Fun Country Stuff

There’s so much going on lately at our house!  These guys are certainly keeping us busy!

Knut is working on framing out the wood box next to the fireplace while he waits for the mantle molding that he ordered.

I started priming the dining room for paint, and perhaps have a color choice picked. 

We made homemade graham crackers the other day.  I used this site that one of my friends posted on facebook.  It was so so easy, just like everyone said it was.  I’d say it was about as much work as making no bake cookies.  The rolling out process was so easy too, mostly because you didn’t need flour to roll it so the mess factor was extremely low.

The last batch that we rolled out, I just took the scraps the cookie cutters missed and smushed them together on the pan to just bake that way.  The kids thought that was about as cool as looking at fluffy clouds and guessing what the shape was.  They made monster faces on them, and even made one into a viking ship.

We cut out shapes, and then I gave the kids toothpicks and let them poke in faces and designs onto our crackers.  They had so much fun!  I would gauge it to be about as much fun as making Christmas cookies, but without the sugary stickiness.

About the same time, it was pretty rainy outside, and for 2 nights, we heard scratching on the window in the basement.  It was always dark out, and I figured it was a branch from a bush with the windy storm.  It wasn’t until daytime, when the kids heard it as well, when they stood on their tippy toes on top of the couch, and saw these little guys outside the window.  These muskrats were stuck in our window well and couldn’t get out.

Knut disposed of them, which makes me grateful that I’ve got a husband here to do those kinds of jobs!  The kids sure had fun watching them through the window for about a day, as they refused to go outside while the muskrats were there.  We probably cautioned them pretty strongly that they were not to be played with.  They’re gone now, and yesterday hit 60 degrees!  The kids spent hours playing outside yesterday as they left the coats and brought the sunglasses!