Photographic update

This is the tractor we're buying. All I need to do it get it delivered. And pay for it. And learn how to use it :)

















This is the shed all painted. I've since done some improvements like a tiny window for light, a rain barrel out back and improved the doors to the loft.



















This is the Boss working away at the log ends for the cordwood bunkie we hope to build this fall. We have to brush every log clean of moss and dirt. It's going to take some time. The bunkie may end up getting a lot of natural light :)

















And Bro, as soon as we're at a stage to begin real construction - i.e. laying the concrete slab I'll let you know.

Farm update

I just spent a couple of days at the land. I have the shed painted, it still looks pretty rough. I'm happy to say that my makeshift water collection system seems to be working well and the 55 gallon rain barrel is about half full! I guess if you do enough something is bound to work half well.

Other than that I've started cutting up the cedar rails for the bunkie. We probably have half the rails we need already. now we just need to get the truck fixed so we can get the rest and pick up our trees. I'm not optimistic that the bunkie will get done this fall though. I'm thinking it will be November before we can seriously get to work on it and we can't do the mortar if there is going to be frost so it will take some luck. That would be too bad too since I was really hoping to have somewhere solid to stay for working over the winter.

Sad story

We were doing some kijiji farm shopping this weekend and found ourselves
in a beautiful place with a sad story. We were buying some cedar rails
for the cordwood Bunkie we hope to build this fall and the man said he
had a long driveway and his house was on top of the hill.

His driveway was about a kilometre long alternating between tree-lined
and open to his fenced in fields. The house sat on a clear hilltop with
magnificent views of rolling hills farmland all around. An older
gentleman he said he owned the land for 38 years. Three years ago he had
his house built there on the hill but now was in the process
of getting the place ready to sell. A life’s retirement plan wiped out
in it’s infancy by the stock market “adjustment” in 2009. Yet he
still gave us a deal on the rails.

Despite the fact that the gas station we intended to use in Tweed was
closed for the police investigation into the armed robbery that had just
taken place, the people we met cedar rail shopping make me more anxious
than ever to get out of the city and into the rural life. It was funny actually to overhear all the rumors about who did it while we were at the gas station and the hardware store and then to get the official police story from the internet on Tuesday.