Bountiful Acres

Autumn decorating

                    These are some of the things I love to decorate with.  Our walls are still white, but soon they will have color on them.  I just love using the colors of fall to decorate with.  I can't wait until I get out all the Thanksgiving pieces I have.  That's the holiday that I really enjoy.  Giving thanks to God for all that's He has given to us.  And, since I LOVE to cook and bake and serve and have HUGE parties I LOVE having Thanksgiving at our home and inviting anyone and everyone that I know who doesn't have some place to go. 

This year we are raising our turkeys for the table and they are getting HUGE! Here's a picture of them in their enclosure from yesterday.     

  This is the largest tom.  We have two toms and a female. (Hen?)  And on Saturday morning he was in all his glory, puffing up and making a thumping sound.  I took several pics trying to get a good one.  Here are several more...

These are some BIG birds and should be quite tasty.

Be well! 

SWAPs that I'm participating in

                                                                

Where does the time go?

I have been busy working on projects and having visitors to our farm lately.  I always think about the blog and writing blog ideas in a notebook, but when it comes to sitting down and getting on the computer somehow life gets a way from me.  So here it is quite a bit later then I ever thought it would take and I'm finally making a blog entry.  HHmmm....how does one ever get to 100 posts at this rate? LOL

  Farkels Mom and Dad came to stay with us for four days and see our new place. That was a wonderful visit and so marvelous to see my husbands face aglow  while they were here.  His sister and her family also came from Ohio to visit with us on that Saturday. 

Moving here was a fabulous thing for us, but the one thing that is sooooo hard is that we are away from ALL family and didn't know anyone when we got here a year ago yesterday.  Today we went to a new church and really liked it and we are hoping that we will connect there and make some friends and develop our church family. 

We also had quite the treat several days ago when I looked into this old doghouse on our property.  Our chickens had been going in and out and I wondered what had intrigued them, so I took a look.  To my surprise this is what I found..

                            OUR FIRST EGGS!!!!!!!!!

  So like any good farmer this is what I did with them...

  Farkle and I both believe these were the best eggs we've ever tasted!! YUM!!  (We raise our chickens organically and free ranging)

  Here are several of my projects lately

 

This is a wooden plate that I painted with a cheery Santa looking into a glass water globe.  There are more photos in the album.

And, I've been making village houses for about a year now.  These are some of my new ones.   I also made the Sweet Shoppe at the top of the entry.