Heifer

This is our 3 year old shorthorn heifer.  She had a calf September 2020 and will have another calf in 2022.  We should have plenty of raw

 milk.  The farmer we got her from suggests that we dry her up in January, a few months before she gives birth.

We've seen quite a few Monarch butterflies and just today we saw the first caterpillar on a clump of milkweed .  We have a lot of milkweed, so brought this one indoors with the branch.

Sunrise one morning.  Using the outhouse has forced me to go out first thing, the stars are many. 

We can see this lake from our home. We walked over one day and plan to go kayaking there soon.

Wildflowers.  The purple one is called brown knapweed.  And a sunset one evening.

Two major tasks were accomplished this week. Rob installed the wood stove and we have water!  It is being pumped up to the house instead of Rob having to haul up buckets from the well, next we will put in hot water heater.

I put knobs and handles on our cabinets.  It was much harder than I thought it would be, getting the holes for the handles spaced correctly especially.  We have a butcher-block countertop to put in and will install the sink once we get the plumbing through to the kitchen. For now, a gallon of water and a 5 gallon bucket underneath the sink works.