This is the latest picture of the construction on the house. It was taken Dec. 3, 2007

A picture of my fabulous hairdo, Created by Addisson

Picture of Uncle Roger helping Kevin who is putting up one of the walls of our new room.

December 6, 2007

Addisson back in October, before Halloween, found a fuzzy catapillar outside and wanted to keep it. We told her it was ok but it would probally die soon. She stuck it in a plastic water bottle with grass and a stick with air holes. To everyones amazement it is still alive today. The catapillar is going on two months living in a plastic bottle. Now the ground is covered with snow so there is no grass for it to eat. We may have to try spinach or lettuce.

Last night was very cold. It was 7 degrees F. I helped unload a truck load of little ceasars pizzas. We sold them as a fundraiser for the preschool Addisson attends. When I went to bed last night it was 2 degrees F. It doesnt look like the snow will melt or get warm until spring.

December 3, 2007

Preschool was cancelled today due to weather. It snowed most of the day. The girls were suppose to go to a friends for a play date but they were so busy playing and didnt want to pick up their toys, which were all over the living room floor, that they missed their chance. It didnt seem to bother them too much until right before we would have had to leave the play date to go to dance.

The girls played so well today it was great. The made a house by the heater, colored and played doctor almost all day.

It is still snowing and we have about 3-4 inches on the ground and it is suppose to snow on and off for the next few days.

Addisson loves snow. She cant wait to get home from dance so she can go with us out to the barn and play in the snow. Our water to the barn is still frozen. I forgot to remind Asa to bring heat tape home with him. Hopefully he will remember.

December 2, 2007

Asa was off today and he made homemade pizza's. They were very good. Asa went up into the hay loft with Addisson. She loves going up there. She can climb up and down by herself. She also is able to throw the hay bales down by herself too. She loves that part. We went to run the manure gutters and there was too much stuff in them and it got stuck. We parked the truck underneath to catch all of the poop but it didn't work too good. Not too much poop but lots of hay. It was our first time running the gutter and we now know we need to run it much sooner. The water in the barn has also froze so we are back to carrying 5 gallon buckets to the barn. Not fun when it is below zero outside.

I did forget to mention that we now have City Water. Yeah. It has been about a month now and we love it. It is so nice taking a shower in clean water. Especially brushing your teeth. We even use the water to cook with and make coffee. Yippie.

It has been a trying week. Grandma isn't very happy here at the farm. She has said several times "she hates it here and we should have never moved". It is very frustrating to her because many things are done differently. I do like it but the winters make for a poor attitude. Especially since our new windows are giving us problems and the house is freezing. It seems as though every time we make one step forward we make two back.

Our goats are doing fine, it looks like a few are pregnant and one looks as though she will deliver at the end of the month. As of October we had our goats for one year. There has been a huge learning curve. Each season has brought new challenges. We thought we would breeze through summer but it turned out to have the hardest lessons. We hope to grow on what we have learned.

Photos of our new room.