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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!
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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
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From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To:
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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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