Gretchen baked this tasty dish.
Think pizza with no cheese or tomatoes.
Or pastry with beef and not sweet.
If that doesn’t help, you’ll just have to try it.
She loosely followed a recipe by Max Miller on Tasting History.
It’s basically flour and eggs with a bit of salt with meat baked in an oven.
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River Dog loves mud puddles, but Gretchen has a solution: vacuum the dog!
Blondie wonders, what are they doing to you? Continue reading
Trimming a sweetgum tree that was shading the solar panels, I saw this snakeskin among the panel supports on the farm workshop roof.
Not sure what kind of snake. Probably a rat snake.
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A natural canopy.
We are aware we need to burn these woods. Still waiting on tree salvage after Hurricane Helene. Continue reading
This dragonfly repeatedly swooped down to the dog bath water and up.
![[Movie: Dragonfly drinking (34M)]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-07-21--dragonfly-dog-bath/20250721_122312.jpg)
Movie: Dragonfly drinking (34M)
I’m guessing it was drinking.
Maybe this is how they lay eggs? If so, it will be disappointed, since we do change the dog bath water from time to time.
It’s much easier to see the insect in the video:
https://youtu.be/zqUusDsAhpA Continue reading
These young pines have survived multiple hurricanes.
![[Four volunteer bottlebrush longeaf, Gretchen, and her shadow, River]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-07-19--bottlebrush-longleaf/20250719_092427.jpg)
Four volunteer bottlebrush longeaf, Gretchen, and her shadow, River
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Two spiders with their web stretched completely across a woods path.
The second web is harder to see, but it goes from ground level up about 20 feet and equally wide. It has about half a dozen spiders in it. Continue reading
What’s with all the snails this summer?
Here are some on dog fennel.
There were about a dozen just on these few dog fennel. Continue reading
What sort of animal makes these tracks in the sand?
Snake? Lizard? Turtle? Continue reading
![[Toad in the Hole]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-08-18--toad-in-the-hole/20250818_173412.jpg)
![[Vacuuming River Dog]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-08-17--vacuuming-river-dog/20250817_182724.jpg)
![[Snakeskin on roof]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-07-29--snakeskin-roof/20250729_091712.jpg)
![[Swing]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-07-27--swing/20250727_084247.jpg)
![[Slug with a shell]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-07-25--snail/20250725_082800.jpg)
![[Two spiders]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-07-19--spiderwebs/20250719_083312.jpg)
![[Snails on dog fennel]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-07-19--snailfennel/20250719_083717.jpg)
![[Crossed tracks]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-07-14--sand-tracks/20250714_080926.jpg)