Campfire Date Night
Hey, you remember that sewing injury I got while prepping for an outdoor movie date night? Well, the rest of the story is: by the time we got things settled, we didn’t have time to prep the frame for...
View ArticleThis Birthday Cake is for the Birds!!
Well, not really. It’s for my youngest daughter, “Zelda.” She is currently obsessed with passionately interested in birds. She requested a bird themed cake and, after searching the web, we felt like...
View ArticleTheDoctor Goes to the Hospital
What we learned from TheDoctor’s trampoline fall: Gravity is not an urban legend. Trampoline safety nets are great. But trampoline nets must be functional to be great. CT scans are still very...
View ArticleEleven Years Old!!!
Zelda turned 11 in April. Her bird cake turned out pretty great and was a fun project. Here are some pics from her family birthday celebration. She was so happy to get her Orange Cheek Finches with...
View ArticleResearch Trip
We’re….uh….researching. Yeah. About what? Can’t tell ya. Sorry. But we went to a local farmer’s market (a little over an hour away) to conduct part of this research. We also toured a small farm...
View ArticleZoopendous!
While on a trip to visit my sister and her family, we decided to make a slight detour on the way home and visit the zoo. We only had the morning, so it was just a quick trip. But it’s always fun to...
View ArticleGoats R Us
Leave it to us to dive head first into unknown territory….we now have goats. We did have pygmy goats a few years ago, but did not keep them for long. They were not super social so after a while we...
View ArticleUpdates
Wow, it’s really been a while since I’ve posted. There has been a whirlwind of activity over here on the farm. Yep, we’re a farm. It’s official. Old Blue Cottage Farm (website under construction)....
View ArticleCatching Up
One of the things I made myself agree to when I started this blog was that I would not become a slave to it. In the past I have been so intent on posting content and sticking to a posting schedule...
View ArticleHappy 5th Birthday, Diesel!
Diesel turned five recently! He still has not developed the preferences for “fancy” cakes that his siblings have. Still, he came up with a few themes that were at little overwhelming during a very...
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