Weird wood.  I love this stuff, this is down in the bottom of our property.  Clayton and I went down in and were looking for the place to put his pop-up blind for hunting, we were distracted by the scene.

Today construction of the yurt will resume... YEAH!!! More pictures to come..

pile of o'melays: dias de las muertas

pile of o'melays: dias de las muertas

Snow and the murder of helpless chickens

The first snow of the season and our first snow ever in West Virginia.
It didn't last long and the afternoon warmed up and it was a lovely fall day. I am sad that my chickens were killed by an animal and we now have them secure but the loss is great and they will be missed.

Clayton built us a garbage bin to keep the critters out of the trash.. They were scattering the trash every night..

Shooting some guns after the hogs are in the cooler. Nacoma holding his ears because the gun fire is noisy but he's running around like crazy. Nacoma is Ray and Missy's son, we butchered the hogs at their house. Travis is shooting guns and we can't get him to go home...

Hogs to butcher

Well the pigs are butchered and I have lots of chops and sausage. We will be making brats today and this weekend start processing the bacon and hams.. Gota love that smoked ham and bacon.

The bread is done and delicious.
Whole wheat, wheat germ, rolled and steel cut oats, flax seed, quinoa, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds and dried cranberries.... YUMMMM

The sun rise here is just fab!!! Today we will be going to buy two pigs for us to grain out and butcher. We didn't have time this year to raise them ourselves so we are buying them from a source that is clean and reputed to not use chemicals or hormones. As a precaution we grain them for several weeks to clean their system of any impurities and to sweeten the meat. I am baking bread and have developed a new recipe, hope it turns our well....

Here is Spike and Apple (Appy)
Spike is the Morgan and Appy is the Appaloosa

Work on the barn... The barn need's shoring up before we can start fixing the floor..
Again our MOST WONDERFUL neighbors helping out

Crazy skinny egg... I have 25 layers and 2 roosters. The girls love the free range that they now enjoy since we bought the farm.

Everyone working late to get the job done...

Had have more delivered so it was a late night.. Thank God for great neighbors that supplied the light when we ran out of daylight and for pitching in and helping...

The concrete is here... YEAH!!!

The Yurt

My best friend Gracie has moved to West Virginia with us and is building a Yurt with a round basement on the land. This is the start of the construction.. The top picture is the view from the building site.

Sometimes you just gotta make it your own

We have changed so may things here since we moved in. The house now has lovely hardwood floors, the property has amazing roads throughout and our animals have better fences and pasture to graze.

We are here in West By God Virginia and lovin it

After 9 loads on a 34 ft trailer from Coldwater, MI to Reader, WV I think that we have almost all of our stuff here. We have had so many things to do that I haven't blogged as I had intened but I hope to document things from now on.... This is the house and land as we bought it in June.