Contentedness > happiness. Hügelkultur, lifting rocks, reducing waste stream, keep shopping local, and watching electrochemistry at work.

In what ways does hard work make you feel fulfilled? Need details? Link. Physio helped my shoulder. Now, for cardio! This bypass will allow rental GEN to be installed if SHTF. PN can wait until DE’s tutorial. Roof array. Ground array. Non-tracking! I’m betting on it giving users real-time BATT monitoring. I’m damn sure Rydell … Continue reading Contentedness > happiness. Hügelkultur, lifting rocks, reducing waste stream, keep shopping local, and watching electrochemistry at work.

Paul’s answer: my post-career health

Time to get on the farm, before the Fall heat.

List 30 things that make you happy. And these items are in no particular order (at least as of 11:15 a.m.)… House panthers; domesticated wolves; full-tang cutlery; hovering mid-water column; polishing hardwood; October Black (spouse); chess pieces; getting into the right headspace; a singing ulu as it comes out of its sheath; mynoise.net … Aural … Continue reading

Image of future BCB&B site.

4 weeks of harvesting, logging, and chipping…

…leads to a roughed-in build site! See the attached images, eh. Revision: Ah. So THAT’S how one inserts images. Oy. After 4 weeks of forestry, TS & PN roughed out the future build-site. PN & TS’s build-site is on the other side of the rock outcrop (that is on the left side of the image). … Continue reading 4 weeks of harvesting, logging, and chipping…

Hardwood is…

…well, hard. A grove of slow-growing oak, maple, and ironwood (yes, that’s a real Ontario tree [I’m using this tree atlas to identify my plants])… are challenging me. I thought I would be able to sharpen my saw’s chain every 3 days. Nope. The chain skates on the media! Daily sharpening. Daily! I won’t be … Continue reading Hardwood is…

Anybody have a portable sawmill?

I’m (PN) a self-proclaimed weekend warrior, gentleman forester, and a (safety-conscious) goofball with a chainsaw. I don’t want to chop these up for firewood. Can it be milled? I don’t expect anything sellable or fancy.