Homesteading lifestyle -- water and rice
Jan. 21st, 2012 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susan8020HOw it goes -- and why I need the 80/20 approach, not perfection....
Arrive home, sunset over snow, from an all-day trip to town for supplies. Need to start some rice in the new little Rival brand rice cooker for supper. Water hoses that come into the kitchen are all frozen, need to bring in some more of the gallon jugs I keep water in, as the kitchen pitcher and the bathroom pitcher are both near empty. Most of the jugs are empty too, as things have been frozen for several days now; can't refill the jugs from the well pump till things thaw out, which may be another week or so.
The kitchen pitcher has enough to cook the rice, but I begrudge using any more for washing the rice. Aha! Measure the rice into the strainer, take the strainer outside and slosh it around in the big water barrel (after cracking the ice on top of the barrel, at least it's not frozen solid today).
Bring the washed rice back inside, load the rice cooker, start it. Go back outside and fill some jugs from the tap at the bottom of the water barrel. While each jug fills, make a wish on the evening star, while only one is in the sky. Bring in the jugs. Refill the kitchen pitcher.
Start a cup of rosehip tea in the microwave (chopped rosehips from the bulk spice jars at the co-op). Warm my hands over the steam vent of the rice cooker.
Remove the tea cup, sit down at the computer to write this, without tasting the tea. Find it's just barely warm, but am too tired and frazzled to get up and heat it further.
The rice cooker just switched to 'warm'. Will post this before any more problems have a chance to transpire....
Cheers....
Arrive home, sunset over snow, from an all-day trip to town for supplies. Need to start some rice in the new little Rival brand rice cooker for supper. Water hoses that come into the kitchen are all frozen, need to bring in some more of the gallon jugs I keep water in, as the kitchen pitcher and the bathroom pitcher are both near empty. Most of the jugs are empty too, as things have been frozen for several days now; can't refill the jugs from the well pump till things thaw out, which may be another week or so.
The kitchen pitcher has enough to cook the rice, but I begrudge using any more for washing the rice. Aha! Measure the rice into the strainer, take the strainer outside and slosh it around in the big water barrel (after cracking the ice on top of the barrel, at least it's not frozen solid today).
Bring the washed rice back inside, load the rice cooker, start it. Go back outside and fill some jugs from the tap at the bottom of the water barrel. While each jug fills, make a wish on the evening star, while only one is in the sky. Bring in the jugs. Refill the kitchen pitcher.
Start a cup of rosehip tea in the microwave (chopped rosehips from the bulk spice jars at the co-op). Warm my hands over the steam vent of the rice cooker.
Remove the tea cup, sit down at the computer to write this, without tasting the tea. Find it's just barely warm, but am too tired and frazzled to get up and heat it further.
The rice cooker just switched to 'warm'. Will post this before any more problems have a chance to transpire....
Cheers....
