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7/31/2011
Refit the water line to the 1550 gallon tank at the top of the property and pumped a tank of water.
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7/30/2011
The concrete dolly will roll under the building and deliver the concrete to where it is needed. 1 1/3 cubic feet at a time.
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7/29/2011
Sand, gravel and cement ready to be mixed, almost.
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7/28/2011
Piled brush for burning next winter. Moved canned food to temporary storage. 30 dozen quarts of fruit and tomatoes.
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7/27/2011
Dry storage reorganized, I am going to build shelves.
Reorganized H&A stuff.
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7/26/2011
Pitch from a pine tree. I gathered 168 grams.
Double boiler made from two cans. About an hour to get it melted and big debris out. Add 3 grams bees wax to keep it sticky.
Wax paper tube as a form. Shaped into bar 128 grams. Now to fletch some arrows.
Pruned the flume ditch. Found a Yew Berry, Pretty but deadly. Looks like Xmas.
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7/25/2011
Chain put away after moving logs. Some of it was rusty, a shovel of gravel and water and into the mixer... 15 minutes and clean chain!
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7/24/2011
After 26 years, the door fell apart, fixed it with clear wrap and tape. Bought a new fridge. Getting all the canning jars cleaned and put away.
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7/23/2011
More sauce, 36 Quarts.
Fire wood.
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7/22/2011
Cedar, they smell so good. We don' t cut the live ones, sometimes they just die.
Going to the wood shed.
So what did Karen do on her 63rd birthday. Cut firewood! Lilly too.
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7/21/2011
Always nice to see.
Now to get the saw mill here.
Just a little bit more.
He is helping.
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7/20/2011
He is not happy he has a beer, he is happy we are done for the day.
More trees down the hill.
This morning's pickings.
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7/19/2011
29 Quarts of Tomato Sauce
So It rained 1/2 inch last night.
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7/18/2011
34 Quarts.
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7/17/2011
No rest for the wicked.
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7/16/2011
The Hazel Nuts are getting bigger, I have to watch them closely because the Squirrels are too!
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7/15/2011
The bees have been in their new hive two weeks, I added a shelf to keep them out of the soapy insect trap in the pans. Bottles.
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7/14/2011
Down the hill with cable and snatch block (big pulley for steel cable).
4 wheel drive in low range.
Pry bars and muscle.
Only 20 or so to go.
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7/13/2011
Jacked up the building and put it on a steel girder, now to pour concrete under it and finish it!
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7/12/2011
Cleaned and repaired Big Pressure Cookers, that is a quart jar.
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7/11/2011
To protect the apiary I needed post, then pound them in, but they are 10 ft tall, build a tool, go to work.
Push it up as far as you can and let it slam down, pile driver.
So when it is in, get the driver off with another tool, like having a whale on a fishing pole.
Do it again
Here it comes. Now dig a hole for the gate post.
Take the dirt out by hand, then more jackhammer.
Any deeper and I will be eating dirt. OK about right.
Drill for the hardware. Gate is up.
Put up the fencing. With a few more wires it will be done. Next electrify!
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7/10/2011
Put together a stool for Karen.
Worked on the irrigation system. Now the garden waters itself.
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7/9/2011
Karen split and seeded and then dehydrated these cherries for the trail. Sun dried!
Sprayed Poison Oak
First three rows, 21 quarts of Bing Cherries.
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7/8/2011
So what you cooking Jimmy? Amalgam.
Cleaned and ready to sell. About $21.00
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7/7/2011
The garden has finally started to grow.
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7/6/2011
Dennis finds a penny weight in one crack. That is 24 grains.
Dennis knows how much water to use, especially when he checks the box.
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7/5/2011
Fair Play, 50 years ago no trees stood inside the mine.
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7/3/2011
Scales, calibrated and ready to go.
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7/2/2011
Sprayed Round up on the Poison Oak on the flume ditch.
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7/1/2011
We captured a swarm of bees last week and today we put them into their new home.
New Top Bar Bee hive open and ready for the Sycamore Bees. Lighting the Smoker.
Opening the trap I did not know what to expect. Our first comb goes into the new Top Bar Hive.
The combs keep on coming, full of Honey and Bees.
The zip ties hold old comb to bate the trap, they cleaned it and have honey stores in it already, about 10 days.
I could not believe it.
All in all, we got 4 lb. of bees and 7 combs.
A small reward. Closing up.
Yummy! Set to be left alone for a while.