November

As promised, here is the update of ranch happenings for November. To begin with, we had our oldest son's 11th birthday party combined with a couple of others, next we had our oldest daughter's 2nd birthday, then we had Thanksgiving dinner at Granny and Pop's house.

Between these happenings, we began to prepare for the winter as the weather has just now turned cold. We made a trip to SA, plucked all the seeds we could from the garden, and we began construction on our master bath.


We are also finally having eggs. We are only getting about 5 a week, but that is better than nothing. Here is our first egg:


Finally, November blessed us with our second litter of Dobe pups:


Here they are just a few days old


and here they are now-much bigger with eyes and ears opened!And that concludes a VERY full November!

September?

Where did September go? Oh yes, we added our second daughter to the clan! Sept. 23rd we welcomed Jaelynn Dora Cottle to our little family and due to the end of pregnancy woes and newborn bliss I failed to update the blog. Many apologies for this, but I will update now.

September marked the beginning of school for our two oldest boys and a new project for Dad. As most of our readers know, we have been in the long process of building our home here on the ranch. It has taken 3.5 years so far and we have yet to finish it. But, this year, as we paid off our outstanding debt on construction thus far, we began working on it again. Projects for Sept. included building our "school room".
Although it is already messy and well used, you can see we have the media corner, curriculum shelves, 2 desk areas, and a large work cabinet area. This project is half complete but I think you can see the wonderful work of my husband who has never made a cabinet in his life before now! The cedar is gorgeous and he did professional quality work in my opinion!

September also ended our daily garden gathering and veggie processing. We were wonderfully blessed and have a freezer full of veggies for the winter. We were also able to stock Granny and Pop's freezer and send veggies to other loved ones.

And that my friends covers September. Stay tuned for November and maybe it won't be a month late!