November

The weather given to us this fall has been an amazing gift. Just today, I had to take off my down vest as I was getting too hot walking around outside! That is a beautiful, amazing thing--- warmth in mid-November!  Despite being of Nordic and Germanic stock, I'm always cold; Hence, why todays forecast of sunny with a high temperature of 68...makes me giddy!

It seems like even the birds are confused, with flocks of geese flying every which way.  "Should I stay or should I go now..."  (The Clash). 

Nearly all the crops have been harvested, plowed and covered with fertilizer, which can translate to a few stinky days around the farm!  I guess that's to be expected when our little 4.3 acre farm is surrounded by hundreds of acres of farmland...and a chicken farm, and a pig farm, and a dairy farm...

The milkweed pods are open, the birds are no longer singing in the late evening and the end of the season vegetables are out of the garden.  Fresh fruits have been replaced with canned pears and applesauce, for some of the meals! (We are in the 21st century and can get dragon fruit and kumquats at our local, small town grocery store, for better or for worse! Still, we try our best to eat local and what is in season.) 

The turkeys in the deep freezer and soon the pigs will be off to the butcher.  We are hoping to rent out our ram lamb to another local farmer looking to diversify his flock!  Farmer J thinks we may have a winter lamb, as soon as December.