4 Feathers Farm

Home again, home again

Home again after two weeks gone. It was cold, cold, cold in the house. So much so that when Alex stoked up the woodstove, it filled the house with smoke because it was so much colder inside than out.

             Alex did quite a bit of work while we were gone: tore down the shack, laid carpet all over the cabin, moved the loft ladder over and insulated the loft, repositioned the solar panels to the porch roof and tore down the guinea pen, built a small fence to keep Lisa off the front porch and made an herb garden next to the house.

            We’re excited that it’ll be warmer this week. Alex will be home to do some stuff and I’ll work him hard. My priority is getting a garden area tilled up because I ordered the first round of plants last week. Normally, I’d start seeds, but I don’t have any place to do that in the cabin. We did pick up some windows that were thrown out of a house being renovated down the street from my grandmother’s. Maybe next year, I’ll have a semi-greenhouse in which to do seeds and not have to spend so much money on plants.

            Yesterday on the way home, we discovered that Hayes’ big teeth are coming in right behind her baby teeth, like a shark!