Valentines

Ripped through a dozen eggs today for a batch of brioche, pasta dough, and ricotta and spinach filling, in which freshly ground nutmeg makes a difference! Aside from the 4 oz'er (gold went to the 4.75 oz'er) the girls have been laying as normal. Vivid orange yolks show good eats from the flax sprouts they happily mowed down to the pesticide-free mustard greens direct from Tara Firma Farms.

Unfriendly jays and crows gave the hens something to squawk about, ever so loudly, on Saturday. Hard to say which flock won the debate, but the degree of commotion led us to fear a predator was in the yard attacking one of the hens. Fortunately, the neighboring peeps did not call the authorities. I hear folks in Sacramento are not as tolerant. Thank you, open-minded Marinites.

The days are turning wonderfully longer and the almond tree is beginning to flower.

View a short (1 minute) silent visit to the yard.