I can hardly believe it's Friday again! Each week seems to go by more quickly than the last! This week we celebrated my hubby's birthday - a fun family party! We spent a lot of time with our animals and getting them cozy for the winter. Today started out at 1F - now that will wake you up when you go out to feed the goats!

We are hoping for a low-key weekend. We're getting in a shipment for the goats (alfalfa pellets, bedding, etc) that will have to be stored. As well, I have some baking for the freezer and of course church on Sunday!

I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend!
Blessings
Natalie

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Isn't it amazing how a little bit of snow can completely change the look of the outside of the homestead? Our yard, trees, roof, etc - all white and clean and beautiful. We had a very small amount of sun today and everything was sparkling! Our sweet little goats, however, are not so taken with the snow. They stay in the covered portion of their play yard, eating as always, watching the kids build snow forts. I wonder what they think about that!?!

Have a great day!
Natalie

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This morning at 8:30 my daughter came running into our room, "Mom, Mom! I just raised my shade and it's snowing these gigantic snowflakes outside!" Groggily, I reached for my glasses and sure enough, it WAS snowing enormous snowflakes that were quickly covering our yard. It's been snowing that way all day and we are expected to have up to 10 inches by the end of the day, and 4 more inches tonight. It's that really wet kind of snow (very uncommon in our area of Alaska where we usually have dry powder snow) and the kids have been making great snowmen all day! What a wonderful Saturday!

Joyfully yours,
Natalie

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It's been a pretty busy day, starting with a cold 10F this morning. We got up and had chores done fairly quickly, moving straight into school work. We had a Brownie meeting right after lunch (the local schools are out today for a fall break) and then came home to rest and finish our day. Our one (and only) radio station is having a free concert tonight with John David Webster. We are very excited about going!

Tonight for dinner I am trying a sourdough (with my new started!) apple bread. If it turns out, I'll copy the recipe later this week. Dinner tonight along with the bread is ham and cheese quiche, butterbeans and a peach blueberry crisp.

Hope you've had a joyous Monday!
Natalie

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What a wonderfully productive family day we've had! When we got up this morning it was 9F! The cold is coming!

This morning, I made a sourdough starter (it's a must for Alaskans, but I haven't had the time until now to start it!). Then, we went to the small grocery store and the PO and then came home for a quick lunch. After lunch I made an apple crisp for the freezer. I am trying to make at least one thing on Saturday for my freezer that will help out during the busy week. I also started the dough for cinnamon rolls. Then the barn chores - I cleaned and disinfected our small goat barn and let it air out since it was so nice and sunny (still cold at 30F). Next I scrubbed the front porch and cleaned the outside of the windows. This is probably our last weekend before everything freezes hard until April. My hubby was doing a small repair on the roof and then cutting some wood and finally doing a thorough cleaning of the garage. We were so busy with the chores to get ready for winter, I couldn't believe it when the sun began going down at 5:00! We are losing close to 5 minutes of sunlight a day right now so it disappears quickly.

I am happily tired after a full day of working on the homestead. I feel that our home is such a blessing from God and working on it is a way to praise Him!

I hope you will all have a blessed and restful Sunday!
Natalie

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