Soil science and protecting our biodiverse property.
Tag: soil-production
Coffee. Tea. Coffee + Chocolate.
Daily writing promptWhat is your favorite drink?View all responses I'm a simple human. Coca? Tea leaves? Caffeine? Turbinado sugar (for coffee)? White sugar (for tea)? Yep! Infrared Critter Cam, Rabbit! Infrared Critter Cam, Fox! {{Click on the night-image to view details; the fox showed up when it was cold; the same rodent checked out the … Continue reading Coffee. Tea. Coffee + Chocolate.
The adventures of a technophile, gentleman forester, aspiring divemaster, and cat fancier.
Daily writing promptIf there was a biography about you, what would the title be?View all responses . This writing prompt took a couple of days to work on. I know what TS' bio would be titled, "Oy, Fuck"... that's what she mutters a lot as we tromp through our woodlot. Me, with my daddy-longlegs... I … Continue reading The adventures of a technophile, gentleman forester, aspiring divemaster, and cat fancier.
Snowshoe-ing! Pet grooming! Woodlot hiking! Gardening!
Bloganuary writing promptWhat are your favorite sports to watch and play?View all responses TS and I verbify team-sports... just like how it's done on the (occasionally NSFW) internet cartoon, The Oatmeal. Sportsing. Or, sportzing (i.e., I sportz. You sportz. We are not sportzing). I grew up immersed in hockey, elementary school volleyball, and navy cadets. … Continue reading Snowshoe-ing! Pet grooming! Woodlot hiking! Gardening!
Puttering. Strolling. Meditating. Sharpening. Cat Shnorggling.
Bloganuary writing promptList five things you do for fun.View all responses PUTTERING. I cannot let good-enough alone. If I can mess around with electronics, plumbing, woodworking, home electrical, workshop organization, handtool maintentance... then I will find time to do it. When I was still working in school boards, that meant setting up science labs with … Continue reading Puttering. Strolling. Meditating. Sharpening. Cat Shnorggling.
We’ve got a rental!
We have an interim place to live!
Paul’s answer: my post-career health
Time to get on the farm, before the Fall heat.
Annotatingly-obsessed. That’s how I’m feeling right now.
How are you feeling right now?
If I want to (gently) alarm my spouse, I share my (Wikipedia) browsing history with her.
our build progression
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
Now. NOW it’s becoming less virtual…
…and a helluva a lot more real! TS & PN visited the build-site. Evolve Builders, we appreciated the tour. And Design Electrical (Owen Sound), you impressed us… again. PN took this image… (from the same POV we took from the ATV, bush buggy, saws).
Happy December 25th!
PN is grateful that TS is recovering so well post knee-surgery. TS is becoming an Fe-womyn with all of those various (borderline sadistic) physiotherapeutic exercises (Gus [from the clinic], if you're reading this, I don't know whether to thank you or curse you). While I want to spend a week at the site (during our … Continue reading Happy December 25th!
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…
Juvenile rattlesnake said…
…hey! Back off. So we did. 4 hummingbirds found our forest feeder and are now having a turf war over the bloody thing. A humourus 12 minute description of our feathered fiends (not friends). And a safety PSA for Mountain Trout Camp. 🤨 Lumber update: I’m chopping straight lengths of oak & maple (~5-6’ blocks) … Continue reading Juvenile rattlesnake said…
TS – 1 … Black Bear – 0
TS had her first black bear encounter this afternoon (at about 3 p.m.). I was splitting firewood up at the parking lot. TS was shredding branches (~150-200m away from me). While I was banging logs apart, I heard someone swear(?) and started blasting on our canned-air horn. A lot. I hopped on the ATV and … Continue reading TS – 1 … Black Bear – 0
I had to be reminded…
…that green branches and fresh leaves play holy hell with small chippers & shredders. I blocked up the mechanism 3 times before I walked away from it in disgust (TS is more savvy than me about the unit… I end up jamming branches and stuff into the hopper… and look like Wile E. Coyote on … Continue reading I had to be reminded…
Tomorrow… we chip!
TS & I were able to get back into the zone while clearing the build-site. Yesterday, TS was able to rough-out the new ATV trail from the build-site to her soil-operation. Me? I just smashed and crashed my way hither-and-dither using our Polaris! I strung a trail-line from our starting point to the soil-operation. This … Continue reading Tomorrow… we chip!
Preparing to return…
...to the bush. I'm optimistic we learned a few lessons from our last session. We'll have to DIY our own bush-buggy-platform for the wood chipper. King City Trailers gave us good advice, had SOME stock, but couldn't sell us a ready-made option. Still, I'd recommend them to you. Meh... we're planning on pushing another ATV … Continue reading Preparing to return…
I only have 6GB of media storage, so I’ll add/remove items as our efforts progress. PN.
We’re finishing up our 1st work-session…
…on the future build site, septic field, and (hopefully before the new year), a well. Let’s harvest the biomass before the bulldozers clear this area. Evolve Builders is our contractor, so we are able to reduce our overall woodlot impact. Our foundations will be going in where the clearing is - about 15-20 paces from … Continue reading We’re finishing up our 1st work-session…
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