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.

3 comments:

  1. Can't wait to see what you decide to post about! :D It's neat to be able to see a little bit of what farm life is like through your blog- it seriously looks like ALOT of work. But it'd probabaly be better if you didn't post about composting.. just for the record. *laughs*

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  2. You should wait until next February 15th to post about compost. That's National Stop to Smell Your Compost Pile Day, ya know. *nods*

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  3. Oo, I do hope you get to the grass-dairying, and stanchions posts. :)

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