it...and trying to make it last.  She brought more jars of strawberry and some seedless black raspberry jam that sounds delicious!  They had just picked blueberries and I politely declined any blueberry jam.  Now, if they were to offer some blackcap jam....
   Jeff had gotten a deal at Hannaford's on a pork butt earlier this week and had put it in the crockpot Wednesday night to cook with potatoes and carrots overnight.  When he realized how much there was, we called my cousin Ed and invited him over for supper on Thursday to help us eat it.  The meat was so tender it just fell apart...and so good!  I got some corn on the cob to go with it and Ed brought an apple pie for dessert.  We ate well that night...except that when I went to make a pot of coffee nothing happened.  I filled the pot with coffee grounds and water and turned it on but when it was time to pour the coffee...the water was still where I had poured it!  So we had pie and ice cream without coffee for dessert.  I don't think it bothered Ed or me but Jeff quickly rigged up a French-press type coffee pot after supper so he could have COFFEE!  We got a new 'Mr. Coffee' yesterday.   I guess a machine that costs less than $20 can't be expected to last more than 2 years...especially with the kind of water we have (no matter how many times you run it thru a filter before you use it!).  Maggie & Horst told us that they use a French-press for the same reason but Jeff wants a HOT cup of coffee available all hours of the day and night, so a French-press wouldn't work for us.
   In Maggie and Horst's bag of veggies there was a nice size green pepper and several red tomatoes so last night the pepper got fried up with some potatoes and one of the tomatoes got sliced up to go on top of the 'burgers I cooked.  Jeff really cleaned up his plate! (So did I!)  We both miss having a garden this year.  Maybe next year Jeff's back will be up to it.
   Just got word that the shop had a record-setting day in sales yesterday!  The member who worked, Sharon, is a very talented lady and she creates a wonderful atmosphere where tourist like to spend money.  I've been planning a trip down to restock all week and have been putting it off and now it's pouring!  Maybe tomorrow.  At least I can knit another hat or two!