Christmas has come and gone on our little farm, but I thought I'd share a few highlights from a busy month! This was our first holiday season here in our historic house, and it was so delightful to feel at home here in the country with our family, our animals, & home cooked holiday meals!
Just enough snow before Christmas for a snowman!
Speed Racer socks...
The creek in snow
Most important event leading up to Christmas was the release of the Hobbit 2! All the kids dressed up for the midnight showing...We haven't decided where on the property to build our hobbit hole yet... ;-)
One of our most favorite Christmas traditions is building the annual gingerbread house with everyone pitching in, which means total chaos in the kitchen...
But the end result is always SO fun! :) All sheep, horses, ducks, chickens rabbits, and opossums accounted for!
I never expected to be a sheep person, but now I love sheep everything! Even fondant! ;)
My Christmas present...a heavy duty black walnut nutcracker!
And my other Christmas present, my awesome husband got my kitchen fireplace up and running. It makes my kitchen sooo pleasant, toasty warm and inviting!
Our Christmas Feast! I need to work on presentation a little bit, lol, but we had several kinds of homegrown and historic food, including farm raised roast mutton! Delicious!
Stockings hung by the chimney with care...
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there!
& we can't have Christmas without a little politics thrown in... ;-)
My boys with their Support -Phil Duck Commander caps.
A few handmade gifts from the farm! Unfortunately the black walnut fudge didn't last long enough to take a photograph. :)
Little handspun stuffed sheep, being held by Kermit the shepherd.
Handspun blanket...still in process but I ran out of California Red wool. :(
Sock money slippers! From the Icelandic sheep...they go very well with the muddy jeans, don't you think?
An Icelandic wool scarf for my daughter the LDS missionary, dyed with black walnut dye.
And another scarf from pure Icelandic wool, sent to Oregon! <3
Just before New Yrs we got flooded out! We're still working on a hole in the basement wall that pours in water during a heavy downpour. It makes me sad thinking of this place vacant for 5 years while the basement just filled with water! No musty crumbly basement floor though...those old bricks are harder than cement.
High creek! There is usually solid ground out to the "island"
Honey
Red sheepies, basking in a mild day, growing wool for me for spring shearing! Hopefully some of the ewes are pregnant too!
Chessie in her fuzzy winter coat...she insists on rolling in the mud every single day.
Mr. Baxter, like a fuzzy fat teddy bear! :)
Happy 2014, from our home in the Shenandoah Valley!
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