Indoor Plumbing!!

We returned last week from a much-needed break on Cape Cod.  I taught a photography class at a Leica Seminar in Eastham and we ate lobsters

and more lobsters

and more lobsters

and Wellfleet oysters at the Oyster Festival

and we took photos of water and skies and boats.

When we got back to the farm, we discovered that the plumbers and carpenters had been busy

 installing an indoor toilet!!

and an indoor shower

with HOT water!

We are living in luxury now.

It's a very messy luxury, though, because they also started sanding sheetrock.

Even with everything covered with plastic, there is no way to keep that fine dust 

from coating every surface.

I still have my outdoor kitchen.  Luckily, the weather has been unseasonably warm.

Donnie made the trim for the kitchen windows

and the guys installed it all at once.

Duke Power came yesterday and switched our power from temporary to permanent.  The county has now given us a CO - Certificate of Occupancy, which means we can legally live here (at least in the old part of the house.  The new part still has to pass inspection!)

The only things left in my garden are green tomatoes, cabbage, and peppers.

So I made chow-chow relish

and Jalepeno Jelly.

My new chickens have started laying eggs, but they're still very small compared to those from my old hens.  

Laura loves to carve pumpkins so she made two for the farm

and put them on the grape vine posts.

The moon is gorgeous in October.

Happy Halloween!!