Let’s just back up a bit. I feel I need to remind all of you that we have DAIRY goats. Meaning we want them to produce milk. Well, in order to make milk they need to have at least one baby. With goats (maybe other animals too) we call it “freshening”. In order to have […]
The Boys Attend an IEW Class
Friday morning the boys and I were out the door by 7:15. Eating our breakfast in the car,we drove an hour south to Albany where the boys would attend an Institute of Excellence in Writing class. The topic was Story Writing. We are at the beginning of our third year using the IEW curriculum. It is […]
New Culinary Successes
This summer has brought a few new tricks to my culinary tool belt. I thought I would share them with you in case you might benefit from them. The first time I met my neighbor Jen she was cutting up watermelon. I was so intrigued by the technique that I immediately started doing it. She […]
Animals, Shop, Garden and a Little Fun
I thought you might enjoy some pictures of the animals. The chicks sure have grown a lot. The Barred Rock chickens are very sociable. Our chicken coop has a door that leads out to an enclosed pen. I think that the Ameraucana chicken’s head looks like […]
Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum
On Sunday we bought a family membership at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville. The site houses four buildings. Aviation, Space, IMAX theater and an indoor water park. We went to the IMAX 3-D showing of D-Day: Normandy 1944. Excellent. Not only informative but very emotional. It looks like they show about five […]
It’s Apple Harvest Time
Woohoo? When you have sixteen apple trees you really do question whether it is a good thing. The first thing I did was take one of each type of apple that we have and cut it up to sample. We don’t know the name for each type of apple. I know that we have Granny […]
Stuffed Peppers
My dear friend Kirsten gave us pepper plants when we moved to the farm. One of the plants is called Marconi Peppers. Last week I decided to stuff them. I Googled and found a recipe on The Food Network that I made some changes to. Everyone loved them. So much so that I made a […]
Water Logging
One of the projects Michael wanted to get done this weekend was pulling old logs out of the creek. The water is really low and it seemed a good time to do it. We will leave some logs for the fish but it has too many in it and they must be pulled out. Here […]
My Mornings
Well, it is no longer light at 5:00 am and it certainly isn’t as warm/dry. But other than that my mornings are just about the same. Seven.days.a.week. I wake up somewhere between 5:00 and 5:30. After the usual shower and getting dressed I sit down in the “sun room” (can it really be called a […]