TV Dinners for Thanksgiving and making adjustments...

Spending time moving was not conducive to making a big Thanksgiving meal, so we opted for frozen Enchilada TV dinners. They weren't very good, but by the time we got around to eating them, we were starving! This was a TG dinner we'd NEVER forget! Everything non-essential was moved into the storage units, and by the time we were done there was barely a path to walk. I really should've sorted and had a yard sale. :(

The necessities were moved into the cabin, and the tools and hardware we thought would be useful were moved into the shed. The animals were settled in and we were ready for a break, too bad the Thanksgiving break was already over.

The kids had quite a walk to the bus stop, over half a mile down the dirt road, and the bus came at 6:50am!!! It was cold and dark, and if they didn't get up soon enough, then the cats didn't get taken care of...so mom was nice and drove them to the bus stop every morning. This was the down-side of moving so much further out in the country...the LONG bus ride to school. We were on the very edge of their school district, in fact the other school district's bus passes right by us!

Thankfully our first winter in the "cabin" was not too bad. The kids would probably disagree, but we didn't have major snow storms, ice storms, power outages, deep freezes that compromised our well & plumbing, etc. We realized before we'd been in the cabin long that even with the temps not getting too bad, the floor was FREEZING. Jason opted to skirt the cabin with pressure-treated plywood. It blends in quite well with it.

We had a few round bales of hay from our five acres in the fall (neighbor came by and asked if we'd like him to cut on shares, then he decided the hay wasn't good enough to sell, so he just left all 7 bales for us to use). The horses were content, the dogs were happy, and the chickens were finally laying again. Flopsie, the bunny was happy and ran circles in her cage. Everyone was happy except the cats...they were still in cages. We were afraid to let them out of the barn for fear we'd never see them again. Slowly, one by one, we let them out of their cages to run around the barn, and every day a different cat got to come in the cabin for some extra loving.

We'd worked a little more on the foundation of the house, which we are building on "piers". Hopefully I can get a picture or two from my husband's files to post soon.

Looking forward to our first Christmas in the cabin...