Yesterday we butchered 11 cornish cross chickens, a young bronze turkey, and a goose!

We had our best friends out from Brewster to show us how and help. They got to take home a Boer buckling for all their hard work, which blessed us and them.

So now I have a freezer full of birds, and by the end of fall hopefully an elk and two deer. There's something so right about your own meat in the freezer instead of that stuff in the store. Maybe we will do rabbits eventually too.

I need to make more soap this week. I never want to run out of homemade again! I'm spoiled now. I'm going to make the net batch with essential oil instead of fragrance. I have lemongrass, and it should be nice. I like peppermint soaps too, as they wake me up in the morning. I might make a lavender peppermint batch too, since I have so much lavendar growing in the back. Last year I made lavender and rosemary and I like it. I like more natural scents anyway. I also would like to make another batch of the Farmhouse Oatmeal Cookie soap I made last year. That was hands down the best of all.

Well, it's time to get into jammies and be settled in for the night. Tomorrow morning always comes so darn early!