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In the pink!

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Well, this is one way to tell the temperature are getting chilly at night.

And that I need to change the batteries in the newer trail cam.

Until the camera warms up enough, it starts recording things in pink!

Also, during night shots, the infrared flash stops working and the files have a red law battery warning across the bottom. I’ve taken down the white string lights that had been along the top barbed wire on the fence, as they were getting pretty damaged and burnt out. There is now a solar powered string of lights long enough to reach from the gate to the corner fence post. When the infrared flash doesn’t turn on, they are quite nice and bright! :-)

I’ll have to head back out later with some fresh batteries. :-)

The Re-Farmer

In the pink

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We are having some beautifully mild weather right now – the forecasts are still predicting we will hit a couple of degrees above freezing! (and I’m already seeing people “blame” it on climate change, as if we’ve never had warm Januaries before… *sigh*).

Our hard wired security camera is set to take a photo and email it to me when the motion sensor is triggered. With the infrared flash, that often means I wake up to a lot of pictures of precipitation. We had neither rain nor snow last night. Instead, this morning, I found a whole lot of very cloudy, out of focus pictures.

Yup. We had fog heavy enough to trigger the motion sensor last night!

I discovered something about the new trail cam. When the lens gets frosted over, we get this.

That is one heck of a pink! :-D

Even after the frost is brushed off the lens, there is a pink hue over everything.

The other cameras would go greyscale, or blue.

I find this unexpectedly cheering… and I don’t even like pink. :-D

The Re-Farmer

Pickled Pink!

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Today, we started our pink pickled eggs for our Easter basket.  They are now in jars, where they need to pickle for 2-3 days.

Pickled Pink Eggs

We made more of them, this year; most likely we’ll only use 8 for the basket itself, but extra is always good!

My older daughter was a sweetheart and boiled a whole bunch of eggs for us while her sister and I went shopping for basket ingredients.

Here are the ingredients for making pickled eggs that are an incredible pink colour!

These are quantities to pickle a dozen eggs, though we probably could have done closer to two dozen in our jars.

For the beet liquid, I used the liquid from both a jar of pickled beets, and a can of beets.  The pickled beets are, of course, in pickling liquid and add their own flavour.  The canned beets are in water, so that just adds colour.  You could use just one or the other, to your own preference.

For the 12 eggs, I used 2 quart size jars.  They probably could have held about 10 eggs each; maybe 12, if I wasn’t concerned about them getting squished.  Only the most perfect ones will go into the basket. :-)

Pink Pickled EggsIngredients for pink pickled eggs
for 12 hard boiled eggs

Ingredients:

1 cup cider vinegar
1 can beets
1 jar pickled beets
2/3 cups granulated sugar
1 tsp salt
8 whole cloves
1 onion, chopped (optional)

Also: 2, quart size, canning jars with lids.

  1. Peel the hard boiled eggs.  (It’s handy to boil extra, in case some get damaged while being peeled.)
  2. Drain the beet liquid through a sieve into a measuring cup.  There should be about 2 cups liquid in total.  If you wish, you can chop up some of the beets and include them as well.
  3. Divide the eggs into jars.  Add 4 whole cloves into each jar.
  4. Mix the remaining ingredients together until salt and sugar is dissolved.
  5. Pour the pickling liquid over the eggs.  Seal tightly.
  6. Place in the refrigerator for at least 2-3 days.  As the eggs tend to float, gently invert the jars once or twice each day.
  7. After the eggs have pickled for several days, remove the eggs from the pickling liquid.  Discard the pickling liquid.

When ours are done in a few days, I will post new photos! :-)

The Re-Farmer