Wintertime is beautiful and magical and all of that. I hide from it though. I am not an out in the cold kind of person. And try as I might, I end up shuttered up in the winters to stay warm and do inside things. But I don’t love the inside things as much as…
Dispatches From The Farm
The First Snow That Sticks
Every year around this time we get a snowfall that puts a base down for the winter and will not vanish off again till spring. That is likely what’s falling outside right now. Our youngest and I went out to walk the dogs early this evening and it was raining, and windy, with temps that…
Emptied the Trailer
Yesterday was momentous! I got the trailer hooked up to the truck and went down to the thrift store, only to remember then that the thrift store here is not open on a Monday. I wasn’t going to waste the time or the fuel, so I went over to the salvage yard and began sorting…
December 5th, 2021
Today we wrapped presents for Christmas and cleaned up that mess. Missus was up from 5Am and took a nap after we finished. That is when things took a slightly strange turn. I went out to change the gate from the old fence panel that was on the front of the pasture across the street…
Yard Rearrangement
Today was pretty warm for the second day of December. It was so nice that I went out and worked on rearranging the garden spaces to ready them for next year. If we are staying here, we are going to change some things around. one specific change will be to put a driveway around the…
We Took Down the Listing
Yesterday I went into town and took care of several errands, such as putting in a warranty request to get the clothes dryer fixed, and picking up my larger chainsaw from the shop where it is hopefully fixed now. I also stopped in to visit the estate agent, and have him remove the listing on…
Final Run Till Christmas!
With the Thanksgiving weekend over, we are on the final run till Christmas, then New Year’s, and the long drag through winter. In January the seed catalogues will begin to arrive, tempting us with plants to grow over the summer. Then when spring finally comes, we will be out from under the snow, and thawing…
I have not been turning as much lately, not because I don’t still love it. I absolutely do! Especially as I have been learning to control the tools, especially the skew, to dig into the wood and take full width bites out of it, and to quickly and confidently remove large amounts of waste with…
Weather Reporting Fault
The Weather Station is working just fine, but the computer that transfers the data from the station to the Internet reported a fault. There were clusters going bad on the drive, and it wanted me to replace the drive when I could. I ordered an SSD drive, and now I have to work out how…
Where Have I Been The Past Few Days?
Over the last couple of days I have been focused on making sure of the girls in their home schooling, and generally either hiding from the rain on rainy days, or splitting up some of the firewood on sunny ones. I have given the lathe a break while I wait for a part I buggered…