Hello friends!
Happy end of September! We have had a pretty fun one here on the farm!
My parents went on their yearly mini vacation and spent a couple days visiting Mount Rushmore and wall drug, and to my knowledge had a grand time. They took my grandma so she could see the sights, turns out she had never seen the “mountain of faces” before and it was a huge deal for her. I am so happy she got to have that experience. They stayed and watched the lighting ceremony and found out that their were others there from our small town, small world!
Meanwhile Christopher and I kept the farm running while they were gone. We call it sibling weekend every year and we usually pick a spooky video game and a new recipe and spend the weekend hanging out. It’s always really fun, this year it was longer than a standard long weekend so we actually played a few things and tried a couple new recipes.
Things I learned? Pasta is kinda fun to make but very dense if you make it yourself (that might just be that we did it wrong, but we had fun so, meh) and Portobello mushroom caps as burger patties has potential but our recipe wasn’t quite it. Glad we tried it though. It wasn’t bad, it was just texture funky and a little bland. But I have plans to try again with some tweaks. All in the name of science.
We also had to rebuild the mini bridge over the irrigation stuff in the pasture trail because somehow the girls managed to kill that off while we were having sibling weekend. Luckily I have a Christopher, who is very good at problem solving with whatever is on hand, so we were able to rig up a solution. I still want something more permanent, but this gives us some time to solve it without panicking. How they managed to put a huge hole in a series of 4x6s is beyond me, I know that they are large animals but dang.
Nellie also finally totaled out her handmade mask, and while I had a new one ready to go in the wings, she quickly found all the flaws for v2, so her mask is currently sitting on my desk waiting for me to have an epiphany on how to solve all of those little issues. The biggest one being she learned immediately how to undo the snaps. Like, two hours in, learned how to undo those. Thing is, she wants her mask on, so she takes it off to itch and then gets so annoyed. Such a toddler.
But in all seriousness I am really proud of how she’s been doing with the mask, and I have maybe an idea to solve it, so hopefully it’s not really a big deal.
We are officially in fall storm season, and we had quite the front come through just the other day. It was one of those funny ones where it’s beautiful and sunny, then you notice some clouds on the horizon and before you think it might be something, it’s blowing and crashing and pouring. I’m very grateful for the rain, but less grateful for the wind and lightning, one of which knocked out power in the valley for multiple hours. That was unpleasant. The good news was I had not yet gone to the grocery store, so any potential loss was relatively minimal, the annoying news was I hadn’t eaten dinner (worked late through it), and with no ability to cook or open the fridges, I had Ritz crackers for dinner. Needless to say, I was a little put out haha.
The girls also had some fun during the storm. It came up so quickly I hadn’t gotten the girls inside yet, so they, with all the survival instincts the good Lord gave a stump, hid under the trees in a lightning storm. So I’m out there trying to coat them back in from the pasture, into the barn (which I was successful in, they were safe and sound) in driving rain and high winds with lightning crashing. My neighbor texted me to let me know what I was doing was dangerous. I concur, but I care too much about my critters to let them hide under a tree in a thunderstorm.
Other than that, we’ve just been slowly working towards repairs and such before winter. Finally got the frost free down in the corral to have water pressure again. It’s truly magical, I had missed it. Now I can do some of the cleaning tasks I had been putting off because I didn’t wanna haul water buckets. Things are about to get shiny!
Anyways, all for now!
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