Winter

The last four months in a nutshell:

new ceiling fan helping us heat our house with just the wood stove (second year now without any other heat sources!

home sweet home:

two things we need...

...to get the 2010 growing season going:

#1) a replacement pump head for the broken pump we currently have.

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.

keepin' it local

not only is our main heat source, wood harvested from the very local five acres we live on, but our dogs have been on a local, raw, and organic diet for longer than i can remember.

manure is good for plants

alpacas are funny, curious creaturesyoung ones:

Planting Garlic

we are still alive

just to update after almost a month, we had a few out of town visitors and have been very busy around here. almost ready for next season, wood shed is half full. and everyday that it's nice enough i continue to get loads of wood up to the house. this might be the year i get all the dead trees cleared up.

getting stuff done, ready for winter

truck emptied, next i am gonna put up plywood inside the walls, hang tools of it/ protect the metal a little.
just a few logs still needing to be bucked:

pest management

future greenhouse/ coldframe:
got these two double-pane french doors on freecycle and have two more coming my way. that is already a twelve foot long panel/wall eight feet high. should grow some tasty winter tomatoes. or whatever we decide to do with it.

canning salsa

canning pot:

king harvest has surely come

house in fall:

building stuff..

nice first harvest of corn: