Homestead update
Summer is gone and with it the warm weather, we have been keeping a fire in the stove pretty much every day that we are home. We are just finishing up some contract work in the city so we have been staying with Jennifer’s Grandparents. But we should soon have that done and can get back to work on the house, and get a water well dug, we did get the road all finished thanks to our good neighbor Al. We are now just gathering up things for the well and the house and will soon decide where to dig the well. I’m thinking of putting it in the greenhouse that I will be building on the South side of the house it will be and old cast hand pump. We have been working up the two garden spots, as we have been told that a sure way to kill quack grass it to freeze the roots, last night it got down to -8 Celsius. The cows are needing a bit of hay, the fall pasture is all but gone now, we really need to do some more fencing to get the cows in the bush around the North and East side of the yard to eat all the grass. I have made a list of all the post and wire needed now to put it into the budget and hopefully get a start on it in the spring.
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October 25th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
I thought of your blog on Wednesday when I was working on a quilting project. I was cutting 4.5 inch strips to use in my sons’ Christmas quilts, and about the 5th strip in things all of a sudden seemed a little small. I got about 12 inches into the strip (length) and I realized it was only 4.25 inches that I had just cut. ERGH! I didn’t lose a lot of fabric thankfully and had more than enough for what I was doing, but I’ve made that mistake before and it was very costly! Measure twice, cut once! LOL!!
October 25th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
I know the feeling, I have collected allot of those ERGH’s it’s to short how did that happen, I’m glad to see you can still LOL what else can one do. Thanks for visiting my blog.