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Sep. 3rd, 2022 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormThis morning I woke up from a dream about the end of all things and cleaned out the quail house. This meant moving all the cardboard from the front yard to the side yard, where I broke down the boxes and lay it down between berry bushes in the haskap and sour cherry patch) the next strip up the hill is planted this year with apples, roses, and ribes).
To do that I had to cut down a bunch of aspen suckers.
Then I shovelled the bedding out of the quail house on top of the cardboard, a nice light dusting of duck-poop-soaked straw and woodchips that hopefully aren't too much nitrogen and can age into the cardboard's carbon over the fall.
Cut aspen stems went on top of that, to keep the rain from washing the bedding downslope atop the slippery cardboard.
Then I hauled fresh woodchips into the quail house, just in time for it to recieve 9 extra roosters from a friend of mine, they'll get butchered and canned over the next month or so.
I went back around to the front and broke down some more cardboard boxes, clearing out my A-frame that had been holding them; I'll use it for my tillers and the snowblower this winter. I need to do more lasagna bedding in the front, around the burr oak, apple, and couple berries in the lawn. Bedding from the goose shed can go there.
But really all this is prep for wanting to build another shed, a feed shed, either down in the thistle patch between the muscovy shed and the chicken slaughter station or in the angle of the unsafe cabin with the wood foundation.
Instead, since my neighbour spotted a sow (bear) with two cubs in her yard, I'll probably work on apples.
To do that I had to cut down a bunch of aspen suckers.
Then I shovelled the bedding out of the quail house on top of the cardboard, a nice light dusting of duck-poop-soaked straw and woodchips that hopefully aren't too much nitrogen and can age into the cardboard's carbon over the fall.
Cut aspen stems went on top of that, to keep the rain from washing the bedding downslope atop the slippery cardboard.
Then I hauled fresh woodchips into the quail house, just in time for it to recieve 9 extra roosters from a friend of mine, they'll get butchered and canned over the next month or so.
I went back around to the front and broke down some more cardboard boxes, clearing out my A-frame that had been holding them; I'll use it for my tillers and the snowblower this winter. I need to do more lasagna bedding in the front, around the burr oak, apple, and couple berries in the lawn. Bedding from the goose shed can go there.
But really all this is prep for wanting to build another shed, a feed shed, either down in the thistle patch between the muscovy shed and the chicken slaughter station or in the angle of the unsafe cabin with the wood foundation.
Instead, since my neighbour spotted a sow (bear) with two cubs in her yard, I'll probably work on apples.
