Catching up with Becca at Moon Ridge Acres

Today I'm talking with Becca at Moon Ridge Acres.

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00:29 And that price is valid through the end of November.  So again, check out cottagefoodiecon.com.  A tiny homestead is sponsored by uh cottagefoodiecon.com. Today I'm talking with Becca at Moonridge Acres. I think it's the name of your place in Alberta, Canada. Good morning, Becca. How are you?  Hi, I'm good. How are you?  I'm good. Is Moonridge Acres the right name? That is correct. Yeah. Okay. And do you, you have a separate page for that or not on Facebook?

00:59 I actually do have a separate page for it, but I don't really  use it very much. um just, I'm spread a little too thin, but eventually I would like to do it and have it be more, you know, promotional for the horses. But  right now it's just kind of sitting there. Okay, cool.  I  looked at your personal profile. was like, I know she has a business name, but I couldn't remember it. And I was like, oh yeah, Mooner Jakers. Okay, cool. So how's the weather in Canada this morning?

01:29 It is brisk. Brisk is what I would call it. It's, I think we were at minus 11 last night, that's Celsius. So I don't know what that works out to in Fahrenheit. I'm still, I'm trying to get the conversion in my head, but it's not going super well. So yeah, it's cool. It's one of the cooler mornings that we've had so far. And honestly, this is a really great fall. It's been really nice. So I can't complain.

01:59 Is it sunny there? Sunny? Yeah, it is. is sunny. It's,  uh, Alberta's kind of known for being cold, but sunny. So  you, you get  one,  one  evil and one good thing. You know, the sun is nice. Cause when it's dreary and cloudy, that's just depressing. Yeah. Um, yesterday all day, looked like,  um, dusk cause it was rainy and cloudy all day yesterday. um

02:28 And I was okay with that because the weatherman was predicting that we were going to wake up to one to three inches of snow this morning. And I was excited. Oh, wow. And I got up and we got like half an inch of snow. I was like, it's going to be another one of those winters where they hype the hell out of the forecast. And then we get nothing. I swear every single year, like in the last like four years, they were like, this is going to be the worst winter ever. And then it's fine.

02:55 Like, I'm not sure  if they get more clicks on that. Like, maybe they make more ad revenue by saying it's going to be terrible. I'm not sure. I have no idea, but I was  in my five-year-old pram of mind of, okay, it's going to be the first really nice snow. It's going to be beautiful when I wake up. And oh no. No. I  was also excited because my dog loves the first real snowfall of a couple inches because she goes out and rolls in it.

03:23 And I was so excited for her to go out the door and be all crazy. And now I was like, okay, well, this was not the day already.  No, they seem to be doing that a lot. told us  Calgary, which is just  a boat three hours south of us, they got  a decent dump. Like I think it was  10 inches or not 10 inches, sorry, 10 centimeters. ah And they said it was coming our way and  to expect  a big storm and nothing.

03:52 Yup,  I don't believe the weather people anymore. The weather is what it is doing outside my window right now. And right now,  it is really windy. It is 28