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Dec 29, 2024
Festive times in Feversham
It's a wet, warm day for the end of December. Supposed to get to 9C today, and the mountains of snow are now molehills. The recent...
Dec 22, 2024
Merry Christmas from the farmette
It's a sunny, very cold (-21C) day at the farmette. We're now over the winter solstice hump and adding an astonishing 60 seconds of extra...
Sep 15, 2024
Happy birthday Boonie!
It's another hot, sunny day at the farmette. Looks like summer is here at least for the next week. Yesterday, we took the two and a half...
Aug 25, 2024
Sister, best friend
It's a sunny day at the farmette. Supposed to go up to 27 C. We're heading to a kite festival this afternoon, so I hope there's enough...
May 12, 2024
Celebrating life at the farmette
It's a dreich day at the farmette. That's Scottish for cold, wet and miserable. Our relatives are currently travelling through Scotland...
Apr 21, 2024
Comfort and joy at the farmette
It's a cold, sunny day today and it's only going up to eight degrees Celsius. We've had a rough couple of weeks with shitty weather (it...
Jan 21, 2024
Feline family update
It's a clear, cold day at the farmette. About -15C, but the sun is out, which is unusual for this winter. Grey and gloomy seem to be the...
Jan 14, 2024
Catching up in the new year
It's a snowy day at the farmette. We got five inches over night and there's eight and half total on the ground. It was a bit wild and...
Dec 24, 2023
Reminiscing Christmas
It's a foggy, mild day at the farmette and most of the snow that we had is melted, so it looks like a green Christmas. We're heading over...
Oct 29, 2023
And then there were four
It's a chilly grey day in Grey County. It's supposed to rain on and off all day. We had Barb's memorial yesterday. Lots and lots of...
Oct 22, 2023
Remembering Barb
It's a cold, grey day in Grey County. Looking forward to the first frost - only because we brought in the hibiscus yesterday, so she's...
Oct 15, 2023
Thanksgiving at Lady Bank Maples
It's a cold and rainy day at the farmette. We're into the single digits and it looks like fall is well and truly entrenched. Last Sunday,...
Sep 24, 2023
Pulling through a tough time
It's a sunny day in Grey County. A bit chilly at 11 degrees Celsius. But it is supposed to get up to 20. We've had a quite a large wobble...
Sep 10, 2023
Boating on Georgian Bay
It's a grey, coolish day in Grey County. It looks and feels like it might rain, but the forecast says not until tomorrow night. It's a...
Aug 20, 2023
Birthday week at the farmette
It's a sunny day, so far, in Grey County. The news is full of stories about how the Northwest Territories and central B.C. are going up...
Jul 16, 2023
Rained out but carrying on
It's a dull, dreary day at the farmette. I was supposed to be on the Thorntons' boat in Georgian Bay, but we got rained out. That's ok....
Jul 9, 2023
Milestone birthday near Meaford
It's a grey day at the farmette. Got a little bit of rain yesterday, after the tree guy left the property. Matthews Tree Removal arrived,...
Jul 2, 2023
A hodgepodge from the farmette
Happy Canada Day a day late from the farmette! I intentionally got this red verbena with white baby's breath to have some of our country...
Jun 18, 2023
Catching up in the old country
It's a beautiful day - again - at the farmette. Here's the result of several days' labour - the two Bills (our wonderful handyman and his...
May 21, 2023
Plant bonanza at the farmette
It's the Victoria Day weekend, and traditionally the time when we - and many, many others - go full-on into planting season. Yesterday...
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