On The Farm

Well, we made it onto the farm Thursday night. Our car couldn't make it up the steep, wet, gravel hill of a driveway so we had to leave it over 2 miles away at the general store. We were a tad put off at first when we got here, we were shown to the room we were staying at and that was it. No conversation, no talking, no offer of food or asking how the trip was. There are two little boys here who don't know much about personal space, a mom who was packing to leave for the weekend and didnt say much, a dad who... was a man of few words, and another Wwoofer who seemed nice.
Me and Dan were seriously reconsidering this farm and spent quite a while freaking out in our room, after the two boys finally left us alone.
But then, just as we were about to pick up and walk back to the car in the dark windy snow, one of the boys came down and said that the other wwoofer, James, had made us dinner. So we headed up and ate a good meal. We spent the time telling jokes with the boys and talking to james. We decided it wasnt SO bad here so we choose to stay and see how the morning was.
We woke up to snow COVERING the ground. It was magical and so beautiful, i'd missed snow. We put on our boots and headed out to learn about the daily chores. We met the goats (Theres a baby goat named Lily) and chickens and the two horses. We learned the basics of milking goats! It was so cool.
After the morning milking of goats, there was nothing to do until 5. We got so stir crazy that we put on our jackets and boots and started down the hill on our 3 mile walk to the car. We were followed by their dog Charlie (even though we kept yelling at him to go home) all the way there and back. We picked up our hiking bags and filled them with the lap top, phone charger, knitting things, books, and just random things to keep us busy. WE made it back by 4 and chilled out for an hour until I went out and milked the goat again
Tomorrow we are suppose to build a shed. I'm excited, the weekend is suppose to be lovely.