- thanks to my husband Jim for coming home early from work to help blow some snow!








After the storm - here is the henhouse; we still need to plow it out, in the meantime there is a little path I trundle through to feed the hens, the peafowl and the geese. I have moved Jim's turkeys over to the barn where they are doing fine sharing the back of the barn with the sheep.





This is the rootcellar that was built into this hill back in 1940. We have potatoes in here along with some cannas; last year I used this cellar for aging cheeses - it worked okay but it was kind of hard to manage the humidity. The little shed in the foreground is one of Jim's smokehouse projects. Everyone thinks it is an outhouse but it's not. In the summer it is covered with clematis and is quite lovely.




Here is the house - now wouldn't a soft yellow with plum trim look great?






And the barn - I still can not get the door to the milkhouse open and I'm beginning to worry since the snow is beginning to harden over and it won't get easier. This morning it was -23F; it has warmed up to the minus teens but we'll need to wait another day or so when it is due to warm up before tackling this project!