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Meet Cookie and Cupcake ♥️🐐 After we unex

Meet Cookie and Cupcake ♥️🐐

After we unexpectedly lost one of our sweet Pygmy goats, we needed to find the remaining one some new friends to keep her company. These sweet babies came from a local farm and fit right in! Waffle is happy to have goat friends again 🧇🍪🧁

We sad an unexpected goodbye to our sweet Maybelle

We sad an unexpected goodbye to our sweet Maybelle last night. We are heartbroken. She had been struggling for about a week but had been improving with medication and supportive care and we thought she was making a recovery. Losing animals on the farm never gets easier…. We do everything we can to give them a comfortable, long and healthy life and despite the best of efforts, sometimes bad things happen outside of our control. We are sad and we are mad…. But we will carry on and snuggle our Waffle goat closer.

She was the sweetest little goat from the day we brought her home and she brought endless joy to our days. She will be so deeply missed 💔

Sometimes I think about what my 16 year old self w

Sometimes I think about what my 16 year old self would have thought about my 28 year old self. Surely, baking from scratch homemade sourdough bread would not have been listed among my hobbies and interests at 16. And I probably would have laughed out loud if you said I would be obsessed with it during my late 20s.

It’s funny how over time, so many things change and you grow into an often very different person than you used to be. And yet, there are just some things that never change. Did I imagine I would grow up to be a sourdough bread baker? Nope! But did I always know I would be a horse farm girl forever? Absolutely.

By the way, this is my first loaf in months, made with starter I often forgot about for weeks and months on end and yet, the load still turned out great and tastes so yummy. Don’t be intimidated by sourdough. It’s a little tricky at first but it’s also pretty hard to completely screw up.

As always, I used the beginner sourdough recipe from @jill.winger and it never disappoints.

Today marks the beginning of my 28th chapter 🎂

Today marks the beginning of my 28th chapter 🎂

Here’s to another year surrounded by love, animals, friends and family. Another year of growing our farm and our homestead skills. A year of getting my bearings in a job that I love. A year of pouring into friendships and making new connections. A year of letting go of things that don’t matter, getting even more comfortable in my own skin and caring less what others think about me. A year of getting back to horse shows after a hiatus. A year we hope will be memorable and big for our family story. A year of travels and adventures.

Here’s to 28 🎉

2021 ✔️✔️✔️ Another year in the books.

2021 ✔️✔️✔️
Another year in the books. It was full of so many beautiful moments and as always, a few rocky ones. Now is a time where I focus on the highs.

This year we really settled into our home and crossed so many projects off the list. A renovated kitchen, lots of painting, more organizing and decluttering, a new chicken coop, a goat house, a pig pen and started work on horse pasture #3. We planted and harvested our biggest garden to date, added Pygmy goats to the homestead as pets, raised 2/3 of our own meat for the year on our own land and brought my beloved Charlie home for the first time.

We traveled to some beautiful places, spent some wonderful time making memories with family and friends and enjoyed many hours outside surrounded by our animals. I started a new job that I absolutely love. I made more time to read, taught myself how to bake sourdough and shifted my mindset further away from consumerism. We witnessed some history and lived through yet another year full of unprecedented times.

It was our 12th year together and 5th married which we celebrated with an amazing trip to Hawaii. I am lucky enough to wake up beside my best friend and soulmate every day while add chapters to our life story.

Thanks for the memories 2021 but don’t let the door hit your on the way out. Looking forward to a brighter 2022!

Everything looks better when viewed between little

Everything looks better when viewed between little bay ears ♥️🐴

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