Quick Saturday Post

It is almost March and we still have some firewood left.


Cutting barrel rings for a hoop house:

First Snow

Our first snow was pretty late this year; also very minimal coating. We usually get a pretty good snow by around Halloween. Our last four winters have been pretty intense and I've heard people say last winter was the best powder/ boarding/skiing season ever. So it makes sense we are getting a tame winter. Seems we are starting off winter true to the Farmer's Almanac's prediction of a drier and warmer one. Global warming is a hippie scam. Just pay attention to nature's cycles.

All In A Day's Work

This wood was cut, gathered, split (if needed) and stacked all today.

Woodshed Full

Five rows deep:

Wood Heat

 Split 'n' stack.

Firewood...

...heats  you twice so they say. But I think the guy who coined this one never really cut his/her own.

I say it heats you six times. Cutting, loading, splitting, stacking, bringing it inside and then when you burn it.

Fotos of What's Happening Here Now

current state of the compost bin:


logs with bucking stand:
 
 

new chainsaw.

still windy and dry yet we're sowing seeds..

purple carrots from the first planting:

Not using technology as much anymore...

...for these are simpler times indeed. wood burnin', bread bakin', soup makin', flu coughing and snow shovelin'. when the latter stops we are constructing our first cold-farme! seed catalogues are yet to arrive.

snow!!!

usually there is a nice view of the mountains from these windows...but today just snow...lots of it