This weekend we visited a Lavendar Farm on the south end of the valley. It was a truly special and beautiful experience. The farm is well developed and well thought out, and so was the event they were holding where people could visit and enjoy the environment and buy the flowers right from the field….
Author: The Lord of The Manor
Scythe Work
Cut grass on the side of the road, and the long grass in the foreground. I only cut the first strip on the side for the day. I keep the fresh grass growing rather than cut and store it. I think it has been about ten or eleven years since I bought the scythe from…
Sinking Money into a Boat
In a desperate act of financial irresponsibility, I bought a used boat this weekend. It was only $1,500 as compared to the prices boats can reach, but it was also the fulfillment of a dream sparked many years ago when sailing off the coast of California with friends to the Anacapa Islands. I did it…
A Roman Workbench
On Wednesday I cut a four-inch-thick slice off the big pine log that has been sitting on the mill. I rotated it first from the single straight cut, putting that on the side of my resulting board, and also moving a split in the log to run parallel to my cut, assuring none of the…
Table Making in Cold June Days
Today was weird. It was chilly and very windy! Tomorrow is meant to get below freezing in the morning. If it does, this will be the latest we have had frost during the year. Our previous record since we moved to Idaho in 2012 was June 11th. We will beat that by a week. I…
Father’s Day 2024
Today was a surprise. I mean, I knew it was Father’s Day. It was reminded me two days ago. I didn’t realize it before that. So, I did somewhat figure there would be something going on today. But I got more gifts than I imagined, and I really enjoyed what was given me. Missus gave…
Three for the Mill, One for the Stove
We went out yesterday to get firewood again. We found the place organized and the long logs all laid out where they were actually easy to get to. We could not believe it. Someone put some real effort into the back quarter of the lot. I could even back up to the ends of many…
Some Vehicle Maintenance
Yesterday I changed the oil on the truck, charged the A/C on it, the little truck, and the tractor. I filled wiper fluids and checked brakes and so on. But the big adventure was putting the rear shocks on the big truck. You see, I was quoted $900 for low end shocks on the whole…
The Woodshop & A Firewood Day
My favorite place to be is in the woodshop. I could be cleaning up, figuring out there is no hood organization system in there, making shavings, or simply burning them. For me time, it is my own space. Today is Tuesday. We could not go get firewood yesterday, so we went out to get it…
More Work
More work? Yup! Today I sorted out the last of an electrical project that wanted doing. Now the electric to my wife’s little shop no longer goes from a plug in the workshop into her shop via a long cord. Instead, it goes from a new outlet on the wall of my workshop to the…