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One of the gardeners in our Healthy Harvest group stacks 
tires and plants his potatoes, and throws on another tire 
and adds soil as they grow. I thought this was 
clever.--Sage

On Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:44:05 -0500
 EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> This was a productive weekend.  I spent a few days 
> cutting the sidewalls
> off a bunch of tires.  I think I have 23 tires in all. 
> First, I used a
> hole saw to drill a hole near the tread, then I used a 
> sawzall to cut
> off the sidewall.  All I have left to do is to cut the 
> tread and screw
> them together.  This is a project that has been on my to 
> do list for
> quite a while, maybe three years.  I want to use the 
> tread as an edging
> in the garden area. It should help with erosion as 
> well-a silt fence of
> sorts.
> Today, I burned the other brush pile.  It is still 
> going, but I've been
> checking it and there is only about one log left to burn 
> on the coals.
> We took the opportunity to roast some marshmallows 
> again..that was fun.
>  Ron has had so much energy from two good nights of 
> sleep that he has
> been cleaning up his shop and making assorted things 
> with the scrap
> wood.  He's made 3 or 4 birdhouses and will be making 
> some cutting
> boards, whirlygigs, and other stuff.  He's trying to 
> clear up the
> clutter to make room for a toybox for little JRose.
>
> We also got more wood this weekend.  I'm going to get 
> Ron to carve out a
> mortar with the chainsaw and then finish working it with 
> a small fire in
> the depression.  I still have a chainsaw fear and I'm 
> just not that
> good/precise with it.  I'll use this to dehull the rice, 
> and maybe later
> grind some acorns.
>
> I just came back from checking the fire again...I saw a 
> very nice
> meteor, probably a Taurid, streak from east to west. It 
> is a beautiful
> night.
>
> The chicks have doubled in size.  Tomorrow, hopefully, I 
> will be able to
> get an incubator and start incubating some eggs.
>
> The next couple of jobs are as follows:
>
> Dig up a 15 foot line of monkeygrass, divide it, and 
> transplant it to a
> new area.
>
> Finish removing metal from primary burn pile and create a 
> recreational
> area there.  I'm about 75% done with that project.
>
> Fence repair that I still have not finished, less than 
> 20% done so far.
>
> Pickup more black walnuts.  I cracked one of the ones I 
> collected a week
> or so ago and it was really good!  I'm not going to 
> waste the others.
>
> Find additional water collection equipment and hopefully 
> metal siding
> for rice paddy.  If I can't find a pool, I might use a 
> couple of rolls
> of metal flashing that my folks found on the side of the 
> road (!!!)
> ..not sure exactly what I will be doing yet.
>
> Order Paulownias and trees for front pasture.  Install a 
> temporary
> separation fence to protect area from mowing and acquire 
> flags to mark
> tree locations so that friend with auger can dig holes(a 
> barter
> agreement-they borrow the woodsplitter, I get my 
> treeholes dug)
>
> Finish garden planning.
>
> Bev
>
> --
> “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. 
> Anger leads to
> hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda
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