LEARNING A NEW WAY OF LIFE

Hello Folks,

I'm the new farm hand at Simply Our Farm.  We've had a productive couple of weekends here.  I've been learning many new things, like how to dry apples and then how to make delicious home made apple cider from the peelings and cores.  I helped freeze onions and fresh pumpkin puree, and I helped can beans and make and put up applesauce.  I've also worked outside helping :) with things like gathering the chicken eggs, corralling the ducks at night, as well as hauling and stacking firewood, building new nest boxes and roosts in the chicken coop, repairing the roof in the goat pen, and putting up a fence for the pigs. 

I've found the work challenging at times and very tiring but also very rewarding and it's fun as well!  I've discovered that although I go to bed pretty beat, I sleep soundly and I wake up rested and refreshed.  I'm already looking forward to what this next weekend has in store. As the weather gets colder I wonder what changes winter will bring. What are some of the challenges and rewards you've experienced during the winter months?  Any advice for a rookie??  I'd love to hear from some of you.  Any words of wisdom for me?