All Sales are Final

The i's are dotted, the t's are crossed. The papers are signed. On Friday, September 25th it all became official.

Joanie sold her house in the village...
and bought our "old" house on Drew Place...
which in turn, allowed us to buy Martha's big house - at a bargain price. Thank you Martha and thank you to everyone else in the family for all of your help, support, and patience in this matter. We feel very lucky and blessed to have such a beautiful home. Thank you, thank you, thank you, all very much.
In more run-of-the-mill news, the kindergarten class took a field trip to an apple orchard in Enosburg Falls on Friday.

I thought Heather was eating one apple, until I noticed several nibbled apples around her feet. Turns out she was taking one or two bites out of many different apples. Oh well. Maybe the orchard owners will think a little raccoon got into the falls.

The kindergarten class. That's Cole in the red hat. It was a really cold day.

From the orchard, we went on to a nearby farm where the kids got to milk a cow and see some really cute calves.

This one was interested in the flowers on Heather's hat.

Then the farmer lady took us for a walk through a very manure spotted pasture to see some of the jersey cows. Jerseys have a higher butterfat content to their milk. She sells her milk and cream to Ben and Jerry's. It's amazing how much commotion a group of kindergartners can make. These ladies were happy to watch us go so they could get back to their quiet afternoon.

When we got back to the farmhouse, we made some butter by shaking cream in this jar

Here's Heather with her two new best friends, Alayni on the left and Erika on the right. Heather loved all the attention she got from these two girls, although she does look a little zombie-ish here because this typically would be her naptime. She got a turn to shake the jar.

Then they got a chance to taste the butter on crackers.

Cole liked the butter, Heather did not. I think we all would have preferred some Ben and Jerry's.