If U could C the things I've seen with your Is

2011-02-05T11:46:00.000-08:00

The Last of the Apples

2010-05-03T11:00:00.000-07:00

Finally!!!

2010-04-27T16:19:00.000-07:00

Pappas got new kids

2010-04-19T22:06:00.000-07:00

Late Snow on Goats

2010-04-16T19:18:00.000-07:00

The Latest

2010-04-01T12:56:00.000-07:00

Any Guesses

2009-09-21T16:50:00.000-07:00

Constraints

2009-08-17T19:25:00.000-07:00

Lately, I have been feeling constrained. So I have widened my perspective to encompass more of the world. If the new proportions cause discomfort, let me know.

Making the cut, or not

2009-05-19T04:34:00.000-07:00

I kissed a goat

2009-04-13T18:29:00.001-07:00

A few things going on

2009-02-25T18:56:00.000-08:00

There's a wet storm coming in. We got a little over a foot out of it.

I might have spoken too soon about how much snow we have.

Cracklin' Bits for Baloo.

2009-02-09T11:14:00.000-08:00

Every Woodsman knows... Dress in layers

It's been a moderately snowy winter. It isn't unusual for the snow to pile up and make a continuous ramp down the roof onto the ground. Those are blocks of ice from frozen goat buckets. At it's coldest, we would find these in the buckets each morning. They have to go inside to thaw enough to get them out of the buckets. Taking water out two or three times a day is maybe the most consuming chore in the winter.

Is that a dead cat?

Cranky cat woken from a nap, maybe..

Burned some wood, a little bit left

Spar Que?

Just think, you too could have 5 thousand volts coursing through your veins....

Summac debarked by goats

That's a three foot stake

Just a few words

2009-01-26T12:37:00.000-08:00

I know my life would look all right if I could see it on the silver screen, James Dean....

TaaaDaaaa

Look at my teefers

Nobody here but us chickens!

In my room

2008-12-23T19:58:00.000-08:00

The one in the red collar is the borrowed buck

The near one is our weather. He might have managed to miss the fate intended. The far one is our doeling from this spring. Hopefully, she is pregnant, she seemed to go into heat last friday.

In no particular order

2008-12-13T17:10:00.001-08:00

Getting cleaned up for work

2008-11-03T17:10:00.001-08:00

Sorry about the duplication, This got accidently published in the wrong blog....

I had to do some things this weekend that I really didn't want to. The weather has been been getting colder and it would nice to light a fire in the kitchen stove. But when I looked at the condition of the stove pipe, I knew I couldn't get away with running the stove before cleaning the chimney and stove.

In the stove I found about an inch deep of fly ash under the hob as well as under the oven. No creosote, though.

The meat of the job was cleaning the chimney, though. Not a job I relished.

The chimney comes out of the center of the Elle, the middle of the ridge line. Just guessing, but I think the ridge line is about 30 feet above ground. Thirty feet up in a 45 degree slate roof isn't really my favorite place to spend a Sunday afternoon. I am not fond of heights without a safety. I've done some rock climbing, but always with a safety. I didn't much like standing on that peak with nothing to hold onto but the chimney. This kind of work it pays to do slowly and careful.

That's a pail full of creosote we shoveled out of the thimble. I bet things flow a little better without that inch of crust caking the inside of the stove pipe.

Clump of fall pictures

2008-11-03T16:55:00.000-08:00

This is some pasture we didn't seed after the logging for comparison.

This is a similar area that got a pasture mix. You can see the well established clover amongst the tall grass. It was seeded in early august. I think it is well established and will easily survive the winter

An apple tree a friend gave us. He gave us three apples and three pears. Hope they survive the winter. Its a little late, close to freezing, but they should be fine, I think.

Chickens and guineas eating windfall apples from the tree by the house. A shame that we didn't pick them first, but we got several bushels of apples for the animals out of it. And we still got enough eating apples off the tree to keep us a long while.

Three Cherubs sitting down for breakfast in the kitchen. Not sure which is the odd man out though...

Who knew mommy had a construction site in her garden?

Labor Day Weekend in Maine

2008-09-11T19:59:00.000-07:00

We took our son for his second semi annual white water trip in Maine.

Getting his boat ready.

Who knew he was Shred Ready?
Before running the Dead at 55 Hundred, we hiked up to Grand Falls.

I neglected to tell him there would be a water crossing..

Wading in

Good thing I have this stick

I know Stephen is taller than I, but I am pretty sure I was standing in a hole there!

Stephen is a little bit Kris Kristopherson, a little bit Garison Kealer

So, son, was the hike worth it?

That's the sign for boat. I think he wants to run it.

It looks mean to me.

Stephen and my son picking their lines

Dad, I think you are going to need this

Dad, are you sure this is safe?

Mom, I'm sure this isn't safe. My pants are wet!

Dad, let me show you how to do that right

Family photo

Disclaimer: No little boys were injured or scared in the filming of this project

the way things look to us

2008-05-10T05:48:00.000-07:00

A cobble of shots looking 360 degrees from the drive way. If I did it right, click on the picture to view a larger version (about 500 k)

Baloo finds a friend

2008-04-26T20:33:00.001-07:00

Just some random cutesy photos around the place

Baloo the dog is loving the new buckling. They play and snuggle.

I often over dub for baloo. I think he is saying "Cats are bad enough, this thing has hooves"

Mother and daughter

Our frog

Post partem depression?

Keeping warm

2008-01-25T11:29:00.000-08:00

A little Chilly this morning. It was actually negative nine when I got up, but it warmed up.

A bright morning, you can see the hore frost in the trees in the distance.

The goats seem unphazed, but sparky had frost on her hair this morning.
The Goat House does a good job protecting them from the elements. Protection from wind and damp is most important.

The goat house warms up quick in the sun, though. Zero outside, thirty degrees inside.

Just to get rolling

2008-01-22T18:08:00.001-08:00

This is just a companion photo blog to my other blog. Don't read too much into it, I don't plan to write much.

These are just some pictures of the current state of things to give you an idea of what we think is important and how we live.