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Post by steev on Jan 18, 2017 23:27:32 GMT -5
Nice fence, but working in the rain? Oh, I forgot how often I worked in the rain when I was your age; never mind; you'll get over it; warm and dry beats the hell out of cold and wet. That's about as much wisdom as age has brought me.
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Post by steev on Jan 19, 2017 0:01:28 GMT -5
Electric fences won't keep out moose. I've no idea what might, once saw one jump a 10 foot game fence from a trot, no effort at all. I think that must have been an impressively beautiful sight.; so many of our distant cousins are truly awesome. The elk around my farm could easily do 5', but seem uninterested in much more effort; they also pay little attention to electric fencing; they break through it and it's no longer of any importance, being inoperable.
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Post by farmermike on Jan 19, 2017 16:06:11 GMT -5
Nice fence, but working in the rain? Oh, I forgot how often I worked in the rain when I was your age; never mind; you'll get over it; warm and dry beats the hell out of cold and wet. That's about as much wisdom as age has brought me. I didn't want to do it, but I had been putting it off for weeks, and that was the only day I had the lumber, a decent crew, and child-care so I could be there to make sure it was done right.
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Post by steev on Jan 20, 2017 0:09:47 GMT -5
When the components come together is the time to "get 'er done"; so many of my projects are ruled by the confluence of materials, time, and labor.
Much of life is usefully viewed as chess: preparation toward the moment when it all flows to inevitable success.
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Post by steev on Jan 29, 2017 20:41:08 GMT -5
Got the last fallen fencing repaired; mulched, mulched, mulched.
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Post by Earl on Feb 2, 2017 20:25:45 GMT -5
fed chickens but then I do that every day
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Post by templeton on Feb 4, 2017 17:33:37 GMT -5
passata. Had to buy extra tomatoes tho. Bottled into 300ml beer bottles - just enough for our evening meals. Processing atm. T
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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 6, 2017 0:31:31 GMT -5
Well, the sprout house had fallen apart. It helped that some teenager shot bb's at the window. Leo spent most of the day getting it square and re-glazed. I had already started tomatoes and eggplants, so it had to be done. I spent the day wrestling with the composting toilet. It won.
Now I'm going to curl up with the seed porn catalogs. Nothing I need except Hollyhocks and kale. Templeton...yummm beer. It was on the list, but dropped off due to conflict. The men can't agree what to make. Rain again, so it was cioppino for supper with a nice toasty parm/olive bread. Alas, there was not a drop left for lunch tomorrow.
Goodnight Steev.
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Post by steev on Feb 10, 2017 4:57:36 GMT -5
What? You think I didn't just fall asleep at my computer?
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Post by reed on Feb 10, 2017 5:24:40 GMT -5
Firewood and fence posts will occupy my time next few days. Electric company is completely clearing their lines in anticipation of falling ash trees. I already got a load of chips and I asked the neighbor up the road about the part the cutters are leaving behind, he said take it all if I want. I'm guessing in the neighborhood of fifty nice locust posts plus probably five years of firewood. I'm going for the posts first as I already have tons of firewood. New fences, terrace edges and expanded chicken yard. The company is also replacing several poles and said I can have the old ones, I don't know if I even want to tackle that. I'm getting to old for this crap.
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Post by jocelyn on Feb 12, 2017 9:36:17 GMT -5
yes, i went out to feed and water the chickens too. We'll have a nice ommlet for lunch. it's cold, and we are under a blizzard warning, so anything has to be indoors today...since Friday actually, still digging out since Friday. Over the last few days I made nut butter, mostly Carpathian walnuts, some hazel nuts, a little hot melted butter so it wouldn't be crumbly, and a drizzle of oil so it would spread before the furnace kicked out some heat.
I like to sip my tea and eat my toast before splitting sticks for the fire.
I took a jar of seeds out of the fridge and dumped them on a flat of peat, lots with roots, so I buried them right end up....wait, what's that mystery seed, groan, another unlabeled seed. It's prunus, but what, apricot? Asian Plum? Pluot? Who knows, grin. Pears were labeled, and most are up, since Friday, I'm impressed.
I've got 5 new grafts on the kitchen table. All chestnuts. Got some elm scions in the fridge, they might have survived the DED, so I'll graft when I have a stock awake.
Cooked some beans, made Sloppy Joes and we ate them, have enough beans cooked to make I'm not sure what for supper.............
I should clean up the counters , peat and grit don't taste all that good, kneaded into bread. Gonna set a pan of bread shortly. I think I'll crack a jar of summertime for desert, humm, pears or peaches?
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Post by steev on Feb 12, 2017 21:15:00 GMT -5
Repaired or up-sized cages of some trees; planted narcissus I'd forgotten; mulched spuds; pruned suckers off pistachios; cleared weeds off sprouting bearded iris; cut dry asparagus stalks; cut lots of daffodils, the first crop of the year.
I've had so much idle time due to rain, the work had me so knackered I nearly fell asleep several times driving home.
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Post by reed on Feb 13, 2017 3:24:24 GMT -5
Trimmed 38 locust posts, some to eight foot, most to ten. Tumbled them end over end across an old fence to the road, got em loaded up and got em home. Went back for five loads of shorter chunks and scraps to become firewood later. Didn't get much of anything else done and this chore isn't done either, right now the yard looks like a logging yard. Would have much preferred to do this at a more measured pace but the R/W cleaners will be back today and locust as posts or firewood is a fairly high dollar commodity. I expect even the scraps I left will be gone by time I get home.
Knackered is as good a word as any I suppose.
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Post by steev on Feb 14, 2017 2:55:05 GMT -5
Got that term from a roomie from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; a knacker is a horse butcher; works for me when I'm thoroughly whipped.
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Post by rowan on Feb 14, 2017 3:16:25 GMT -5
Knackered is commonly used here when you are very tired.
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