Thanks! Glad you enjoyed her.

S.

Always looking out for the odd visitor around here. You never know who you might encounter in the garden!

S.

S.

In the series of photos of the uncovered walls and ceilings, one can see ordinary plumbing (the second floor bath is on the right), the central vac pipes (the very regular ones), electrical wiring, tubes which lead to sensors buried in the floor and the walls and the radiant back-up heat controls, and the mass of pipe which return fluid from the six zones of radiant floor heat which we hope to use only to temper the floor but which may be used to buy off a future lender when they don’t believe a house can function without conventional heat. That forest of pipes in the attic will be attached to a pump, electric valves and the solar heated water tank. The General Contractor couldn’t get anyone else to install that system so we did it ourselves.

I have a pair of boots JUST like those…and an even homelier pair, if there is such a word, which are sort of army green, quite ugly, actually, but good in mud and rain and such…

Soon time to get out the -40 winter boots! Hopefully not too soon…though we’ve had weather hovering at or just below freezing on several mornings! Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival this coming weekend, so knitting and spinning like there’s no tomorrow.

So pleased to know I am on the cutting edge of fashion! That’s something new on the farm.

S.

I will have my bibs ready! (And thank you for the kind comment.)

S.

Gorgeeous!

Tell Richard that I expect good drainage when I arrive. tee hee.

With all of that, I think we ought to have right good drainage. It gives a person confidence, to see all those pipes out there. Remember reading about the Victorians dying so easily because of Bad Drains?

S.

I’ve noticed the light, or lack of it, as well, mornings. Each morning, I’m trying to sleep (or stay in bed) another few minutes in an attempt to be able to stave off walking Lizzie in the dark, and feeding animals in the half-light. I figure if I move ahead 3 minutes a day…but it seems each day, it is still demi-light when I get up…the earth is keeping up with my delays with a later sunrise each day.

Yellow jackets are fierce, for sure. And, boy, do I puff up if I get a sting. Fortunately, it hasn’t happened often.

The other sign that summer is going is that the pigs are getting huge, due to go this week. The meat birds are growing like weeds. (I wonder if eventually, the idiom will change to “the weeds are growing like meat birds”…it’s time they were out on pasture proper so they can search for bugs and eat greenery. This week sometime…They are in the tractor but not allowed out of it yet. It is 10 x 10, so they have plenty of room…I guess I’ll wait another week until they don’t need the light anymore, which will make it much easier to move the tractor.

The lambs are growing and almost ready for the freezer as well. It’s been a bad year for breeding stock. I guess people are feeling the pinch…

The weather here has been lovely…70’s by day, 40’s and low 50’s by night…my kind of weather. Enjoy the rest of this last weekend, unofficially, of summer…in N.J. it signals back to school next week. Up here in Vermont, they went back a week or more ago…gotta’ allow for those snow days, I guess.