Monday, April 7, 2014

Day 1; 4-6-2014; 8:04 PM

Well very long day, but well worth every minute.  To start, the wonderful piles of snow that do not seem to want to melt, is causing for a very muddy entry to our land. So in time a trench system with a small drive over bridge will have to be made.  That aside we got some stuff done today.  Below is a picture to where the driveway will be to our land.

Some clearing will need to be done for sure but there is more fun to be had a ways back and I wanted to start there.  So with my orange camo hat to keep my bald head from burning in the sun, I started to cut some trees.

(My son Evan was taking this picture, the chainsaw is not on of course for safety reasons.)
We got a great amount of trees cut down before I weighed the risk of the deep “snow holes,” causing me to feel unsafe while cutting some bigger trees.



Way more work to be done but we made the most out of the time we had.  When we got home we completed another major on take of our new lifestyle and that is the planting of our food.

This is my daughter’s favorite thing to do.  To be honest I think she will be the one to help us the most.  Saturday her and I spent a good hour making a netted ramp/laying area for some of our chickens and she had some great ideas to make it better, which we did and it works very well.  All of the plants seen here she planted with our help.  We gave both of the boys the option to help us as well and they declined in order to play video games.

For some of our followers you may remember a childhood story of a hen that traveled along asking for help getting things to make something and no one would help her accept one friend.  At the end of the story the rest of the hen’s friends found out she was making apple pie and that they never helped so they could not have any.  (That is the original story, the new one she still shares.) Either ending the lesson was learned.

The boys will learn they need to work for their food as well and when we move to having very little power they also will have no option. For now they know the time is limited and they want to get in every minute until it ends.  Play outside and work on the land until the “chow bell” is rung will be the new way of life.


Back to my job tomorrow perhaps and pushing on through the week.  First day of work is done and now it is time for rest!
~~Jeff L.

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