November? How About A Short Tour of The Place.

    

This is Calli. She has a new "do" because Ari the English Setter decided she was having a bad hair day. Now she looks like a cross between bed head and bad hair day or perhaps meringue peaks.

Dinner two nights ago. Why yes that is a pizza on a rack over a cast iron pan. Why you ask? When one buys a 38 year old home one expects there to be ahem, issues. Lucky for me the seller purchased a whole house policy good for one year. I can renew it if I choose to but most likely won't .  Back to the oven. I found that my oven original to the house did not cook at a consistent temperature. Burnt frozen pizza, cookies, homemade sourdough and a lasagna all crisper then needed no matter how I adjusted the temperature.  The plan is to replace the older electric oven with a propane one built into the cupboard space under the propane stove top when the electric one dives into the abyss.  So while I await the decision of if a new thermostat can be located I improvised. Add lid get oven. How was it ? Delicious!

   

You may remember the "goat cart" from Ash Creek and before then Redwood Valley and originally from the first country homestead on the Golden Westside of  Fresno. Found this lovely (now) geranium on the "dead and dying " shelf at a local nursery for a buck ninety nine. I think it likes it here :-)

The manual for my original Vermont Country Stove circa 1975. I was happy to find it on Ebay and will make good use of it to operate my stove and cook on it. This is going to be great fun!

A bit of this and that. A new mum which now lives in a larger pot on the tree stump in the back of this line up. 

I finally got a good photo of one of my new hummers. This little one and friends love the feeder and all the flowery treats I have put out so far on the farm.

This stock tank and another(no worries of waste they were both left here and leak badly) just like it have three kale, spinach and snap pea plants apiece. This photo was not too long after they were planted. Looking very happy and bigger since then.

This is my gate. The battery is being replaced and I am seriously considering converting it to a solar panel and larger battery soon. It is a Mighty Mule not near the caliber of the gate we had on Ash Creek. I am trying to wait until next Spring as I have a new and larger H20 heater on my Fall list plus a generator and water holding tank.  

These are five of the new coop residents. I will get another five from my daughter in a few weeks. They all should begin laying by early December.

Nice aren't they? New blinds for the whole house. 28 of 29 windows done. Number twenty nine will have a lovely stained glass antique piece cut down to a  narrower boarder to size to fit the octagon shape.Artist is working on it now and my log cabin team will place it when they come next Spring to power wash , stain the exterior and replace a few logs that need to be. I am not a wealthy woman except in family and critters but I am planning well to make this home what I feel is appropriate to it.

Old Faithful making lots of trips from the wood stack to the back porch that I will use as a "wood shed" this winter. Next year will see a proper wood shed where the stack itself is this year and apparently years past for the folks I purchased it from.