tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90616695628087658062024-02-19T07:01:43.110-08:00Saw-whet ManorBill and JoAnna's excellent adventure living in and restoring an 1856 Italianate farmhouse in rural Indiana.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger332125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-4778865915393309452015-05-14T08:00:00.000-07:002015-05-14T08:19:50.402-07:00Blogging, as if it's my job...Starting this weekend, we will be selling produce, eggs, and bread at a local farmers' market, which means lots of work, lots of fun, and a new web presence!<br />
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I intend to actually maintain this new blog because...well...customers and legitimacy and money. If you are interested in a farm-oriented blog, my plan is for short, weekly posts here: <a href="http://sawwhetfarm.net./">sawwhetfarm.net.</a> (a real URL, too??)<br />
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Thanks for reading. I now return you to sad, silent abandonment.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-61346365862545228762014-07-18T15:44:00.000-07:002014-07-18T15:44:15.317-07:00The tallest corn in the *world*My county fair is happening this week and there is a contest for the tallest corn stalk. If this corn weren't part of my Three Sisters garden and supporting pole beans with roots intertwined with pumpkins, I would totally enter it. It is an heirloom, multi-colored dent which will hopefully be tortillas one day.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-80831055333918629742014-04-15T08:38:00.000-07:002014-04-15T08:38:19.984-07:00In the event that gardening is possible this year...So? It's like snowing right now? And sticking? I'm trying not to be upset by this, but I would like to remind you we live in Indiana, and not Central New York.<br />
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A few weeks ago as we were enjoying a fire in the wood stove after many days of not having any wood (because we ran out, for the third time), just before we had our propane tank filled for the second time this year, Bill suggested we really, really enjoy the fire because we would be missing it come July when it was still cold and there was no wood left in the world. And then we started talking about Ice Ages and how the last one may have popped into being in just six months, rather than over the course of years. Comforting.<br />
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In the event that we actually do have a summer again in our lifetime, I have started some seeds: tomato, pepper, eggplant and herbs. I'm using a soil blocker that we purchased for about $30 from <a href="http://www.johnnyseeds.com/p-8087-hand-held-4-soil-blocker.aspx?" target="_blank">Johnny's Seeds</a>. It was easy to use, is a one-time purchase and there is nothing to throw away. It did take a little more time than filling peat pots, but not much. It was also dirtier, but I consider that a plus.<br />
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I used Pro-Mix potting soil, which I purchased at a home improvement store. I mixed the soil with a lot of water (much more than the "recipe" that came with the soil blocker suggested), until it was like peanut butter. Then, I made a big mud pie and pressed the soil blocker down over it until I could see water - dirt water! - seeping through the top of the blocker. I then moved to the tray and pushed on the handle allowing the blocks to gently drop out. Ta da!<br />
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The lights are a broad spectrum LED, which the plants seem to enjoy. <br />
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We bought very few seeds this year. All of our tomatoes and peppers are from seeds that were either left over from last year or seeds that we saved ourselves from plants we grew. Some of the seeds are now on their third generation, meaning we bought the seeds in 2012, grew the plants and saved the seeds, grew plants from those saved seeds in 2013 and saved new seed from them in the fall and have planted them for use this year. So far, the seeds I've saved have grown the fastest and biggest. It's my own version of natural selection - the stuff that grows well in our soil under my management practices gets saved and will hopefully continue to get better. I LOVE IT!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-32864857522950160412014-04-12T15:59:00.000-07:002014-04-12T15:59:10.322-07:00Spring!I have many posts in my head for you about bathrooms and spring and knitting. But, until they are actually written, here are some teasers.<br />
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The lilac leaves are new as of today. The sheep and goats are glad to be eating the grass that's just started growing in earnest as well.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-71686757331391314822014-02-25T13:48:00.000-08:002014-02-25T13:48:01.906-08:00Tiling off the leashBill asked that I not start tiling the bathroom until he was able to work on it too because he wanted to be in on the fun. But after a day of that, he realized what he <i>really </i>wants is to be in is a working shower and the whole process would go quicker if I tiled while he was at work.<br />
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Being left alone with a bunch of tiles and blank walls is leading to some unconventional tiling. I can't abide straight lines and perfect spacing. Ick! It makes me feel restricted and bound and boring. This, makes me feel more organic and grounded...<br />
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I'm nearly done with the back wall (there is a heart stone that was added after this picture was taken), and just started on the one to the left. When I'm not mixing thinset or freezing at the wet-saw, I'm dreaming up new ways to use the remaining tiles. It's just like quilting but with rocks, ya know?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-18009553206796117592014-02-24T11:30:00.003-08:002014-02-24T11:30:22.456-08:00Bathroom tile warm-upBill had to go back to work today, so I've been sending him pictures of the bathroom to keep him excited for an evening of tiling tonight. TILE! TILE! Perhaps you'd like to see some photos too?<br />
