Thursday, November 03, 2022

Bible Study & Apples

Snow! 

The chickens aren't the only ones getting used to new morning routines. Allie and I had to dig out the van before we left for study this morning. We enjoyed our discussion about women of great faith today...

My goal is to finish all the apples BEFORE the next co-op day (Nov 8th). I had three cases left this morning and I hoped to finish them all.....

 I chopped all the apples and started them simmering. I was committed to finishing them all - the boxes were empty. 



Stacia got up at 0700 to work on school so she could help with apples in the afternoon. I appreciated her initiative. 

The snow does bring the walk out cooler to life....

We did it. I finally got another batch of kombucha done...and 45 quarts of applesauce done. Done for 2022. 

The moose are back.  I love them this time of year. 

Michael had an appointment this afternoon and then ran by the store for me and to the feed store for the chickens.  This was the sunset when he pulled back into the driveway. 

Unimpressed Chickens

Our new chicks have grown into great layers. They have stayed outside in all sorts of weather, sun...wind...rain and even the light snow on Oct 10th. We wondered how they would do when "winter" really hit, today we found out. 

This group RACES out of the henhouse each morning. They push, fight and skirmish to see who can reach me first. They surround me as they advocate for the treats in the scrap bucket! 


But, WAIT! What is THIS? They raced out to explore and then just as quickly began trying to get back up the ramp and into the coop. 

They reached an impasse with those who were trying to get out as determined as those trying to get back into the coop. They've finally discovered weather they want to avoid.  We expect their egg production to slow down...but so far we are still getting 19 eggs a day...one or two less. Not bad. 


I think this snow may be here to stay! If so, does that mean this is winter? It's come a couple of weeks later than usual...