First Snow of the Season

Hyacinth & Harriet

Daisy Mae - 8 mos.

After 2 1/2 days and almost 4 inches of rain, it finally turned to snow....but it is turning back to rain.  The piggies have been staying dry by curling up together in one of the pig huts.  We opened up the pasture to the cows so they could find a less wet place to lay down.  The Highlands are used to cold weather and have a thick coat but we don't want them to have to lie down in puddles of water in the cold.  We are going to bring up a rolled bale of hay today to supplement the hay in the pasture.  With all this rain they need some nice dry hay to eat. 

We canned pumpkin and turkey soup the other day.  I laughed to myself when I saw people rushing out to get bread, milk and toilet paper yesterday....the snow never even stuck to the road.  We make our own bread now (or I should say Cris makes it) and when the cows start producing milk, we will have that as well.  Our grocery bills have gone down already as well as our dining out bills.  Our last dining out bill was about $18.00.  We did splurge and have sushi a couple weeks ago but most of the time we spend about $20, maybe once a week.  Cris is such a good cook that there is no reason to eat out.  The other night we had risotto with mushrooms that we picked ourselves and he used the broth from the turkey for the risotto liquid.  The salad was from our garden and he makes really good homemade vinaigrette's as dressing.  Seems we spend more money on feed for the animals than we do on ourselves.  That bill will go down once we get the pigs in the woods to eat acorns and the grass turns green in the spring for the cows.