Without a doubt, the biggest update I have for you is…we closed on our house! Now, if you’re confused I don’t blame you. Haven’t we uprooted from Brooklyn and left our apartment far behind? Haven’t we been living in this house for 3 months? Haven’t we painted, furnished, and claimed it? Yes, yes, and yes. This was all done with a degree of risk, as we hadn’t actually closed on the house. To tell you the truth, I hadn’t been…
And just like that, another two weeks have gone by. In reflecting on what’s happened in that time, I guess I’m not surprised by how quickly the weeks go! Our major goal for March has been to totally convert the garden shed into the duck’s house. (Or “The Feather Downs” as we have officially christened it.) There’s a small coop already outside, as I’ve posted about before, but the shed made much more sense for a few reasons: it can…
A friend of mine is getting married this summer (she deserves major props for undertaking all the Covid-related planning this requires). She was asking me for advice about managing pre-wedding stress and I reminded her of what people had advised me before my own wedding: as much as you can, slow down and enjoy the experience. Something is bound to go wrong on the day but it won’t ruin the whole event. (My wedding day “oops” was forgetting my veil…
Am I allowed to call it a farm yet? We are still in the dreaming phase BUT there has been what feels like a big step forward… Since the last blog post, we have decided we DO in fact want backyard birds. Not chickens, but ducks! I LOVE eggs but am not such a fan of chickens. Apparently, my late father loved chickens and kept of his own back in the day, but it looks like I didn’t inherit that…