New home for the holidays!

After spending the fall with my family down in MA working veggies and writing the farm business plan I am thankfully back in Maine. I'm writing at the library looking out onto a bay with a low afternoon sky, white lawns, frozen seaweed above the tide line, and of course seagulls. It feels good to be home. And welcomed with all the Maine frills- the first day back the Ellsworth American daily paper had three headlines involving a missing fisherman, a moose spotting, and gun sales. And the town center consists of this cabin posing as a three room library, a church, and a small school. My partner in crime and I are now farm sitting at Darthia Farm in Gouldsboro for  the weeks the farmers are gone. Once they return working in the woods with the horses will begin! Here is the farm with the newly built barn. It is a beautiful new space, a wonderful recovery from the tragic barn fire last spring.




See the sheep at the left! 
You can check out more about the farm here:
darthiafarm.com

Days are book ended with chores- feeding the sheep, cows, chickens, and work horses, as well as attempting to keep the wood stoves burning all day and keep Max (the pup) far away from the hens... we fail at the latter. The bulk of the day is spent spinning inside. Currently working on coffee dyed wool!



The living room is covered in sheep pelts



All in all it is not a bad place to spend the winter hours, days, weeks, months surrounded by such beautiful scenery and such beautiful animals.