BRINGING WINE HOME: BOOK TWO.
....IS OFFICIALLY OUT!
You can find it on Amazon HERE (and as an e-book very soon) and read it anywhere––your apartment, the train, space––totally your call.For the uninitiated, Bringing Wine Home is a book project I've been working on for the last couple of years. It's the story of how I came to find farming (Book One), my first year on the farm and how I met my wife (the recently released Book Two), then our crazy first year of marriage (Book Three––available spring-ish 2014). Do you have to have read Book One to enjoy Book Two? No way––at least not necessarily. Though I believe Book One enriches the experience obviously, it's not a necessity. If you want, try Book Two out, and if you enjoy it, go back and read the first. Oh, and as the description reads, although it's technically a book about wine, and a book because of it, it is hardly a technical wine book. It is for anyone and everyone and that's you!Thank you and enjoy!- Jesse.
WINTER CHORES.
With cold temperatures comes a new daily chore: breaking the ice. We have to make sure the animals have access to their water, and without electricity, this means breaking the ice (sometimes multiple times a day). For us, this is quite simple: just the dog and the cat and the chickens. But while Bugtussle was away for the holiday, we got to walk up the hill to break the ice for the sheep and cows. I love seeing these guys when they get their fluffy, scruffy winter coats....it definitely makes it worth the cold morning walk.- Hannah.
THIS & THAT.
Some random photos from the past week.
Obsessed with our new air plant, Squidward, and our beloved Wendell Berry print.
Jesse has started making cedar bowls by burning the middles out with embers from the stove. 
Displaying some of our favorite magazines. Martha Stewart is important in this household, folks.
Our poor little Silkie in the snow! (Don't worry, we warmed her up and gave her some shelter after this photo.) 
Love getting three of these blue eggs a day, thanks to our trusty Easter Eggers.