Saurkraut in the Swamp
Sunday, March 30th, 2008Well today we are going to make some homemade saurkraut. Swamprat’s brother and sister and everyone in the family! Julie and Jim have the shredder, we have the sticks to pound the salt into the shredded cabbage; in 5 gallon buckets. So it will be interesting to see how much cabbage WE are wearing? Smile… Then after it is all pounded, you leave it sit covered in a cool dark place for about 3 months. This will be ready around deer hunting season, in November as I said before….
Right now my “hubby” is at his parent’s house. Him and his brother Dan are remodelling their shed. It seems that didn’t have a storm door on their porch and all the water leaked on the floor. Well, it damaged the floor and the carpeting in there. Today they are putting in a new floor and putting new carpeting in there. So, it will be nice when it’s finished. The Finnish relatives are still here! They will be in the UP until Sunday I guess. They must love it here! My mother-in-law took them for a ride to Copper Harbor on the Northern side of Lake Superior. They loved it there alot! She took them up Brockway Mountain Drive and they loved all the curving roads and the beautiful lake. I love it there too, but it is alittle Touristy for me? We always bring the relatives there for something to do when they visit. haha Rarely do we go there otherwise? Just like taking them to the Quincy Mine Shaft. Most people have never went down in a copper mine, and it’s interesting when you go down into a dark mine. I couldn’t imagine working down there, but they did for years around here to earn money to feed their families. Anyway, it is nice we have these attractions to show people from other countries.
Today is going to be a nice cool sunny day, they are predicting? The sky looks so blue today. All the rain made everything really green again. We had kind of a drought for awhile around here. Everybody’s grass was turning brown in town. Here in the swamp, the grass always stays green. You have to mow the grass every 5 days lately. I am still in my nightgown. I had to apply the stupid patch to Microsoft and update a bunch of shit on here. Hours and hours of that because of the stupid dial-up. Wish the rural areas here would get with it already and get us high speed? HA! Anyway, just venting about living out in the country….it has it’s downfalls too.
Damn bluejay is on top of the power pole eyeing up Cuj’s dogfood in his dish again. That damn bird eats all his food all the time! I put a lid on the dogfood dish and the bluejay figured out how to open it! I have a chipmunk that eats it too. I think his dish is going back in the house again. He can come inside and eat for a change. I just realized that I have been fighting with these animals eating his food, when all I had to do was bring the food dish inside? Must be having a “blonde moment”. haha Anyway, today is my day off and then I start the grueling long work weekend. Although now that I have a new partner it’s been going pretty good. My old partner went to Walmart to work in the Pharmacy. They are still building our Walmart Super Store, by the way? Will it ever be finished?? haha I just hope the meat and produce is cheaper there? We have been ripped off for years with our little grocery stores up here..so change is good.
Gas prices are outrageous!! I don’t know how I am going to afford to drive to work! It sucks! I don’t know what we are going to do? Lately, instead of filling the tank up, I just put enough in there to get me from Point A to Point B and back. The Indian Reservation’s gas prices are higher than at the Holiday Station south of us now. So, we drive to L’Anse to get our gas. We usually spend alot of time there anyway, so might as well get our gas there too. The boat fishing gets to be expensive filling up that boat all the time. We have to do it for our enjoyment here? I love going out on the boat and fishing until dark on the lake. It is so beautiful and peaceful out there. Sometimes fish will be jumping all around the boat as it gets darker out. Then when the moon is out over the lake and reflects in the water it is nice. We also have restaurants with docks, so we go with our boat to eat out. We want to go to Lac LaBelle again soon, to our favorite restaurant on the water called “The Seasons”… The steaks are huge there!! You can only go there on a pretty calm day because the water can get treacherous!
Well, it is time to get something to eat. I am on my 3rd cup of coffee and I haven’t eaten a thing this morning…better get dressed, wonder if I should wear the color Cabbage Green? hee hee