nearly winter

My book is published! You can find it on Amazon - The Complete Idiots Guide to Country Living- It's getting good reviews too.


It’s a cold and wet November day, rather mild in the 50’s but just miserable. I just came back from the barn, feeding time. It was getting dark and the hen turkeys were all inside, but the stupid tom was sitting on the ridge of the barn roof in the rain. Ain’t that just like a male? Next week on Thursday evening the big white hen goes to see the butcher. It’s the closest appointment I could get to Thanksgiving. She will have to sit in the frig for a week or maybe I will freeze her - I don’t know.

I have stopped letting the horses out into the larger pasture. It’s not much good anymore and the weather has been nasty. They are getting all the hay they can eat. I haven’t been able to walk Charlie as much as he needs. He’s getting big, I let the brow band out on his halter but we may need to buy him a bigger one soon. I was able to contact our horse farm neighbor to get farrier information. She is going to send him over to our place on Monday when he comes to hers.

It’s my granddaughters 13th birthday on Sunday. She’s having a big family party. I told her I would bake the cake and asked her how she wanted it to be decorated. She wants pink and white. Of course everything is red and green now - but I did manage to find some pink decorations. The cake will be cherry chip. It’s amazing how fast time flies. Our oldest granddaughter will be 17 in January. The thought that I could be a great grandmother in a few years scares me. My next oldest sister has yet to have her first grandchild, although a younger sister has quite a few young grandchildren.

Deer firearm season starts tomorrow here. The gunshots have been going off around here for weeks, now it will be legal. We saw all the “hunters” in the grocery store today loading up on beer and canned chili. I hope they kill a lot of them, we sure need herd reduction around here.

I still have petunias blooming in the old grill up by the barn. Some sweet alyssum and snapdragons are blooming under the oak tree. The grass is still very green in the yard. I like global warming so far. We are supposed to get snow here in a couple of days though.
I need some winter weather so I can buckle down and write my nest book.