Holiday Season

Holiday Season

The past few months have gone by so quickly. We finished our living room walls finally. Mostly. We are about a pallet shy of being done completely. I love it. The wood makes it look so warm and cozy and inviting. We put up the Christmas tree and lights, and the living room just glows with Christmas spirit.

I had a really good Thanksgiving this year. We had turkey with his mom and family, and then we smoked our own that weekend. Well Paul smoked it. Well the smoker smoked it and I watched over it while Paul worked. But anyways. It was delicious. I am however, just about sick of turkey. I am so over it. I can’t wait till Christmas and we get a chance to eat ham for a change.

Our “barn” kitties have turned into “porch” kitties. They basically sit on the porch and try to get into our house all day. I am hoping they will grow out of it. We have to lock them in the barn tack room at night so they don’t freeze to death. They are that dumb. They have adorable winter coats coming in, they are so fluffy and fat. All they do it eat. We only feed them in the barn, so they follow us to the barn, eat, and then come right back to the porch. UHG.

We discovered that the one is a pretty good mouser. We accidentally caught a mouse in our nearly empty dog food tub. So we took it outside to see if the cats would be worth anything. Tux (the black and white little boy) grabbed it up and took off with it. I was impressed.

I am hoping they will grow out of the porch thing once they get bigger and braver about exploring the rest of the farm.

Our dog in her nightly spot. As soon as he gets home she is on the
back of the couch on his shoulder. 

I planted my garlic earlier in November. I needed to put it on the south side of my house, and we don’t have flower beds on that side, and the yard is just tough grass, and I don’t have a tiller available to me just yet. So what did I do…. Another trusty pallet to the rescue. I laid a tarp under the pallet. Filled it with dirt, and planted my garlic in between the wood slats. I really have no idea if this is going to work or if it will come up in the spring. We’ll see.

This is actually been the best holiday
season for me.
But this made me laugh

I remember when my family first moved to Oklahoma, we moved onto my great Aunt’s farm. She had garlic in the flower beds. She showed us how to can it that summer. Our house smelled like garlic all summer. But kept the mosquitos down I think. 

All in all I am in love with the new house. The propane heater keeps the living room toasty in the evenings, and the electric heat keeps the bedroom suffocatingly (hows's that for a scrabble word mom?) hot at night (working on a fix for that). The drive to work is only about 15 minutes longer, but it doesn't really take that much more gas. We are looking to get a 4 wheel drive vehicle for the snow and to use around the farm. This winter we are just going to have to risk it. I'm hoping for a good blizzard so I can stay home a few days.