… its been such a long, long while since I’ve been able to post anything here!
The Cowgirl’s cow {Kitti} finally calved on December 11, so little Caspar’s fun b-day is 12-11-12 :) Thankfully, the weather was beautiful for several days that week, and he got off to a great start. He is so fun to watch now as he romps around the pasture!
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Looking back even further, here are some pictures from November!
We were doing a bit of deep housecleaning. And housecleaning is so much more fun if you can make a mess first… I guess. The project was sorting through old school papers – and throwing most of them away. But not until after they’d wadded most of them up and thrown them all over the school room. {sigh} And we have more of that to do with the boxes and boxes of papers that we’ve accumulated over the years. Time to lighten the load!
Tim added a door to the closet by the front door. Totally changed the look of that hallway. In a very good way!
And he had some help to add a step inside the closet so that we can reach the items on the deep shelf easier… {No, it’s not quite finished yet b/c he needs another piece of wood, but it is very useable! And one - or several - can even hide in the closet…}
The Cowgirl did an experiment to learn about sound traveling through water… the Popper tried it too.
We had some fun putting together turkeys made with Oreos for our Thanksgiving/Christmas gathering in mid-November.
The leftover piece of Oreo makes a perfect base for a pilgrim hat.
Abby tried her hand at a somewhat complicated pie, which tasted quite delicious! I think she will leave out the orange peel next time however to suit taste preference at our house.
We couldn’t find the recipe online, but here’s a video demonstration of the same caramel apple-cherry pie. {recipe was in the November issue of BH&G} I found her a bigger pie plate for next time, but I will have to look for leaf cookie cutters too. She made do with the little turkey.
We had a good amount of the various pies leftover. Yum, yum.
Decorating fun…
Tim set up his clay pigeon launcher for the afternoon… The wind was brisk, but overall it was a good day for outdoor fun too. The indoor crew played Settlers of Catan or Ticket to Ride, I can’t remember which now.
Another day, the girls experimented with a new braid…
Oh, and this was a funny notion that I had to record the glow coming from our coat room…
Any ideas?
It was the sun shining on the brand new very orange vacuum…
that I had to buy when the motor blew up on the old one.
But while I was at K-mart buying the vacuum, I found a new rug for the kitchen. Color me happy, even if the rug isn’t blue.
More wood for the pile.
And yet another apple pie… for the soup/pie/praise fellowship at church.
But it was untouched! hee hee So we brought it home again to take along to Grandma’s house in Wisconsin for Thanksgiving Day.
More about that later!