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I was in charge of removing all the linoleum on the floor. Grrr. But done:<br />
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I also sanded some plaster which made my hair white. This photo was meant to tease Bill with how beautiful I'm looking today with the dusk mask, ear thingies (we just call them "ears" as in "do you have your ears on?"...but they must have a real name?), and dust that <i>I can't shower off</i>.<br />
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Our floor tiles are Travertine 6 x 18 subway tiles which will be offset by 1/3 because it looks balanced and will result in the least amount of cutting. Coopworth approves. (Actually, he just wants lunch.)<br />
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I cut some waterproof floor stuff. Note the holes for the toilet and water pipes. That's some fancy utility knife action there, my friends.<br />
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The shower walls are porcelain. I would have loved real stone for the shower, but the Bathroom Remodel Fairy didn't leave enough of a budget under our pillows. The shower is 2 2/3 tiles wide, so I think we're going to offset the rows like this:<br />
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We also have a wee accent stripe of white stone that will go somewhere. The tile man sold us <a href="http://www.lindapaul.com/tile_border_trim_borders.htm" target="_blank">"pencil" tiles</a> (rounded sticky-out things) to put on the top and bottom of the accent to frame it and camouflage any difference in width between the accent and the porcelain. I'm not loving them and hopeful we can do something more artistic instead. They seem very serious and proper to me and that makes me sad and rebellious.<br />
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To balance out the straightness of the serious square shower tiles, we got Travertine cobblestones for the shower floor. They feel more earthy and natural - and therefore more happy-making - to me. I have the main bits laid out and there are lots of free-standing stones to fill in the gaps. We'll be sticking them down tonight!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-18710495791720590542014-02-21T14:03:00.001-08:002014-02-21T14:03:31.017-08:00Remember when this blog was about home improvement?Surprise!!<br />
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We had a septic issue earlier this week (clogged vent pipe + tree roots in the drain pipe to the septic, which led to shower water bubbling up in our bathroom sink), which let us discover the floor under our toilet has been rotting due to something about a wax seal.<br />
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So, since we had to rip up the floor under the toilet anyway, we decided to go all in and redo the entire bathroom.<br />
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Monday and Tuesday were for dealing with the septic issue. Wednesday and Thursday were for demolition (I. Hate. Linoleum. Forever.). Today we're starting to reconstruct.<br />
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(Check out the 4 layers of wallpaper that were behind our shower!)<br />
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In an ideal world, we wanted to get a shower base and just tile the walls...but we live in a house where (as Bill keeps pointing out) the bathrooms are "retrofitted." They weren't here when the house was built, so they are eeeked in. This resulted in our shower drain being off center in the shower base and not really moveable without mucking about with 150 year old floor joists. As a result, we'll be building a shower base with Michigan Mud and something the Tile Shop calls "goof-proofs" to help us get the slope to the drain just right. We got some kickin' cobble-stone like tiles for the base that I'm pretty excited about.<br />
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Today we're prepping for tiling. We're hoping to get the bottom layer of the shower base as well as the bathroom floor ready for tiling next week. There is a bit of drywalling we have to do and Bill's working on the cement board for the shower walls right now.<br />
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When we pulled out the horrid fiberglass shower form, we were hoping to find treasure in the wall. We always hope for treasure. The walls have never delivered. Dumb walls. We just got a piece of a pipe and a half-ton of walnuts. Dumb squirrels in the dumb walls.<br />
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We did make our own little treasure for the next folks that tear down a wall. Bill and I wrote a letter about us, the house, and the world in 2014 and I put it in a Ball Jar with a bit of the linoleum floor I've been tearing up, some wallpaper, and coins. I also included a zip drive with some photos and videos of the house and farm and a copy of some of the posts from this blog. I have no idea if anyone will find it or if they'll be able to do anything with it when they do, but it seems fun.<br />
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Back to work! More to come as we (hopefully) make lots of progress.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-19098513064234618142014-02-02T10:15:00.002-08:002014-02-02T10:15:38.924-08:00White Groundhog DayWe woke up to 7 unexpected inches of snow. This is especially weird because before this winter, I don't think we've had much more than 7 total inches of snow any winter that we've lived here.<br />
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Here's our propane tank, which is thankfully holding propane. We had it filled just before the first blast of cold and before propane tripled in price.<br />
