First day of rest

Well we finally can say the house is liveable. We even rested and watched movies with the girls today.  The weather has been less than clement and the rain and wind have curtailed any productive outside work today anyway.  It was a lot easier to get a load of coal in than I thought and only took 4.5 hours from start to finish including the two hour drive round trip to get the coal.  One more load to go before winter. There is still a summers worth of work fixing various buildings and organizing things around the farm but we finally got a small garden dug in yesterday.  We have two amazing garden spaces totalling about an acre.  We haven't got the time to spare to plant them this year but they have amazing soil, the like I have never seen.  The previous owner gardened for 20 years and obviously paid attention to revitalizing the soil.  The fact that it sat fallow for the last four years I am sure contributed to the top notch quality of the soil.  We had the time yesterday to put the scythe to work on some of the exceptionally long grass around the property, what a treat to use such a custom tool it worked brilliantly.  It is a different life homesteading, the biggest challenge is water conservation.  We only have a small cistern and breaking some water waste habits is proving to be rather difficult.  Anyway today felt like it is all coming together finally.