there will be a proper trip report around xmas time as we are flying home for a few weeks to see family and friends and try and plot our new course and sort out budgets and things, as this trip will very likely not be a year but more like 6-8 months total for various reasons. so far has been great currently on a really nice farm owned by two biologists. have been managing some woodland areas, removing ol rusty barbed wire so we can start building a fence to keep sheep. it is moose hunting season and the other day we were invited along to watch the hunters skin and butcher some bulls they had killed. they very kindly allowed us to help skin them and we got to take the skins away with us for free! they are currently in a storeroom spread out and salted. I think the farmer is going to send them off for tanning, then he wants me to make as much leather goods as i can with the tanned skins. they also have a good forge here so i have been trying my hand at blacksmithing in my free time, have so far made a decorative wall hook, a thors hammer, and a trollcross pendant to protect me from trolls when out in the woods! so far has been very crafty and have various projects in the works which you will all hear about in due time