Day 7

we've been camped out, helping out, and immensely enjoying Running Turtle Acres for a week now.  It's been a hoot getting to know our friends better.  We all gel together so easy.  We've felt like part of the family and household from day 1.  We eat all our dinners together, and share the cooking, making many a tasty meal!  I made a ham hock soup with lentils for the first time one night, just winging it, and i was STOKED with how it turned out.  
WOOT.

Sunday morning (and most of the day)

We have more gorgeous weather today, and
I just adore that we've all been outside since morning- hanging around a fire, laughing, playing, doing some new things, doing some usual things, in the sunshine and cool breeze, under a bright blue sky...

Joel was up and getting a smokey bonfire going before 9am.  He has to dry his deer hide once more since soaking it in salt water, which draws out various impurities.  Lou was inside packing a big suitcase full of the boys' clothing, as they are all taking off in the morning for Indiana to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with family.  Joel and I will be home alone here, for a week. 

We've done a lot since arriving a week ago!  Thrown straw and hay bales, tinkered with the tractor, cleaned-up, moved and salvaged through a pile of wood and scrap metal.

Building a goat shelter

Yesterday Andy and Joel processed a dozen rabbits together, finished half the additional goat shelter structure, then we went for a hike with the boys to seek out
some fatwood. (succesfully!)

Today the guys spent the morning processing quail for the first time, and since they had a fire goin', they threw on some bacon, cooked up eggs, and we ate breakfast outside, as well as lunch: quail, rabbit, and sliced zucchini also over the fire.
i'm starting to feel like a caveman out here.

The puppies are already noticeably bigger.  
It amazes me how much they appear to have grown in only 7 days.  Oi!

kittens.

Searching for "fatwood"

Life is good.  and i think we'll stick around here for a while.

and HEY!  BTW- it looks to me like the blog postings i am publishing do not look the same as i create and save them.  this blogging platform seems to have a mind of it's own.  just sayin'  😉