This morning, Michael and I had fresh bread because we programmed my new birthday bread-maker last night. It made one totally money piece of bread – the crust is chewy and flaky and the bread itself is light and airy. A picture for you:
Then we headed to the Department of Agriculture’s Open House. They had lots of animal but they would grab them and hold them in place for kids to pet. Meh, not my thing. The alpaca wool was so soft. Here’s an alpaca – I didn’t pet it because it didn’t seem to want to be petted.
Then I petted some bunnies who were huddled together to keep warm, a sheep that was resistant to being touched, and saw some milk calves who were grey and soft brown and white – absolutely gorgeous. There was a goat who was tied in place so kids could pet him too.
Then we ate some free cake – chocolate with raspberry jelly for filling and lots of icing. Nomnom. And watched a musician do mic check for twenty minutes. Headed inside to talk to the Farmers Market people who didn’t know what a CSA was, watched the dairy, pig, and chicken industry spread their delicious lies. I won’t lie, though, the dairy industry actively pisses me off with their enormous 3-a-day signs like people can’t live without milk. LIES.
I did get a dark chocolate covered strawberry and Michael got a chocolate covered peach. I also ate a piece of freshly fried catfish. Maryland seafood is so tasty.
Then we went outside to see the tails and scales program where they chained owls and hawks to rocks or logs and people didn’t believe they were real and would touch them even though there were fifty signs saying Do Not Touch. Here are some pics of the birds.
They had a terrapin (who didn’t move much, but his tank was pretty awfully boring) and snakes too, but the snakes were pretty inactive, because it was cold, although they had heaters in their tanks (thankfully). It was actually pretty disappointing to see animals treated poorly, even when I’d like to support local agriculture.
We left shortly, and hopefully I’ll be going for a walk and looking for birds later today. There’s been a few bald eagle sightings at a lake nearby, could be a good sight to set up for a while.
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hooray on the bread/breadmaker!
I love alpaca– they are pretty friendly most of the time. There was a woman who owns an alpaca farm in MD that I met at the sheep+wool festival in 2005 and I talked to her for a while (and bought some of her natural black alpaca fiber to spin).
I am uh, surprised that the farmer’s market people have never heard of CSA!
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