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Farm in February

Oh oh! Fallen log across the loop trail!
It is a big one, too.
Bill and Sid saw away!
Of course Diana does most of the work!
Yay! The trail is now clear.

 

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Progress!

Santa or Sid?

Farm truck dies on third street.

Rock Creek from the bridge.

Big log placement is stable even with high water.
Such a beautiful yet scary sight!
Moss factory at work.
Pretty salamander!

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Just another Monday . . .

My contribution to putting Sid on the roof to clean out the wood stove chimney. Kay helped too, but no photos were taken memorializing her contribution!
Bill, holding a rope for Sid to hang onto while traversing the slick roof.

 

Sid and Bill hoisted a couple of roof structures in Rick’s absence.

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Rains and a Roof

Roof is beginning to take shape.
Sid, protected from the rain by the newly installed attic floor.
Sid lifted most of these 72 lb sheets up by himself. Bill came to the rescue the next day and helped put up more.
Roof progress!

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Fall 2017

Molly and Noah, husband and wife!
Molly and Noah got married at the farm on September 23, 2017.
Framing has begun, it is now October.
October photos deep in the woods on the creek trail.
A peek at Rock Creek on the creek trail.
A plethora of vine maple on the creek trail.
Farm Forester Scott (played basketball for Yale – no surprise) with Sid.
Scott and Diana during Scott’s tour of the annex.

More glamour added to an otherwise boring shot of green stuff.
A glamour shot of Diana and the annex siding.
Two rose bushes added to Judi’s white rose.
Bill, hard at work.
Bill prepares the soil for a transplant from the Corvallis townhouse to the farm.
New gravel placement around the annex perimeter.
Sid and Rick.
New gravel keeps the mud at bay.
Sid, posing in front of the green things he and Rick are placing on the framing in anticipation of our typical rainy fall and winter (and spring).

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Eclipse and Beyond

Oak tree against the eclipsed sky.

Sid and his new saw (he had to disassemble and fix it, but it works!)
Rick at work.
Kay spots coyote skat!

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