As if we didn’t have enough to do, an unseasonable blast of arctic weather has complicated matters here on the farm. We still have 50 broiler chickens on pasture that we had planned to begin processing this week. But we can’t run our chicken plucker when temperatures fall below freezing. On Friday we woke up […]
We have to light a new fire in our wood stove each morning during the heating season. That means lot of kindling. Fortunately, it only takes a few hours to split months worth of kindling with the hatchet. When we stack our firewood, we set aside good candidates for kindling. Then I sit down to […]
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If you have firewood delivered, somebody’s got to stack it. We had more than two cords of wood sitting in a pile in the back yard. A couple of hours later, we had a good chunk of that neatly stashed for the cold months ahead. In the process, my wife was stung on the wrist […]
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