Summer is over

It really is.  The practical end of the summer came too fast, and back to work we went.  I am grateful in these crazy times to have a job.  It will be a new challenge and different for me this year, but I am looking forward to it. Hurricane Irene hit us much more gently [...]

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2011 Roasters land

This morning our 50 roasting chickens arrived at the post office.  We have been madly trying to get their little spot ready for the big day, in the back of one of our greenhouses.  (Hot working in those greenhouses at this time of year is an understatement!).  At 7:30 exactly, our post mistress gave us [...]

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Thank you, Madeleine L’Engle

For one of my favorite books in the world:  A Wrinkle in Time.  And I know it’s far-fetched, but our three guinea hens are named after the 3 wise women or witches in the book.  Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which.  They are all that are left of our brood of 16.  Mrs. Which, [...]

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Greenhouse revealed

Winter has hit us with a windy vengeance.  By the middle of last week we were having arctic wind gusts at approximately 30 mph, and it sounded as though a freight train was traveling through the neighborhood.  With the ice on the ground, it was a challenge to even reach the animal paddocks in one [...]

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