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Winter Will Be Here Before We’re Ready
It has continued to be a wet wet Fall. If we get a whole dry week we’re very lucky. As a result, our driveway is HORRIBLE right now. Some of the potholes are crazy deep. We’ve been walking out just to save it the extra damage. We’re going to have to look at having it…
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Rainy Holidays Can Still Be Productive
The tail end of Hurricane Iseias is causing a bit of a disturbance in our area. Moderately windy, somewhat wet. But it’s a husband-isnt-at-work day, which means we need to try to get some stuff done. Because the weather was coming in, we planned ahead to work in the greenhouse. Since we finished the structure…
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Big Updates Because I Forgot I Write a Blog..
July was a while ago. It’s been one of those summers where it feels like nothing gets done, but looking at the last post I made, more has been done than it would appear. The compost bins have been built. Half of them, anyway. There will be another line of 3 facing these ones. All…
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Wet, Hot, Sweaty
Since the foundation was poured last month it has mostly not stopped raining for more than a day or two at a time. This means that I have not been able to have the logs hauled in yet, as the driveway has been a bit of a mess. It has also been extremely hot. We’ve…
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Giant Leaps
Some progress feels small. Other progress is emotionally huge. Thi past week has been one of the bigger kind. Late last week, the prep work was done for our foundation: forms, gravel, plastic, foam insulation, rebar, remesh, drain. That took a few days due to breakdowns and other sundry small difficulties. We ended up needing…
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Small Progresses
Ask any homesteader; they’ll tell you that every single project takes longer and/or costs more than anticipated. Usualy both. In the Do-Everything-Yourself world that is shoestring homesteading, even small projects can end up taking a long long time. Last summer, I started building an Amish-style off-grid manual washing machine. I expected the project to take…
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Some Weeks are Hard
We lost our dog this week. That is always one of the hardest days you can face. Especially when it is unexpected. She started showing symptoms last week. At first, they thought rat poison, but the test for that was negative. The blood markers pointed to an autoimmune disorder, so treatment was begun for that.…
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Back in The Swing
Winter has finally decided to go away. Slowly and reluctantly, and it keeps coming back in to yell “And another thing!” before flouncing back out again and slamming the door. It’s been a long slow winter and outside of the everyday type doings, nothing much has hapened. That is no longer true, though. I’m back…
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Hibernation Mode
I am not a winter person. I don’t like the cold, I don’t like the snow. I don’t like the lack of garden. I don’t like not being able to accomplish things. But, I live in Atlantic Canada where the air hurts my face 6 months out of the year, so I should be used…
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Minor Accomplishments
Winter started weirdly here. It was seven degrees above freezing and then it was suddenly minus thirty. And snowed. And stayed gross. And today, it is five above freezing, it rained this morning, and we’ve actually had sunshine. There hasnt been much of that in the last month. I took the opportunity of the thaw…
