So much for Spring...

Ok so please can it stop now? I think it is now officially spring and yet we are still enduring snow and freezing rain today. Is this Winter's final home run before handing over to green and pleasant (warmer!) Spring Time? Really hope that sort of thing can happen over night because we, along with most of Nova Scotia are low on dry fire wood and have had enough of feeling chilly. Roll on long summer days (but hold off on the bugs...)

Christmas goodies, oh and snow of course...lots of it

We haven't harvested any flowers since our Thanks Giving finale but that doesn't mean to say we haven't been creative so now we are enjoying putting our feet up. Though clearly Jamie is doing slightly more of this than I am (he has broken his foot and is on crutches).

As you know Farmer's don't really ever stop producing... so after a brief pause we faithfully returned to the markets and craft fairs with our teas, herbal salves, culinary seasoning, tinctures, flower essences and new this year - Massage Candles. Jamie's wooden ornaments and awesome dried flower baubles were the first to sell out. It was great to have so many customers returning for their favourite things.

 

 

Christmas has been a snowy affair. Not so great for someone on crutches (Jamie) guess who is doing the shovelling (Fay). It's all a lovely winter wonderland, the snow covers a multitude of sins (jobs that never got finished, yards that didn't get cleared, fields overgrown with weeds etc..). It's definitely time to take a break as another great year comes to an end.

 

 

New look for the van...

The balmy temperatures of the autumn gave us a wonderful false sense of time-security.. ie. we weren't necessarily rushing to clean up the farm and tie up all the loose and broken ends remaining after the summer madness because it felt like the warmth would last forever. Jamie however, stepped up to one of the challenges that had been hanging over our heads all summer. Working with a friend, they succeeding in patching up the body work on our Mystery Machine and generally getting it road-worthy and more comfortable once again. So now, it resembles more of an A Team type van rather than the Scooby Doo mobile that we are so famous for. It's a shadow of its former self, but who are we kidding, still totally recognisable and obviously us! Needless to say Jamie has had his fill of old rusty vehicles for a while.

Will add a picture of it in its full newly sprayed glory soon..