Wildlife

Last night I made a new dish, chili and corn-biscuit cassarole. It is a chili made with beans and seitan (a vegetable protein) that is sandwiched between two layers of cornmeal biscuit batter and then baked in the oven. It turned out pretty good. The chili was excellent, Andrew thought the biscuit was a little dry.

Andrew's mom wanted to see some pictures of the geese family and a turtle, so here they are. The geese are hard to see since we couldn't get too close to them. The turtle has dried mud on its back. I also added a photo of the herb garden area, the cat mint is now in bloom.

The geese are the small blobs approximately the middle of the shot (click on the photo to blow it up a bit). In the second shot they are swimming but it is very hard to see. We took these photos on Tuesday while canoeing. If we tried to get closer, the geese get nervous. I don't want to be a goose paparazzi. We checked on the beaver dam yesterday and it doesn't appear to have been fixed, however the water has receded about 2 inches and so we couldn't be canoeing anyways.