From the monthly archives:

October 2004

The Sheep Arrive

October 15, 2004

So the sheep were coming, and we weren’t ready, as usual. We’d set up the temporary shelter that we’re going to use, out on the septic field, but the only electric fence we had was the one we’d bought for the bees. We also knew we had to keep the ram Sue away from all [...]

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Weird Mushroom Balls

October 14, 2004

We’ve been piling up a lot of our wood chips behind the compost bins, mostly to keep down the weeds in an area that’s really just a utility area at this point. We have the sawmill there, and the compost bins, and I haven’t quite figured out what I’m going to do with it yet. [...]

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Self-refueling Brush Cutters

October 11, 2004

One of the most frustrating things for me is getting some open land cleared enough for me to do things on it. We cut down the trees, the stumps are left. We have lots and lots of land with huge stumps all through it. Plus, we live in the granite state, and they weren’t kidding [...]

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Hens of the (Monadnock) Woods

October 6, 2004

A friend took us around the Monadnock region today, showing us how to spot Hens of the Woods. All of the mushroom gathering that we’ve been doing has been in our own woods or on Mushroom Walks sponsored by our local club. But it seems that Hens hang out at the base of fairly old, [...]

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