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Been browsing old photos to remind myself when I planted the garlic last year (mid October).
Always seems like there is too little progress on the homestead until you look at old photos and go "huh, last year it still looked like this."
This is the same potato field exactly one year ago. An overgrown goat pen full of thorny fuckers, 2m tall weeds and an ingrown fence.
Now it has yielded a basement full of potatoes, a bunch of huge beetroots and some still growing pumpkins. Guess there was some progress after all. :blobcatgoogly:
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Been browsing old photos to remind myself when I planted the garlic last year (mid October).
Always seems like there is too little progress on the homestead until you look at old photos and go "huh, last year it still looked like this."
This is the same potato field exactly one year ago. An overgrown goat pen full of thorny fuckers, 2m tall weeds and an ingrown fence.
Now it has yielded a basement full of potatoes, a bunch of huge beetroots and some still growing pumpkins. Guess there was some progress after all. :blobcatgoogly:
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Been browsing old photos to remind myself when I planted the garlic last year (mid October).
Always seems like there is too little progress on the homestead until you look at old photos and go "huh, last year it still looked like this."
This is the same potato field exactly one year ago. An overgrown goat pen full of thorny fuckers, 2m tall weeds and an ingrown fence.
Now it has yielded a basement full of potatoes, a bunch of huge beetroots and some still growing pumpkins. Guess there was some progress after all. :blobcatgoogly:
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Been browsing old photos to remind myself when I planted the garlic last year (mid October).
Always seems like there is too little progress on the homestead until you look at old photos and go "huh, last year it still looked like this."
This is the same potato field exactly one year ago. An overgrown goat pen full of thorny fuckers, 2m tall weeds and an ingrown fence.
Now it has yielded a basement full of potatoes, a bunch of huge beetroots and some still growing pumpkins. Guess there was some progress after all. :blobcatgoogly:
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Been browsing old photos to remind myself when I planted the garlic last year (mid October).
Always seems like there is too little progress on the homestead until you look at old photos and go "huh, last year it still looked like this."
This is the same potato field exactly one year ago. An overgrown goat pen full of thorny fuckers, 2m tall weeds and an ingrown fence.
Now it has yielded a basement full of potatoes, a bunch of huge beetroots and some still growing pumpkins. Guess there was some progress after all. :blobcatgoogly:
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The potatoes had two weeks to cure and dry in the barn since harvest, so its time for the final work.
Haul them back out to sort, crumble off the chunks of dirt (it was an inevitably moist harvest) and lug them into the little basement under the house.
I didn't bother weighing them but a very rough guesstimate would be around 300 kg.
Plus a few damaged ones to eat soon and two small crates of baby potatoes which don't store well but are delicious autumn food, boiled with the skins on.
Ready for a cepelinai* party.
#Harvest #Potato #FoodPreservation #Homestead
* Look it up. Go on.
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The potatoes had two weeks to cure and dry in the barn since harvest, so its time for the final work.
Haul them back out to sort, crumble off the chunks of dirt (it was an inevitably moist harvest) and lug them into the little basement under the house.
I didn't bother weighing them but a very rough guesstimate would be around 300 kg.
Plus a few damaged ones to eat soon and two small crates of baby potatoes which don't store well but are delicious autumn food, boiled with the skins on.
Ready for a cepelinai* party.
#Harvest #Potato #FoodPreservation #Homestead
* Look it up. Go on.
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The potatoes had two weeks to cure and dry in the barn since harvest, so its time for the final work.
Haul them back out to sort, crumble off the chunks of dirt (it was an inevitably moist harvest) and lug them into the little basement under the house.
I didn't bother weighing them but a very rough guesstimate would be around 300 kg.
Plus a few damaged ones to eat soon and two small crates of baby potatoes which don't store well but are delicious autumn food, boiled with the skins on.
Ready for a cepelinai* party.
#Harvest #Potato #FoodPreservation #Homestead
* Look it up. Go on.
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The potatoes had two weeks to cure and dry in the barn since harvest, so its time for the final work.
Haul them back out to sort, crumble off the chunks of dirt (it was an inevitably moist harvest) and lug them into the little basement under the house.
I didn't bother weighing them but a very rough guesstimate would be around 300 kg.
