The thing about blogs

    In reality I have only checked out between 20 and 25 blogs and faithfully check 3 or 4.  Only one of those have I read since the beginning and how it began I cannot recall.  Blogs to me are just musings of whomever for whomever to read whenever the whomever writes and the other whomever reads.  But how does one begin?  My simple guess it to simply begin penning (with keyboard and no ink) the ideas of the mind.  Our blog is to let you know how things are progressing here, especially with the new house.  Later today or tomorrow I am going to learn how to add a photos so you can actually see the progress but fornow you will need to do the imagining. 

    In May of this year we packed up our stuff once again and hauled it about 35 minutes down the road and around a couple corners.  The new place is near the village of Gadshill which sits a mere 8 km north of Stratford.  Back near our old stomping grounds.  Great place.  We've dubbed the ground here Forestview Acres and we have put 2 farms together (just not on paper) so we have a rambling 250 acres in total.  The second farm has a very old bank barn with most of it's barn boards still attached.  The home acreage has an old frame house that will come down next year some time and a barn which has been renovated inside to house our growing flock of Ile de France sheep.  The idea of moving here was to move into a 'good' house and the fact that new is quite good sits well with all of us.  We won't miss this old thing.

    After hemming and hawing about how and where and who in regards to the new house, construction actually began on October 1st with the hole digging!  The 'hope day' of the completed house is December 21 but that of course, depends on the weather.

    So, that's the house story.  More in the 'years' to come on the farm, the sheep, the family and all they find themselves thinking and doing.