Thanksgiving Pumpkin

Most people grow pumpkins and then enjoy carving jack-o-lanterns or making delicious pies.  Around here, we do things a little differently.  We grate our pumpkin and add water, sugar, and yeast (and a couple other things).

We started some pumpkin wine.  If we chose our pumpkins well, we’ll call it Madelyn’s Delight.

It will clear perfectly white and be a good dry table wine.

All those insides can’t go to waste.

I took them to the birds.

There might have been some left-over celery too.

I also had some pumpkins that we didn’t need to use, so I decided to treat the goats.  I started with showing it to little Moose.

Moose

He didn’t get it, but when the big goats started checking it out, he finally got interested.

Maisie, Moose, Bud & Harley

How many goats can eat from one pumpkin?

Minnie, Bud, and Harley

It looks like I needed to harvest some more.

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Fixing Fionn’s Summer Fun

We’re still pretty cold here, but I don’t think it’s going to get any warmer.  I’ve got to get ready for winter for the goats.

Bonnie

Since it wasn’t too bad today, and my nephew Chris is home for Thanksgiving, we decided to work on fixing Fionn’s summer fun.

See, he’s a lot like his grandpa Goliath.  He likes to beat on walls and bust them out.

I had already put a piece of plywood over part of it last year, but that wasn’t a solid enough fix.

Fionn

“What? A guy needs a hobby.”

My dad and nephew and I worked hard today, and we got plywood put up to at least block the wind out.  Hopefully, it’s a much better job than I did last time.

Hopefully, the way we did it, Fionn won’t just bust them out again.

Boeris after checking out the new walls

I’m sure they’ll appreciate actually having walls when the winter weather truly arrives.

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Happy Thanksgiving

I hope everyone is having a wonderful day, whether you’re celebrating Thanksgiving today or not.

By the way, this is another full manual photo.  I keep practicing!