We loved having Mom and Dad visit for Thanksgiving last week!

Since the beginning of April we pretty much work 6 days each week with only a couple weekends off which is why we take an entire week off for our annual “Thanksgiving Vacation”. During our vacation this year, we spent a few days doing a little “spring cleaning”, then simply enjoyed spending time with Mom, Dad and exploring these beautiful mountains where we live!

In the Spring, we just don’t prioritize cleaning so our “Spring Cleaning” happens in the fall. In the spring we are much too busy doing things like starting plants, preparing fields, and gearing up for the season doing all the gazillion farm jobs that come up on a daily basis. The reason we work so many hours is because we are a small farm and just don’t have the income to hire enough labor just so we can work a little less. So our house cleaning falls by the wayside during our vegetable growing season mostly because we don’t spend time indoors. During the winter we spend a little more time indoors so it is nice doing our “Spring Cleaning” just before winter.

So what is Spring Cleaning to us? I can assure you that our house is never as neat nor as well organized as my Mother’s, but what we do each fall is recycle obsolete paper/tax files, wash windows, dust off our furniture and ceiling fans, getting rid of all our beneficial spiders and their webs, vacuum the carpet, and get rid of ragged T-Shirts, Socks and Jeans. Now our goal is to keep up with the Flylady because she has a GREAT process for keeping ones household organized and ready for company at any given time.

During our vacation we shared a FABULOUS Thanksgiving dinner with Mom and Dad, and as usual it was a completely made from scratch meal with most of the food raised by us and our friends. The main ingredient we purchased was flour, and I think that it might be pretty cool to try growing some wheat for our Thanksgiving dinner next year. We had Spinach Salad, Roasted Chicken, Broccoli, Pumpkin Pie (made from our Sunshine Squash), bread dressing, mashed potatoes and gravy.