This year I didn’t want to take any chances, so we bought 10 cords. Once stacked it will run the length of the garage, in a pile as high as t! can reach and three rows deep. I won’t be doing all the stacking myself, though it’s nice to know I could if I needed to.
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Today I am stacking firewood
Posted in dear diary, green living, homesteading, wheel of the year, tagged face cord, firewood, heat stove on Friday, August 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Kitten!
Posted in dear diary on Monday, September 20, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I would like to introduce the newest member of our household: He’s about 11 weeks old, and we got him via a “Kittens free to a good home” ad in our local online agricultural newsletter. He’s playful, curious, fearless, exceedingly social, and cuddly. Everything a good kitten should be. We’ve had him almost 3 days. He [...]
Triumph!
Posted in community, cooking, dear diary, homesteading on Saturday, September 4, 2010 | 12 Comments »
I won two Second Place ribbons at the Stormont County Fair! One for my zucchini loaf with raisins: I am particularly pleased with this one because it’s my own recipe, not one from a book or website. And one for my peanut butter cookies: One of the judges congratulated me particularly on this placing because, [...]
Perfect day
Posted in Carter, dear diary on Sunday, January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday was a just-about-perfect day: We spent the morning at the Farmer’s Market, catching up with our friends and buying yummy organic food from them We spent the afternoon snowshoeing in the fields behind the house with our dog We spent the evening (and well into the night!) playing cards with our neighbours, the dairy [...]
For HRH
Posted in dear diary on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Front Yard Back Field Coop
First Egg
Posted in chickens, dear diary, homesteading on Friday, November 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This morning when I went out to let the chickens out of the coop into their run, like I do every morning around 10:30 or 11 am, I found our first egg sitting in the sawdust on the floor of the coop! It was all I could do not to race back to the house [...]
A day in the life of a modern homesteader
Posted in chickens, cooking, dear diary, homesteading, knitting on Friday, October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wake up, drink tea. Check email. Take the dog for a 4.5k jog. My neighbors wave at us as they slow down to drive by on the gravel roads. It’s -0.5°C when we leave the house and +0.7°C when we get back. Change into work clothes. Put on a load of laundry. Disinfect kitchen worksurfaces, [...]
Red in tooth and claw
Posted in chickens, dear diary, homesteading, wheel of the year on Monday, October 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We slaughtered, plucked, dressed and wrapped our first chicken today. It took 4.5 hours start-to-finish. There will be a photo essay once we have… ahem… refined the process somewhat. Important notes: 1. Starve the chickens for 24 hours prior to slaughter. 2. Cut the entire head off to make sure it bleeds out properly. 3. [...]
Milestones
Posted in dear diary, PSA on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In a month’s time, I turn 40. I’ve spent the last 9 years not paying too much attention to my age, nor doing very much to mark the passing years, but turning 40 seems significant, somehow. I’ve got a vague inkling of an idea of something I might want to do to mark this birthday, [...]
How doth the little busy bee…
Posted in dear diary on Monday, September 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Trying to catch up a little on many things, blogging included: t! finished his contract working in Montreal, and started a new one working from home. Schedules & stuff are a little up-in-the-air as a result. Having someone else walk the dog most afternoons is awesome. My dad had surgery to implant a feeding tube [...]
