Another Month Nearly Gone

The year seems to be flying by because we still haven't slowed down yet. November brought about a very lovely birthday weekend for me. I got some great presents for my blooming little farm. A cute new egg basket, books on keeping dairy goats and backyard chickens were all exciting additions to my book shelf. I also got gorgeous new black pearl earrings from my wonderful husband! We had a nice quiet night out with friends and shared family birthday dinner the next night.

The floorboards have arrived for the kitchen! Mike and I have gotten some work done on the floors, but it has been slow indeed. We are doing the best we can with the time we have. Hopefully once I finish my Portuguese class for the semester we can get the floor wrapped up. And move on to cabinets. Kitchens are definitely hard projects.

This week we will traveling down to Ohio for Thanksgiving with the Keenan's, Dodd's and Stephenson's. I can smell the turkey and pie already and cannot wait to see everyone again.

We finally weened Bell from milk drinking. We are now milking 2 times a day and with all the excess milk our cheese making is hitting new highs! Our second experimentation with Chevre was an absolute success. We also made another batch of feta and plan on making more chevre today to take down to Ohio with us. I also tried my first round of cottage cheese. Not quite sure how that turned out yet. I think that once we taste it tonight it will definitely need some tweaking. I will have to get pictures of all our beautiful cheese up here soon.

Excited for the long weekend! New pictures below.......

11/19/2007