Hi Friends!
Here we are....how on earth did it get to be mid October already?? Cannot believe it!
Fall delights...so much goodness all around. Hoss has winterized the garden. We already got our first snow last week. It killed the squash plants, so he picked the rest of it all, plus the root veggies. We still have spinach and lettuce going strong as well as some beets and interestingly enough...strawberries! I spent Sunday baking zucchini bread/muffins all day and catching up on laundry. Heaven! It was super windy, so didn't ride. Perfect day to get caught up on inside chores.
The ponies are getting their winter coats, and enjoying the last bits of pasture grass before coming into the barn for the majority of the winter. The sad news....after 3 1/2 years living here with no loss, we've now lost 3 sweet laying hens to predators, within a week's time. I guess keeping them in the barn stall has always kept them safe. Since having the chicken coop, not so much luck. We know it's at least one weasel, as we found him expired in one of the stock tanks filled with water.
Our owl returned in late August as well. He was magnificent! His wing span was enormous! We wondered if he was the chicken predator at first, but he most likely would have carried away the hen, instead of leaving behind the carcass. Ahhhh, life in the country. Nature going on all around us! We heard a cow on Sunday in total distress and moo-ing for hours. It was either dying or giving birth....we drove around trying to find it but couldn't. I'm thinking it was giving birth...it's that time around here for calfies being born.
Biscuits and sausage gravy has been the fare the last two Sunday breakfasts...so decadent!
Have you ever made it? Hoss likes his with two over-easy eggs on top.
load of laundry, as usual!
lots of zucchini bread and muffins!
overbaked biscuits are now dog treats!
Cleaned the barn and brought out the heated stock tanks to get ready for winter, and snow should be here by Wednesday, with the high at 32. Brrrrrrrsies. Hoss has cleaned all the pony blankets so the boys will be nice and cozy this week. How are you enjoying your fall?
Enjoy the season!!
Here we are....how on earth did it get to be mid October already?? Cannot believe it!
Fall delights...so much goodness all around. Hoss has winterized the garden. We already got our first snow last week. It killed the squash plants, so he picked the rest of it all, plus the root veggies. We still have spinach and lettuce going strong as well as some beets and interestingly enough...strawberries! I spent Sunday baking zucchini bread/muffins all day and catching up on laundry. Heaven! It was super windy, so didn't ride. Perfect day to get caught up on inside chores.
The ponies are getting their winter coats, and enjoying the last bits of pasture grass before coming into the barn for the majority of the winter. The sad news....after 3 1/2 years living here with no loss, we've now lost 3 sweet laying hens to predators, within a week's time. I guess keeping them in the barn stall has always kept them safe. Since having the chicken coop, not so much luck. We know it's at least one weasel, as we found him expired in one of the stock tanks filled with water.
Our owl returned in late August as well. He was magnificent! His wing span was enormous! We wondered if he was the chicken predator at first, but he most likely would have carried away the hen, instead of leaving behind the carcass. Ahhhh, life in the country. Nature going on all around us! We heard a cow on Sunday in total distress and moo-ing for hours. It was either dying or giving birth....we drove around trying to find it but couldn't. I'm thinking it was giving birth...it's that time around here for calfies being born.
Biscuits and sausage gravy has been the fare the last two Sunday breakfasts...so decadent!
Have you ever made it? Hoss likes his with two over-easy eggs on top.
lots of zucchini bread and muffins!
Cleaned the barn and brought out the heated stock tanks to get ready for winter, and snow should be here by Wednesday, with the high at 32. Brrrrrrrsies. Hoss has cleaned all the pony blankets so the boys will be nice and cozy this week. How are you enjoying your fall?
Enjoy the season!!
5 comments:
Heaven, indeed! I LOVE reading about what's going on at Chatelaine Ranch. Autumn is my favorite time of year - sure would love to be spending a day of it with you and a warm zucchini muffin! So sorry to hear about your sweet hens.... Hope all is well with you, sweet friend. xoxo ~Denise
Bliss! It's always great to hear what's going on at the ranch. Would love to be chatting with you by the fire with coffee and one of your yummy muffins! Snow?! Tis the season...
Happy Fall Kelly! The zucchini bread looks sooo good!! Miss you xooxo
Yo Baby!
If you're a-shippin z-bread....my mailbox is w-i-d-e open. :) Hope all is well...just checking in. Love you, MA :)
Miss you more than you know!!! So nice to read about life at the ranch and how good it is. I knew things would work out. You are amazing and Hoss is a good, hard working man. Take care Kelly and don't be a stranger to the teepee.
xoxo Dianne
PS Go look at my latest painting...a horse and rider. :)
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