Soap Gift Crates

These are the gift crates that we have been busy making for a friend. We are thinking that we may sell them online next year??! It was a busy week, we printed, cut and hot glued soap boxes (a friend made these crates for us!) We got 93 bars of different scents and molded soaps to three stores and 12 of these 2 -bar soap crates to a friend.

Colorful sky

I took this picture off our back deck looking towards our woods. Ken called me out to see it one morning and I'm glad I grabbed the camera as it didn't last very long.

A new season

Well, it is cold here in Minnesota today. The high here was only 36. The goats are out grazing, looking for the last bit of fresh grass and leaves that they can find. They are in heat and we will be bringing a billy goat to visit them next month so we will have May kids in the barn again.
We had a few snow flurries on Monday morning, it stopped before I could take a picture, but I know that we will be seeing the white stuff before too long. The garden harvest is in jars and the freezer so soon it will be hot chocolate and a good book weather! A new season means different things to take care of. Winter is a good season to take time for yourself. Get good rest and stay healthy!

Summer flowers!

I'm missing my fresh cut flowers from my flower garden! The night before our first frost in September I picked all my Sunflowers and Silver Cups. I enjoyed them in this bay window for about a week that looks out towards our sauna. I think I will plant these again next year!

Our garden harvest

Here is what we harvested from our 24 tomato plants we had this year. We made many batches of salsa and spaghetti sauce and have been enjoying it! We had an early frost in September so we picked all these green tomatoes along with our first ripe ones! We are glad that this season is over (we chopped tomatoes and then we chopped tomatoes again, and then we did it again!) We do miss having fresh tomatoes for our salads and look forward to them again next year.