The day started with a gorgeous sunrise, I’m so glad I was up to witness it.  I borrowed Nina’s car to venture into Sherbrooke. It was pouring again so a good day to check out some of the museums in town. My first stop was the musée des beaux-arts (fine art museum). Outside was a…

Nothing special to report about today except for the views on my morning and evening walks (and some goats)

The last couple of days have been filled with the usual chores and helping in the Fromagerie. Today was a misty day, which made the farm look very different. Everyone hung out inside so I got to listen to Chloe playing guitar and singing and others watching TV or movies on their phones. I can…

After morning chores and milking (a little frog hopped down the stairs and into the milking room today!), I went with Valerie to the Saturday market in little town called North Hatley. The town is set around the edge of a lake with lots of large houses, so the Saturday market is mainly for the…

Woke up in the middle of the night to a thunderstorm, the room lighting up from lightning flashs and rain cascading down. It was delightful! I ended the day in a similar way, as I went to bed it was storming again. In between it alternated between sunny and cloudy, with particularly dramatic skies in…

Today was the first of my two days off in a row. I had a few ideas of what I wanted to do if no one was going to be leaving the farm and could give me a ride-walk to Martinville and have a look around. There isn’t much in town except houses and a…

Beautiful dawn this morning, so glad I was up to enjoy it. Today was another day of putting up hay in the barn. Luckily, we didn’t have to do as much, they were only two truckloads this time because they are having much larger bales made, which will entail a tractor driving them into the…

Not much new stuff to report over the last couple of days. I got up early on Monday, which was Labor Day in Canada as well, in Quebec it’s called Fête du Travail, festival/ celebration of work. I saw a gorgeous sunrise, it is just so beautiful the way the mornings quietly unfold here. Well,…

The goats have a routine when it comes to milking. There are 45 goats to milk, and we can do up to 12 at a time. The first group are the goats that are the most anxious to get to the grain they eat while they’re being milked, so they fight jostle with each other…

This morning I spent time filling out labels for cheese, over 900 of them! We had an interesting afternoon. A local back to nature organization had an event at the farm. There was a 6 piece piece band performing throughout the day, demonstrations of goat milking and honey harvesting, sampling of said milk and honey,…