Trail reopened!

It wasn’t easy, but we got the trail reopened today. Sorta…

Maracas!

Made a couple maracas out of a black willow tree. Net worth: 17 cents each based on internal content.

Widow Maker

The potential widow pulls down the potential widow maker hung in the woodlands.

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Redbud Wood

One of our Redbud trees lost a limb over the garden, so I cut it up and split the logs. I was surprised by the grain color and texture, a first for me. I guess we’ll be heating with redbud wood one day this winter.

 

What a Day!

What a day for an assault on an old wood pile in the woodlands.

Maple Tree Down!

You never really know when a silver maple tree will keel over on to the dock. Fortunately, we were not sitting there feeding the turtles at the time. And just like that, the tree is gone.     […]

Hiking…

My hiking buddy this week in the woodlands, on the trail and off to get the mail.

Jewelweed!

Here in the woodlands, we’ve found Jewelweed to be a very effective counter measure to poison ivy rashes and other itches. So today we are planting a Jewelweed garden, and we are planting it next to poison ivy. We’ve thought this through…

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Living the Dream

What a great afternoon for sawing logs and splitting firewood, Loving it.

 

Poplar

Here in the woodlands we saw up what the wind blows down. Lately poplar has been very popular.