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Travel Day – Onto Québec City!
Tuesday was a travel day for me. Took the bus from my Airbnb to downtown Sherbrooke where I caught the Limocar bus from Sherbrooke to Montreal. Then it was a half hour walk through Montreal going past the neighborhood I’ll be staying at when I come back next week and to the train station to…
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Neighborhood Strolls
The Airbnb I stayed in had donkey milk shampoo which I of course had to try. I liked it, made my hair feel very soft. I had some nice strolls around the neighborhood, saw more beautiful houses and trees and a group of preschoolers out on a walk. Before I left Sherbrooke I went to…
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Au Revoir Les Broussailles
I did my final farm chores and milking of the goats this morning. I’m sad to leave the farm, I’ve really enjoyed my time here and felt I was getting into a good rhythm. I would definitely love to come back, especially when the new baby goats come in February or March, maybe I can…
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Last Full Day 🥲
After morning chores and breakfast, Nina and I went down to the river to check on her sheepskins, which looked really good. Then we headed over to Max’s place and I got a tour of his amazing little studio home. He’s built it by himself all from salvaged wood and other items. The house is…
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Busy Day On the Farm
I promise I won’t keep putting a whole bunch of sunrise pictures in my posts, today because they were deer out in the field when I woke up. I also took a selfie with the sunrise reflected in the window behind me. Brittany and Noé went for a horseback ride last night and found a…
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Ice Cream and Apple Pie
Brittany‘s tiny house is coming along really well. They’ve put wood slats on the ceiling of the bedroom and added the pole for the spiral staircase that leads up to the bedroom. Part of the log that they used had really cool mushrooms on it and they’ve left them incorporated in. Now they’re busy putting…
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Wednesday Happenings
I’m enjoying the pattern and pace of my work days on the farm. Up around 6 to journal and sometimes meditate, farm chores and milking from 7-9, a relaxed breakfast often with others, some time to myself then a couple of hours in the fromagerie or helping out elsewhere on the farm. Next is lunch,…
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My New Digs
I have been staying in the loft above the Fromagerie the last few days. There was supposed to be a young man from Germany coming to stay in the house for the next six months as a paid guest. He was going to volunteer on another farm nearby that didn’t have a spare bedroom. When…
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Toujours Belle
Woke up to a foggy morning, giving the farm a mystical look. Later in the day, some of the chickens were dispatched, I wasn’t part of the group who who did that. Max, who arrived the other day, was in charge of the butchering. He also used some of the clay on the property to…
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Gorging On Beauty
I had my first visit to a Tim Hortons today, the Starbucks/Dunkin Donuts of Canada. On my way there I passed a sculpture made out of painted chairs. I got a latte (it was fine, nothing to write home about) and a sausage egg croissant, which was good, and I ogled all of the sweets…