Cowfeathers Farm to Foxcroft Farm: One Month at Foxcroft.

One month at Foxcroft Farm.

That helps my perspective so much! I have been getting a little overwhelmed lately on all that needs to be done/fixed/accomplished at our new farm. But, if I say "One month!" I can look around and feel less overwhelmed.

We have the fields re-tamed. They were beautiful, but the tractor that was here had been sold a month before we moved in and there had been a lot of rain and sun! So, we arrived to tall pastures. They now look lovely again. I am sitting on my back porch in the cool of the morning, watching Nelle pace the fence- she's ready for breakfast, and Pepe-the -Peacock-Poolfloat patrol the pool. The pool has large pots of asparagus fern and ginger mint and blue Plumbago softening the edges. At the far end of the pool, the periwinkle tuteur is in the center of a new garden chock full of peonies, Siberian iris and tree hydrangeas to show off next spring. (Thanks Mom and Dad!) I have a camellia under the window of my desk newly planted and a stop at a roadside garden center on the way back from cider tasting (all alone in a field- go tasting at one pm on a tuesday!) means mums and pansies are showing their colors.

We have reasonable comfortable places to sleep, cook, eat, watch The Masked Singer on Wednesday nights, and play Trivial Pursuit- inside and out. We have plenty of rooms filled with boxes and mess- but this blog is about progress...so.

I have a lovely closet- and I can close the door and get dressed and it is like going from Oz back to Kansas when I open the door, but- truly- I like Kansas. And the thing I am most likely to put on when I get dressed are paint-infused coveralls, so the closet is just a reminder of where we are headed.

We have been to three Hunt Meets, and two Pony Club Meets, I have a sweet, chunky, borrowed pony, who will get me out in the Hunt Field, from a new friend. Friends! We have made a few, despite being pretty much at home or outdoors all the time. That is maybe the most exciting thing.

We have been tasting at a cidery, but my B-I-L has gotten Huz out for barbeque, and Eldest out to two more cideries, before she went back to Columbus. And, Huz and I had a date on top of a mountain. I have been out with my sister to the Aldi store in Waynesboro. This is remarkable because for so many people, that is not a big deal, but having never lived near another family member since I left for college, I think that is so cool!

One month in, and we are making it home.