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[dragonlady7]

A photo from when we got the yurt set up last time I visited.



First chicken I roasted this season! From the ones we processed Tuesday.


Visitor to the yurt, now that I've got the interior largely set up: Whiskey the cat.

And a moody scenery shot:

The Team meeting in the barnyard one morning to discuss the week's upcoming work and schedules.

Comments

[lazaefair]

Oooh, I'd love to throw some contrast/desaturation/vignetting on that last one. Lovely composition with negative space.

[dragonlady7]

You know, I never really edit cellphone pictures, but I do tend to post them right mixed in with the real-camera pictures nowadays. I *always* edit real-camera pictures, because the way I have it set up is that they get imported through Lightroom, and I always re-export them with edits. But cellphone stuff just gets posted straight up to Flickr if I post it at all. So it's kind of funny to think about. I've stopped differentiating much between the sources for my photos-- cellphone cameras have gotten good enough that you don't have to do a lot to trick them into taking a good photo (that is one of three or four I took at that moment, trying to get the camera to meter on different subjects-- my old phone was stubborn but the new one gets what I'm trying to do, usually)-- and I've been using an expensive point and shoot sometimes and hilariously since its screen isn't as good in bright light as my phone, I get better photos in bright light with my phone...

I put my SLR into a bag somewhere and need to dig it out, though; I haven't used it in months and that's bad.

[dine]

I love the hip-roofed barn! the composition of that photo is great - and if you change the clothing, it could be from 150 years ago

[dragonlady7]

Ha, thanks!
Ironically enough that barn is the newest of the old structures on the site, dating to 1943; the other outbuildings and the house are all between 1789 and 1835. (And then there's the new barn they built last year, but that's hard to mistake, as the entire southern wall is greenhouse plastic.)

[dine]

I'm not sure just when the barns on the farm were built, but I'm guessing it was pre-1930 - I should ask my dad, just in case he recalls hearing as a child. sadly they both have boring ordinary sloped tin roofs. one has stalls and milking stanchions and lofts for storage, the other is pretty much open - a couple of calving stalls and hay troughs along each side of a huge area which was used for hay storage. bales piled two stories high made for fun play in the winter

I did talk to my dad this evening, and he wasn't positive about the build date on the barns, but estimated it around probably 1870 or so. the house was built in 1857 or so, so the barns might actually be close to that age as well. I'd been thinking 1890s, but they definitely predate 1900, though those you mentioned are far older

[hyperion_swan]

Whiskey the cat is looking super cute :3c

[dragonlady7]

She is the most adorable of the cats, and also the most obnoxious. She is very demanding of pets, but refuses to be picked up. She loves to sleep in a bed, but likes to knead obsessively, and every time she is reminded that you have hands, she demands to be petted with them until she forgets about them again. And most obnoxiously, she constantly wants to be let in and out. But, in the yurt, all of this is fine, because there's a cat flap she can enter and exit at will.
It's just that sometimes around 3am she likes to go out hunting, and then bring her kills back to the yurt to eat in safety, and then she goes and gets another one for me, and then tries to give it to me. It's very sweet but also extremely horrifying. I have learned to ignore wet crunching noises in the early dawn hours.

I almost posted this photo of her too:

There's a potting bench, see, in the greenhouse (next to the yurt), where they do their potting-up and seeding and such, but Veg Manager has dubbed it the Petting Bench because that's what Whiskey thinks it's for. She stands on it and gets petted! It tends to make the greenhouse workers a little less productive in terms of greenhouse work, but it's not really a loss, per se, because petting the cat is So Important to the overall karma of the farm...

[starshipfox]

The yurt looks so cosy! I love your cat visitor too :3