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And here's some snow. It is oddly sideways everywhere. There is 4 inches of snow sticking off the side of every tree branch and sturdy weed around. How does that happen?<br />
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My fingers are delighted that gloves are not necessary today with the temperature being an entire 25F on the plus side, rather than 25F on the negative.<br />
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'Til next time...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-74854738328348029482014-01-19T10:05:00.001-08:002014-01-19T10:05:33.083-08:00Ha ha...my doggie is covered in snow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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She thinks I am a terrible blogger and promises to force me to write real posts soon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-26001338854549610332013-12-15T13:05:00.002-08:002013-12-15T13:06:05.824-08:00Animals in the snowThe sheep, apparently, don't mind the snow. In fact, Clara rather likes eating it.<br />
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The goats want nothing to do with it.<br />
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The people avoid it by sitting near the fire, playing board games and drinking homebrew.<br />
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We have a collection of hurricane lanterns, a bunch of real books and a collection of board games. Also, we really enjoy spending quiet time <i>together </i>not just next to each other. When the computer is on it is an easy distraction, but when its off we don't even miss it. <br />
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We call this event Dark Friday, in contrast to Black Friday.<br />
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If you'd like to join us in spending the day after Thanksgiving continuing to be thankful for what we have, rather than battling to acquire more stuff, I'd love to hear how you plan to celebrate.<br />
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There are lots of people who will be celebrating in a similar way, but they call it <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day" target="_blank">Buy Nothing Day</a> and it is an <a href="http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/" target="_blank">international event</a> calling attention to rampant consumerism in the western world. If you'd like some more resources related to a low-impact holiday, check out <a href="http://www.buynothingchristmas.org/" target="_blank">Buy Nothing Christmas</a> and <a href="http://www.newdream.org/" target="_blank">Center for a New American Dream</a>. <br />
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I hope you all have a lovely, rejuvenating Thanksgiving full of the people and moments that matter.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-73062521342427699052013-11-17T08:05:00.001-08:002013-11-17T08:05:37.568-08:00Oh the weather outside.......is creepy. We are currently in a high risk area for tornadoes today. This means there is a 30% chance there will be a tornado within 25 miles of any given location within the high risk area. We are also warned that there may be 50 mph winds outside of the main storm and hail.<br />
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Also last week, Bill replaced a very broken pane in a living room window.<br />
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Corrie and Sugar Pie are practicing snuggling for body warmth:<br />
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Totally secure. This must be a very trusting squirrel. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-35493503244677121512013-11-03T05:36:00.001-08:002013-11-03T05:36:54.100-08:00Frosty Fall MorningLots of work was done around here this week, and I was going to tell you all about the wood hauling, garage cleaning and beer making (and smoke detector battery changing - change your batteries when you change your clocks!), but when I went out to wake up the animals this morning everything was frosty and foggy. I thought you'd like to see that more than you'd like to see piles of wood, or de-walnut-shell-ified garage floors.<br />
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Rose has recently decided that people aren't all that bad and she'll now eat grain from my hand, chew on my coat, and stare at me as if to say "why is there no grain in your hand?" <br />
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Kaylee started climbing on the straw bales again this week. Her ability to reliably climb was the last sign we were waiting to see for her full recovery. She's still a bit smaller than Saffron, but watching her jump on top of the Barn Mountain warms my heart. <br />
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Group shot! Everyone says "Good Morning."<br />
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"Now, feed us grain, Woman!"Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-31375589052267684842013-10-22T13:25:00.001-07:002013-10-22T16:43:40.486-07:00The Missing "s" Game. AKA, the post with an anti-lisp and no understanding of plurals.(The "s" key is no longer working on my keyboard, so I'm pasting it in this intro for your information. I may leave it out a bunch in the post below because it is slowing me down. If a word doesn't make sense, check to see if it is missing an "s." I know you can do it! I've seen how some of you text.)<br />
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I learned in Herpetology that if you drop a frog into really hot water, it will realize omething i wrong and jump out, but if you drop it into temperate water which you lowly heat up, you can boil the frog and it won't realize it i dying. Along thee line but in revere, Bill and I often pend many night hivering before we realize it i time to turn on the heat. But, ometimes in Autumn we take a trip and come back to coldness, giving u a clear indication that it i time to make fire. Thi wa one of thoe year. There i a firing burning a I hare the photo with you. <br />