Plus a few damaged ones to eat soon and two small crates of baby potatoes which don't store well but are delicious autumn food, boiled with the skins on.
Ready for a cepelinai* party.
#Harvest #Potato #FoodPreservation #Homestead
* Look it up. Go on.
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The potatoes had two weeks to cure and dry in the barn since harvest, so its time for the final work.
Haul them back out to sort, crumble off the chunks of dirt (it was an inevitably moist harvest) and lug them into the little basement under the house.
I didn't bother weighing them but a very rough guesstimate would be around 300 kg.
Plus a few damaged ones to eat soon and two small crates of baby potatoes which don't store well but are delicious autumn food, boiled with the skins on.
Ready for a cepelinai* party.
#Harvest #Potato #FoodPreservation #Homestead
* Look it up. Go on.
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Junk cleanup yielded a piece of 4mm corrugated steel sheet.
Just the right size for a replacement lid for the septic tank. The old concrete lid is crumbling away.
Drew a circle with a magnet, string and a nail and set up the plasma cutter.
This is the difficult part as we don't really have enough power for it. The 4-5mm is about the maximum I can do before the fuse blows and that is with the air compressor already offloaded to the generator.
It worked though and if you ever tried to cut a circle with an angle grinder you know it was worth the faff.
Hammered some flat bar from the scrap bin into a handle and sparkled that on, then some rust converter and a bit of paint.
Good enough for sitting out in a field where nobody sees it.
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Junk cleanup yielded a piece of 4mm corrugated steel sheet.
Just the right size for a replacement lid for the septic tank. The old concrete lid is crumbling away.
Drew a circle with a magnet, string and a nail and set up the plasma cutter.
This is the difficult part as we don't really have enough power for it. The 4-5mm is about the maximum I can do before the fuse blows and that is with the air compressor already offloaded to the generator.
It worked though and if you ever tried to cut a circle with an angle grinder you know it was worth the faff.
Hammered some flat bar from the scrap bin into a handle and sparkled that on, then some rust converter and a bit of paint.
Good enough for sitting out in a field where nobody sees it.
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Junk cleanup yielded a piece of 4mm corrugated steel sheet.
Just the right size for a replacement lid for the septic tank. The old concrete lid is crumbling away.
Drew a circle with a magnet, string and a nail and set up the plasma cutter.
This is the difficult part as we don't really have enough power for it. The 4-5mm is about the maximum I can do before the fuse blows and that is with the air compressor already offloaded to the generator.
It worked though and if you ever tried to cut a circle with an angle grinder you know it was worth the faff.
Hammered some flat bar from the scrap bin into a handle and sparkled that on, then some rust converter and a bit of paint.
Good enough for sitting out in a field where nobody sees it.
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Junk cleanup yielded a piece of 4mm corrugated steel sheet.
Just the right size for a replacement lid for the septic tank. The old concrete lid is crumbling away.
Drew a circle with a magnet, string and a nail and set up the plasma cutter.
This is the difficult part as we don't really have enough power for it. The 4-5mm is about the maximum I can do before the fuse blows and that is with the air compressor already offloaded to the generator.
It worked though and if you ever tried to cut a circle with an angle grinder you know it was worth the faff.
Hammered some flat bar from the scrap bin into a handle and sparkled that on, then some rust converter and a bit of paint.
Good enough for sitting out in a field where nobody sees it.
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Junk cleanup yielded a piece of 4mm corrugated steel sheet.
Just the right size for a replacement lid for the septic tank. The old concrete lid is crumbling away.
Drew a circle with a magnet, string and a nail and set up the plasma cutter.
This is the difficult part as we don't really have enough power for it. The 4-5mm is about the maximum I can do before the fuse blows and that is with the air compressor already offloaded to the generator.
It worked though and if you ever tried to cut a circle with an angle grinder you know it was worth the faff.
Hammered some flat bar from the scrap bin into a handle and sparkled that on, then some rust converter and a bit of paint.
Good enough for sitting out in a field where nobody sees it.
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The field mushrooms are sprouting again. After we've identified them last time as almost certainly agaricus campestris, I ate one yesterday and am not dead or have bloody intestines gushing out of my ears, so we can conclude they're food.
