The Sun Is Shining

It looks like it is going to be a beautiful day. The sun is shining and it looks glorious outside. It isn't as warm as I would like it, but I will take the sun.
The last few days I have been working hard on Thornton Square line of clothes. I have been sewing replica clothes for years, and decided I would do it as a side business. I worked all winter on new designs. I am almost finished. I have one design left. While I mostly do 1800's replica clothing, I did one from a later year. I have designed a dress in her honor of my neighbor who will be 98 in 2 weeks. The dress is from 1911, the year she was born. Most of my research over the years has been for the 1800's, so I had much research to do for this project. I found a picture, and I designed one from that. I have the underdress done, I just need to do the overdress. Then on April 16, I will wear it down to her house and show her. I will also bring the picture and show her that as well. She has been a dear friend to me. She has taught me things about sewing, that I could never learn in any school or book. She herself went to school for sewing, and is passing on her skills to me.
In honor of her, my new design will be called "Muriel".

April Showers Bring May Flowers

Showers bring flowers, but it is no fun working in the rain. It is damp, and cold. Working outdoors in this is no fun. So many projects, too much rain. We are suppose to have rain until Sunday. Good for the flowers, not for the humans.
We have opened for the season. We will be open weekends until mid May. It is a summer area here, so we don't have much activity until Memorial Day. That's okay with us, it lets us get some much need projects done.
Gardens to plow, chicken coop to build. A farmers work is never done.

Continuing Saga

It has been some time since I have posted here. I have decided to come back and continue to post here as well as our new farm blog http://www.cloverleaffarmblog.com/. You can check there for an update of what we have been doing for the past year.

Yesterday, we finished up processing the last of our Cornish Rock X. By the end of the day we were exhausted. It is amazing how tiring it is to kill and process 7 chickens. Of course we do it all by hand. No machinery here. It is only the two of us as well.
Very soon, we will start work on the gardens. The snow has finally melted from the two front gardens. Another week or so and they should be dry enough for the tiller to go through.
First in order is to get a new roof on the greenhouse. The roof is made of a tarp like plastic, and with two years of weathering, it caved in on us during the winter. That is one of the first items on our spring to do list. By the end of the month, we have to have a new roof put on, the greenhouse sorted out, and our seedlings on their way to a new life.

Another season has begun.

New Home For Cloverleaf Farm Blog

Our blog has a new home. To keep reading the adventures of life on the farm please visit www.cloverleaffarmblog.com.