The day-to-day things

So many delightful/disturbing things have happened on the farm in the last week that I hardly know where to start.

First - we saw some of neighbors wrangling a stray herd of cows... in their Chevy truck! It was a very disturbing/delightful sight, with a lot of whoopin and a-hollerin out of windows... *sigh*

Next - we saw two of our other neighbors wrangling a stray cow... on horseback! This was purely delightful... *sigh x2*

A few days later - I ran into about 25 loose cows hanging out in the yard of an abandoned house off of our driveway... it was a bit disconcerting, but mostly delightful. *sigh sigh sigh*

After that - we saw a 6-8 foot black snake crossing our driveway in the middle of the night (thankfully we were in our car)... this was not delightful in the least, but VERY disturbing. *shriek*

The Olympics are over - after many nights of excitement, patriotism (SHOCKING) and many tears from me during the inspirational Visa commercials... seriously, I've been a weepy mess for the last 2 weeks... darn good advertising those Visa folk have - so now we're enjoying Netflix and rotating between the entire collection of the James Bond movies, Freaks & Geeks marathons, Jane Austen films, and Fred/Ginger evenings... this has been entirely delightful, and almost never disturbing (except for when I'd weep at the Visa commercials and medal ceremonies). *sigh shriek sigh sigh sigh sigh*

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Come visit us.

-the Birds

Secret Project # 1

Hello Everybody...

This past week Hadassah and I took on a secret project in preparation for a large get together we hosted at our house. We knew the dining table we had would not even come close to accommodating the close to 20 people we invited, so we decided to put our arms to good use and build a table that would fit more than four people around it...Here are some pictures chronicling our adventures in the land of woodworking.


After borrowing some plans from a DIY website, we went to Lowes and bought all of the wood we needed. We had the fine chaps at Lowes cut the big pieces for us but the rest of the sawing and sanding was left up to us.


While we were at Lowes I tried to convince Hadassah that it would be much easier if I bought a power saw to cut all the wood so my arms wouldn't " fall off" while sawing all the wood. After the initial shock and look of absolute horror and fear for my safety left her face we decided that the tools pictured above would be the safe route, and thus the one we went with.


After we cut and sanded it all my faithful wife stained all the boards.


After the stain dried I went about assembling all the different parts.


We were pretty proud once it started to look like a real table.


And here is a shot of the finished table in our dining room. About an hour after I got it all set up in the dining room people started showing up for our get together. It was a good thing we had the giant table too, we used it for Dinner, board games and then Breakfast the next morning...Project# 1...Success...

God Bless

A&H

and the journey begins.

Hello. We hate blogs (or at least the word "blog"), but we've given in and we're going to have one anyway. Congratulations to the internet, you've managed to steal that much more of our souls from us.

Welcome. Enjoy. It wont be quite as great as actually living on the Friendly Arctic Farm of Love, but you can enjoy it vicariously, eh?

Allow us to introduce you.

This is our farm. It may have droopy ceilings and uneven floors, not to mention wasps and large spiders, as well as smelly closets... but we love it. It's 90 years old and comes complete with rockers and fireplaces... it's a great home. Come visit us.
These are our neighbors... quite literally.
Come visit us.


This is our driveway... at exactl 0.9 miles long, it's a good morning workout. Also comes complete with abutting creek (completely dried up at present, due to drought), a flattened and rather large snake (Andy's afraid of it so we can't take walks at present), lovely sprawling fields, an abandoned house (anyone in the market?), and... well, it's just lovely.
Come visit us.

This is our river, the Piney River... well, it's not really ours, but we do have our own private path down to it. And there's a lovely spot for swimming nearby. And so far, no snakes.
Care for a swim? Well then, come visit us.

And this is Lewa. She loves it here. (and she's gorgeous).
Lewa was so happy when she realized she had a yard - she bounded about like a Gazelle (or maybe she was mocking the goats, who are a bit frightened of her... although not too frightened to snort, sneeze and stomp at her if she doesn't maintain a healthy respect and keep away). Anyway, she's deliriously happy, after being cooped up in an apartment, as you can imagine.
Lewa would like us to communicate to you, in lieu of her quit drab typing skills (having paws and all), that she would like you to promptly come and visit us.

Thank you for spending a few moments with us.
We hope you received the not-so-subliminal message to come visit us.
Right now.
Seriously.

Thanks.