Friday, September 17, 2010

Mid-September notes

Greetings from mid-September. The homestead is hip-deep in autumn. Some highlights:

Temperatures are falling. In the 50s F during the day, now; down to 40 at night.

We turned one big compost pile, to get it rotting into spring:


Chickens continue to grow. A bunch of the meat birds are huge, and awaiting destiny shortly.

And our local, excellent contractor built us a new front door plus porch:

Gwynneth strides off of it:

2 comments:

Ed Webb said...

Looks like a reassuringly solid bit of engineering.

Bryan Alexander said...

It certainly is. The porch is darned strong, and the overhang looks bold.