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.

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!