Now that the holidays are well over I feel like updating again!
We spent Christmas with our families in Wayland and Rockford, and received many vegetable and hop gardening books from friends and family. We have been spending lots of time researching in preparation for our first growing season!
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And the family portrait for the year, it was a small Christmas celebration this year but still nice.
The only way to get the dog in the picture was to hold up a treat for her...
For Christmas Geoff and I got a new couch (who cares right?), and a BREWING KIT! We started with our first batch, a milk stout, on New Year's day. It is due to be finished in a week or two so I'll have to let you know later how that turns out. We figure if we're going to be growing hops we'd better know how to use them!
We've also been trying to get to know the local beer scene here a little better. Here we are on a recent trip to Mount Pleasant Brewing Co. I had a peanut butter stout that was pretty decent, and Geoff had a Hobo's Breath Brown ale that he really liked.
The greenhouse is actually starting to be fun now! Since I got it built it's been just sitting there making me anxious to plant in it. In the last couple of weeks I've been preparing my soil for planting in the beginning of February. The garlic I planted in the fall has started to come up! I also have broccoli started in the house along with peas which haven't come up yet.
Next month I hope to post pictures of new veggies growing in the greenhouse :)
Geoff has been working on cleaning out the mess that was left in the barn by the last inhabitants. There was a giant mound of hay, lumber and other junk out there making our space useless. Since the beginning of January he has made a lot of progress in there, and plans to make a disc golf course indoors.
Here's hoping everyone had a great holiday season!
