More Brisk.
12/03/05 5:00 A.M.
07 F, Cloudy, W wind 01 mph.
Good morning,
There definitely is frost on the pumpkin this morning. The temperature should triple before dropping again tonight. Looks to be 05-07 F as lows for the next few days. Talking of a little snow in the next couple of days.
I did get out and clear off the log bunk yesterday. All of the logs are blocked and either on the splitting pile or in the house to be used. There are not enough larger blocks to warrant starting up the splitter. I also put the last of the chainsaw gas into the saw yesterday, so will have to mix more. The gas can for the splitter is all but empty too. Will have to re-fill both before doing much more. Almost threw a full gallon bottle of bar and chain oil away, leaving the empty one in the shed. Not too sure what I was thinking the last time I filled the chainsaw.
Margriet saw a "deer" pass though the yard at the sight line yesterday at breakfast time. She said she could not figure out what is was as she just caught a glimpse of it, but was too small to be a deer. She was sure it was not a squirrel or other small animal. We just figured out what it was - a fox. She saw it again this morning and I saw it too. It was right outside of the house trotting to the road through the woods. That also explains all of the tracks in the snow I could not identify when the light snow was coming down - filled up with light snow too fast. FISKLAND is full of rabbit tracks, so suspect that is the attraction for the fox. We rarely see them. I haven't seen a fox here in a could of years, then usually crossing a road as we are driving. They are a pretty animal to watch and very graceful in their movements.
Our larder has two fresh breads in it. I almost died of hunger yesterday, smelling them bake. It sure is a nice smell - and taste - to have bread baking in the house. We will totally enjoy them for sure.
Today our church sponsors the annual "Harvest Dinner" for folks who are alone or can't afford to celebrate a Christmas meal. We have to prepare something to bring and will spend a good chunk of the day helping there. It is always a good time and we also get a chance to eat too much. We have been doing the dinners for six years and I think I have been involved with all of them. Our involvement this year is not as much as in the past.
I took a walking tour around the trees I still have to cut down. While the woods look beautiful under a cover of new snow, the soil beneath the snow is still soft and wet, not frozen. I managed to get both feet wet, stepping into mud up to my ankles. I was trying to avoid that, so stepped on a hummock which turned out to be only tufts of grass covered with snow. There is a lot of water standing in the swamps at the moment. The area around the cutting buck is a semi-solid ice/snow mix. I stay on top of it, but am worried about stepping through when the temperature rises a bit.
In the mail I received a newspaper put out by a sawmill company and noticed some new ideas in it. They referred me to a website (www.logosol.com) for more information. When I brought it up and clicked on the information I wanted to look at, there was a problem with the download. Apparently the Adobe Reader which was loaded on the new hard-drive was an older version and the site needed the new one. So .... I had another thing to reset on this. After several hours of deleting, downloading, and installing, I am now set up with the current version. Wonder what I will need to change or add next. Still don't have several programs loaded yet which I want to.
Guess it is time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
07 F, Cloudy, W wind 01 mph.
Good morning,
There definitely is frost on the pumpkin this morning. The temperature should triple before dropping again tonight. Looks to be 05-07 F as lows for the next few days. Talking of a little snow in the next couple of days.
I did get out and clear off the log bunk yesterday. All of the logs are blocked and either on the splitting pile or in the house to be used. There are not enough larger blocks to warrant starting up the splitter. I also put the last of the chainsaw gas into the saw yesterday, so will have to mix more. The gas can for the splitter is all but empty too. Will have to re-fill both before doing much more. Almost threw a full gallon bottle of bar and chain oil away, leaving the empty one in the shed. Not too sure what I was thinking the last time I filled the chainsaw.
Margriet saw a "deer" pass though the yard at the sight line yesterday at breakfast time. She said she could not figure out what is was as she just caught a glimpse of it, but was too small to be a deer. She was sure it was not a squirrel or other small animal. We just figured out what it was - a fox. She saw it again this morning and I saw it too. It was right outside of the house trotting to the road through the woods. That also explains all of the tracks in the snow I could not identify when the light snow was coming down - filled up with light snow too fast. FISKLAND is full of rabbit tracks, so suspect that is the attraction for the fox. We rarely see them. I haven't seen a fox here in a could of years, then usually crossing a road as we are driving. They are a pretty animal to watch and very graceful in their movements.
Our larder has two fresh breads in it. I almost died of hunger yesterday, smelling them bake. It sure is a nice smell - and taste - to have bread baking in the house. We will totally enjoy them for sure.
Today our church sponsors the annual "Harvest Dinner" for folks who are alone or can't afford to celebrate a Christmas meal. We have to prepare something to bring and will spend a good chunk of the day helping there. It is always a good time and we also get a chance to eat too much. We have been doing the dinners for six years and I think I have been involved with all of them. Our involvement this year is not as much as in the past.
I took a walking tour around the trees I still have to cut down. While the woods look beautiful under a cover of new snow, the soil beneath the snow is still soft and wet, not frozen. I managed to get both feet wet, stepping into mud up to my ankles. I was trying to avoid that, so stepped on a hummock which turned out to be only tufts of grass covered with snow. There is a lot of water standing in the swamps at the moment. The area around the cutting buck is a semi-solid ice/snow mix. I stay on top of it, but am worried about stepping through when the temperature rises a bit.
In the mail I received a newspaper put out by a sawmill company and noticed some new ideas in it. They referred me to a website (www.logosol.com) for more information. When I brought it up and clicked on the information I wanted to look at, there was a problem with the download. Apparently the Adobe Reader which was loaded on the new hard-drive was an older version and the site needed the new one. So .... I had another thing to reset on this. After several hours of deleting, downloading, and installing, I am now set up with the current version. Wonder what I will need to change or add next. Still don't have several programs loaded yet which I want to.
Guess it is time to get the day a-going.
In Christ My Saviour,
Chris <><
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