GUEST POST: Nicole, from "Prairie Princess"

Hey everybody! I'm Lacey's cousin Nicole, from Prairie Princess. I agreed to do a guest post since my poor cousin can't type with her bum elbow :) It's kind of funny to me, because Lacey and I's blogs are basically polar opposites of each others...she's Lacey in the City and I'm the Prairie Princess. She lives in a city, and I live in the middle of nowhere! If you read my blog post from Tuesday this week, you can see that the town that I live in has a population of exactly 712 people. I live on a 10,000 Franch (that's farm and ranch, meaning we raise both crops and cattle-I just made up that term!). So I'm going to highlight how different my life is than hers.

One of people's favorite holidays, Thanksgiving is next week. YES, next week! For those of you like me who thought I had more time, it's actually a week from yesterday! Yikes! While most people are getting ready for Thanksgiving by cleaning house, shopping for groceries, looking for exciting new twists to their recipes, our Thanksgiving prep is QUITE a bit different...mostly because it involves these creatures:

Meet Lloyd, one of our calves that was born this year. First of all, yes, I name some of our calves. Not all 125 of them born each year, but usually about 10 of them. And secondly, yes, our Thanksgiving involves cows. Our day typically starts out early in the morning. Mind you, it's usually about 10-15 degrees...if we're lucky. We drive the 60 miles to my husband's uncle's farm. We have to work cows in the morning before we eat. We wrap up in our Cuddleduds (thermals that we wear under our jeans), and Carhartts, beanies, gloves, scarves, and anything else we have that will keep you warm. We load up on the 4-wheelers, herd the cows into their new pasture, which is closest to the barn and hay so we can feed them for winter. Then we have to do some separating and moving some of them around. It usually takes several hours to complete. Once we're done, THEN we get to go inside and enjoy Thanksgiving meal, which is usually prepared by my husband's aunt and great aunt. We then do our sitting around eating, lounging, and watching football like everybody else in America!

As you can see, my holiday is a bit different than Lacey's! And needless to say, there will be no Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for me! Hope you all enjoyed the glimpse into my agriculture-filled holiday. Feel free to come say hello to me on my blog-I'd love to have you!