Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Quick update

I have several ideas for actual blog posts jostling around in my head and no time to write/upload them due to the fact that I have been swamped with work on and off the farm, *no way*, so this will have to do for now.

Possible future topics:
Buy-local Philosophy
Composting *Feels the readers' excitement. woo.*
Timber Framing: multi-generational agrarianism
Rotational Grazing
100% Grass-fed Dairying
Milk Stanchions

Stay tuned, because I will likely scrap all of these topics and blog about something totally different.

Anyhow, here is what's been going on in the life of this farmer:

  1. Garden prep: tilling, compost hauling, soil blocks.
  2. House construction: trim, siding, caulking *oh yeah* 
  3. Timber frame construction: cutting, raising
  4. Disassembling timber frame "temporary" bracing: Ring-shank nails + seasoned white oak = disaster.
  5. Cross fencing dairy pasture: hopefully this will maximize chore efficiency
  6. Cleaning up the shop: still looks like a tool-bomb went off.
  7. Getting over a broken finger and shoulder injury: *figures*
  8. Training Hoss...the ever loyal but sometimes pesky Great Pyrenees
On the agenda for tomorrow and the next day is....dun dun dun duuunnnn...off-farm electrical work.

I guess that's a wrap.