Farm Make Over
New Fence, New Bridge,
Getting ‘round in the muck in spring. Well not just spring, autumn and winter as well. Not even just autumn, winter and spring but the first and last months of summer. Okay, maybe that is a bit of exaggeration, but only barely. It is hard living on soft soil at the head waters of a … Continue reading
Tree Planting
Gathering up potted trees from around the house and outbuildings and taking them out to the Highway Hedgerow. So how come trees along the highway fence line? Trees are assets, like tools on a farm. First off, trees drink a lot of water. We have a lot of water. We already … Continue reading
Highway Hedgerow
Changes were mulled over, consequences – benefits and detriments – weighed and now the time has come, the plans have been made, fence removed. Well almost the fence is removed. Three-fourths is out of the bindy mess of grass and dirt. We are workin’ on it. What fence? Why? What the heck is goin’ on? … Continue reading
My Life is a Laura Numeroff Book
I’ve been trying to change some habits. One of them is the habit of sticking things in the back pockets of my work jeans. When I wear my rain pants over my jeans it makes it hard to access the whatever that I stuck in my pocket. Stabbing pains taught me long ago not to … Continue reading
Sunday Not-Work Work
Oh my, what a day yesterday! I wanted to work on the neglected back yard a bit. It will soon be summer and the backyard and other purely ornamental areas will be in nearly irredeemable disarray. (Yes, for some places in the yard and house summer gets here in a flash, if I’m not careful.) So to … Continue reading
Damages and Images: Part Two, Clean Up Begins
Continued from yesterday morning Since I have been in earth moving mode and knowing I need a decent parking place for visitors to the Farm and Market Shed I tackled the parking area yesterday (Tuesday). Removing all the peat like top soil, smoothing out the naked clay layer, ready for some foundational fill dirt … Continue reading
Damages and Images: Part One, the Wonder and the Havoc
Three weeks ago, on January seventeenth, the whole of the Pacific Northwest received a large dumping of snow overnight, on top of a fairly typical earlier snowing, short lived and melty, on the fifteenth and sixteenth. Nearly as soon as we woke up on the eighteenth and were … Continue reading
Sanguine
A word mostly used to describe a personality type these days, but its origin is “of blood”. Which is what I most often identify the word with because of my earlier days as a nursing student and then a nurse, making chart notations about sanguineous fluids. Blood. It was my choice for the header challenge … Continue reading
I’m Pretty Sure God Had Fun
As you know Dear Reader from a previous post, I gave up on using the five-gallons-in-three-seconds water pump. Instead, Bet and I dug the trans-continental ditch from Midway Pond to West Pond, in order to help drain Market Garden into Hedge Pond. From Here to There, Uh, Where? To get a sense of the lay … Continue reading
The First Hint of Deep Summer
Dirt is on vacation this week so we’ve been a bit loungy in the morning. Monday morning when I got my coffee and came back to my wonderful new room (it will be new for a long time Dear Reader), I slid my big window open so I could hear all the sounds of the … Continue reading
