Posts Tagged ‘wood’

Putting New Tractor To Good Use!

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The installation of our wood stove brought about a new need, firewood. The first round of wood we struggled to get to our house in the back of our jeep. It took about three trips to get the wood seen in the picture here to our house. That clearly was not very efficient, though the price (free) was right. Now that we had the wood we had to split it. After a few tries with our ax we realized that another tool was needed.

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Wood Burning Stove

Last summer we were researching alternate home heating solutions, well we settled on an option! We decided to go with a Jotul Wood Burning Cast-Iron Stove. We were able to pick up a floor model from a company that recently changed locations for a steep discount. We hooked it up through our existing fireplace and obtained a fire/heat resistant floor mat to place in front of the stove to keep our floor from melting.

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George and I want to grow more goodness in our garden!  We discussed how to do this, and decided on creating some raised beds.  The first will go right where this row of dead bushes is. We transplanted the bushes from a friend’s yard.  We hoped they would screen the beehives a bit and protect […]

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Last Remaining Carpet

Well, George is at it again. Or more aptly, I’ve put him up to it again. Improving the house, that is.

Inside the home, we have done an amazing amount of work to improve the place in one short year. One eyesore that remained was a set of carpeted stairs. This staircase was the only carpeted area in the house, and the carpet was trashed.

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Martha and I would like to share with you our experience building our own Barrel Top Bar Hives (TBH). This is not meant to be a step-by-step tutorial, but rather a general overview of the steps we took and lessons learned during the process,. There are plenty of excellent step-by-step tutorials out on the internet […]

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