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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...
Dec 22, 2024
Retro farmette
It's a dull, grey, rainy day at the farmette. Even the cats are sleepy. As am I. This is about the time of year that I ruminate about the...
Nov 10, 2024
Girls' weekend
It's a beautiful, cold day at the farmette. We had our girls weekend in Montreal, and boy was it ever a doozy. Here we are recreating a...
Oct 27, 2024
Serendipity
It's a sunny, warm day - the same as it's been all week. We are in for some much-needed rain over night tonight. My flower beds will be...
Sep 22, 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...
May 12, 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...
Apr 21, 2024
Remembering Pat
It's a sunny, cold day at the farmette. Lots of frost covering everything, including the deck furniture we hoiked out a couple of weeks...
Apr 7, 2024
Spring is springing...or not
It's a snowy day at the farmette. We got about a half-inch over night and it's still coming down. It's not supposed to last, though....
Mar 10, 2024
Remembering good times
It's a grey, foggy day at the farmette. Woke up to -9C temperature and frost on all the trees. On Thursday, we celebrated Rob's 76th...
Feb 4, 2024
Playing it up at the farmette
It's another grey, mild day in Grey County. I don't think we've seen any sun for a couple of months. Okay, maybe briefly for an hour on a...
Jan 28, 2024
Family and friends gather through the years
It's a grey day at the farmette and they're calling for more rain. It's finally feeling like spring, though, after a month of cold, wet...
May 7, 2023
Farmette life in the times of COVID19
It's a rainy, miserable day at the farmette. But I'm feeling quite uplifted. Last night we tuned in to the TogetherAtHome concert, and it...
Apr 19, 2020
Fuss about dust at the farmette
It's a sunny but cold day at the farmette - had to take the frost off the clothesline to get the sheets on. Household chores can be a...
Apr 23, 2017
Wonderful words from the farmette
It's sunny and cold today at the farmette. With the change to daylight savings time, it's back to being dark in the morning...in fact,...
Mar 19, 2017
Nostalgia day at the farmette
Funny thing about being sick - gives you a bit of time between the hacking and sleeping and sleeping and hacking - to think. This past...
Feb 26, 2017
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