Porridge Pancakes

I love porridge pancakes. They are made with leftover porridge, eggs, flour, butter, some water, and some baking powder, cooked in a skillet over the fire. They are especially good with lots of butter and raspberry jam. We had them for breakfast the first day, and they were so good. We will have them again tomorrow morning as well.

The ponys here are very nice, there is Fiernin, who looks like a small draft horse and has a gold coat with a black mane and tail and a black dorsal stripe. Shadow, who is a dapple grey shetland pony. And Smoky Bear, who is a black shetland and miniature mix, who is smaller than our newfoundland dog Bailey was and almost as furry. Storm and I ride them a lot, Storm rides Shadow and I ride Fiernin. We ride without saddles or bridles, just bareback with a halter. We take them up a trail called the zig-zag which goes up through the forest and over a couple of streams. And up another trail to the lookout, which goes along the old road to Ullapool, to a spot close to the top of the hill that you can see the big bit of the river where it runs into the ocean.

Storm and I are also going to make sure that we have dessert every day. Because if we don't make something we usualy won't have dessert. Sometimes the adults will make something like chocolate cake, or welsh cookies, but they don't do it every day. For lunch today we had baked beans, toast, mussels (with pearls, I found seven), and fried dulce, which is a type of seaweed coated in egg and rolled in crushed oats, and is actually very good.

So far my pants (which used to be dark green) are the color of the mud here, And my jacket is starting to look that way. Also since my boots were very wet after running around the forest, mom put them on the wood burning stove to dry and we didn't realise how hot the stove was getting, sudenly we smelled something burning and found out my boots had started to melt. We got them off and they're not to bad, after we get some money we are going to see if Till (the Zimmerman cobbler) can fix them.

Also can you guys tell me when the first snow is? I saw the juncos before I left. Juncos usually come two weeks before the first snow so I am expecting it around the 28th. We will blog more next time we go to Ullapool or when Em's internet is back up.

Sydney

Location:Lekmelm Forest