Haven’t posted for a while…this time of year gets so very busy!

Catching up…Let’s see, what has happened?

Carrie’s tests came back NED! Happy times😊 Life is so much better.

We’ve been busy working on building a workshop, reusing the supplies from our old bathroom, plus some barn boards from Phillips mill. It’s very close to being finished! Neill is setting it up just the way he wants it, with a small wood heater, all his saws and bee stuff and then one side will be for mechanical things (plus I get my back porch back!! Yay! ) .

Doelings are weaned, Moonbeam is bred and is drying up…going to miss her milk…have plenty stored for my soapmaking..canned a bunch before we dried her up😁

We have two amazing youngsters from Scotland volunteering with us right now, Jamie and Krista (Krista is actually from Latvia) …both of them are a real asset…we have bern getting lot done.

Main focus has bern on the garden…getting the greenhouse prepped for extended crops and planted, and doing fall cleanup in the raised beds. Krista made a mini bridge to cross the spring run off and a nice stone step up between the terraces!

Neill is doing his Journeyman’s class this year in bee-keeping…so far is holding his usual “A”…makes it look easy..grrrrrr.😈 They are thriving..hoping to sell some honey commercially next year.

I have crafting fever..ideas overflowing..looking enviously at fabrics ..told myself no more until current projects are caught up, Haha!

Harvested Jewelweed for Soap and Salves, have it infusing in organic olive oil…Plantain and Wild Lettuce made salve, Elder made both tincture and syrup as well as jam…

 

I love Fall! The turning colors, the changes in the light, the falling of the leaves…sometimes just quiet in my rocker, watching a single leaf swirl on the wind…

We have some wonderful youngsters helping us currently…Jamie and Krista are Scots, Krista is from Latvia , originally. Her accent is hilarious, Euro overlaid with a Scottish burr!😁 They are cycling across the US, learning a little of our Culture.

They have busy, helping with everything…hauling lumber, sawdust, we’ve Hiked, cooked, and talked the world over…ahhhh..Neill N Jamie on politics! Now theres a conversation to be listening to!

I truly will miss these two.