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Thi pat weekend we went to Rhinebeck for the NY heep and Wool Fetival. It i the firt year where I've known lot of fetival-goer and had a great time meeting o many lovely, happy knitter.<br />
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Of coure, I bought tuff too.<br />
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There i ome ock yarn in there and a few kein of heavier-weight longwool for hat. (Now that miing "s" i uddenly noticeable, eh?)<br />
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My firt top wa at Into the Whirled for pinning fiber. When I wa holding it all in my hand, thi pound felt like a lot, but now that I'm far away from a purchaing opportunity, it doe't eem like enough.<br />
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I alo picked up a fancy pindle. I've been practicing on a "tudent pindle" which i large and brutish. My new one i a Bosworth made of Red Cedar. 17g/.6 ounce. In ampling, I can tell that it i more refined and allow me to pin much finer yarn. I like it. It make me feel more dainty.<br />
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It's totally time for chili. The beef was purchased directly from the farmer the tomatoes and peppers are from our garden. Bill made the bread and the beer is a home brew. Yummo.<br />
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These pumpkins have been dedicated to the highest purpose to which a squash can aspire - pumpkin ale. We bottled it this week and just have to wait a bit while it carbonates. Waiting!!!<br />
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This is Minion, the youngest chick we have. He was odd and unexpected and is still totally attached to his mom even though they should really being going their separate ways by now. Basically, he's a big baby.<br />
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On the other side of that coin are the Patooties (as in Cutie Patooties), a pair of chickens that were raised by a turkey along with their sister Duck (who clearly has identity issues). The turkey hen is not convinced that her babies are big enough to be on their own yet and is still trying to mother them. The Patooties rather think they are sheep, though, and spend most of their day in the pasture. <br />
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Whenever I see these kittens playing or cuddling together it makes me unreasonably happy that we could keep them together. When we went to the Humane Society we knew we wanted "up to two kittens" and chose these guys because they were the only siblings. I mean, all the kittens were adorable and any that we brought home would have been wonderful, but these guys tug at my heart strings. I'm sure they don't remember, but they had a tough go early in life and whenever I think I of the long, cold night they spent together abandoned outside Animal Control, and the illnesses they battled through as result, I am so glad they still have each other for snuggling. And biting. And squirrel watching. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-63388186098952451102013-10-04T11:38:00.000-07:002013-10-04T11:38:03.607-07:0026-Year-Old Me would never believe this postOne of the side effects of having a farm and only one income is that we travel way less than we did when we had two incomes and zero farms. This is to be expected - and here's the part where the 26 year-old version of me gets skeptical - I don't mind it. I actually rather dig it. <br />
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For the first few years of farm ownership (when we had two incomes but were working on our plan to give up one of them), this bothered me a bit and I grudgingly thought about how we used to travel and how we weren't doing that anymore. Consider:<br />
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We spent my 29th birthday in St. John snorkeling, drinking rum, and enjoying a tropical paradise even as a plethora of spring break hooligans invaded the campground, including a young gentleman who chose to make monkey noises whenever he laughed. Very loud monkey noises all through the night.<br />
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We spent my 30th birthday in New Zealand being amazed at volcanoes, glaciers and wine. In between those birthdays we were fortunate to take two additional short vacations (Vegas and Iceland) and visit with our families in NY. Plus, we lived in DC at the time, so every day held opportunities for local tourism. Except for eating fabulous food, my most fond emotional attachment to living in DC was having the responsibility-free lifestyle and ability to travel to new places.<br />
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After my 30th birthday, we took our life in a different direction, and a year later I was <a href="http://jobiindiana.blogspot.com/2008/03/manure-contemplations.html" target="_blank">shoveling poop out of a barn in Indiana</a>. I don't know if I realized at the time that the barn would eventually hold turkeys...or that I would find turkeys to be a giant pain in the butt...or that I would ever utter the sentence I whispered to Bill earlier this week.<br />
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Bill left work early one day and stopped at the cheese store, a beer store and a cupcakery and brought home these delights.<br />
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We spent the evening eating, playing games, and tending to the animals. As we walked out in the twilight to put the farm to bed for the evening, I told Bill I had a delightful evening and it felt like a vacation - just the simple joy in having a couple of extra hours together and sharing food that we don't have often, made the whole day feel special. Also, I was really, really pleased that we could have a vacation where I dressed in pajama pants for dinner and didn't need to interact with TSA.<br />
