Hello friends.  Don’t forget to keep entering the Local Bread Giveaway – it’s so fun to hear from all of you!

On Sunday, we had a big tri-birthday celebration, aka a pie extravaganza.  I proposed to my dear friend Seth, and our farm apprentice Jeanine (the other two birthdays) that we try birthday pies instead of birthday cake, and they gamely agreed.  And oh my, it was fabulous.  Cauliflower-Potato Pie, Chicken Pot Pie, Buttercup Squash Pie (the best “pumpkin” pie you’ll ever have), Apple Sour Cream Pie, and Rhubarb Pie.  Ben had planned to make Chocolate Mousse Pie, but spent all day down at the fields getting ready for winter wheat planting – so I suppose we can forgive him! So why a photo of an empty crust?  Because I was too busy eating the pies to photograph them, sorry!  I have to tell you, it is all about the birthday pies.  Yup.

(Ben and Jeanine discing the bean field at home with Cole last weekend)

It’s probably going to be quiet here this week – we’re super busy getting the fields planted in next year’s wheat, getting ready to meet our brand new nephews (born this morning!), and then this weekend, we’re off to Animal Powered Field Days.  Plus the usual animal care, harvesting, baking, fencing, etc etc . . . you know how it goes!  Wishing you all a wonderful week.

Here’s the booties for the new wee ones (so close to finished!), and a hat for their big sis, which Ella is now claiming is hers.  Hmmm.