Winter
Raising Grain
Did you read that as raising cain, Dear Reader? Well usually, I am, but today it’s just grain. Yup, I’m off on another horticulture adventure. This time I’m attempting to be a grain grower. Today was the big shove off, the bon voyage party happened. 3 – 160 sq. ft beds planted, one to barley, … Continue reading
Winter Knitting
I just now used this potholder. It was knitted up this last month and I was fairly disappointed in the design so it just sat by my knitting waiting to undergo scrutiny on what all needs to be changed. But just now I needed to grab the tea kettle off of the wood stove and … 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
