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…
Dispatches From The Farm
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…
So Busy
The past little while has been pretty busy here on the farm as we have been getting ready to open Missus’s little shop out front of the house. The spring weather has continued to be pleasant, though yesterday and today it cooled down, especially in the mornings, and we put a fire in the stove…
Preparing the Herb Garden, 2024
One of the boys and I went down to the woodyard on Monday to pick up some firewood and a couple of saw logs. There were a lot of new piles in the dump suggesting that it is cutting season for the tree trimmers. This time it went really well, and we got two big…
First Wood Collection of the Year
Things have been busy around here on the old farm lately. I have been doing some cleaning out in the yard to get ready for the season. I also got fed up with the grass at the front of the house, and how the land leans and keeps water too close, so I got into…
Chores and Errands on Wednesday
Yesterday (Wednesday) was busy with errands and some cleaning and some paperwork here on the farm. I had to run into town to get copies of a couple of receipts and pick up a couple of things at the store. Finally, I ran down to the thrift store in Smithfield and picked up an auction…
The Last Tuesday of March, ’24
The garbage bins did not get picked up on Friday, and I did not want to let them sit another day as they were full, so I loaded them into the trailer along with the aluminum cans and any other rubbish that I could fine about and readied the trailer for a trip to the…
What to do on a Wednesday
Yesterday Missus had us down to town to pick up some supplies she needed for the Artist’s business. We also went to see a couple of cars on the used market. I did my chores when we got home then put the five-foot log from the log stack onto the sawmill. I kept that simple…
March Has Arrived, Spring Comes Soon!
It is snowing lightly today, and too cold to be outside for just about anything unless it is urgent or necessary. This morning one of the kids messaged and asked if he could come down and use our driveway to change his oil. He said the car was running funny and he thought it might…
It Stands to Reason
It was only this morning that I decided to break my temporary silence on the blog and complain about the warm weather we have been having, and the fact there has been so little snowfall. Apparently, I should have looked at the weather app, or at least out the window. I am just back in…