It seems like everybody was working on their wood piles on Columbus Day. We took a family walk around the block in the morning, and saw one guy on a nearby street re-stacking his wood, and another guy was taking a delivery of split firewood. I went home and re-stacked our wood pile. We're still working on the same three-cord delivery we got two ( Read more... )

To cap off my summer, I built a fence. L.'s cousin came down from Vermont and we worked together for three and a half days, building a cedar picket fence on both sides of our house. It was something that L. and I had been wanting done to the house since we moved in. The previous fence was a chain link fence that was designed to be temporary, to sit ( Read more... )