Welcome to the Farmette Life Web Site!

This website is about country living, with a focus on photography, gardening, fishing, raising a variety of animals and living as green and as simply as possible.

On this 15 acre farmette located in Western Pennsylvania, there reside two people (hb and the cowgirl), two indoor cats, one elderly outdoor cat, a cranky pheasant, a narrangansette turkey tom, 10 hens, 1 Barred Rock Rooster and various wild visitors.

Most days are spent in peaceful harmony, or an attempt thereof.

Our platform for oudoor living is a 1902 vernacular farmhouse, which has been under constant renovation.

About us:
hb is the primary farmette photographer. His pictures document our daily life, interesting happenings and progress of projects. hb also provides the heavy lifting/manual labor portion of projects, most electrical work and loves to mow the fields with my Kioti tractor. He will do plumbing but that is not his favorite. hb does the rough carpentry while I provide the fine carpentry.

I am the animal caretaker, farmhouse project manager and an amateur photographer. My nickname is cowgirl because of my personal carpe diem motto and because there is nothing too perfect about a cowgirl.

We love living in the country, with no neighbors in sight and lots of outdoor activities.

What we do:
We garden, fish, bicycle, cross country ski, raise animals, clear trails throughout the farmette and of course, take lots of pictures. The weather here is never boring. There are four well defined seasons during the year ranging from hot and humid summers to cold, snowy winters. Springtime is long, usually wet and perfect to get the garden started. Autumns are beautiful with leaves of every color lasting for weeks. Except for a few strong seasonal storms, there are no natural disasters to fret about . . . no earthquakes, tornadoes, floods or wild forest fires.

A very pleasant place to live, work and play.

There are always ongoing projects on the farmette. Something is either being designed, built or born/adopted/rescued. Visit this site often to see new pictures, read my regularly updated journal or find links for farmette lifestyle living.