Who needs a gym when one wants a root cellar?
One of the nice things about home ownership is the part about "do whatever you want". Granted, sometimes, for budget reasons, one chooses a slightly different "want" that choice #1. I would love a hobbit hole. But I don't need one. But I think round doors into the side of a hill are totally cool. Root cellars are cool too (literally, also). When one hopes to hold SCA camping events on one's land root cellars are also useful--how nice would it be if people on site could keep food cool in an underground room, instead of in an ice chest?
Another thing on our wish list is a slight hill in front of our house to disrupt the wind flow. Right now (well, in the winter) the wind comes from the south east, rushes across the field, slips up the rise to the house, and creates snow-dunes that crawl across the paths we shovel, filling them, and requiring us to re-shovel the same path over and over again, even when no new snow has fallen from the sky.
Therefore we are combining these goals. We are using the tractor we borrowed from lord_kjar's father to dig a large hole in the slope in front of the house. However, before we did that it was totally necessary to rescue the smultron that were growing right were we wanted to dig. That went well, and the berries seem to be happy in their new location. The digging is also going well. Some times I am busy, and he does the tractor work on his own, but on those occasions it is sometimes necessary for him to get out of the tractor and do things by hand to make it easier for the tractor scoop to lift the rocks and carry them away. Therefore, as often as I am not too busy with something higher on the priority list, I am out there working with him. While he drives away the last tractor load to the ever growing piles of dirt and rocks, I am in the hole, loosening up the large rocks, brushing dirt off of them so that he can see if he can use the scoop, or has to switch to the forks to carry them away.
Needless to say, between the transplanting and rock-loosening, I am getting a decent workout!
But, sometimes thigns are higher on my priority list. Like today's furniture re-arranging. Anyone who has read my journal for long knows that I love re-arranging furniture. Today's episode was even better than normal. I have taken the rocking chair, which I have been using as a computer chair, downstairs, and we have brought up the recliner couch. I am now happily reclined in the office, typing on my computer, and loving it. And there is room for someone to sit next to me, too.
However, I have just noticed it is 03:00, and while it is a weekend, I should probably get some sleep anyway...
Another thing on our wish list is a slight hill in front of our house to disrupt the wind flow. Right now (well, in the winter) the wind comes from the south east, rushes across the field, slips up the rise to the house, and creates snow-dunes that crawl across the paths we shovel, filling them, and requiring us to re-shovel the same path over and over again, even when no new snow has fallen from the sky.
Therefore we are combining these goals. We are using the tractor we borrowed from lord_kjar's father to dig a large hole in the slope in front of the house. However, before we did that it was totally necessary to rescue the smultron that were growing right were we wanted to dig. That went well, and the berries seem to be happy in their new location. The digging is also going well. Some times I am busy, and he does the tractor work on his own, but on those occasions it is sometimes necessary for him to get out of the tractor and do things by hand to make it easier for the tractor scoop to lift the rocks and carry them away. Therefore, as often as I am not too busy with something higher on the priority list, I am out there working with him. While he drives away the last tractor load to the ever growing piles of dirt and rocks, I am in the hole, loosening up the large rocks, brushing dirt off of them so that he can see if he can use the scoop, or has to switch to the forks to carry them away.
Needless to say, between the transplanting and rock-loosening, I am getting a decent workout!
But, sometimes thigns are higher on my priority list. Like today's furniture re-arranging. Anyone who has read my journal for long knows that I love re-arranging furniture. Today's episode was even better than normal. I have taken the rocking chair, which I have been using as a computer chair, downstairs, and we have brought up the recliner couch. I am now happily reclined in the office, typing on my computer, and loving it. And there is room for someone to sit next to me, too.
However, I have just noticed it is 03:00, and while it is a weekend, I should probably get some sleep anyway...