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Autumn Morning
Morning light just rising above the trees lights up the foliage on the other side of the pond. It was warm enough later in the day to take the last swim of the season.
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Apple Slices
The apple harvest is nearing the end of the season. A couple cold nights seemed to have sweetened the apples that remain on the trees. To the delight of the goats the wind and time has felled enough...
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Getting Ready for Winter
Bojangles the cat and Cody the Pug have already assumed, or resumed their Winter positions by the wood stove. Cody is the fire marshal around the farm and takes his job very seriously. Most days he...
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Kennebunkport Dock Square Snow Fall
It is the morning after Solstice and this picture was taken in Dock Square, Kennebunkport, after stopping into a local candy shop. I almost never consider shopping in Dock Square, because it feels...
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Frosty Rain
Time races by and the summer seems like a distant but pleasant memory that slipped out of reach like a retreating tide. It is the time for opening a jar of relish made in the fall, butternut squash...
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Christmas Garden
If you take a look at the video on YouTube of this snowstorm scene you will see toward the end, two birds fly out of the birch tree, land on a sunflower stalk, and reach around to grab a seed. I was...
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Maine Self-Serve Veggie Stand
One of the things that is most endearing about Maine is that things that require trust in the community, still exist--like this self serve vegetable stand about 3 miles from my home. One evening, about...
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Jerusalem Artichokes
I developed a bit of a love affair with the Jerusalem artichoke over the past season, and it continues on into the winter. Yesterday, I made a tuna salad wrap, using a peeled Jerusalem artichoke in...
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Barn Swallows
This was the first flight of the five nestling barn swallows hatched and raised in the barn. Each year one or two pairs of barn swallows returns to the barn. Last year, one pair stayed and had a second...
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the Hay Wagon
The hay arrived, of course, just as Bev was driving to Southwest Harbor, and I had the great idea of putting it up myself...I had the conveyer, right? Five bales on the conveyer, run upstairs, unload...
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Fork in the Road
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.,” Yogi Berra.Twilight, as August moves more quickly into September than we might want, the quiet settles in. The frogs and crickets are still in chorus,...
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Flying Lobster
“It looks like a little flying lobster, with two eyes on it's tail,” Bev said as we looked at the flying creature hovering over the Cleome flower. It was completed undeterred by us watching it as it...
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Farewell to a Buddy
Farewell to our buddy Cody, on September 19, who was a faithful companion to Bev through some trying times. Cody had a great personality--adored Dan and Steve, and was always willing to roll with...
View ArticleMilking Lolly
Lolly, the goat on the right in the pic, was the only goat in milk this year and it was a real treat to have fresh goat milk each day for coffee, and the cheese Bev made. The dwarf goats, like Lolly,...
View ArticleTime Passing
Each Spring, these deck chairs get stationed somewhere in the yard, and we both smile thinking how little they will get used! Several years ago, my parents were visiting and they spent some time in...
View ArticleWhere's my mask?
This is the year many of us have been feeling dressed up for Halloween, just to go to the corner store. Very early in the pandemic I felt very self-conscious walking into a store with a ball cap and a...
View ArticleTurning a Page
Simone, the matriarch of our small herd of goats passed unexpectedly on Friday, November 20. It is like reaching the last couple of sentences in a favorite chapter. We will turn the page, but go back...
View ArticleFirst Snow
Even though the first significant snowfall this year didn't come until mid December, it felt to me, early, too soon, burdensome, like something more that needed to be added to the morning schedule. It...
View ArticleConjunction
Two planets separated by thousands of miles in a rare convergence in the night sky over Bethlehem inspired the hope that with this meeting comes greater light.Get a Goat Note from Alewive Farm at Etsy...
View ArticleIs it Over Yet?
Bojangles, the retired barn cat peeking out from beneath some wrapping paper Christmas morning after getting more than his fair share of catnip made the perfect picture for the count down to the New...
View ArticleGoat Notes and Barn Cards
New to the website is the shameless Goat Note and Barn Cards shopping page featuring blank note cards that are great for any occasion. As Bev so often says, "Nothing says 'love' like a goat." Most of...
View ArticleBarn Acrobats
Every spring the barn swallows arrive, often it is two pair, and this year it was three. Two had nests in the barn, and this nest was in the outside overhang. Once the chicks hatch the parents are...
View ArticlePutting Up Hay
The first cut of hay is often available in late May or early June, and it arrives about the time we are mearly out from the what was put in late last fall. This year, with near drought conditions...
View ArticleOur Friend Piper
Piper checking out her new digs shortly after arriving at Alewive Pond Farm in 2012Piper, and her long-time friend, Simone were the first two goats at our farm. Several years ago, Piper, was bred and...
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