Things are so busy right now.

Mom and my youngest brother are here. I'm working, and they are bush days so I can't do home things around work: instead I need to use extra time at home to prep clothes and lunches, check weather, and charge devices. I'm doing this course, which does not have the two hours of homework stated: it's more like 4 or 5 ( Read more... )

Last night I started up the woodstove; it got down to -5C last night and the mud was frozen this morning for early walking. My house is warm; the pain/slowdown of joints and muscles that my mind is so good at sidestepping is gone and with it a lot of tension and unrecognised cognitive load. I still need to figure out what to do with the roof, but I ( Read more... )

There's a day in my cycle every month where I want to do lots of cleaning. We're going into winter and I'm spending actual time indoors. And folks are coming to tear apart the chimney, theoretically, and replace it.

So I've been overhauling the house. I had to take down the bookshelves that were up against the chimney. My livingroom isn't really ( Read more... )

Anconas, 34 eggs, 29 fertile, 18 hatched

Also first corn in the ground

Also drains working again

So tired

We've had a thaw here: huge full moon over halloween and up to 11C or so, brely dropping overnight. The snow is gone, the water atop slush is gone. Mars (?) has been bright in the sky lately whenever I look.

The BC election has come and gone. The NDP, a labour/traditionally left but becoming centre as society catches up party, got I think their ( Read more... )

I really enjoy wood heat.

I probably say this a couple times a year but it's so true every time.

There are definitely inconveniences: without a good backup heat system I can't go away in very cold weather, I need to be home at about the right time to stoke the fire, I need to keep the chimney clean and source wood and that takes work.

There are clear ( Read more... )

Cleaned the chimney, started the woodstove last night. Ooof.

The house feels so much nicer though. And there's something about wood heat, it makes the house feel quieter. Stepping out from the warm house into the woodsmoke-smelling cool air outside, though: it's definitely fall.

This morning I didn't feed the fire. Once a month I let it die down and stick my phone up there and take a picture of the chimney; about once every two months I clean the chimney; seems like every 2 chimney cleans I take out the ashes. Tonight I'm going for dinner with old coworkers and then staying at a friend's, my old boss'; tomorrow I clean the ( Read more... )

I walked my fields for the first time last weekend ( Read more... )

There's a ghost in the machine. I'd forgotten ( Read more... )