the snow is melting!

What gorgeous weather the last two days! It reached 50 degrees on our hilltop and the water was running everywhere from the melting snow. The sky is a bright lovely blue; different than the gray and overcast feel of winter. Even the view on the horizon is hazy with humidity from the evaporating snow. Many places around us did not get the 2 feet of snow we did a week or so ago and so all of their snow is gone already. Others are pruning, cleaning up gardens and getting started with spring, and so we are getting antsy to get outside without being ankle deep in snow. I guess I’ll just spend the time in the nice warm greenhouse planting seeds and soaking up the sunny warmth.

Alan and Colin are making some of the last carpentry details of the north barn where we store all the products and pack all of your orders. Maybe by summer we will move our office there and make it officially not in our library/office anymore. They are trimming around doors, finishing some wiring, finishing the windows and stair railings and hopefully we’ll put up some of the posters and pictures we have had waiting for the final touches. They will be working inside until the ground thaws too. The first big chore of spring is checking the fences – a few miles of them it seems – to be sure we can keep the cows safe in our pastures when the grass begins growing again. Most of the winter there have been tractor repairs to be done and the biggest project, the transmission of the 2 cylinder John Deere 60 tractor, is almost complete. There was a broken gear inside and soon it will be all back together and humming thanks to Colin’s mechanical genius.

So we hope you too are looking forward to spring and new projects and new places for your energy and now that we can feel it, it can’t happen too soon! We love winter but then we love all the seasons and the seasonal beauty of the northeast US!

Take care, Nancy and Alan