We hung out at our land tonight, watching the neighbor bail hay… Bluebird skies, the smell of hay dust in the breeze, 85 and sunny….ahhhh, summertime! We picked rocks and added them to our growing rock pile (will be a stone wall running along the driveway someday…) This is a favorite activity of 2-year-old Pehr. […]
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Trillium Season
The woods are bursting with trilliums right now! We took a walk on our land earlier this week, carefully weaving between the big white blooms. We also had our eyes pealed for wild leeks (also known as ramps), which come up around the same time as the trilliums, but didn’t find any. They like low, […]
Spring is Here
Happy spring! It has been a long wait. Finally, in the last week of April, the snow melted for good. The little pond on our land is exploded with spring peepers. Their chorus followed us through the woods as we wandered this evening, looking for wild-flower blooms (none yet). A pair of Wood Ducks flew […]
Summer at the Land
It has been winter for a billion years, give or take, and we’ve officially arrived at the part of the season where even the winter-enthusiasts start to let a complaint slip now and then. They’ll try to disguise it, because they wouldn’t be caught dead complaining about this most magical, endless season… “If we would […]
Building the Driveway
With a week of dry weather at the beginning of October, Mike was able to scrape and ditch the driveway. This is the very first step in building a driveway and a nice one to get out of the way this fall. It would have been impossible to do in the spring when everything is […]
Clearing the Building Site, Continued
Mike continued the clearing project all through September with his tractor and the rented bulldozer. In addition to making room for the house, we also needed to open up space for the big workshop barn that will sit on the edge of the field, and begin to carve out the driveway. Thankfully we had a […]
A Blank Slate
So, we own some land! To us, this is a really ideal spot and we couldn’t be more excited to make this place our home. What next? We save up our money, and sell just about everything we own, so that we can build a house and a couple barns. And in the meantime, we’re […]