Pancakes and fenceposts

Breakfast was a big hit... and after breakfast - Grandpa and Weewee took care of Little Bean ALL DAY! This is the first day I've had home without him since he was born. And boy, was it great!

It was a beautiful day. Papa Bean and I worked on a fence we're making to separate the back yard from the road. This is a picture of my favorite hand tool - don't know what it is called, but we call it the tree skinner. It is so easy and satisfying to use. Here I'm skinning a small black locust tree that was cleared to make way for a bike path extension near our house - and now will have a continued life as a fencepost in our yard. Perhaps not a glorious as existence, but better than wood chips I figure.

P.B. fixing our ax

With a skinned fencepost

We got all the posts into the ground, ate yummy lunch, trellised the peas, prepared the squash bed in the garden, watered, and even hung out a little bit. Amazing.

Banana Pancakes
1 banana, mashed
3/4 cup masa (corn) flour
1/4 cup teff flour (you can substitute buckwheat but add a little liquid)
2 t. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
cinnamon
1/2 t. vanilla
2 T. oil
1 1/4 - 1 1/2 cups milk (I use whole)
Mash the banana and masa flour together well. Add the rest of the dry ingredients and stir. Add the wet and mix, add milk until it is a thick batter.
Fry in butter until golden brown on each side.

Rhubarb sauce
Double handful rhubarb
3 apples
1 banana
Chop everything and simmer until fully melded - around an hour.