hurrican and Halloween...

Last year, our Halloween trick was two feet of snow... this year... a hurricane... an extremely bad hurricane named Sandy. And though New England was mostly spared, the mid Atlantic coast was not. It's just days after, but there are folks who will be weeks - months - before life returns to normal.

Even though the path of the hurricane was pretty well tracked, we took it seriously here on the farm. Our main concern were the animals... and Ed wanted the turkeys to have some shelter against the wind and rain. Their pen is covered, but the sides are open, so we opted to tarp one side to keep the wind down.

I threw in some hay for warmth and dryness, and made sure there was plenty of food and water, and they weathered pretty well. They'll be gone in just a few weeks, but we have worked too hard to bring them this far along to have anything happen now.








We lost power for just a few hours, which we really found surprising. Ed had gone and got plenty of gas for the generator, and we ran it just a short time. The wind was "amazing", and we did fear losing the tent building that covers our wagons and sleighs... but again, fared very well. (we laid the wind mill down - it didn't fall over)...

Surprisingly too, we didn't get that much rain. I think the wind was the most damaging... Kas reported from the coast that the ocean put on quite a show, and much of the old home town was closed down due to the ocean. But again, all fared well.








We didn't have a place for the guinea hens.. I wanted to shoo them into the barn, but they wouldn't hear of it... so I was glad to see none had blown away...


In the meantime, I just want to say that my prayers go out to the folks who did not come threw very well. The reports that we see on TV are horrifying... and we just want to offer our support.....