Fini

The beautiful fruits of Jackie's labor this year. We just posted this apartment on a site for seasonal rentals a month ago, and already had 4 renters and many inquiries!

Spring Things

Spring sprang after a challenging winter here.
We had visitors (two and four-legged) from Florida, New York and Boston. We enjoyed the flowers at Biltmore, the drum circle in downtown Asheville, walks in the woods, and just hanging around the house...
















Our garden's expanded and improved over last year's - the garlic is flourishing (I think Jackie must be secretly speaking Italian to it), and we've been feasting on our sugar snap peas and lettuce. I discovered a great recipe for pesto from garlic scapes. Buy them at the farmers market! My nemesis the flea beetle returned. I've sacrificed the arugula as a "trap crop". I'm doing incantations to prevent tomato blight...






We've also got culture - vermiculture! Looking forward to next year's worm castings for our garden...









Next door, Kevin and Laurel have added bees to the farm.

We had a wonderful visit to MA to see family and friends. We commandeered one of our favorite old haunts, JP Licks!

Here a Year!

We are grateful for our wonderful home, our excellent wood stove, and fabulous friends and family! We survived some record snowfall (for here, a foot), Jackie's hard at work finishing the basement to make a rental, and we're looking forward to planting soon.
Kevin and Laurel's chickens started laying eggs. We heard crowing one morning, and it turns out that "Belle" is actually "Bill"!