My apologies for the dearth in posts as of late, things have been in a period of transition here at the homestead, allow me to update:
1. We got about ten inches of snow a week and a half ago and winter preparations more or less came to a halt -- apart from wood gathering.
2. I've been recovering from the mad dash to get the garden and wood stores ready. I sustained several minor injuries to my elbows and shoulders.
3. We've been perfecting our craft at heating with wood -- there is quite an art to it. Our good friend Charlie gave us a cord or two of dried oak, so that's been burning beautifully. We try to get the fire hot and burning smoothly with the oak, and then add our not quite as dry Maple and Elm from Don and Arlene.
4. As if on cue, work slowed down for our final Fall push a few weeks ago, and is picking back up again now for the quiet winter months. What a blessing both of our jobs have been already!
5. We were overjoyed to have my parents, sister Erin, and brother-in-law Kevin (Kev-bo) came all the way up to the farm for a few days over Thanksgiving. We'll get to see them all again in a week when we go to Chicago for my cousin Emily's wedding to our good buddy Doug.
5.1 The fam was shocked to find that we were already engrossed in the cold climes of winter -- it was snowing and sleeting ("wintry mix") when they arrived, and the next morning it was around 7° when we all got up with a high of 12°. We wouldn't mind if we had a few more weeks where it got up into the upper 30's or 40's before the real cold is here to stay.
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| Kevin, Erin, Steph and I out in the snow |
6. We are stoked that Advent is here and we are in the Northland. Stephanie made our Advent wreath today and Charlie is starting an Advent series on the book of Genesis. In preparation, I am finishing a wonderful book by Pope Benedict on the first few chapters that has been very fascinating and informative.
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