It was also really nice. Compared to the portobello from the shop, firmer and juicier but that may well be due to having been eaten within an hour of plucking instead of knocking around various warehouses, trucks and supermarket shelves.
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The field mushrooms are sprouting again. After we've identified them last time as almost certainly agaricus campestris, I ate one yesterday and am not dead or have bloody intestines gushing out of my ears, so we can conclude they're food.
It was also really nice. Compared to the portobello from the shop, firmer and juicier but that may well be due to having been eaten within an hour of plucking instead of knocking around various warehouses, trucks and supermarket shelves.
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The field mushrooms are sprouting again. After we've identified them last time as almost certainly agaricus campestris, I ate one yesterday and am not dead or have bloody intestines gushing out of my ears, so we can conclude they're food.
It was also really nice. Compared to the portobello from the shop, firmer and juicier but that may well be due to having been eaten within an hour of plucking instead of knocking around various warehouses, trucks and supermarket shelves.
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The field mushrooms are sprouting again. After we've identified them last time as almost certainly agaricus campestris, I ate one yesterday and am not dead or have bloody intestines gushing out of my ears, so we can conclude they're food.
It was also really nice. Compared to the portobello from the shop, firmer and juicier but that may well be due to having been eaten within an hour of plucking instead of knocking around various warehouses, trucks and supermarket shelves.
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The field mushrooms are sprouting again. After we've identified them last time as almost certainly agaricus campestris, I ate one yesterday and am not dead or have bloody intestines gushing out of my ears, so we can conclude they're food.
It was also really nice. Compared to the portobello from the shop, firmer and juicier but that may well be due to having been eaten within an hour of plucking instead of knocking around various warehouses, trucks and supermarket shelves.
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Another sleep deprived night, this time on account of #Knirps having a 4am dance party.
Strong morning coffee and back into the trench, patching the poor house up.
Cleaned out most of the rot and fitted a support for the window post that is somehow still intact, then moved the exterior brace over to a smarter place, after much thought.
Mortared the back gaps a bit, stuffed in some reclaimed slag wool, OSB on top and cladding back on to hide my bodge.
Its not great, obviously the beams still need replacing once we find some and are ready to make a huge hole in the living room wall. But it'll last the winter.
Ready to resume work on the foundation, which is what I actually was planning to do. Alas, tomorrow the usual flood resumes. 😫
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Another sleep deprived night, this time on account of #Knirps having a 4am dance party.
Strong morning coffee and back into the trench, patching the poor house up.
Cleaned out most of the rot and fitted a support for the window post that is somehow still intact, then moved the exterior brace over to a smarter place, after much thought.
Mortared the back gaps a bit, stuffed in some reclaimed slag wool, OSB on top and cladding back on to hide my bodge.
Its not great, obviously the beams still need replacing once we find some and are ready to make a huge hole in the living room wall. But it'll last the winter.
Ready to resume work on the foundation, which is what I actually was planning to do. Alas, tomorrow the usual flood resumes. 😫
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Another sleep deprived night, this time on account of #Knirps having a 4am dance party.
Strong morning coffee and back into the trench, patching the poor house up.
Cleaned out most of the rot and fitted a support for the window post that is somehow still intact, then moved the exterior brace over to a smarter place, after much thought.
Mortared the back gaps a bit, stuffed in some reclaimed slag wool, OSB on top and cladding back on to hide my bodge.
Its not great, obviously the beams still need replacing once we find some and are ready to make a huge hole in the living room wall. But it'll last the winter.
Ready to resume work on the foundation, which is what I actually was planning to do. Alas, tomorrow the usual flood resumes. 😫
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Another sleep deprived night, this time on account of #Knirps having a 4am dance party.
Strong morning coffee and back into the trench, patching the poor house up.
Cleaned out most of the rot and fitted a support for the window post that is somehow still intact, then moved the exterior brace over to a smarter place, after much thought.
Mortared the back gaps a bit, stuffed in some reclaimed slag wool, OSB on top and cladding back on to hide my bodge.
Its not great, obviously the beams still need replacing once we find some and are ready to make a huge hole in the living room wall. But it'll last the winter.
