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Humorous farm diversions
We took a break this week from our big project to work on a smaller, cute, fun project: a portable chicken house! We can’t actually bring any chickens onto the property until we live out there, but we felt inspired … Continue reading
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Sunny days …
Yesterday’s lunch break proved delightful: After a winter of working outside in nasty weather, we welcomed the change! Hoorah for spring!
Late winter woes; early spring joys
This last week, not so unusually, was full of ups and downs. Saying something along those lines is beginning to feel cliché around here, but it so accurately describes most weeks with us these days. Either way, the ups and … Continue reading
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We’re farming again!
… and this time on our own permanent farm home! The house building has been temporarily put on the back burner these last few weeks as we spent more time setting up infrastructure for our 2007 farm season: re-building our … Continue reading
More on the house (exterior progress photos!)
You know it’s time to post on the blog again when people start asking. I guess we’re in the middle of a fairly interesting project, so it’s not that surprising that people want to see the house progress. But of … Continue reading
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Cute alert! Baby animals!
Yesterday we had a less than satisfactory day. Overall, our productivity was low. Maybe it was because we were still recovering from our weeklong building sprint. Maybe it was because the snowy weather slowed us down. Either way, we drove … Continue reading
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A house! (long post w/lots of photos)
First of all, I apologize that we’ve waited so long to update the house building process. We left you all hanging last week with a statement of ‘the building begins tomorrow’ and then didn’t update again until now. What a … Continue reading
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The concrete work is done!
I am amazed at how time spent working on big projects can move so quickly yet feel so packed with events as well. It is time compressed. Super compressed. This week ‘we’ did all the important concrete work for our … Continue reading
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And we’ve begun!
This morning the excavator came out to our site to begin our house! The operator was so skilled, and our house is going to be so small, that the digging took him about one hour. Wow: While he was … Continue reading
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Planting a hedgerow
The last two days we’ve spent a few hours out at the new land working on various things: getting the building site cleared (we break ground tomorrow!) and ‘planting’ the beginning of a hedgerow along the west side of our … Continue reading
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