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Month: August 2023

Hay Day

Posted on August 28, 2023August 29, 2023 by Melissa Perley

With all of the rain this summer there has been a precariousness to hay, not just knowing when we might get it, but if we would get it at all. Good haying weather requires at least three dry days and we have struggled to have even one day without rain. The internet has been full…

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Making Change

Posted on August 21, 2023August 22, 2023 by Melissa Perley

As we enter the Dog days we are spending a lot of time harvesting. I find that when I am kneeling at the earth’s alter, my hands busy pulling carrots that will be sauteed in a cast iron skillet until they release sweetness from under their charred exteriors, my brain has time to free-wheel. I…

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Wisdom

Posted on August 14, 2023August 15, 2023 by Melissa Perley

There is a metaphor about having a black cloud hanging over you. That seems to sum up our summer in a literal sense. In the month of July our area had approximately twenty inches of rainfall. Each day we wake and peer out of the shutters in our bedroom to see if there is any…

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Our Measure Of Progress

Posted on August 7, 2023August 8, 2023 by Melissa Perley

As we round the corner into August, I begin to feel a push to squeeze all of the things we dream about in February into this month. When you live in Vermont you recognize that summer time is limited. In June we are still finishing recitals, auditions and lessons. That week Paul and I ran…

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