Ready to resume work on the foundation, which is what I actually was planning to do. Alas, tomorrow the usual flood resumes. 😫
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Another sleep deprived night, this time on account of #Knirps having a 4am dance party.
Strong morning coffee and back into the trench, patching the poor house up.
Cleaned out most of the rot and fitted a support for the window post that is somehow still intact, then moved the exterior brace over to a smarter place, after much thought.
Mortared the back gaps a bit, stuffed in some reclaimed slag wool, OSB on top and cladding back on to hide my bodge.
Its not great, obviously the beams still need replacing once we find some and are ready to make a huge hole in the living room wall. But it'll last the winter.
Ready to resume work on the foundation, which is what I actually was planning to do. Alas, tomorrow the usual flood resumes. 😫
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#Knirps got some sand for playing.
And a little bit for me so I don't have to keep sieving it out of the aggregate pile whenever I need it for mortar.
Now we have two decorative mounds in the garden instead of one! 👍️
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#Knirps got some sand for playing.
And a little bit for me so I don't have to keep sieving it out of the aggregate pile whenever I need it for mortar.
Now we have two decorative mounds in the garden instead of one! 👍️
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#Knirps got some sand for playing.
And a little bit for me so I don't have to keep sieving it out of the aggregate pile whenever I need it for mortar.
Now we have two decorative mounds in the garden instead of one! 👍️
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#Knirps got some sand for playing.
And a little bit for me so I don't have to keep sieving it out of the aggregate pile whenever I need it for mortar.
Now we have two decorative mounds in the garden instead of one! 👍️
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#Knirps got some sand for playing.
And a little bit for me so I don't have to keep sieving it out of the aggregate pile whenever I need it for mortar.
Now we have two decorative mounds in the garden instead of one! 👍️
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Back from a nice day off and catching up with some farm work.
Potatoes are gaining size nicely, dug another bunch to eat, a few already had their winter skins on.
#Knirps was given an apple tree and I found a nice place and planted it - where the old, dead apple tree used to be. New life for old. Very symbolic.
Then loaded the infinite extension cable and the welder and carted them to a fence gate where a hinge broke off a while ago (ok, I broke it). Welded that back on and made the gate a bit longer by welding on some trash. Now I don't have to wedge an old window shutter in there anymore :blobcatblush:
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Back from a nice day off and catching up with some farm work.
Potatoes are gaining size nicely, dug another bunch to eat, a few already had their winter skins on.
#Knirps was given an apple tree and I found a nice place and planted it - where the old, dead apple tree used to be. New life for old. Very symbolic.
Then loaded the infinite extension cable and the welder and carted them to a fence gate where a hinge broke off a while ago (ok, I broke it). Welded that back on and made the gate a bit longer by welding on some trash. Now I don't have to wedge an old window shutter in there anymore :blobcatblush:
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Back from a nice day off and catching up with some farm work.
Potatoes are gaining size nicely, dug another bunch to eat, a few already had their winter skins on.
#Knirps was given an apple tree and I found a nice place and planted it - where the old, dead apple tree used to be. New life for old. Very symbolic.
Then loaded the infinite extension cable and the welder and carted them to a fence gate where a hinge broke off a while ago (ok, I broke it). Welded that back on and made the gate a bit longer by welding on some trash. Now I don't have to wedge an old window shutter in there anymore :blobcatblush:
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Back from a nice day off and catching up with some farm work.
Potatoes are gaining size nicely, dug another bunch to eat, a few already had their winter skins on.
#Knirps was given an apple tree and I found a nice place and planted it - where the old, dead apple tree used to be. New life for old. Very symbolic.
Then loaded the infinite extension cable and the welder and carted them to a fence gate where a hinge broke off a while ago (ok, I broke it). Welded that back on and made the gate a bit longer by welding on some trash. Now I don't have to wedge an old window shutter in there anymore :blobcatblush:
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Back from a nice day off and catching up with some farm work.
Potatoes are gaining size nicely, dug another bunch to eat, a few already had their winter skins on.
#Knirps was given an apple tree and I found a nice place and planted it - where the old, dead apple tree used to be. New life for old. Very symbolic.
