Chickens and pigs and ducks, Oh my!

We are officially farmers.

Hobby farmers I'd say, but farmers nevertheless.

In an effort to become more self sufficient

what I've been doing all winter...

So this is what I've We've been doing since Nov. 29th. Our Silver Factored Black Lab had a litter of 9 puppies. She had 3 Silver, 3 Charcoal, 2 Black, 1 Chocolate--and a partridge in a pear tree...

 Seriously, I could do about nothing else except take care of puppy related things.

They were the cutest things ever.

 We are really happy that we found them all  loving homes.  

Now maybe I can get laundry caught up.

Coconut Chicken Curry

This chicken curry dish has been added into our dinner rotation.

My hubby could eat Chinese every night and I could eat Indian every night. (Okay, for like three nights.)

Here's the link to the recipe that our whole family loves, gobbles up and asks for more.

I heart curry. 

This recipe could be converted into a slow cooker recipe, buuuuuuttt

not if you're in a hurry...

...for curry.  :)

processing wild game - tutorial

Moose!  It's what's for dinner...

So if you have wild game meat to process, here is one way to preserve it.

Bottle it!

Veggie noodles! Who knew?

So we are still eating low carb...
We haven't fallen off the wagon...

... yet.


Have you seen the Veggetti thingy at the stores in the "As Seen On T.V." section?

Well if YOU are on a low carb diet like WE are or are on a veggie based diet, or are on a eat-your-veggies-in-a-most-pleasing-way diet, you might want to give this a go.

Orrrrrrrrrrr are on a trick-your-kids-into-eating-their-veggies diet...

Ok, I'm done.

Anyway, no, I'm not being paid to promote this product. I suppose no one from their company will ever see my little blog, but for the few of you who read this, just know that if you've been wanting to try this...dooooooooo iiiiiiiiiiiiittt.

Of course it helps that we have a master chef on staff, but still

DIEt time

So we're trying something new at our house, It's called "watching what we eat."

Sucks, but the doc told the hubs to eat a low carb diet until he got blood test results back.

Kind of a perfect summer garden meal. Especially if you live in Mormon country and have mysterious zucchini show up on your door step, or in your car while you're at church... hahaha. No, but seriously...

Sunset, Sunrise

Idaho is having lots of fires and even though there aren't any really close to us, the smoke has made it's way over to our little valley. And it has settled in.

Makes for some beautiful sunsets and sunrises.

Not that Idaho needs smokey hazey air to have beautiful skies...

Vintage Treasure

So when we moved to our "ranch", there were a few vintage treasures here for us.

One of them is this ladder...

Finally, today I texted from the other room asked Braylan our ranch hand to go fetch it from the shed and after I broomed it off, vacuumed it off and hosed it off, it is ready to be part of our vintage inspired ranch decor.

The wall it is leaning on is still a work in progress, but everything right now really is.

Thankfully, there are two more ladders out there for any more decorating, and you know, in case we

need to climb up one.

  

beets bloggin' --homemade pickled beets

Gardening in Swan Valley is turning out to be more challenging than either me or the hubs thought. BUT, the beets are doing GREAT!

Meanwhile, back at the Ranch...

As we were reading scriptures as a family tonight I saw the most beautiful lighting of our view from the setting sun. I wanted to abandon scripture reading and go take photo's but didn't.

I withstood the temptation and figured that God would make it even more beautiful or I would capture something just as great another time.