I've renewed my mortgage here. In Canada you have to renew your mortgage every 5 years at whatever the interest rate at the time is, even if it's supposed to be a 20 year mortgage or whatever. I'm not sure why they do that, but they do.

Benefit of living out here where I do: very low cost of land. Issue with living where I do: not much equity, so ( Read more... )

I've been making cleaning progress on my home. I've been making it mine in a way I had not before: instead of letting the inside just be function, I've been making it fit me. This means that, well, Threshold has always felt like the inside of the dryad tree that was my first MU* building project long back. It's all wood inside, it's tall and arched ( Read more... )

Having people around the house is extremely different from not having people around the house.

I'm making more soap.

The last soap I made had sugar in it for extra suds, sunflower seed oil to make it more nourishing/moisturizing and to make it spoil faster (it felt right), salt in it to harden the bar, and both kinds of grit. Plus it had every scent to make me feel nourished: roses and joint soothing and benzoin to remind me of Tucker and fir ( Read more... )

Pigs/Geese: winter over in greenhouse and then move through fields

March/early April onto frozen ground as the greenhouse thaws enough to plant: field #1 from frozen ground to 1" thaw: barley, kale, cabbage gets planted when the animals leave.

April till mid-May into field #2 for and tomatoes, squash, and corn go in after.

Mid-May into field #3, ( Read more... )

The world I live in doesn't have a thing/person binary.

It has only a functional boundary around entities, depending on the scale on which I'm working at the time. Biological definitions are ruled by their exceptions and I find no truths in common wisdom or social definitions of seperateness.

As such my experience of life is like passing through a ( Read more... )

Because anything good I've done has been built on the back of a veiled "fuck you" to what it seems like the world is forcing me to do:

Year -1: What I've done: Page wire fence around the home couple acres. 5 fields plus main yard fencing mostly completed: orchard field, winter field, wood field, back field, main field plus fencing tacked onto the ( Read more... )

Mom and my brother just pulled away. It's Saturday morning and they were here just over a week. I'm actually sad to see them go, previously I would have been so relieved to have people out of my space that it would have overwhelmed everything else. I am not over-peopled these days. That's nice.

I keep wanting to write about what having mom in my ( Read more... )

It snowed yesterday in the bush.

Tucker might buy a condo this weekend in the one place I can't live.

I made soap last night, and put up 6kg of turnips to pickle. I put in the traditional beets so they turn bright pink.

This morning there is snow on the ground outside again.

It took me three or four years to bond with this land.

I don't know what my ( Read more... )

Today they are replacing my chimney. The old pieces weighed like 60lbs each, the new pieces weigh like 10.

When they took the old one apart it was definitely curling and singeing and kind of burnt/welded shut at the one joint.

There is a bucket truck here to have them access my ridiculous roof.

There were bat droppings in the chimney surround.

Until ( Read more... )