Then loaded the infinite extension cable and the welder and carted them to a fence gate where a hinge broke off a while ago (ok, I broke it). Welded that back on and made the gate a bit longer by welding on some trash. Now I don't have to wedge an old window shutter in there anymore :blobcatblush:
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Money didn't stretch to a Thwaites dumper, but I needed something to haul dirt fast, so I researched wheelbarrows, filtered by (MaxLoad/MaxVolume > 2.5) and bought the one with the cheapest price per volume.
Well, after watching a youtube review where some guy takes his frontloader and dumps two scoops of dirt all over his cart without it collapsing.
Cames as flatpack furniture and after doing several kilometers around the garden with safety inspector #Knirps inside (he refused to get out) it also seems to haul dirt well enough and its even possible to dump it by hand without breaking yourself in half.
It cost less than a new set of moped wheels for the old farm wheelbarrow 🤷♂️
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Money didn't stretch to a Thwaites dumper, but I needed something to haul dirt fast, so I researched wheelbarrows, filtered by (MaxLoad/MaxVolume > 2.5) and bought the one with the cheapest price per volume.
Well, after watching a youtube review where some guy takes his frontloader and dumps two scoops of dirt all over his cart without it collapsing.
Cames as flatpack furniture and after doing several kilometers around the garden with safety inspector #Knirps inside (he refused to get out) it also seems to haul dirt well enough and its even possible to dump it by hand without breaking yourself in half.
It cost less than a new set of moped wheels for the old farm wheelbarrow 🤷♂️
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Money didn't stretch to a Thwaites dumper, but I needed something to haul dirt fast, so I researched wheelbarrows, filtered by (MaxLoad/MaxVolume > 2.5) and bought the one with the cheapest price per volume.
Well, after watching a youtube review where some guy takes his frontloader and dumps two scoops of dirt all over his cart without it collapsing.
Cames as flatpack furniture and after doing several kilometers around the garden with safety inspector #Knirps inside (he refused to get out) it also seems to haul dirt well enough and its even possible to dump it by hand without breaking yourself in half.
It cost less than a new set of moped wheels for the old farm wheelbarrow 🤷♂️
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Money didn't stretch to a Thwaites dumper, but I needed something to haul dirt fast, so I researched wheelbarrows, filtered by (MaxLoad/MaxVolume > 2.5) and bought the one with the cheapest price per volume.
Well, after watching a youtube review where some guy takes his frontloader and dumps two scoops of dirt all over his cart without it collapsing.
Cames as flatpack furniture and after doing several kilometers around the garden with safety inspector #Knirps inside (he refused to get out) it also seems to haul dirt well enough and its even possible to dump it by hand without breaking yourself in half.
It cost less than a new set of moped wheels for the old farm wheelbarrow 🤷♂️
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Money didn't stretch to a Thwaites dumper, but I needed something to haul dirt fast, so I researched wheelbarrows, filtered by (MaxLoad/MaxVolume > 2.5) and bought the one with the cheapest price per volume.
Well, after watching a youtube review where some guy takes his frontloader and dumps two scoops of dirt all over his cart without it collapsing.
Cames as flatpack furniture and after doing several kilometers around the garden with safety inspector #Knirps inside (he refused to get out) it also seems to haul dirt well enough and its even possible to dump it by hand without breaking yourself in half.
It cost less than a new set of moped wheels for the old farm wheelbarrow 🤷♂️
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Finally some dry-ish weather after all the stupid rain, so some stuff got done.
Mowed the jungle, which yielded many bags of grass for the compost. Stuff grows like crazy when it rains a lot.
Finished clearing out the old "floor" from that barn section with the hay. A mix of rotten wood, straw, dirt, some bricks, some glass shards, couple chunks of lime mortar, not much metal. Picked out the bits and composted the rest.
Then slapped together a shelf for the gardening stuff. Made from reclaimed wood I keep stashed on the other end of the same barn.
Just gotta make some tool hangers for the gardening tools on the outer wall and put them there now.
#Knirps helped drive the tractor back into the barn, then refused to let go of the steering wheel 😆
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Finally some dry-ish weather after all the stupid rain, so some stuff got done.
Mowed the jungle, which yielded many bags of grass for the compost. Stuff grows like crazy when it rains a lot.
