Little House on the Windy Prairie

Well Christmas is almost over now and dd10 and I are ready to finish out 2007 on our school break. Each Christmas is good. They are all different now that I'm an adult and have my own family.  I have decided I never ever want to say "Oh I wish I had a Christmas like…..", pick a year, a period in your life. Life is about change and Christmas will change with life. Whenever Christ's birth is celebrated and people get together that is a good Christmas.

Christmas at Poplar Hill:

In the kitchen. Two Christmas dinners. Saturday: Beef Brisket cooked in beer, sliced baked sweet potatoes, mandarin orange salad, sweet corn and blackberry cobbler. Today: Ham, mashed baked maple sweet potatoes, green beans, cranberry bread, squash pie.

In the shop: DH made for be a bird feeder and clothes drying rack out of cedar. Pictures to come.

In the garden: Chard still good, one cabbage left (to bit the dust on New Years Day). Well finally pulled up the tomato and pepper plants to make a path for sledding. The garden lays at the bottom of the sledding hill. Today we cut a path on the hill in hopes (send up prayers) of snow in Jan. or Feb.

In the field: While dh was mowing the sledding path we discovered where the turkey had her nest this summer. Right there were her 4 eggs. You could see how the little chicks had hatched. We had fun watching her all summer cruse around the yard. Then one day we saw her with her chicks. She led them up into the woods and we have not seen them since. It was a fun Christmas treat to see the egg shells.

At church:  We got the time wrong yesterday and missed Christmas Eve service!  Ugh.