Sandy, you crazy.

Happy Halloween Eve everyone! Hope those of you possibly affected by hurricane Sandy have made it through with only good stories to remember her by. Here in the Atlantic provinces we're just expecting a lot of rain. We have, however, been following the storm's effects on New York quite closely and have been shocked to see the damage and flooding in areas we visited three weeks ago, including Wall Street, Battery Park and the WTC construction site. Be safe, everybody.

Side-note: Hurricane Sandy, boy or girl??

So, we fell a bit behind on blogging in the last five days. It's not that we haven't been doing anything - quite the opposite, in fact. And as our last few days here promise to be just as busy, we are going to do our best to fill you in on what we've been up to in a succinct yet thorough way. Read: lots of pictures!!

First of all, as promised, we managed to get better pictures of our host farm. It's really difficult to capture the scenery here and have it look as impressive in a picture as it does in real life, but we've given it our best. This is Wild Roots at MacQuarrie Brook.

seriously so pretty.

with Thom and Moragh in the background for size ref

this is the chicken condo, which we recently weather-proofed

sometimes, there are just bathtubs

sorry this is sideways, there is no easy way to rotate pics on here. but, two squirrel nests in the tool shed!

laziest man-cat ever, plus his pile of vomit so thoughtfully left on the back of the couch.

it's common to see oily patches on the top of the soil here. rich in carbons whaaaaat

looking down the Nevada Valley from the back of the property

the front yard, with our wood piles and our poor old car.

There you go. That's where we are, until Friday anyway. More about our next move soon. For now, 5 or 6 more blog posts! Gah...