The comings and goings
Everything is always changing here on the farm, find out what we are building, repairing or just generally working on
Things are constantly evolving
Things change and things stay the same. I got the Polaris ATV all put back together and running GREAT, so it was time to sell it LOL! I really enjoyed having that bike it was a real god send here on the farm. I never really realized how much I would use it until I
Damn good Roasted Chicken
Ingredients 3.5 – 4 pound Simerville Farm Chicken 4 tbsp Maple syrup 1 tbsp Melted butter 1 tsp Garlic powder 1 1/2 tsp Seasoning salt 1 1/2 tsp Black pepper 2 tsp Dijon mustard 1 tbsp Corn starch 500 ml Chicken stock Instructions Mix melted butter and maple syrup in a small bowl or wide
It’s ALIVE!
Anyone that has been out to the farm or that knows me at all knows that I love to do things with Arduinos and Single Board Computers. As a good friend has said on many an occasion I am the only person that he knows that is actually making and deploying real IoTs. Now, while
New site and ATV update
As you may have noticed we have a new website! I have needed to do a redesign for….well…years to be honest. I needed to give the page a more streamlined look and feel and generally clean up. I have done tonnes of work behind the scenes trying to get things organized so that I can
Beef stew
Ingredients 300g Beef 1 tbsp of butter or lard 1 Onion 2 Carrots 2 Potatoes 1 celery rib 500ml of Chicken broth or stock Salt Pepper Basil Oregano Savoury 1 tbsp of all purpose flour or corn starch Instructions Cube the beef (raw or precooked from the previous night) to a size you like, I
Simple tea biscuits
Ingredients 354ml cold milk (butter milk is preferred, we keep powdered butter milk on hand for these sorts of things 🙂 ) 1 tsp salt – do not use if using salted butter 500g general purpose flour 4 tsp white sugar 2 tbsp baking powder 12 tbsp unsalted butter (cold and cubed) – salted butter
ATV transmission
This is an example of when things go snap it generally isn’t a good thing. All that ripping and tearing to get to this little part. Now it is time for the good news, bad news time of this little post. Good news is that now that I have the transmission out of the bike
1 hour bread
Ingredients 473 ml warm water 3 tbsp sugar (white sugar, brown sugar, molasses, maple syrup it doesn’t really matter) 1 1/2 tbsp dried yeast 1 1/2 tbsp oil (I use vegetable oil but olive oil would work as well) 750g general purpose flour Instructions Mix water and sugar then add yeast in a mixing cup
Bandsaw knock out
As a good friend of mine would say “This looks like a job for 3D printing!”. I recently acquired a bandsaw from my father and in all the confusion and commotion I seem to have either forgotten to package up the knockout for the blade or I simply lost it. To be honest I am
ATV brakes
I found a cheap ATV that runs and it only needs a bunch of work! LOL! It doesn’t have have any brakes and the electric starter is currently in my hand but it runs, shifts into and out of gear, so it is looking like a winner in my book. I am hoping I can