Since fuel prices went way up in 2005, we’ve been burning 3-4 cords of firewood every winter to augment our fuel-oil boiler heat. Along with energy related upgrades and a better wood stove, it’s really lowered our heating costs and carbon footprint. Before 2005 we’d been more lax in our wood burning, using it mostly on really cold days. But we’ve been cutting our own firewood for well over 20 years.
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Coronafoliage & Spring Shearing
Coronafoliage
Spring shearing
Ghost Manuscript Fragment and More Distancing
Earlier this winter I obtained an interesting book from an auction in Europe, a theological work by Thomas Aquinas that was printed 530 years ago this month (1490).
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Man, I was preadapted for this. My to-do list is perennially at cubic light-year proportions and is diverse enough to have kept boredom an abstract concept for decades. And we live in a home in the woods with neighbors we rarely see. We did have some unexpected guests drop by the house a couple times last week, but they were welcome, kept their distance, and didn’t stay long.
Continue readingGertrude Gets Her Lips on the Moose Candy
We feed our birds sunflower seed chips. This food is high in energy content and low in handling time. They need that when it’s really cold out and the days are short (on 21 December we have 3 hours and 41 minutes between sunrise and sunset).
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