Finished clearing out the old "floor" from that barn section with the hay. A mix of rotten wood, straw, dirt, some bricks, some glass shards, couple chunks of lime mortar, not much metal. Picked out the bits and composted the rest.
Then slapped together a shelf for the gardening stuff. Made from reclaimed wood I keep stashed on the other end of the same barn.
Just gotta make some tool hangers for the gardening tools on the outer wall and put them there now.
#Knirps helped drive the tractor back into the barn, then refused to let go of the steering wheel 😆
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Finally some dry-ish weather after all the stupid rain, so some stuff got done.
Mowed the jungle, which yielded many bags of grass for the compost. Stuff grows like crazy when it rains a lot.
Finished clearing out the old "floor" from that barn section with the hay. A mix of rotten wood, straw, dirt, some bricks, some glass shards, couple chunks of lime mortar, not much metal. Picked out the bits and composted the rest.
Then slapped together a shelf for the gardening stuff. Made from reclaimed wood I keep stashed on the other end of the same barn.
Just gotta make some tool hangers for the gardening tools on the outer wall and put them there now.
#Knirps helped drive the tractor back into the barn, then refused to let go of the steering wheel 😆
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Finally some dry-ish weather after all the stupid rain, so some stuff got done.
Mowed the jungle, which yielded many bags of grass for the compost. Stuff grows like crazy when it rains a lot.
Finished clearing out the old "floor" from that barn section with the hay. A mix of rotten wood, straw, dirt, some bricks, some glass shards, couple chunks of lime mortar, not much metal. Picked out the bits and composted the rest.
Then slapped together a shelf for the gardening stuff. Made from reclaimed wood I keep stashed on the other end of the same barn.
Just gotta make some tool hangers for the gardening tools on the outer wall and put them there now.
#Knirps helped drive the tractor back into the barn, then refused to let go of the steering wheel 😆
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Finally some dry-ish weather after all the stupid rain, so some stuff got done.
Mowed the jungle, which yielded many bags of grass for the compost. Stuff grows like crazy when it rains a lot.
Finished clearing out the old "floor" from that barn section with the hay. A mix of rotten wood, straw, dirt, some bricks, some glass shards, couple chunks of lime mortar, not much metal. Picked out the bits and composted the rest.
Then slapped together a shelf for the gardening stuff. Made from reclaimed wood I keep stashed on the other end of the same barn.
Just gotta make some tool hangers for the gardening tools on the outer wall and put them there now.
#Knirps helped drive the tractor back into the barn, then refused to let go of the steering wheel 😆
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Hoʻopulapula == rehabilitate; ʻĀina Hoʻopulapula == Homestead Lands #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #rehabilitate #rehabilitation #hawaiianHomestead #homestead #HPR #HawaiianPublicRadio #LeilaniPoliʻahu #hawaiian
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hawaiian-word-of-the-day-april-21st -
Hoʻopulapula == rehabilitate; ʻĀina Hoʻopulapula == Homestead Lands #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #rehabilitate #rehabilitation #hawaiianHomestead #homestead #HPR #HawaiianPublicRadio #LeilaniPoliʻahu #hawaiian
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hawaiian-word-of-the-day-april-21st -
Hoʻopulapula == rehabilitate; ʻĀina Hoʻopulapula == Homestead Lands #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #rehabilitate #rehabilitation #hawaiianHomestead #homestead #HPR #HawaiianPublicRadio #LeilaniPoliʻahu #hawaiian
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hawaiian-word-of-the-day-april-21st -
Hoʻopulapula == rehabilitate; ʻĀina Hoʻopulapula == Homestead Lands #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #rehabilitate #rehabilitation #hawaiianHomestead #homestead #HPR #HawaiianPublicRadio #LeilaniPoliʻahu #hawaiian
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hawaiian-word-of-the-day-april-21st -
Hoʻopulapula == rehabilitate; ʻĀina Hoʻopulapula == Homestead Lands #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #rehabilitate #rehabilitation #hawaiianHomestead #homestead #HPR #HawaiianPublicRadio #LeilaniPoliʻahu #hawaiian
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hawaiian-word-of-the-day-april-21st