Sunday, November 27, 2016

Tucking In

Chasing mama bumble from snapdragon to snapdragon


Post 20 degrees and the blooms are done now. Mama bumble tucked away in her wood or bramble winter home.
See you next spring Mama Bumble!

Finishing the apples.  Apple sauce, muffins, and crunch. the aroma of sweetness and cinnamon.

Our peeler makes this job easier.

Apple peel noodles.

Apples piled high.  


Yummy appetizer for Thanksgiving dinner.  Made with our black raspberry jelly and summer honey by Karla our amazing hostess.  We were oh-so-blessed to spend this thankful holiday with Karla and Jason and family.

Simmering apple sauce.



Our beautiful free ranged and pastured chickens - Rocambole garlic powder and rosemary herb rub.
Today's Journey Joys: Planted garlic with abundance of straw mulch - tucked in for winter's cold, chicken broth steaming on the stove - preparing for noodle soup, flocks and flocks of blackbirds flying south, enormous bald eagle soaring overhead, kittens with winter's coat, rosemary in her pot ready to flavor, warm showers, Farmer's Husband making firewood - storing for winter's brrrrr-cold..
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