Our Agrarian Year: Shift to Autumn

September, October, and November are the autumn months of our agrarian year. Almost as if on cue, we’ve experienced an overall temperature shift from sweaty hot days to mild and comfortable. I’ve started wearing a light jacket when I go out to do morning milking. The days are noticeably shorter, and the sound of the wind in the leaves has changed. Oddly, we haven’t seen many migrating birds yet. 

We made the decision last month to make the masonry stove next summer’s main project, when we won’t feel rushed by coming winter. It’s a big project and we have to get it right. Incorporated into that is finishing the front bedroom, because originally, it shared the fireplace with the living room. It’s one of the two remaining unfinished rooms in the house. 

The other unfinished room is the sunroom, which I hoped to turn into my studio before it became a storage room as we worked on the rest of the house. An idea that’s been on our master plan for a long time, is to attach a greenhouse onto this sunny, southeast facing room. Dan really wants to finish the house (gee, it’s only been 13 years!) and building a greenhouse is a much more suitable project for fall and winter. 

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