Hurricane Sandy

playing around with paper clay

a few emergency kit components

Some random photos of what I've been doing today.

There is a major storm, hurricane Sandy, headed my way and I've spent the day 

collecting water, canned food, batteries, etc in preparation.

Last year at this time there was a storm that dumped 12" of snow

on the ground and left me without power for 3 days.

This year I'm ready!

Hopefully, I won't need any of the extra precautions.

Pears, Goats and Trucks

Yesterday I went to a local Pick Your Own farm looking for apples.

The farm I usually visit is about an hour away so I thought I'd try something closer.

The people were very nice and told me it was a bad year for apples 

but there were hard pears available.

I picked 10 of each type, Anjou and Bosc, and will tucked them into 

brown paper bags to encourage them to ripen.

Although this farm is more convenient it lacked the 

'wander through the orchard' feeling of my favorite farm.

None the less, it was a beautiful day to be outside.

Hope you have a great week!

xo, j