Monday, October 31, 2011

Kitchen Magic..

A friend from church recently gave me a gift that keeps on giving...buttermilk starter. I just have to save a bit each time I get low and start a new batch. Love me some buttermilk.

Todays batch was put to good use in cheese buttermilk biscuits.

A little bit of this


With a bit of this thrown in


While keeping an eye on this



Made for some delicious aromas in this here kitchen



This is how the sun rolls in each morning to rise and shine on the family. Now all I need is my rooster in the back yard a cock-a-doodle-dooing. ... Or not. The silent sun is dreamy enough :)

Friday, October 21, 2011

I can feel it..

I can feel it comin in the air of the night...oh yeah...

Those are lyrics, by the way...  and yes indeedy I did feel it coming lastnight, right up my nose down my throat, those nasty cold bugs are back. I'm stuffed up this morning, and if I didnt have to go out, it'd be a wonderful day to sleep away.

We made a mutual decision to turn on the floors this morn...if only that darn sun would come out, I'm sure we could've lasted till november, but alas .. the time has come. We're both a bit excited to see how long it takes for them to start feeling warm, we've heard it can take awhile before the radiant heat is noticeable as it has to heat up all the concrete.

Every once in a while I have these moments where I envision the house in its building stages, or the huge hole that was here just 5 months ago...or even the hay field that this was for a number of years, and I'm just in awe of how we have a house...here...that we live in... incredible!

Here are the concrete floors being finished

Heres a pic of the floors with the radiant heat pipes, before the concrete was poured over them.

And here is Gabe and I working at the tiling.. cross legged, that's how I laid the floor...sat on every square inch of this house before it was finished :)


And here is Dwight, Steve and Bill laying the laminate floor, it went down pretty fast...what a team :)

So needless to say after all that hard work, we're excited to finally enjoy the warm and cozy aspect of it all!

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

It's a blustery one here today. The goods are baked, the tea's been sipped, and the lids are heavy.. I'm afraid these days are here to stay, too soon the wet dirt will be replaced with waves and ripples of freshly fallen snow. We're hoping to see the little green sprouts come shooting up before the first snow fall, what a good feeling that'll be, to see the grass give us a preview of 2012.






The lists are being made already...landscaping, gardens, clothesline, chicken coop... I'm sure my 'outdoor file' will be bursting by April.

 Eden has made herself a nest on the floor, parked in front of tvo kids, and I think I may just join her...toots for now.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

First post at the fifty...

Hey y'all ... a fresh start means a fresh blog! Here's to a blog like the last...