The day off

Today we're trying not to do much work and have a day off. Since we don't have parties to go to or people to see, it's easy to just work 7 days a week. What else are we gonna do?  But we do need a break so we're sitting in front of the TV today eating yogurt and granola. I put on some water for tea and I'm just gonna spend the afternoon updating you with all the pics I've taken of this place so far as well as the work we've started and let you guys get a good perspective of what all's going on up here. 


We had a huge storm the 3rd day after we arrived and the plows couldn't even plow the roads for a few days.

the back of the house, surrounded by maples. in front of the house is the lake. frozen.

the barn, the hoop house, the RV, the livestock trailer, 2 ancient apple trees.  the house is just out of view to the left of this picture.

this is our yurt! it will be our home in about 6 weeks

We've decided to turn the hoop house/ high tunnel into a greenhouse on one half of it. We've been focusing on this project so we can get our seeds started in there. Our window for growing plants is very short here so we're working as fast as we can when the weather is nice!

We built wooden frames at each end of the hoop house and one wooden frame about in the middle of it. We'll cover those frames with two layers of greenhouse plastic as soon as we get a day with no wind and then use half of the tunnel as our greenhouse!

It was 55 degrees! check out the short sleeves.

We got all our supplies in!  Seed trays, potting soil, greenhouse plastic, and today the seeds came from Johnny's!  Also, you can see some of the livestock

this is the oldest and most broken down of the 4 horse manure piles we have.  I covered it with some clear plastic to help it thaw out a little faster so we can use it when we till up the garden next month.  The clear plastic (as some of you know) heats up what's underneath it if you seal the edges, pretty much like a tiny greenhouse.

isn't it great!! you can see our planting schedule on our bulletin board too. The format should look familiar to the old CSA interns at WHRI.  Almost everything will be seeded and in the ground within a 10 week time frame. 

 

Some of you (the moms and dads especially) are very interested to see our house!  here's a glimpse. 

Justin sits in that tan chair by the window every morning with his coffee.

the rest of the living room. that painting is so beautiful. it's a native american woman picking up pears.  Also beautiful: the ninety seven windows across the front of the house looking out at the lake.

Final photo: we have been commissioned with the task of cleaning out everything in the house that isn't "bed and breakfast" type stuff.  They have 20 years worth of junk stored up in these closets, I swear it's crazy.  When I found multiple trash bags filled with horse riding ribbons, I couldn't resist trying to fit as many as possible on my body. I thought I was hilarious.

miss you guys!