Finally, Another Installment

Wow, it has been awhile. We have both been meaning to post, lots to share, but it's amazing how busy we are staying. Farm work keeps us pretty busy now. When winter sets in for real there will less to do, so we are hitting it hard while the sun still shines, mowing, weeding, mucking out the settling box for the irrigation system, and now John, the other caretaker and I , are spending quite a bit of time fencing the perimeter of the property to keep the deer out who are coming down to the lower elevations now that it's colder.

Here's a shot of the cool red barn on the property. I am quite taken with its shape and color. I will post more shots from other angles later. Note the bright blue sky and strong shadows.

Attached to the barn is the chicken coop, where our girls are clucking away, fat and sassy. Here they are in their tractor, a device that allows them to be "free range", and scratch and peck outside, and still be safe from predators. We can move it around the field with them in it. Getting them in and out of it can be comical.

I took the following picture quite awhile back to mark a momentous day. Our first two egg day! It tells you how remiss I've been with posting... we are now up to ten egg days!

One day a few weeks ago we went to Missy and Rooster's to help them harvest beets and carrots.

Here Rooster washes carrots.

And here we are roasting the fruits of some of our labors. Yummy beets!

One of the jobs a few weeks ago was to scrape all the old wax and dried honey and other sticky debris off some old bee boxes and frames. Note the blue sky and strong shadows. Just sayin'.

At the same time Catherine and John were harvesting beautiful delicious honey from the working hives. They shared some comb with us. Yummers! Margot called it "nature's baklava" Truly delicious.

Speaking of delicious, that's the name of our new dance company. Delicious Dance. We are teaching lessons and they are going quite well. In a few week's time, we will have four lessons a week going! Also, this next Saturday the 12th, we have our first 2nd Saturday dance at the Blue Sage Arts Center. Margot has been working hard on ads and posters and promotion. We are having great fun with it, and have the beginnings of a very enthusiastic dance community. We are performing a lindy number for the Christmas show at the Paradise Theater in December incorporating the shim sham accompanied by some of our more enthused and capable young teenage students.

Well there is lots of news, but I'll save some for Margot to talk about. 

I also recently updated the blog that shows Persephone's evolution (that's our big fountain and sculpture project that most of you know about),  and I just finished posting to a blog Margot made for me years ago to show my artwork that I never had time to put together.

Check them out if you feel like it.

http://spaindanceart.blogspot.com/

http://markwillson.blogspot.com/

Best wishes to everyone.