He is one hell of an exterior decorator. Apparently there is a winter storm watch going on and we may get a healthy helping of the white stuff later today and tomorrow. So far we have been spared any -30 degree temperatures and only gotten a little accumulation here and there. Truth be told I [...]
Cake. That’s what. When Corrie has to leave in the middle of the day for an appointment and I have one (or more) of the girls all to myself we bake. It keeps everyones hands busy and the sibling rivalry to a minimum. Since we are all stocked up on bread for a few more days [...]
With snow comes tracks. All kinds of them, chicken (pictured below), turkey, cat, dog, deer, not to mention car, truck and tractor. I must have spent a good 30 minutes the other evening following the deer tracks around the yard, over the fence and across the field. A couple mornings ago two does were looking [...]
I’ll admit I’ve been slacking. The making of bread has been falling by the wayside. Corrie has had a craving (or two) for white bread which we never make and suddenly bread is on the grocery list. Well no more. This weekend we searched out a recipe for white bread (okay not much searching was required) and [...]
Back at the start they were all little tiny balls of fluff. I’ll be honest we weren’t even sure which were chickens and which were turkeys. They grew and we watched. We fed them. We even built them a new home. Along the way we butchered a couple ourselves and lost one. They have escaped [...]
