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Horsing around
January 26, 2016 I spent most of today at my buddy Marvin’s farm. We were working on a new sap sled for me. It is a new style for us, but tried and true on several farms. It has a long tail. It is designed so as to take the…
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What’s a Guy To Do?
January 22, 2016 It’s cold and snowy outside. I have my chores done. I have been a bit cooped up these last few days. Yes, there is plenty to do, but I am enjoying being forced inside a little bit. I caught up on some reading. I got ahead on…
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Homemade Ham
January 18, 2016 Winter is whooping our butts right now. The snow is over my boots on the flat and up past my hips where it has drifted. Not bad for a storm that rolled in yesterday afternoon…when the ground was bare! Last week we got a day or two…
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Let the Machine Do It
December 7, 2015 Well, here is a little work waiting for me. This is the accumulation of four large soft maple trees from a friend’s yard. The condition of the trees, made them candidates for removal. All four of them are between three and four feet thick. I am grateful…
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Coffee and a Book!
November 19, 2015 What a great week this has been! First my book came out and yesterday, I learned the secret to percolating coffee. I find myself humbled by both events! It is kind of funny how both things go together; Both of them took over twenty-five years to come to…
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Coffee Time
November 18, 2015 This morning, after 25 years of making coffee wrong, I made the best coffee ever. I enjoy a good cup of perked coffee. I thought that I knew exactly how my mother made it. I was wrong… I “Googled it”. Turns out you don’t have to boil…
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Today’s Project
December 28, 2014 Instead of working on firewood this weekend, I got the hams and bacons from our recent butchering into the smokehouse. They have been brining in a mixture of salt and brown sugar for a week. Today, I smoked them with hickory wood. It took all day, but…
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Still Chewing Away!
December 11, 2014 Little by little and piece by piece I am getting this tree made into firewood for the sugarhouse. After almost six straight days of work and eighteen large sled loads of wood, I have only just begun to make a dent in the job. It is almost…
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Hickory Nuts and Ear Corn
October 15, 2014 Our gilts are out on a wooded pasture with a boar. They are enjoying freedom, hickory nuts and ear corn. I guess they must be enjoying each other too, because I see the incriminating hoof marks on their backs…and that is a very good thing! The pasture…
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Baled out!
October 11, 2014 The big round bales are all small square ones now. The mow is mostly full and I am very pleased to have this job done for another year. My kids and grandkids and several friends, over the last three days, came to my aid and … baled…
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