Composting

A buddy of mine posted this article on composting. I’ve seen her barrel composter and tidy veggie garden and I’m inspired to find a spot for eatables in my own yard. I’m beginning now, in these dreary weeks, by collecting leaves. I feel that composting is an essential step for raising food producing plants which need more fuel and maintenance [...]

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14 days till…

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Finishing the Wall

Of corse we had to wait until the weekend before Thanks Giving to finish the dry stack stone retaining wall. We hosted this year, and it only makes sense to save up all the work for the last minute. Amazingly we finished without bloodshed. Neither did we hurt ourselves or each other.

This last bit, took [...]

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My dogs ate fly bait

I suppose it was irresistible to them, a smell even more tantalizing than dirty socks. They gave me a look like, why don’t you train us with this, it tastes like heaven. This one remaining trap must have blown off the top of the backers rack and into the yard in all this wind. I picked up the trap pieces and the leaves [...]

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Finally hiked Enchanted Rock

All the way to the top.

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