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  • From: "E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>
  • To: "McBride & Putnam" <dragonhill2@netzero.net>, "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] nothing else to do?
  • Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:02:55 -0600

I feel your pain!  I cleared and cleaned our 4 acres of juniper thicket by hand, with axe and saw, for 22 years, until the ice storm of 1995.  Then, WITH chain saw, my wife and I spent 500 man-and-woman hours cleaning up.  UGH!
 
E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] nothing else to do?

I wish I could say I've been able to give all the recent post the attention
they deserved, but we were hit pretty hard by the ice storm that went thru a
couple of weeks ago and most of my time seems to be spent behind a chainsaw
these days.  That's one modern convenience I'm glad to have.  While I want
to add one and two (wo)man cross-cut saws to our tool shed eventually, we
don't have them yet and the amount of large downed branches we have is
staggering.  Two years worth of firewood easily, especially since the green
elm will need to dry 2 years to burn well.  Our weather has been pretty good
since the ice storm, which helps with the clearing, but makes it
frustrating, because there's so much I need to be getting done in the garden
and fields.  You may recall, I was just busy spreading my huge compost pile
on one field where I want to plant oats followed by mangles and dumping a
big pile over into the garden to be spread on the raised beds.  I recently
purchased a old but serviceable, horse-drawn cultivator and I want to use it
to further spread the compost over the field for the mangels.  And the work
that needs to be done in the vegetable garden is just daunting.  And the
greenhouse! It's just about time to start seedlings and I haven't got the
sides on my greenhouse!

Claudia


----- Original Message -----
From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 3:45 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] nothing else to do?


>
> These last few days have been quite a rush on this list. I hope the 488
> subscribers have been duly entertained and not too frustrated with all the
> posts. Maybe it's the holiday time off or cold days when we can't get out
> much. Hasn't been above freezing here today and this is all that's keeping
> me from cabin fever ;-) I got a kick out of the potato stories, can't wait
> to show Barb.
>
> Our best to everyone out there and I hope you're warmer than we are.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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