A night without J

While J is off jettisoning across North Carolina attending Hop Classes, networking with breweries and home-brewers, and generally playing with our new farm friends, I'm at home. This doesn't bother me at all, but I will admit that I'm a little jealous. I have to work behind a desk in a suit while he gets to work in the world in jeans. Hopefully, I'll be able to join him at some point this decade.

For the past few months, he's been traveling during the day and I've been able to be involved during the evenings and weekends... but a conference officially pulled him away for an overnight trip last night. At first, I was a little grumpy(I wanna go!), but then that turned into excitement... what in the world can I do with the house all to myself for a night?! Let me tell you: absolutely nothing out of the ordinary.

I got home from work, took care of the dogs, had dinner, watched LOST (my small obsession), took the dogs out again, and went to bed. That's it.

When I woke up this morning, I was a little disoriented... where the heck is my husband!?!? Hayden rolled over (she somehow managed to jump onto the bed in the middle of the night without waking me), laid her paws on my back, and seemed to tell me to just go back to sleep...

So, I had a successful night of doing absolutely nothing different. He's going away again this weekend (on a boy's trip this time), so I have another opportunity to do whatever I want. I can almost guarantee it'll be nothing but cleaning, stitching, and playing in my garden. We'll see though...


In other news - we have a website! Of course, all it does is redirect to our facebook page right now - but we're getting there. We found a great graphic designer that is giving us some crazy-good material, so hopefully the actual site will go up soon.
www.cbhopfarm.com

Since I don't have any new pics for y'all, here's a snow covered yard gnome from our last snow.
Ciao!

Happy April!

I can't believe it is April already. And so gorgeous too! I think we're at 82 degrees right now, and I hate that I'm inside the office all day... C'est la vie! At least I have tomorrow off. :)

But let's do a quick recap of March, shall we? In the past 31 days, we've had crazy rains, snows, and warm days. I can't even handle it. Not only that, we've got some great work done on the farm! Sadly, most of it was business related, so I don't have any awesome pictures to show you. BUT! We have poles and rhizomes and winches and etc all ordered and ready to go. Now, we just have to wait for delivery and then BAM! Stuff to show you!
J and I have also been busy with networking, networking, and more networking. Here's to hoping we can sell our entire first year's harvest! We made some great connections with local breweries and homebrewers, and even a few clubs in town. Cross your fingers, but I think we might be in good shape.
Also in March: Penny celebrated her first birthday! yeah, it wasn't that exciting. But still... we're looking forward to her 2nd birthday - when she's expected to stop acting like a shark. Seriously though - that dog NEVER stops moving. Unless she's sleeping, of course.

Quick Penny story:
Most nights, J will put me to bed, and I'll spend some time snuggling with Hayden. For whatever reason, I decided that I would also like to have some snuggle time with Penny. We had the windows open, so a nice breeze was coming in - it really was an ideal way to spend some time. About 2 seconds after J closed the bedroom door and headed downstairs, Penny started growling. Straight up growling. I couldn't see what she was looking at, but homegirl wasn't happy. A few barks later, she jumped up and started pacing the bedroom. Focusing on the door. Mmmmmkay - weird. I hopped up and open the door for her, expecting her to see that no one is there and be satisfied - but she jetted downstairs and started growling at the front door. I wasn't really sure what to make of it, so I decided to put her in her kennel. She went up, no problem, but growled for another few minutes.
Feeling satisfied with her being up, I headed back upstairs JUST in time to hear my phone ring. My neighbor's boyfriend was locked out...
Somehow, Penny knew something was off - and she was protecting us. I gave her an extra dog-treat for that...
/Penny Story.

Well, I hope everyone has a great Easter Weekend! I think we have a fun weekend planned with a bunch of activities - I'll try to remember to take pictures. In the meantime, here's how the farm looked yesterday... Look at all that clover!