For Someone Who Hates the Country...

... I am mysteriously DRAWN to the quaintness of it! I find it adorable to visit, and want to take aspects of it with me back to the city. I also wish I had something more sophisticated than Mr. Moneypit's iphone to take photos with (wah waaaaah)...

This weekend we headed down to the Southtowns to visit family that has a farm – NOTE TO OUT-OF-TOWNERS: Buffalo is a city, you have to drive about half an hour to reach a farm. :) Anyway – they were having a corn roast. That's right, they pick all the corn on the farm, and roast it up for all their friends and family members, and it's a big ol' end of summer party. It was actually way more fun than I thought it would be...

Okay... chickens? I want chickens. I really do. Only like, two, and I don't really want to ever have to touch them or clean up after them, but in the city you're allowed to have up to five (I think?) and the idea of an endless supply of farm fresh eggs makes the whole thing seem totally worth it!

I mean... they're kinda cute? 

There was also tons of old machinery just sitting around... like this rusty old tractor? That's pretty cool. 

Then we ventured into their barns. (They had a few!) As a sidenote: I LOVE the show American Pickers. If you've never seen it, they go around the country going through people's barns and old collectibles to find lost treasure to sell at their shop. So I had quite the high hopes for the contents of these barns, and was not disappointed.

I want this. Want. Want. Want. I want to take it into my studio and store letterpress type in it and love it forever. 

Old boxes = swoooon in my book.

Not entirely sure what this was storing... but I love the look all the same.

Huge glass jars everywhere. Um hello, aren't these like $80 at Pottery Barn?

And my favorite:

When was the last time you saw something actually labeled "POISON"??? Hahaha!
Well that was our trip to the farm... hoping to have something new and interesting on our contractors' work soon, but I was informed today that even though I was told this week would be a big week for getting the big stuff started, people are already thinking about the weekend, so it might not happen.

Fantastic.