Ciaran eats up the fruits, veggies and bread products we don't eat. He is our goat garbage disposal! And we love him!
Friday, December 4, 2015
Homemade fudge...
Can you spot the fudge on the table? I hosted this table for our women's ministry advent event at church last Sunday. Beautiful music by candlelight with new and old friends!
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Koselig: my new favorite word
Farmer J and I really enjoyed this article:
And we LOVED the word and meaning behind the Norwegian word: koselig
This fellow blogger wrote a great post all about Koselig! Check it out! It's worth the read.
I'm only a quarter Norwegian and Farmer J is even less Scandinavian but we may just end up naming this place "Koselig Farm".
But maybe that is too much coziness to live up to?
Right now I'm laying on the couch, with a fuzzy robe on (sheep print no less) with a warm kitten on my lap and looking at the twinkling lights of our Christmas tree.
Now... If I couldn't hear my boys playing like wild animals in the basement, I'd be in a state of "Koselig."
Wishing you all lots of koselig this winter and holiday season.
Welcome!
New owners, new door. It's an odd tradition, but with our first home and our first farm rental, Farmer J painted our front doors (remember the bright red chicken coop door) a bold color. Ever since we traveled in Ireland, we have loved colorful entryways into homes.
The color is Railings by Farrow & Ball.
I decided to paint our back door (we have the typical farmhouse where no one uses our front door but always comes in the back).
Reasons for painting the WHITE door:
- we live on a farm
- we have some boys who often have grubby hands
- the wreaths I hang for the different seasons got lost amongst all the white
- the hardware store was running a special on paint
- I found a paint color I was dying to have somewhere in our house
Here is our old white door...
And then after these steps,
The color is a steel grey/blue- that really will look different depending on the lighting and time of day. It was a nice contrast to paint with a dark color after so much white in the kitchen! Kitchen remodel pictures coming soon!
You'll see more Farrow & Ball colors in our home in the future...and some of their wallpaper (if I win the lotto)!
In case you are intrigued...or recently won the lotto yourself...
Here is the door all finished! All it took was a few hours, three coats and less than $15 dollars in paint and supplies! Not too shabby, if I say so myself!
Cow bell...no, goat bell
Ciaran and Padraig now have "antique" cowbells from Switzerland. I say antique, because we got them in an antique store after our fondue lunch last week.
Knock on wood, but besides loosing a few chickens, we, and mainly I mean Farmer J, are doing pretty darn good keeping our ruminants, birds and bees happy and healthy.
Now, we can find the ever escaping goat boys more easily, when they've "gone walk-about" (yes, I am quoting Crocodile Dundee!)
And, they just look so cute with their Swiss bells!
Ciaran is healing nicely, with all this beautiful weather and scratches from his human parents helping him along.
Speaking of happy, this kitten is practically smiling!
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