First you cut the tree… November 4, 2009
Posted by lujos in Forestry work, Lujos.Tags: Lujos
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…then you make your own pine beams!
Remember when I told you about cutting several pine trees in our forest? In the spring? We logged the smaller bits for firewood, and kept the larger, straight trunks for use elsewhere.
What type of use, I hear you ask? Well, we will make some into beams for building, and some for cutting into planks - hopefully to build a shed/workshop for our agricultural materials. The plan is to eventually use the current workshop for a “Lujos factory”!
Kenton just started putting the trunks on the sawmill yesterday – in just a short time, we have 2 long, lovely beams!
See for yourself.
Autumn chores November 3, 2009
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Well, I think the very warm weather is finally at an end. Or at least, it seems so. In its place is not the rain we were hoping for, but wind.
Now don’t get me wrong, here at Casa Tyr we like the wind! And need it! We live off grid, with electricity generation coming from our solar panels and wind turbine. So, if it’s not at least breezy, we have to rely on just the panels, which is not A Good Thing.
But, as usual, we either get loads of wind, or not at all! This week we’ve seen the LOW scenario – so I can, if I wish, run around using every electric appliance we own, and still have electricity to spare! But I don’t.
We have loads of chores set for ourselves for November, and so far, we’ve made a good start. We have:
- sorted out our chimney’s ’sombrero’ (the little whirlygig bit at the top that extracts the smoke). Note: this is now back on the list because the sombrero flew off in Sunday night’s wind!!!)
- ordered fire glass for the fireplace
- sorted out the top herb garden
- fixed the rotovator
- started the process of making beams from the pine logs on the drive (via our super-duper Logosol sawmill!! Video to follow shortly!!)
- ordered a new soap mould
Next on the list: rotovate the bottom garden, plant the winter veg, and feed the potatoes! Now who ever said we didn’t lead an exciting life?!
Summer in October October 31, 2009
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From what I’ve heard, there is a lot of “Indian summer” going around! That is certainly the case here – all of October it seems to just be getting warmer and warmer!
Now don’t get me wrong, I love the warm, sunny weather, blue skies, etc. But even I have to admit that it isn’t normal. By now, we should be having at least some rainy, cool days. Everyone in town worries that we will have a dry winter – always a worry in agricultural areas, especially in Spain, where from June-September there is no rain at all.
We have finished our usual October chores, despite the heat. We’ve picked chestnuts and walnuts, weeded the potato patch, and so on – sweating the whole time! Usually we have at least one or two days of rainy, damp weather while we’re picking, but not this year!
Anyway, I thought you might enjoy a by-product of our warm weather – all the flowers think it’s time to blossom again!
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