November 30, 2008 at 8:41 pm (Bovine Beauties, Our Family, homesteading)
We are having a nice Sunday Evening Around the Homestead. The kids and Pam painted Christmas decorations while I made dinner. We all ate dinner and now Marc, Chris, Andy & Bre are playing Jenga. Pam, Patrick, Sara & Jessica are watching a television special. And I was painting but now I decided to write a quick post while the crosses dry.
Our morning was about insane as we got a call at 6am to help a friend and her cow. The cow had delivered the baby, who was laying on the ground, not out of the sac. The mother cow had delivered her uterus also. It took a couple of hours for the vet to get there, but she is awesome. And got the uterus back in and her all stitched up. She made it look as easy as making cookies.
As of last check in, (8ish) both mother and baby are doing well. Mama has refused the baby and had started to become hostile to the baby, so he is being hand raised. He will be the new herd sire where he is at because other than his mother (who will not be bred again), he is unrelated to any girl. He is my JessiCows little brother though, so he’s not the bull for her, LoL.
I will be posting a picture of baby here in a bit. The babies name is Titus (little T for short). He is the most adorable Holstein other than our JessiCow.
Well, I am off to try to add a picture and then paint some more crosses.
Blessings,
Mama
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November 29, 2008 at 4:20 pm (Daily Writing)
The Holiday Season begins with a small stack of rubbermaids and a couple of other boxes being brought in from the shed. So, yesterday we got the boxes inside only to find that our tree has disappeared. It is no more. So, we manage to acquire a tree (I have to pick it up tomorrow after church) and the boxes are still sitting here crowding the livingroom.
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November 27, 2008 at 9:07 pm (Daily Writing, Thanksgiving)
Their name says it all!
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I have missed cast iron corn bread, this was soooo good!
[caption id="attachment_456" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="This is turkey #1. It was nice and juicy. We ate this one with our dinner."]
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Blessings & Happy Thanksgiving,
Mama
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November 27, 2008 at 7:36 pm (Thanksgiving)
Today has been a great day! I am exhausted and my body hurts and and and, LoL. However, it has been a wonderful Thanksgiving!
All of us except for Alex, Allie & Chris are hanging out watching Chuckin’ Punkin’s. I don’t know what Chris is doing, and the other two are at Allie’s parents house for their 2nd Thanksgiving dinner. We had all 10 of us at the table and I so enjoyed it. I love having the whole crew at the table. We might end up keeping the 2nd table handy to use on evenings when everyone is here.
All of the food turned out perfect and I took some pictures which I will post a bit later. The only thing I burnt was the cornbread when I was reheating it. 
Pam & Andy LOVED the sweet potato souffle! Which I was glad for because I don’t really eat it so I didnt taste test it.
After dinner we all hung out at the table for a while, then everyone helped clean up. Marc & Chris did the dishes so I didnt have to. It was soooooo sweet of them. We then played in the pouring rain (I don’t know how long it has been since we have had a great rain, but we finally got some today). It made for great memories. We are dessert later on and then made orange / clove balls. Now they are all watching the punkin tossing contest and all is well at The Pitcher Homestead.
It was a totally wonderful day, which I am glad to say included my sister and my niece.
I hope your day was as wonderful as ours!
Blessings,
Mama
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November 26, 2008 at 10:51 pm (Thanksgiving)
Mamas Thanksgiving Day Schedule
6:30 Get Ham into the Crockpot
7:45 Prep the Turkeys
8:15 Turn oven on to 325’
8:30 Put Turkeys in the oven
Take a break
9:00 Make a bunch of sweet tea
9:30 Take a shower & relax for a few minutes
10:30 Get munchies put out for the starving teenagers
Take a break
11:00 Put needed things onto table and get it all set
11:45 Put Sweet Potato Soufflé into oven
11:45 Put stuffing into oven
Take a break
12:00 Get beans heating on stove
12:15 Marshmallows onto soufflé
Take a break
12:30 EVERYTHING OUT OF OVEN
12:40 Rolls & cornbread into oven to warm up
Mamas Helpers Tasks
10:50 Get China out of cabinet
11:00 Help Mom get stuff onto table & help set it
11:45 Get butter, cranberries, pineapple, condiments, etc… out of fridge
12:00 Put 8 cups of water on to boil for potatoes
12:30 Ham out of Crockpot
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November 26, 2008 at 11:08 am (Wordless Wednesday)
The Purpose Of Life
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