Location, location, location

A September Morning on the farm

Location: It's not just a geographical situation... it's also the "You Are Here" of your head & your heart.

As much as I love it out here, farmboy* and I have made it a home and we welcome friends and family with open arms. It's not multi-million dollar home, with a manicured lawn, Ethan Allen furnishings, or treasures from around the world. It's a some what modest old farm that everyone who comes has the urge to hang their hat and tie the horse up for a drink of fresh water. They want to walk into the chicken coop, grab some eggs and offer to help cook dinner. It's a place that feels like home to anyone who walks through the doors... and I love that!

For me it's that place in I go in my mind when the day is dragging on and on with the nagging agony of being part of the rat race, which just isn't a solution for any human being!

This place reminds me that the grass is not greener anywhere else. The Field of Dreams, "If you build it they will come" sort of mentality. It could be said for so many aspects of life.

Schermeisterbrau

This is the counter is the magnetic North of the house.

It is the place where yeast finds its way into our beer and our breads... I helped cap the bottles last night with some big lid-squeezing gadget. This picture doesn't quite do the bottles justice. The detail on each of those Grolsch-style bottles is really sleek. Of course over the last week I have sort of been noticing the 'details' of many things.

Good Pickin's

Lots of spaghetti squash... if you are my neighbor and need some, please stop in! The zucchini's have again gotten out of hand, and more like the an arm. The Cultivator* planted a lot of grape and Roma tomatoes because he knows they are my favorite, and there are a lot of peppers too! Neighbor T. gave us the round cucumbers, which I have never seen in my life, but I am excited to try, and Neighbor R. gave us corn which we shared because there was more than we could possibly eat in a month. Oh and the eggs... going to town to sell some today.

Now back to the studio...