02/03/2009 Tuesday: Dexter Legs, Calypso Beans

Fog in am; sunshine in pm and quite warm, over 50 degrees F.

Chas went to Olympia to his eye doctor's appointment. I headed into the Health Department to work since I'd missed yesterday. I've nearly finished with Chris's files - opening and evaluating them and moving them to the appropriate Healthdata folder on the H drive.

I got a lovely note from Susie H. She corrected my estimates of the leg length and dairy/beef qualities of my Dexters. It turns out that:

Noel is a long legged, dairy/beef configuration cow
Emma is a long legged; dairy configuration cow
Pixie is a short legged; beef configuration cow
Brie is a long legged; dairy configuration cow
Cheddar is a short legged; beef configuration cow
Huck is a long legged, dairy/beef configuration bull

Emma's line is mostly dairy although she is so fat that it's hard to tell what her body configuration actually is.

I put Calypso beans on to soak this morning and cooked them with side pork, onions, vegetarian ham flavoring, and dried celery. The beans were a little crunchy for me but Chas likes them that way. I prefer much softer beans. The beans were delicious.