Animals
- Ffht - "after That I Never Turned My Back On Another Pumpkin."
Yin and Yang with Youngest Boy Well we are very excited Mommy said we could do our very first FFHT. Everyone in our house likes to read, so we gets to hear lots of stories, we likes to sit in our peoples lap while they read to us, or talk to us. Do you...
- Scylla Stole Mommy's New Throw
Mommy got a new throw, it is so soft I couldn't resist taking it away from her. I think I should get one for Christmas, I might even share it with Charybdis & Sockie~Pooh. Although I was a pig and didn't share the pumpkin. Mommy made Tuscan...
- It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like.....winter!
Winter arrived this weekend, and we plunged headlong into the holiday season. Despite the calendar claiming it still to be Autumn,our world was a frosty wonderland Sunday morning. Nighttime fog had enveloped every bare surface and frozen there by morning......
- Traditions
Thanksgiving is over.What remains of the turkey is now soup. We made it through another Black and Blue Friday, with no mishaps... lots of stories.... war stories.... memories to last a lifetime. I was unable to play paintball with the rest of the...
- The Great September Deluge
It's raining.Actually, it's pouring.I'm thinking of building an ark.Really. Sunday night around 5 pm it started to rain...pour, actually....so badly, that we had some water leaks in the house.And it hasn't quit raining.As of yesterday...
Animals
What Your Mother Meant When She Said "Don't Eat Like a Pig"
As I sit here gathering my thoughts,
the house is filled with the aroma of roasting pumpkin.
This year I snagged one of the big Cinderella pumpkins that I had found
for Autumn decorating...
cut it into segments (only using about a third of the pumpkin...it was a monster!)
and roasted them in the oven for Thanksgiving baking.
As you read this post Wednesday morning,
the flour will be flying as I make my flaky, buttery pastry crusts and pumpkin pies.
If the pie tastes half as good as it smells in this house...
we will be in pumpkin Heaven on Friday.
Yes, Friday.
Our family tradition is fondly known to us as...
Black and Blue Friday.
We have placed a moratorium on Christmas shopping that day,
and instead spend the day feasting and playing and enjoying each others' company...
four generations of us.
It's my favorite holiday of the year... all the good of Christmas, without the shopping.
Just good ole family fun and fellowship.
It is on this day that I am filled with so much thankfulness that I can hardly contain myself.
Thankfulness for family ties...
for all of the souls, young and old, whom I cherish the most.
Parents, children, grandchildren, Hubbs ...all my favorite people in this whole wide world....
all together in one place... surrounding me with love and warmth.
Perfect!
And of course, the farm work continues...
but truly the work is a labor of love...
as my thankfulness extends to these precious souls whose care has been entrusted to me.
They fill each of my days with sweet and tender joy.
Look who's roosting with the turkeys!
Two of the Lucilles were in the turkey house last night when I closed up.
I wonder what the fellows think of that!
- Ffht - "after That I Never Turned My Back On Another Pumpkin."
Yin and Yang with Youngest Boy Well we are very excited Mommy said we could do our very first FFHT. Everyone in our house likes to read, so we gets to hear lots of stories, we likes to sit in our peoples lap while they read to us, or talk to us. Do you...
- Scylla Stole Mommy's New Throw
Mommy got a new throw, it is so soft I couldn't resist taking it away from her. I think I should get one for Christmas, I might even share it with Charybdis & Sockie~Pooh. Although I was a pig and didn't share the pumpkin. Mommy made Tuscan...
- It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like.....winter!
Winter arrived this weekend, and we plunged headlong into the holiday season. Despite the calendar claiming it still to be Autumn,our world was a frosty wonderland Sunday morning. Nighttime fog had enveloped every bare surface and frozen there by morning......
- Traditions
Thanksgiving is over.What remains of the turkey is now soup. We made it through another Black and Blue Friday, with no mishaps... lots of stories.... war stories.... memories to last a lifetime. I was unable to play paintball with the rest of the...
- The Great September Deluge
It's raining.Actually, it's pouring.I'm thinking of building an ark.Really. Sunday night around 5 pm it started to rain...pour, actually....so badly, that we had some water leaks in the house.And it hasn't quit raining.As of yesterday...