Tis the Season

Even chickens need a little holiday cheer!

Happy Holidays

Wishing you all a happy and healthy Thanksgiving!

Garden Chores

Even though it's almost Thanksgiving it really hasn't been that cold. The leaves have turned and most have fallen, but it still just doesn't feel as late in the year as it actually is. Regardless, garden chores need to be done!!!

The garden has been cleaned out and I put the girls in there as much as possible to let them fertilize next years crop

The compost pile on the right is almost empty, while the next one over has been filling up fast

View from my back hill, horses enjoying the warm weather

Turkey Turkey

For those of you that are interested in the floor project

Well, I am proud to say the floor is installed and grouted, which took two long weekends and many many hours to accomplish. I have to thank my wonderful, wonderful wife who was right beside me the entire way and probably installed more tile than I did.....I was very impressed by her throughout this project! We still have a few details left to do, mostly installation of baseboards and doors, but are 99% done at this point....

you can see the old linoleum in this shot, we had to install cement board over all of it

the work in progress

before grout

Grouting is a messy tedious job!

finished work, the dark lines are where the grout was still wet

Around Town

I drove around town last week (just before the snow) and took a few pictures, being close to the ocean, we only got about a half inch of snow, but where I work (an hour west), they got 6 inches, and some of the towns have postponed Halloween until Thursday due to power outages!

These stone walls can be found all around my area, way back when, the farmers dug up stones while plowing their fields and used them to build walls around their land

Let's go bogging

Not quite the deep cranberry colored bog yet, but I love looking at them and they are all over my area

The cold weather hasn't hit yet

The leaves are barely just starting to change and the garden is still going...doesn't feel like the end of October at all!

Beware of Guard chicken

Cast your vote

well, it hasn't been that cold yet, but somehow I got roped into some indoor projects already, not that I mind, but would rather wait until I am done for the season outside. I replaced my living room carpet, it was actually pretty easy to do, this carpet is only intended to be down for 2 or 3 years, the long term goal is to put in hardwood. We are also looking to tile over the ugly linoleum we have hated since the day we moved in....right now we are leaning toward the brown tiles on the end, it kind of reminds me of beach sand...what do you think?