weekend update

Turned out to be a busy weekend.  Here's an update on a few previous posts.

Mousetrap update - not good.  I haven't caught any mice with my 'you beaut mousetrap', however, one did throw itself into the chooks drinking water!  DH thought it was hilarious.  I'm a patient woman though (many would dispute this) and will continue to inspect daily!

Neighbours sheep - not good.  DH found one in some long grass in the middle of their back paddock on Thursday afternoon.  She was not in a good way at all.  She was alive but couldn't get up or even hold her head up.  I couldn't contact my friend, so after some deliberation we decided she should be put down.  We went home to get our neighbour who would shoot her for us but by the time they went back she had passed away.  As it was dark by this stage we decided to bury her the next day.  Another neighbour/friend who is looking after her dog came over and together we buried the sheep.  On walking out of the back paddock she spotted the other sheep up against their shed in the house paddock.  It appeared to have just died.  Very strange.  As it was getting close to pick up time for school (and we wouldn't have been able to get her down the back by ourselves) we decided to dig the hole and come back with one of the blokes later.  So that's the story of the sheep.  I have since spoken to my friend who can't even remember how old they were.  We felt bad that this had happened while she was away, she feels bad that we had to deal with it.  They had been shorn and drenched just a few days earlier, so we're wondering whether there was something in the drench that affected them, it seems very strange.

DS1 has been completing his modules for the volunteer fire brigade and training for the National Cadet Fire Fighting games to be held in Sydney in October.  Luckily the training is held at our fire station, the modules are at another town, so much time has been spent driving him around this weekend (as well as his part time job).

So, after having a weekend where I felt like I couldn't really get stuck into anything without interruption, I'm looking forward to the week.

I made one of our favourite things for Saturday night.  Makes up quite a lot which is just as well because we love it for lunch too.

CURRIED BROWN RICE & LENTIL SALAD

1 cup brown r ice

1 cup dried green lentils, rinsed

300g chorizo sausages, thinly sliced

1/3 cup olive oil

1 brown onion, finely chopped

1 garlic clove, crushed

2 tsp mild curry powder

2 tbsp white wine vinegar

1 red capsicum, finely diced

310g can corn kernels, drained, rinsed

2 green onions, thinly sliced

Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil over high heat.  Add rice an d lentils.  Reduce heat to medium.  Simmer, uncovered, for about 30 - 35 minutes or until rice and lentils are tender.  Drain.  Rinse under cold water.

Meanwhile, heat a large frypan over medium heat.  Add onion and garlic.  Cook, stirring, for about 3 minutes or until soft.  Add curry powder.  Cook, stirring, for 1 minutes or until fragrant.  Remove from heat.  Stir in remaining oil and vinegar.  Season with salt.

Combine rice, lentils, capsicum, corn, green onion, and chorizo and onion mixture in a large bowl.  Toss to combine.  Serve warm.

It is so yummy.  We use our homemade Italian sausages that we made - chorizo are very expensive.

 

Hope you all had a nice weekend :)