Waiting on Ginger to lamb

We are waiting on our white ewe, Ginger to lamb.  She is really close.  This will be her second year to lamb.  Last year she gave birth to twins.  As big as she is that might be the case again this year!  We are all anxiously waiting on the little lamb/lambs to make their appearance.  I will definitely post pictures as soon as she lambs.

Anyone living in our area want two geese?  We are ready for them to go live somewhere else. 

The seed orders are coming in and then we are going to be starting our plants.  Ed needs to put the pellet stove in the greenhouse first.  We had a really hard frost and the temperature got down to 20 degrees in the greenhouse.  Yep!  Killed everything but the citrus trees.  So now I have no more veggies growing out there at all.  It will be so great to have heat in there for winter.  I will keep you all posted on how that is going.  I hope to be picking veggies all winter this year.

New neighbor

We have a new neighbor.  Just recently we have noticed this little fuzzy creature in our orchard and coming up on the deck to sneak old apples.  He/she is very quick and hard to catch a photo of.  We for sure won't get many hazelnuts with a squirrel in the neighborhood.  The blue jays usually get their share too.  But he/she sure is cute!  Take a look and see what you think.

What in the world is that horrid brown looking thing to the left you may be asking yourself......ummm I am embarrassed to say, it is the left over Christmas tree!  Yes, now you know my dark secret, the dead tree is still on my deck!  We have had one pile of brush and boxes burned, but we forgot to get the tree off the deck to add to the fire. 

But isn't the squirrel cute?  :)

Have a wonderful weekend!

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Remember the drawing held on Dec. 1st from CSN Stores?  We are having another one. 

CSN Stores has over 200 stores to shop from.  Now that Spring is coming maybe you need a wooden swing set for your children.  How about a nice hammock to relax in after mowing the lawn?

We are a homeschooling family and we would love to get this set for school. 

So leave me a comment between now and Monday the 14th at 6pm Pacific time telling me what you would chose should you be the next winner.  Don't forget to leave your email address where I can send the winner the promotion code for the $35.

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I will be hosting another CSN stores give away soon.  Just working out the details right now.  Keep checking back to see when you will be able to leave me a post to enter to win!

Have a great weekend!

Our trip up the Coast



 This is looking south at Cape Foulweather.  It is on the Central Oregon coast.  It was a beautiful day, and no wind! 

Cape Foulweather was named by Captain James Cook.  Cape Foulweather is a basalt outcropping 500 feet (150 m) above the Pacific Ocean on the central coastline of the U.S. state Oregon in Lincoln County south of Depoe Bay. The cape is notable as the first promontory on the northwest coast of New Albion (as the area was then known) to be sighted and named by Captain James Cook, while on his third voyage around the world. His March 7, 1778 journal entry reads:




"The land appeared to be of moderate height, diversified with hill and Valley and almost everywhere covered with wood. There was nothing remarkable about it except one hill…At the northern extreme the land formed a point which I called Cape Foulweather from the very bad weather we soon after met with."

Audrey and Sally at Cape Foulweather.  We also went into the gift shop here and they got to use the penny press.  You know how they have that machine that presses a design and name onto a penny?

Isn't this just the most beautiful blue you have seen?  The ocean and the sky, such different blues.  God made such beautiful things!

We drove from our home in Coquille, north on highway 101 to Pacific City.  We stopped along the way and had to view the ocean and the beautiful scenery.  We had a picnic lunch at Cape Foulweather.  The girls got to learn about Captain Cook and how he named the Cape.

We had such a nice time.  The girls said they were enjoying seeing all "new land" on our trip.  When ever we head out for a day trip they ask us if it is someplace we have been before or if it is all new land.  :)  Too precious!

That is the most recent interesting thing we have done.  We plan on making several trips this summer and promise to share our adventures with you all.

Tea Party!

These two little ladies came for tea today.  They were dressed up in their finest dresses, hats, and heels.

The table is set for a fine bunny teapot tea.  We have decaf Constant Comment tea, sugar and milk.  We had heart, star and flower shaped little sandwiches.  Some were lime curd and others were maple butter.

Miss Audrey enjoying a spot of tea and a little sandwich.

Miss Sally having her tea and little dainties.

The girls were having fun dressing up and having tea.  Their little tea set was a gift from their Grandmother several Easters ago.  We hadn't used it for quite some time.  So long in fact they didn't remember it.  So today when they came down stairs all dressed up and asked if they could use one of my teapots and teacups to have a tea party I remembered this set.  I had them wait in the living room until their table was ready.  They were so surprised to see the table set with this bunny tea set.  A rather nice way to spend a rainy afternoon.

It is so good to see them both well.  Sally was sick for several days and finally is doing better today.  At least she didn't have a fever today and is wanting to eat.  Thank you Lord for answered prayers!

Hope everyone is having a lovely weekend.