Rushing the Season

I couldn’t wait any longer, I had to rip into the monster black locust log today. It’s a flawless thing of beauty. On with the sawing and sawdust season.

Read for the thaw!

Our woodlands sea turtle looks so forlorn. We’re all ready for the thaw.

Black Friday Lug

We teamed up on Black Friday to harvest a black locust log that was lying in the woodlands, and we lugged it up to the sawmill. What a lug it was; 1,320 pounds!

Chimney Cleaning

A perfect day for another cleaning of the wood stove chimney, always a team effort. It’s a process, one that we’ve got down to a science.

Time Out for a Road Trip!

We just completed a loop of Lake Michigan. First stop, an important birthday celebration in Kenosha with homemade cupcakes and lots of gifts. Then a nod to the iconic city velodrome on the way north out of town. Passed through the meat packing region O’ Wisconsin and on to the UP. Spent the night in […]

Seedlings Growing Up!

Our young evergreen trees are growing fast and strong, but maybe not as fast and strong as the guys who planted them.

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Eclipse Mink

After the eclipse our woodlands mink showed up to check out the pond. Coincidence?

Bass Guitar Project

We have completed the bass guitar project! Lloyd and I learned a lot as we got into it and we’re proud of our work. I have to say it came out pretty pretty good.

A Home for Gennie

I made a little woodlands style hut for our standby generator. Hopefully this means we will never need to use the thing again. Yeah right.

Guitar progress!

Lloyd and I are building an electric bass guitar. The current step is to paint the body. However, spraying lacquer requires a well-ventilated warm area. Outside is the high recommendation. But it’s the dead of winter here. What to do?

Good thing the sawmill has a solar heated kiln with forced ventilation. Now it’s a […]