Firewood stacked so start a fire!

Our living room is directly above this:

It creates radiant heat in the hard wood floors upstairs. 
I love a warm floor in the winter!
The basement is very full of wood, in fact this is the most wood we have ever put up for a winter.

Above is the kids big TV and Xbox space.
 It get SO warm in there now I have to turn the stove off today before the teen boys sleep down there!

Boa started laying in the flower bed

Gladly she now lays in the coop.

Autumn Panoramas

A few photos from the front porch.

Youth Hunting Day

A great time for a nap! :)

Fire wood

This is the long awaited culmination of our tree girdling project. Much thanks for all the firewood my dear SP! 

And we are off!

First log to be skid!

The pile begins and then it grows...

And then I get my turn on the tractor to skid the green wood to its final drying spot on top of the well.

Hurricane Sandy!

Saturday Sandwich

With cheese AND bacon, this awaits me at the hockey rink. SP just sent me the picture as I sit here on the hockey sidelines. I love that man. He knows just how to cheer me up!

SP winds my yarn

And I love him!

Finally! An egg!

In the right place!

How do you stop rogue layers?

At least she chose the flower bed!

Deer Season begins...

with Youth Day!
Good luck out there boys!

Pickle is on a roll!

Love her!

I love my daughter Pickle

A Tractor for a day

Lots of work to do... Let the festivities begin!

Girdled Stump

Soon to be fire wood! :)

Onions

This years meager harvest!

Meet Randy

Yes Randy the Rooster.
He might be a small (rooster) but we are certain he is big enough to get the job done.
Even if he ends up hen pecked.
Even if he seems a bit afraid of the girls.
Who wouldn't?
Poor Bantam.
I hope he's first in our line of defense against predators while we are at work.
God speed Randy!

Happy

Cool Mushroom

He is making a fort!

Blue Moon

Feeling sleepless and ponderous. I pontificate so many things - maybe it is time I journal again.

The log pile grows

And the wood rush begins

Baby is always happy to help.

Wild Maine Blueberry Jam!

6 big ones for us, and 6 little ones for gifts! Yummo!

Red Raspberry Jam

Made from raspberries from Mount Desert Island!

Saturday Sandwich

And a surprise one at that! I turn 40 on Monday, and SP surprised me this morning with a getaway adventure weekend to Bar Harbor! I awoke to this, my mother arriving to care for the kids, and my truck packed including our bikes and kayaks! I will be kayaking to and island for the night on my birthday! Bring it 40 - I am ready!

One big happy family

El gato Hermano loves the chickens. They all have names now too! The matriarch Boa, the brown Aurucana is Turkey, then there is Willow Returned, and last but not least, the runt, Martha Stewart!
:)

Strawberry Jam

That first pint went awfully fast but at least I have a start on my gift giving!

My Forester

I love him in chaps!