seasons shifting

things are getting very autumnal around here. the nights are cooler and cloudy and the skies are grey. the greenhouse is full of onions and here and there are trees full of orange leaves. fall raspberries are getting ripe and winter crops are being seeded.

but there's still touches of warm weather and summer, like this awesome cherry bomb pepper

and its tasty companions

which emi and I turned into an excellent dinner.

in other news, yesterday the dairy team plus jaclyn took a field trip to surprise lake camp and eden village camp to pick up our goats that spent the summer at camp, gizmo being one of them. I'm so excited that she's home. with seven more kids and two adults, the barnyard's definitely fuller and there's been some headbutting as pecking orders are re-established.

here's emi and vivian on the ride home

we stopped to get fries.

so now everyone's home again, including this kid we call evilface, because, well

I mean, c'mon, look at that mug. and down in the corner is gizmo. gosh I love that goat.