Fall is always a busy time what with
finding & putting away all the gardening tools left in various hidden
corners, leaning against this tree or that or, surprise surprise,
back where it actually belongs! Gathering those tender pots of
plants just hanging around, dragging the citrus trees grown from seed
saved from fruit eaten many Christmases ago back into the greenhouse,
and doing all the little thing that the onset of winter dictates that
we must get done NOW adds to the list!
This fall in addition to the usual
chore of transferring 6 or 8 cord of wood from the 'woodyard' to the
woodshed and then felling, moving and cutting up a number of damaged,
twisted or dieing maples for next years firewood we cut about 20 pine
for lumber. It is now all sawn thanks to Dennis
and his portable sawmill and 2000Bd ft or so of pine
lumber is put away to dry ready for next summers building
projects, and the mostly maple
logs are all blocked ready for splitting come spring.
The old Fergison tractor is serviced
and blower hung on back, pails of soil brought in ready for feb /
march seeding of more perennials (though where we will plant them
when grown is a bit of a problem). A gentle stroll
around our bush trails reveals many recently blown down small dead limbs to be picked
up for firewood or moved off the trails but at this point in the year
that is yet another job for after winter has added to the pile.
Meanwhile both the wood box and the rum
bottle are full AND the sun is out .......life is good.
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