Purple Storm Clouds
Chronicles of the Long Shot Farm
Farm
Spring Blossoms
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| Magnolia Blossoms |
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| Blackberry Leaf Emerges |
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| Pear Blossoms |
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| Blueberry Blossoms |
Project “Clean Fence-row” – Week Two
Made more progress this week with out fence-row project. Zach cut down four more trees before heading back home to Ohio and this weekend, Jeff and Lars took turns running the chainsaw and cutting the trees into firewood, while Tina got to move the brush onto the ever growing brush-pile. Once in a while, Jeff would take the tractor and push the pile together – so there would be more room to pile more brush. Our new firewood stack is growing as well, except that we found no time for stacking, so currently it is just one huge pile as well.
Cleaning Fence-row for Future Implement Shed
The “polar vortex” moved on and temperatures went from sub-zero last week to a balmy 44 degrees this weekend – warm enough to run a chainsaw and start clearing out another fence row. We looked for the most level spot to clean up – for a future implement shed. Zach (who is visiting with his family this week) volunteered to run the chain saw, while Lars manned the log-splitter. Toben and Jeff “supervised” and Tina cleaned away the brush and stacked the smaller pieces of firewood. We got a lot done in one afternoon – and it felt so good to work outside:
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| Toben helped too |
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| Zach & his chainsaw |
Goodbye 2013
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| Another stunning sunset, as we say goodbye to 2013 |
