We finally had our first (and hopefully last) stretch of bad weather this winter. It started with a good shower of ice pellets, followed by sleet, followed with temperatures in the teens. The next day brought an inch or so of real snow and single-digit temperatures. All of which caused school closures all week for […]
We are ready to get our bees! Loren has cut and milled the cedar boards and we have about a month to get our top bar hive built. We’ll keep you posted, so *bee* looking for our updates!
We picked up another load of horse manure to mix in with our own less-than-ideal “soil” to fill the new garden beds. We will top the beds off with some organic garden soil and a layer of mulch, and then let them sit for a couple of months until we’re ready to plant.
“Reading a book doesn’t just mean turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas. There’s no point in reading a book if you let it pass before your eyes and then forget about it
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“In ancient Rome, the poet Juvenal used the phrase bread and circuses to describe the political strategy of a number of corrupt Roman emperors. To keep the populace happy and to distract them from foreign and domestic policy failures, these emperors provided cheap daily bread and frequent circuses—mainly gladiatorial contests and other riveting games. According
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We can finally keep the rain off the front door now that the front porch overhang is done. My dad came over and helped put the metal roof on after this picture was taken. Coco got to explore the cabin roof for a few days before we installed the metal roof on the new front
We needed a woodshed built quickly since we just installed a wood stove. We have quite a bit of fire wood cut and stacked under tarps, but it wasn’t close to the house or split very well. The flooring and wall lumber was milled with the Alaskan chainsaw mill. Ben and I split the cedar