New Year

It's a new year, and as always, I'm a bit behind on blogging. There's been a lot going on. We had a Solstice day croquet game.

It was a close game.

The farm is pretty at night on the first day of winter. Since this picture was taken, we added more lights.

Titus and Jane finished their tiled sink. Jane shows it off.

They did a really nice job.

We put some more pavers around the firepit, and moved the rugs closer.

We also put together a neat chicken run. This makes good use of previously wasted space. As a bonus, they can tear up the third bin of compost.

I planted row 1B in favas on 12-28. They haven't come up yet, but it's been pretty cold for germination. The starts in the taproom are coming up, but mice got in and dug up some of the seeds! We put some screening around the flat, and replanted.

We caught up with Nancy at the Goose. I had two really big beers. I first ordered the Speakeasy Double Daddy, but we blew that keg. They gave me the snippet that was poured, which is the one on the right. On the left was my second choice, the Drakes Jolly Roger. That was a killer beer! Rich and robust and very high alcohol.

Here we are on new year's eve: doing what we do best.

We walked on the first, and saw all the crazy folks who showed up for the polar bear swim across Sycamore Pool.

Catherine turned me on to candied orange peel, so I tried it with oranges from the farm. It came out great! We finally have some way to make use of those substandard oranges.

Rick finished unearthing the trailer chassis, which we sold to Rick and Catherine. Rick wants to make a teardrop trailer.

Catherine and Laura and I had lunch, and I gave Laura this scarf. She looks great in it.