Refuge

For a while, I was blogging at daysunmeasurable. But I've been driven from that space, so have returned over here! Which I should have been keeping up the whole time anyway!

'K so.

1. In our quest to go ever lighter on the Earth, we've moved to a new house. We have 2.2 acres, a house, a barn, an arena, two boarders, 10 chickens, 4 horses, 2 dogs, and the best neighbors on the planet.

2. This year, even though we didn't get a garden in, our friends and neighbors were sufficiently generous that we find, in our glass recycle bin, olive oil, vinegar, gin and whiskey bottles, and that's all.

3. We will not starve this year, since we have put in a winter's supply of food, and plan to start a garden this fall, to fill in as spring comes, with the first of new greens.

4. We are still assembling our 'baseline'. Water is way, way up. And, since this house has never been made efficient, so are all the fossil fuels. But we hope to make dent shortly. The square footage is actually less than the old house, but we have our horses here, but they are no longer at the place with the enormous tractors... So, over the next few months, I'll see if I can make sense of all this.

Meantime, today, we bottled two batches of wine, started a new one, and a batch of beer. We also canned the sauerkraut, which turned out to John's liking, whic means it's good... For sauerkraut! And we canned 4 pints of dill pickles, making use of the last of the cucumbers from the CSA. That's just an ordinary day, here at Bellwether Farm!