October on Twin Haven

October started off with Turkey season.  Joe got us a Wild Turkey from the flock that we have been feeding all summer.  Boy was that turkey good!  We had our friends over to share that meal with us.  It was an early Thanksgiving lol

Autumn on Twin Haven was so beautiful.  I will post some of the beautiful pics I took here.

This month, I have also ventured into pasta making.  I bought a pasta attachment for my KitchenAid Mixer and now make all of our pastas from scratch.  So far I've made large and small macaroni, spaghetti and noodles with the attachment.  We love the fresh pasta and it's a great way to use up extra eggs.

 October is always a good month for soups.  Here's a couple that I made this month.  On the left is Smoked Sausage, Butternut Squash and Barley Soup (new recipe) and on the right is Loaded Baked Potato Soup with Chicken (we love this one and make it often).

We had our first snowstorm on Oct. 27 and it was just a dusting but enough to make getting ready for winter a priority with more snow in the forecast for the weekend. 

All through October we were planning to have a "Harvest Hoedown" at the end of the month.  We invited a few guests and it turned out that everyone was either busy or working except for our friends The Morrell's.  This was probably a good thing!  We had Our First Nor'easter blow in on this day and turned our Havest Hoedown into a Winter Wonderland.  It was a nasty storm that dumped 20 inches of snow on us in 8 hours time.  It was just crazy!!!  We lost power at about 8pm on 10/29 and didn't get it back till the evening of 11/2.  Thank goodness we had a generator!  But still was unable to use the stove or microwave!  Also thank goodness for our outside wood furnace and our wood stoves!  We are now prepared for winter!

Well that ends our Month of October on Twin Haven.