Leeks In Our Vineyard: Great Deliciosity

Mick has been craving fried potatoes since he got back from AT. (Well, technically, his first craving was for fresh vegetables, but one or two freshly picked beans on his first evening home seemed to satisfy that craving, and he moved on to an exclusive craving for fried potatoes.) So anyway, last week he finally decided to tackle his craving once and for all and made restaurant-quality fried potatoes! First he sliced the potatoes...

Then he deep fried them in peanut oil.

Put them in a sieve and refrigerated them before deep-frying them again (this apparently is his secret to making them restaurant-quality).

It even looks like the way they serve them at restaurants!

He wasn't so happy about having to pose for the camera though. (Doesn't he do the best pouty face ever?) :)

Now to the animal segment of this post, Mick took Roscoe up to the hill with him one day last week after we had had a pretty dramatic rainy spell. The grass was still pretty wet, and Roscoe wasn't too happy about hanging out in the wet grass. :)

Gerard likes his little perches throughout the house. We have the shades pulled down in the back room, and the other day I watched him hop on top of the bookshelf, then onto the windowsill. I was thinking that I should open the shade for him so that he could look out the window -- but he took care of that himself, and pushed his way between the shade and the window and curled up to watch the great outdoors. It was very cute. :) He also seems to enjoy boxes.

As far as putting up, just before Mick left for his military school last week, we had a kraut marathon. We listened to Bob (our favorite talk radio show) and chopped 5 huge heads of cabbage (purchased at a very reasonable $2 a pop) and managed to fill a 10-gallon crock with kraut!