19 Degrees

Spring in Barton, Nova Scotia has yet to appear. We have had the occasional nice day that we try to take full advantage of, but for the most part the temperature hovers between 10-14 and rains. Yesterday, however, we had one of those occasional days. The temperature got up to 19 degrees at one point. It was sunny with no wind. Absolutely beautiful!!

The day started with a trip to the lumber mill where we picked up a load of boards. These were not from the wood we delivered last week, those will be ready mid week this week. This was just lumber that we purchased. We then stacked the two loads that we have brought in so far. Just to think, we have another three truck loads to pick up still! Thank goodness the barn is large enough to stack and store it all in!
The garden got its final rototilling with compost worked into it. My reward for doing this was  a little sunburn and lots of blackfly bites.

Finally, we got the chicken coop almost prepared for our first farm animals arrival at the end of this month. We will have some very stylish chickens who get to strut down their live edge pine ramp! It was such a beautiful piece of wood that we found at the lumber mill. We saved it from it fate as kindling and are giving it a long happy life covered in chicken poop!!