Archive for 'Chipper'
Posted: September 23rd, 2007 by
Frank
It’s ten days since the last entry. There’ve been no big developments, but much that might be worth remembering in next year, or in 2010. We’ve continued to check for mushrooms every two or three days. We caught one more small flush of trumpets (and three chanterelles) in good time, and found the remains
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Posted under Black Trumpet Mushroom, Chanterelles, Chipper, Farm Life, Horse Housing, Mushrooms, Sheep, illness.
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Posted: September 8th, 2007 by
Frank
Friday night in Marlow was entirely too exciting. Starting midafternoon or so, there was a clear smell of smoke in the air in the southwest part of town. Thing is, after the nine houses on Baine Rd, it’s two or three miles to the Alstead or Gilsum town lines, and another mile or so
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Posted under Chipper, Farm Life, Honey Bees.
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Posted: August 31st, 2003 by
Lisa
We spent all of today working on getting that downed tree out of the driveway, and it hasn’t been a good day for equipment, making it all more difficult. Frank’s Stihl chainsaw was broken yesterday by having the tree fall on it, and he bought a spare at Home Depot last night, but he really
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Posted under Chainsaw, Chipper, Design Ideas, Firewood, Japanese beetles, Lawn tractor, Lily beetles, Tractor, Truck, Window Boxes, Wine, gazebo.
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Posted: July 27th, 2003 by
Lisa
Today we mostly cut lumber from the trees that we’ve previously dropped. In particular, there was a huge oak log that Frank had dropped some time before the fire. We backed the truck up to it, pulled it out, and found that half of it had rotted away. Frank was convinced there was still some
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Posted under Chainsaw, Chipper, Clearing, Hornets, Lawn tractor, Sawmill, Tractor, Truck.
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Posted: July 19th, 2003 by
Lisa
Our second day with the sawmill was as fun as the first. I’m assuming we won’t always be so thrilled, but for now, I’m still documenting our progress madly. One of the things I found really interesting is that in 1995, when we were clearing for the main garden, we cut down a huge oak
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Posted under Chipper, Clearing, Crazy Daisy, Japanese beetles, Mountain Ash, Roses, Sawmill, Tractor, Truck.
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Posted: July 5th, 2003 by
Lisa
We goofed off all day yesterday, spending our holiday and thus day off in a canoe on the Connecticut River rather than working in the garden. We sure had fun, though, and the garden seems to have survived without us. I noticed yesterday morning that I have the first blooms from my Galliardia. This is
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Posted under Chainsaw, Chipper, Clearing, Crazy Daisy, Galliardia, Gardening, Grow lights, Tractor.
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Posted: June 29th, 2003 by
Lisa
We got out in the garden nice and early today, and really got a lot done. Frank ordered some mushroom spawn from Fungi Perfecti. Of the three kinds he ordered, two are back-ordered, but we got the Blewitt, so wanted to get the bed built for it. So first, we hauled the logs that we’d
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Posted under Back Hoe, Chainsaw, Chipper, Clearing, Lasagna Layering, Lawn tractor, Mushrooms, Raised Beds, Tractor, stropharia.
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Posted: June 15th, 2003 by
Lisa
I’m not sure all fathers would agree, but I think Frank thought his Father’s Day was pretty darn okay. The sun was shining (finally!) and we spent most of the day outside working in the new garden. After we could barely move from exhaustion, we soaked off the grime in the whirlpool tub and then
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Posted under Chipper, Jeremy, Sunny, Weed Whacker.
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Posted: June 13th, 2003 by
Frank
Another busy day. I finally removed the old pond pump. This entailed cutting it’s cord at both ends and leaving the middle section in the ground. It was buried more than a foot deep in places, under rocks. It wasn’t worth fighting with. If I can fix the pump, I can get it a new
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Posted under Chipper, Pump (pond), Tractor, Weed Whacker, hydrangea.
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Posted: June 8th, 2003 by
Lisa
The June garden is so, so pretty that I can hardly stop taking pictures. So much is in bloom that it’s a veritable bonanza out there for gardenporn right now. After a raining Saturday yesterday, we were really itching for some nice weather, so we could get out there and get stuff done. So even
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Posted under Bachelor Button, Chipper, Clearing, Columbine, Compost, Lilac, Phlox, Potatoes, alium.
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