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Archive for November, 2006

winter time is coming

Posted: Thursday, November 30th, 2006 in nature and environment | 7 Comments »

Sleet started falling about 6 am here. Since then it has changed to snow, or what they call “winter mix” on the news. Our gravel road is white now. I’ll go out later and get some pictures once it builds up a little.
It’s interesting how quickly it has changed. […]

the essential earthman

Posted: Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 in reviews | 8 Comments »

I first came across the name of Henry Mitchell several years ago in some of the garden blogs I keep up with. He was a newspaper writer but I don’t think his columns were distributed out where I live. I never have been much of a newspaper reader so it’s altogether possible that […]

freezes

Posted: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006 in annoyances | 4 Comments »

We have two water systems here.
Inside the house we have co-op water. There are also two outside water faucets that dispense co-op water. One near the back door and another out by the road next to the water meter.
We also have a well, which feeds a dozen outside spigots and an animal […]

some assembly required

Posted: Thursday, November 16th, 2006 in home improvement | 6 Comments »

Today the studio floor was delivered, or at least the components thereof. So I guess you can figure out what we will be doing in the next few days.
Actually this is just the joists and the subfloor. We still haven’t picked out the actual flooring yet. Right now we are leaning toward […]

surveyors

Posted: Thursday, November 9th, 2006 in land stewardship | 4 Comments »

Okay, today we are going to locate the northeastern corner of our property.
Over on that side there is one corner of our property where I’ve never been quite certain about the exact boundary. The property line plunges down a cliff to the lakeshore and runs along the waterfront for 297 feet before coming back […]

 

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