Hello August! And I wanted to share this lovely Maine Summer scene from my Claudia Diller calendar. We're just now beginning to feel like we have a summer this year! We did manage a short excursion to our favorite beach this past week on our way back from Portland. That was a treat! And I'm trying...not always so valiantly....to ignore the trees that are ALREADY turning shades of red, orange, and yellow on their leaves. Yes! ALREADY!!
Needless to say, my blog posting is slowing down while we cram full-tilt summertime activities into what weeks we have left to us. Of course we're praying for an 'Indian Summer' with some long stretches of warm sunshine into the Fall. However, we went up to visit our neighbors at Dilly Dally Organic Farm yesterday and Carol mentioned that an abnormally cold September is being rumored around the countryside. ugh. She graciously loaned me Eliot Coleman's book, Four Season Harvest, as well as the Root Cellaring book that I've been longing to get my hands on. Can't wait to delve into all that wonderful info! : D
I just got a call from Heather that Babycakes got out last night and managed to get the plastic top off and eat up the bucket full of grain that was over there...fortunately it was a small bucket! Then she went back into the pen where Heather found her this morning. The other 2 horses didn't go out. Thank goodness! We know it was most likely Babycakes because Heather said that her horses just weren't smart enough to do something like that...and they wouldn't have gone right back into the pen again! We know it's totally something Babycakes would do! Better fencing is in order for a naughty pony!
One of our broiler chickens mysteriously died last night, so now we're trying to decide if it can actually be butchered or not. And if so...how we go about doing it...since we've never done this sort of thing before! We also need to get the turkeys into a larger pen as well.
My husband's up to his ears in watch repair work right now, too...and trying to fit that all in. He also just signed the contract to become THE rep for all of New England for the residential and small commercial-sized Power Hearth units that are now being manufactured here in Maine. He'll be demonstrating one of the units at the Common Ground Fair coming up this Fall...so there's lots to learn and get ready for with that. This is very exciting for us and I'll be filling you in on a few of those details very soon!
So it's never a dull moment around here...as I'm sure it is for all of you out there enjoying the summer as well! And we LOVE it! Bye for now! : D