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I realized that I didn't miss the opportunities to travel at all. (That's not to say that I wouldn't take a free trip to Rome if anyone out there wants to offer...)<br />
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I think it takes practice and mindfulness to find honest joy and contentment in the really simple things, and to be pleased with where you <i>are </i>and not just where you wish you were. I am so very, very fortunate to know many people who have cultivated this sort of outlook and I thank them for their influence on me (surround yourself with happy people!). <br />
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It may look like it was just a few hunks of cheese and some cupcakes, but really, it was a revelation. <br />
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Wednesday evening.<br />
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A few things to note:<br />
1) Some of this is cherry, so it smells FANTASTIC<br />
2) Yes, I do periodically stand in the woodshed admiring the growing pile<br />
3) We have an electric splitter, so I'm probably not as badass as you're thinking, but it was still a ton of work with much wheelbarrowing involved.<br />
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Splitting this wood - all of which is from trees that fell on our land as the result of storms - provided me with a clear example of why we're doing what we're doing. I was confident when I quit my job of our choice to live this sort of life, but it could seem a bit odd to others. There are not a lot of 2013 examples or cultural norms of a woman having no job and no children (it's rather the antithesis of "having it all" by the common current definition). So, I was pleased to realize how directly all this wood splitting could be used to explain the choices we've made.<br />
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We (Bill and I...and Sugar Pie and the cats) have a need to keep our house warm during the winter. It's one of those basic requirements that even Thoreau, the king of simplicity, would call a "necessity of life." Previously, I would work at a job that paid me money that I would then exchange for heating fuel in order to meet this need. It was a very fossil-fuel intense process. A car transported me to work, where I sat at a computer for most of the day and earned a paycheck that allowed me to purchase propane gas to be blown throughout my house using a furnace fueled by coal-powered electricity.<br />
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An alternative way to provide the heat we need during a cold Indiana winter (and the method that was used when our house was built), is by burning local wood. Now, instead of spending my day earning money to buy propane to heat my house, I spent my time providing heating fuel in a more direct fashion - one that also makes much less use of fossil fuels (the chainsaw and log splitter, and even some of the person-energy rely on fossil fuels in some way, but I am confident it is far less than the previous method). So, even though Childless Woman who Earns No Money is not often considered a job or even a productive choice to make, I think of the work I do here as an employment of sorts - one that meets the needs of my household while making fewer demands on community resources and our environment. It is a weird, but totally viable way to spend a week day.<br />
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On a less philosophical note...Kaylee wants you to know that she is feeling better and cavorting around the field at will.<br /><br />
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Bill and I went apple picking for our anniversary yesterday...<br />
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To celebrate our 15th (dating) anniversary, I made a little slide show of some of these photos. I expect this may only be of interest to our mothers, but if you'd like to see the video it is below. Bill calls it "The Documentation of Our Chins Getting Bigger."<br />
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This is true of most weeks on the farm. I love it.<br />
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There are other weeks though, that are a bit more stressful. We just got through one of them.<br />
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Kaylee, our goat with the funny ears...you know her:<br />
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She's the timid one. A bit smaller than Saffron, but a tough little goat. About three weeks ago she started limping and falling over for no reason. We probed her legs and thought she had pulled a muscle, so we locked her up for a few days of rest. <br />
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After a few days she wasn't getting better. In fact, she was getting worse. So we called the vet. By the time he was able to come to check her out, Kaylee wasn't even able to stand on her own. I was terrified she'd get dehydrated and was out in the barn every 20 minutes propping her up near the water bucket. She remained perky, was eating and pooping well, but she continued to lose function in her front right leg.<br />
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Our vet suspected she had a weird, rare parasite or virus that ended up in her nervous system. He wasn't sure if we could help her, but we threw the goat medicine kitchen sink at her - two shots a day along with an oral dewormer for 5 days. <br />
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She started to improve every day, and keeps reaching new milestones (today she got both legs up on the second rung of the barn gate for the first time in weeks). She's been running and head butting and can keep up with everyone now, though I still worry about a relapse. It seems like she is going to be ok and we're impressed with her tenacity. I have now formed a rather strong attachment to her, but she's recovered enough to remember that she doesn't really like being hugged and keeps evading my embraces, which both delights and saddens me. <br />
