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eorVLDL are doing a series of skits to raise awareness of mental illness. They have humor and heart. Check them out if you haven't seen them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8if3TZJfcY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WApC4vJL9Dw
Then you can watch all the other VLDL videos, because "It's a nice day for fishin' ain't it!"
It was a moderately productive weekend, which means I was productive for about 1/3 of the time. Spring is definitely in the air. It rained all day on Saturday and we have snow and ice only in a few spots. One of those spots is the garden, which bears a close resemblance to a hockey rink.
On Sunday I got the last of the firewood out of the garden shed. It will probably take me through the next two weeks for heating and in two weeks there won't be much heating left to do. I'm trying to run the stove enough to keep the oil from coming on at during the night. Haven't made it through the whole night yet, but the furnace is definitely running less.
The ground was in that weird state were the very surface was mush, but half and inch down it was frozen hard as a rock. Like walking on a ledge which squishes.
A week ago I cut down four or five small trees. They were all either dead or dying and had been on my list last year. They are small, so in all they probably won't make a week of heating fuel. On Sunday I got the pile separated into twigs and small limbs. The small limbs will be cut with the chain saw and stacked. The twigs will be clipped and bundled for fire starter. There is not much on a tree we don't use. All the twigs are now in the barn ready for clipping. It might take a couple more sessions to get those finished up. The limbs will be quicker, there might be an hour of cutting and stacking there.
There is a big rotten tree up in the forest which has to come down. I noticed it last year, but didn't want to deal with it. Now it is leaning against the tree next to it and in the wrong direction (toward the neighbors yard). I have to get a rope on it and lean it back toward the nearby clearing. Maybe I'll get lucky and it will be willing to fall from the pulling, but I'll probably have to get near it with the chainsaw. That will take patience and ambition and derien doesn't want me doing it when she's not around. It has been dead for a while so I don't think there will be any good wood in it, just food for worms and mushrooms in ten years or so.
Saw some plants just starting to sprout in the sunny spots! I'm not going to have a garden this year, honest. Except for the garlic which went in last fall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8if3TZJfcY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WApC4vJL9Dw
Then you can watch all the other VLDL videos, because "It's a nice day for fishin' ain't it!"
It was a moderately productive weekend, which means I was productive for about 1/3 of the time. Spring is definitely in the air. It rained all day on Saturday and we have snow and ice only in a few spots. One of those spots is the garden, which bears a close resemblance to a hockey rink.
On Sunday I got the last of the firewood out of the garden shed. It will probably take me through the next two weeks for heating and in two weeks there won't be much heating left to do. I'm trying to run the stove enough to keep the oil from coming on at during the night. Haven't made it through the whole night yet, but the furnace is definitely running less.
The ground was in that weird state were the very surface was mush, but half and inch down it was frozen hard as a rock. Like walking on a ledge which squishes.
A week ago I cut down four or five small trees. They were all either dead or dying and had been on my list last year. They are small, so in all they probably won't make a week of heating fuel. On Sunday I got the pile separated into twigs and small limbs. The small limbs will be cut with the chain saw and stacked. The twigs will be clipped and bundled for fire starter. There is not much on a tree we don't use. All the twigs are now in the barn ready for clipping. It might take a couple more sessions to get those finished up. The limbs will be quicker, there might be an hour of cutting and stacking there.
There is a big rotten tree up in the forest which has to come down. I noticed it last year, but didn't want to deal with it. Now it is leaning against the tree next to it and in the wrong direction (toward the neighbors yard). I have to get a rope on it and lean it back toward the nearby clearing. Maybe I'll get lucky and it will be willing to fall from the pulling, but I'll probably have to get near it with the chainsaw. That will take patience and ambition and derien doesn't want me doing it when she's not around. It has been dead for a while so I don't think there will be any good wood in it, just food for worms and mushrooms in ten years or so.
Saw some plants just starting to sprout in the sunny spots! I'm not going to have a garden this year, honest. Except for the garlic which went in last fall.
