Archive for November, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Hello all – and Happy (almost) Thanksgiving!

I sure hope you all have much to be thankful for this season! Bypass the negative things happening and your list will grow and grow.
I know mine did when I put aside the worrying and the ugly things swirling around me for a time.

I was thinking of you all while cutting up my white pumpkins from the garden and butternut squash from a dear neighbor’s garden. I will be draining the pumpkin and the butternut squash and they will turn into pumpkin pies and butternut cheesecake on a pecan crust by tomorrow. The weather is cooperating for a lovely fall day with a slight chill in the air.

Last night we got our turkeys ready for our table and a few friend’s and neighbor’s tables as well. It was rather chilly. I didn’t have one small enough for a family that was trying to do the “American” holiday and offered them a very large chicken – but they didn’t understand that that was ok – at least it was for me. I went to Whole Foods website to see if they had a variety of turkeys for people to buy and they did. But what shocked me was their information about “fresh” turkeys – how the government says it’s ok to kill the turkeys in February, keep them at 27 degrees all year and sell them as fresh!!! Oh my goodness! Natural, fresh, what other words can I use to describe the wonderful bounty that has been provided to us here at the farm?
We have several turkeys out there that will be well close to 35/40 lbs it looks like before they are prepared for the freezer/canning or whatever else we decide to do with them. I can’t put them in the freezer right now because of all the frozen milk and frozen chickens that we have! 2 full freezers and 2 over the fridge freezers full to the brim.

After the craft fair season is done you can bet that I’ll be pulling a lot of them out and baking them to ready them for fast food – we call  home-canned chicken our fast food. Make up a bit of bbq sauce, heat the meat in it and serve it on homemade ww/oat rolls – yum! (I guess we’ll be using some of our giant turkey for this too after Thanksgiving dinner). Oh turkey and homemade noodles – I’d better stop – I think I like making the after Thanksgiving food better than the big day’s food!

Well, off to finish up something – I have a lot of soaps that we’ve run out of for the season and have to get them made and ready for you all . . .

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being our friends, family and customers . . . we are so very thankful for you!!!!

Marilyn

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Craft show season!

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

I have done nothing but mock set-ups, packing, re-packing, labeling of bags, etc., etc. to get ready for this show coming up.
Ryle HS in Union, KY is by far the biggest show we do all year – It is the only Tri-State show so far that is inspected by the Health Dept.  It is finally paying off to have gone through all the leaps and bounds of the licensing hurdles to have become the First(!!!! Yeh!!!) Licensed Cosmetic Manufacturer in KY. This is so exciting to me – can you tell??? LOL.

We are still trying very hard to get into the KY Proud Market in the Shops at Lexington. It’s been a LONG process. Now, instead of waiting for “them” to come and check out the farm, I will be taking in a selection of products to the store itself. I am also waiting for the final application for the Equestrian Games for the 16 weeks it will run in 2010. The will have a KY Proud Pavilion at the games to showcase KY products . . .

So, you can imagine the state of the farm here . . . the animals are top priority and everything else takes a 2nd or 3rd seat.

My lemon tree is almost done ripening its first lemon. I think it will be perfectly yellow by the time Christmas comes around. I can’t wait. It was a lovely anniversary present from my sweet Pat – 2 years ago. A little reminder of all the citrus we had available to us in Fall/Winter in AZ.

This year of course was the addition of Fern, the Miniature Jersey to our family of animals. (My 12 year old has already claimed Fern as his own – - – I’ll remind him, but since he’ll be milking and teaching her more than I am, I’ll share!!!).

I hope to visit with you all soon . . . December thru February is a little bit more relaxed around here after the shows are done the first week in December.

Blessings – Marilyn

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