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During Kaylee's downward phase, when I was going to check on her at regular intervals, one of our ewes died suddenly. I have read about sudden sheep death, but found it totally shocking nonetheless. On one trip to the barn Donna was totally fine, scampering about and vexing me by trying to escape from the pen to chomp on mulberry leaves. 45 minutes later, without any warning, she had died. We're not sure of the cause yet. We took her to the Purdue diagnostics lab and should be getting a report soon.<br />
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Donna was nearly 6 years old, which is middle aged for a sheep. She was the crazy-looking, loud-mouthed one. Even though we only had her for 4 months, we liked her and are glad we got to know her.<br />
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(Donna on the left. Her lamb Clara is in the foreground.)<br />
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So, it was one of those weeks. It's hard to face the realization that we don't control everything, but figuring out how to deal with these emotions and move forward is part of our learning process. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-3039883778323198422013-09-07T19:50:00.000-07:002013-09-07T19:50:24.416-07:00Winter is ComingThis past week has been Winter is Coming week. Bill took a few days off and we've been stockpiling important things for the coming cold.<br />
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Hey! It's hay! We have a pile of hay that we (mostly Bill) scythed this year, but it's not enough for the entire winter, so we purchased some bales as well.<br />
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We've been stacking wood too. Last year we got a small electric splitter which is tied with our chicken plucker as one of my favorite purchases. <br />
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This is about an hour of splitting. Not nearly enough yet! Some of that wood is cherry, which means our shed smells amazing. <br />
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Lastly, I've been doing a little quilting. Having my own craft room and working on project bags for my little Etsy shop has reacquainted me with my sewing machine (and fabric shops), so I'm hoping my quilting bug returns. I'm machine quilting a pepper quilt I started when we first moved to Indiana.<br />
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The archived process of making this quilt is on my very first (I think), <a href="http://joannaquilts.blogspot.com/search?q=pepper" target="_blank">rather old blog</a>. Here's the best photo from the series:<br />
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We have lots more work to do before the snow (I hope!) flies, but we've gotten a good start.<br />
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Delicata squash soup and tomatoes on garlic bread with NY wine.<br />
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Two pots of tomato sauce for canning. Bill was pretty insistent that the yellow pot stay purely yellow. There were two separate spoons for stirring, and the immersion blender had to go into the yellow sauce first, lest some red bits contaminate it.<br />
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Not being eaten are these yellow pickling cucumbers. Bill has trepidation about them, and I rightfully know that all cucumbers are vile. So, I've been picking them and they sit on our counter...destined to become chicken food. <br />
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Finally, here's what the goats and sheep have been eating. That "grass is greener" thing is apparently not to be taken lightly, as I noticed when we moved some fences around this weekend. The old paddock where the ruminants had been confined is on the left. There is a clear line where the fence was with the "other side" of the fence on the right. Makes you think that maybe we've been using that saying incorrectly for all these years.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-77127667065759789522013-08-22T08:09:00.003-07:002013-08-22T08:09:55.709-07:00A belated garden update...Here is how our garden looked about a month ago. My recent life has been totally devoted to canning tomatoes, though we did enjoy some delicata squash soup last night.<br />
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(clockwise from top left) Chocolate cherry, Martino's Roma, Wapsipinicon Peach, Opalka and Sungella tomatoes. All heirlooms. <br />
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All these peppers have been eaten by a capsaicin -loving bunny. <br />
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Reid's (Reed's?) yellow dent corn for feeding the birds over the winter and for making masa flour to keep us in corn tortillas for every meal of every day. YUM! <br />
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Squashes - butternut and delicata. <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9061669562808765806.post-12834863322593364832013-08-09T12:02:00.001-07:002013-08-09T12:03:13.468-07:00Pink ShawlI have a big blog post planned for you with all sorts of garden photos...but our internet is being slower than usual and uploading each photo takes about 5 minutes. We hope to resolve the issue early next week. In the meantime, here is a shawl I recently finished.<br />
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It is the Aestlight Shawl by Gudrun Johnston in Tosh Merino Light, which is a single ply. The shawl is knit in the traditional Shetland construction, which means I knit the big garter triangle from the bottom up and then picked up stitches along the edges to make the decorative border. <br />
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And, just so you don't think I'm turning into some sort of Fancy Lady because now I have a pink shawl...<br />
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