Nickel Farm

Kale is unquestionably the most nutritious food on the planet and is the chief ingredient in my green smoothies. It sometimes will live all the through the winter.

There’s a chill in the air so I am getting my wood pile built up in the garage. My son-in-law brings me a pickup load every time he visits. Hooray!

The rough graded irrigation pond will eventually be lined with pond liner and supply water to underground greenhouses (walipinis) during the winter when the irrigation water is turned off. Would not be surprised if someone doesn’t “accidently” fall into the pond on a hot summer day.

Finally got all the glass panels installed in the Sun Room. Still need to add wood trim to the windows and install glass sliders. Hope to have a warm, sunny place to eat breakfast this coming winter!

I am glad I came to the city yesterday because we got a pretty good snowstorm last night.  Spent a few hours shoveling snow off my daughter, Amy’s walks and driveway.  I hauled some of the snow in a dumpster to construct a sled run for my grandkids.

Eight inches of glorious snow fell last night and more is expected today and tonight.  Glad I was finally able to complete my sawing project late yesterday and get the wood around to the front.  Can’t chance hauling it to the shed so will find a place for it in the garage.  I cleaned and rearranged the garage to accommodate the firewood, unloaded it, then headed to the city for the weekend.

Spent a good part of the day sawing up some of the logs I hauled Wednesday. I have great respect for the danger of a chainsaw so take great precaution when handling it. Late in the day, I took down about a hundred feet of chain-link fence along the western boundary in preparation for grading in the spring. I also needed to get access to the pile of broken concrete I plan to haul to the dump tomorrow.

Hooray, only one month until spring!  Spent the day gathering firewood on a neighbor’s lot.  He had a lot of dead quakies (quaking aspen) that he wanted removed so I started the project this morning.  As I was standing there in the snow, with the sun on my back and a chainsaw in my hand, I thought, “this is GREAT, I love my life.  I am doing exactly what I wish to be doing at this very moment”.  I took a chance on getting stuck by pulling my trusty utility trailer through some deeper snow in order to get closer to the fifteen-foot long logs I had cut up.  They stuck way out of my seven foot long trailer but the front wheel drive on my little red Camry got me out to pavement just fine.

When I awoke this morning, the weather was clear but had turned cloudy by 10:00.  Since I left my large tarp at home, I am hoping to get back home before having to patch my small ones together to protect my large load from rain and/or snow.  Left the city about 4:00 and arrived home just as it was getting dark.  Since a winter storm was imminent, I enlisted the help of two beer-drinking neighbors to get the beastly couches into the house tonight.  They are good people and are always ready to help.

Snowed today and lots of it!  Even though there was 5-6 inches of the fluffy white stuff on the road I gathered up a couple of friends and drove to a nearby town to attend a fireside program at church in the evening.