HOMEMADE COUGH SYRUP!

Today is the day to make some homemade cough syrup.
My daughter has a bad cough. It's due to allergies but her cough doesn't help her sore throat. I have all the supplies to make it and my little granddaughter wants to help.

Ingredients:
Whiskey
Honey or Sorghum
Let me explain a couple of things. I really like honey but I prefer not to use it in this recipe. My reason is that I don't like to heat my honey if I don't need too. So sorghum is the preferred in this recipe. Either will work.
 Also using the two ingredients you will use the 1:1 ratio.
With all that being said lets get the rest of the items needed to make this.
One whole lemon
6 pieces of Horehound candy

Supplies needed:
A empty bottle big enough to hold the cough syrup
(I used an empty syrup jar but a mason jar can work too)
Mortar & Pestle (this helps to break up the horehound candy)
Lemon squeezer
Measuring cup
Pot
Funnel (not pictured)

I got the horehound candy crushed.

Lemon is squeezed.

I used a little less than 1/2 cup of each; whiskey and sorghum. I measured my empty bottle to make sure my syrup will fit when it is done.

Pour all ingredients into the pot.
Heat on low heat and stir, stir, and stir.

Reminder again to keep stirring the pot. Make sure all is melted and keep stirring well after melting has occurred. This makes sure all is melted and stirred together.

Have your jar and funnel ready.

Once it is all melted and stirred well pour into jar.

Homemade cough syrup!

RECIPE FOR OLD TIMERS COUGH SYRUP

1/2 cup Whiskey
1/2 cup Sorghum/or Honey
1 - Lemon (squeezed)
6 - pieces of Horehound candy (crushed real fine)

Heat on low heat. Stir, stir and stir until well melted and blended.
Store in a glass bottle.

How to use: 1 T. adult
1 tspn children over 5
Take at night before bed.

Just a side note, I am not a doctor nor claim to be. This is what I make and use for my family. Just want to share with others who might be interested in alternative medicine than the modern medicine. Also, do your own research.

If you have recipes you use please share. I would love to know what works for your family.

WEEKEND HAPPENINGS!

~~~SATURDAY

Tim got started early this morning working on the fencing for the new garden area. Last week we all discussed how big the garden should be. Two posts already in the ground.

Tim is making a few adjustments to use the auger and get posts in on this side of the garden. It will be combining the Vineyard garden to the Big Garden area. 

All the kids are helping to get the posts and tools needed closer to the job.

Packing down the dirt.

We need to remove three trees in the path of the fencing.
 One tree

 Two trees

 I was inside making lunch when the third tree went down.

Got the wood all stacked.

Branches we will use for mulching.

Getting the second post in place.

Kaitlin helping to put the brace pin in the post.

That sucks!

Can't say much more than that!

Tim and Skylar worked on the bracing wire.

The third post is being dug out.

I got to dig out for the other post. 

We all do a job.

Kaitlin and Skylar are putting in the metal T posts.

EmilyMae and Isabella Grace are enjoying a break/snack.

Putting in the second bracing.

Kaitlin and Skylar working on driving the T posts in.

Somewhere in this time I went in to make dinner for this hardworking crew. 

The fence has to go in tonight.

While we were inside shortly after dinner, one of our cows (One-Eared) broke through the string and the rest of the cows decided to join her. They were feasting on everything and trampling my garlic.

Darn Cows!

So everyone was working to get this fencing up.

No rest until this is done.

Tim got about 180 feet of the fencing up temporarily and had put the electric fence up to the rest of it. This will keep them cows out until morning. 

~~~~SUNDAY

This morning Tim got started working all the kids except one. Isabella and I went to the farm store for a few more supplies.

It seems like them kids take lots of breaks.
I packed up snacks in bags for them. This way if they were hungry I wouldn't have to stop and go get something 5 x's.

Tim and I worked on the wire bracing and then Skylar helped Tim get the fencing attached.

The longest part is done.
It looks good, but I think we should put a gate in. Tim said he didn't want a easy access with the animals or other critters to get in. I agree.

We still need to put in the T posts on this side.



Perfect timing, Mr. B shows up with the hay.
Always good to see him and the cows get excited too!

It don't take the cows long before they surround you.

Fencing will be done tonight. Not bad for a weekend and putting in 5 post, taking out 3 trees, and running over 250 feet of fencing and caring for grandchildren.
Fencing looks good and now we just need to start planting.

Chicks were to start hatching tomorrow, but we always have a early bird.

~~Thanks for coming along on our weekend ~~

A BUSY WEEK!

The girls and I have been busy with baby chicks and fertile eggs.

This is our scotch tape baby. I was checking to see if the chick is growing.

As you can see it is growing. Not long before hatching day either.

Morning feeding!

These chicks are getting big and the tote is getting smaller. It is time to go to the Hen House.

We got the second stall ready for them. Things are always changing. Just last week the Banty's were in here then the Americauna's. Now we are are having the young chicks in here.

They are really liking the extra space. I am glad the weather will be warming up too. For now they will have a heat light.

Kaitlin is cleaning out the old shed. We are needing this to house meat birds. 

Once Kaitlin gets all the old bedding out I will be sitting up temporary boards to keep the chicks in.

First I needed to cut the boards.

Got that done.

Now I need the supplies:

Drills 

 Screws

Boards

I used some long boards I found in the outside wood pile. They were warped so I used a clamp on the top. I did screw each long board to the 2x4's. How I used the small boards was one on each side to balance it. There was a area where I added a board on the outside. This shed is in pretty rough shape.

Got the bedding put down, food and water. Extension cord ready for the heat light. I will be picking up a new one since we are using all of them currently for the newly hatched chicks.

Got the meat birds and didn't realize how small they are. I thought they were a little older. So we took out the big waterer and replaced it with a smaller one. We had to unhook the food and moved everything closer to them with the heat light.

Dipped their beaks in the water and they look good.

While we were out we picked up two baby ducks and 5 golden comets.

Baby chicks are spending their first night in the coop. Everything looks good.

I went back out to check on the meat birds.

They look good.

Skylar with Squirt

Kaitlin with Phantom

Do you know what kind of eggs these are?

Duck eggs!

Fertile Duck Eggs!

Got them dated and marked day and night for flipping purposes.

Incubator one is full.

Incubator two is borrowed and full.

Incubator three is keeping the duck eggs and the eggs that will be hatching in the next day.

The girls and I went to the city for a school activity and had many things to pick up. One of them included three grandkids. We have 2 coolers full of groceries and pick up some landscaping edging.

The kids were squeezed in.

I put the metal edging through the headrest for safety reasons. 

We still had a few more stops to make before heading home.

I can't pass up more baby chicks. So I had to have these little cuties.

They are a bantam. You can never have enough chicks or so I am told.

Look how small they are.

Isn't this sweet!

Little brown cow with Bolt.

I fed the cows some alfalfa hay and they both came up really close to me.

EmilyMae being my helper with feeding the cats.

Look what Tim picked up on his way home from work.

Fencing and post.

The sky looks really pretty. Looks like pink clouds!