EGGS!!!!!

Aren't they lovely

Well got a great surprise today. I had been thinking that our chickens should be laying eggs already, and I had been hunting for a nest for the past couple of weeks. I noticed that our hen had been hiding out in a corner of the greenhouse that I could not get to. I asked Chris to come and look with me, and low and behold we found a stock pile. Thirteen eggs all in one nest!!!! She sure had been busy. So apparently I had been right. She had to have been laying for at least two weeks. We are super excited. Fresh eggs. She lays one each day. We were so excited when we brought them in that we had eggs for dinner.

Life can be crazy

Things have been going well for us. We have been working hard on our plans for the up and coming year. You would never think that there is so much planning involved in maintaining a garden. We have gotten most of our seeds ordered now, which is a huge relief to me. This means the money has been spent. We have also got all of our planting schedule marked out on a calender. This means it will be easier to keep track for our crop rotations and our continuous harvesting. We are getting really anxious for this spring. It is finally hitting us that it is almost here. We have also been working on getting our watertower\chicken house built. If it would only stop raining and snowing. We have all our supplies, but the weather has not worked out yet. All we know is that it has got to happen soon so we can move the chickens to their new home and have a place for all our new plants. The work never stops, but we are in high spirits and are really excited about the new season.

Well getting ready for christmas has been a lot of work, but a lot of fun. I had made all the gifts for Sara and Sam's family, and I just finished my last big project, a quilt for Dick. I think it turned out quite well. the under side is patchwork, and this is the top. It is a look inside Dicks workshop. I really hope he likes it, it took a lot of time. I had to hand stitch around all the fancy stuff (tools, saw, person, pig, bull horn, and the barbwire, which I also embroidered. After it is all said and done, It has been a lot of fun, I had started to forget how crafty I can be.

Thanksgiving was so great this year. We all got together over at Andrew and Brenda's house. Everyone made something, and we did sort of a potluck style meal which made it a bit easier for all of us. The food was great and the company was even better. Brenda's parents and brother were there also which was great. We all got to know them a little better. Another highlight was we all got to meet Little Lincoln. It was fun passing him around and giving him love.

Well we have been pretty busy lately, but I figured I had better fill in some blanks for the past month. The 20th of November was my birthday. Chris didn't seem to have anything planned, so I told him I would like him to take me out to dinner. He had said he would. So all day I waited for our little date thinking Chris was at work. Our friend Kenyan had called, and asked if we could come and help him move a few things over to his new place, I had said yes thinking that this would put us on time to go to dinner. When we were finished Chris told me that he didn't want to go to dinner any more and that he would just prefer to go home. This made me quite frustrated, and luckily for Chris David had called on the drive home to wish me a happy birthday. Chris would have heard my frustration the whole way home if it hadn't been for David. I had talked with David the whole way back from Boise, I got off the phone right as we turned down ten mile. Then I started telling Chris how bummed I was that he wasn't taking me to dinner. We pulled into the driveway and went inside, and of course my sweet Chris had a party planned for me there. Needless to say I felt like a turd and had to apologize. We had a great time. Hannah and Chris had made a bunch of great food, made a pinata, and a game of pin the tail on the donkey. We had so much fun, and ended the night off with a game of Cranium. Thank you Chris for being so sweet to me and making my birthday so much fun. I love you.

CHRIS' BIRTHDAY FUN

I was pretty trixy this year and told Chris that we were going to have a dinner just the two of us at this restaraunt that he loves, where they serve local and organic food, but instead of just us I had got ahold of a few of his best friends and his sister, and had everyone meet us there as a surprise for him. He was none the wiser, which was really hard on my part, since we had hung out with quite a few of them through out the day. He had a great time

You can see the surprise on his face!

I call this one walking on sunshine. Here is Chris doing hand stands on the trail earlier in the day while on a hike with Kenyan and Hannah.

Here is the happy bunch all together. We had six dogs with us too, which was really entertaining to say the least. We were glad that they are all good listeners.

Chris stopping in the shade checking out some mushrooms he spotted in the trunk of this tree.


Chris having a little too much fun on his skateboard going about 20 mph down this hill. I have no idea why he is looking at me and not where he is going.




The 7th was chris' birthday, and we sure did have a lot of fun. I got him new wheels and bearings for his skateboard, and he just had to go and ride down some hills. We went with gage to Brumback hill in Boise, it is in the north end, and they rode down a three mile stretch about 10 times before they were ready to take a break. Chris's speed averages 25-30 mph on the hill!

MORE CANNING!

well last week i got another large batch of canning done. I made white grape juice, pink grape juice, purple grape juice, apple juice, plum juice, apple sauce, plum chutney, and plum sauce! I sure do love to can, and everything turned out wonderful. It only took one long day, but I got another 150 pounds of food put away.