Field Lab Saturday

 

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a good curd

Tour for Will, Latrice, and Kathy (mom) this morning.  Had a great long visit with them - topped off with 4 tshirts sold and a generous contribution to the BenFund.  Thank You!  Maybe Carl will stop attacking visitors if I start a fund for him.

Windy and cloudy so I headed south to do some much needed laundry.  Tried my second batch of cheese this afternoon.  We have mozzarella now.  Used the instructions from the link I posted before and got an exceptional curd using 1 1/2 tablets of Junket rennet (instead of 1/4).  Just added one teaspoon of salt and no extra stuff.  Checked a sample before I wrapped it for the fridge - taste and texture just like the real thing.  I guess that is because it is the real thing.  66,76,49,0,W, .20

transplants

Two visitors today...Ashley is already making the move to Marfa from Toronto...CJ is planning his escape to Terlingua from Florida.  Shot their portraits with the dust filled Panasonic.  Shot the finished gate and some sky with the new camera.  (would have been nice it the manual mentioned formatting the SD card before page 45).  Why is it all the high end stuff never has a quick start guide?
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camera prep

Cleaned house for a couple of hours...unpacked the camera gear...charged the battery...worked on Ben's gate a couple of hours...started reading the 323 page manual...have yet to load the software.  This rig has lots of bells and whistles that will take some time to master - like taking the first picture.  52,66,23,0,C, .20   

Bensgate

Built the gate frame...primed and painted and hung.  Latches and wire go on tomorrow.  Got my new camera today. Not even gonna take it out of the box till I clean the house in the morning.  45,61,25,0,C,0   Late Update:  Just saw this on Facebook and thought it worthy to pass along. 
 http://www.kentuckynewsnetwork.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104668&article=10628810#ixzz2EnVr4IL9

conceptual art...

The wind kicked in around 2AM and lasted for about an hour last night...advance warning of our cold front.  Hard to sleep when stuff is bangin' around outside.  Figured out in the morning that one of those banging sounds was my unlatched greenhouse door.  Ben had a rather large late night snack of fresh wheat grass.

Hit below freezing for the first time this season.  The greenhouse temperature got down to 38 so the plants got chilled but are OK.  Did an Alpine run for more barn trim.  Picked up some special parts for an art project that has been on my mind for years.  Will unveil the masterpiece around Christmas.  42,62, 31.7,B,0

patience

When I worked in NYC building sets and props, the pace was maddening.  No time to think about anything other than getting the job done on time.  If I wanted to succeed, the luxury of patience didn't exist.  The big reward was the payout at the end of a frantic job.  As time went by from job to job, I began to miss the chance to actually enjoy the process vs. the "big reward".  I began to add stress factor to my estimates until no one would could pay me enough to rob me of the enjoyment of the process.  My new life in the desert is all about embracing patience....rather easy to do when you aren't distracted by deadlines and debt and I can now appreciate the time and the process.  Popular culture has destroyed patience.  God tests our faith by our patience.  His time frame serves us all but tests us on His schedule, not the one our earthly bodies have learned. 

Hebrews 11 KJV
35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.  36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.  37 For yet a little while , and he that shall come will come , and will not tarry .   38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back , my soul shall have no pleasure in him.  39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.

James 1  KJV
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting .   2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;  3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.  4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing .   5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.  6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering . For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed .  7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.