Oct. 2nd, 2022

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Josh is gone again. It was such a good visit, full of fun projects and a mix of together and alone time. Now I'm sad.

I'll get a little more sleep and write about it.

Playtime

Oct. 2nd, 2022 09:10 am
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Took a week off from work to play on the farm with Josh. What this looked like:

Chopping and pickling 76 jars (roughly 50L) of hot mixed pickle, a batch of lightly syruped strawberries, and a batch of the "ploughman's pickle" from healthy canning website
Cutting down some aspen trees with the chainsaw for mushrooms
Fixing the deck and adding a window to the carport under it
Hanging pictures on the walls
Splitting some wood
Cleaning the chimney and devising a method for me to do it on my own (last time sucked)
Making shelves in the newly-repaired carport
Borrowing a really big trailer, picking up 6 large square (half-ton) bales of straw, and using his vehicle and a pulley and a rope and some trees to pull them off the trailer and put them in strategic locations where I'll need straw in the next year
Making and eating some chinese noodle dishes Josh has been playing with lately
Looking through the garden for any ripe-enough corn, for seed, and picking it. Hulled a bunch
Petting the cats a lot
Eating lots of roast-and-foget veggies, and biscuits, both of which are my easy-to-make contributions
Making creme brulee in the low-and-slow bake method, which doesn't require twice cooking
Discussing ways to re-roof the greenhouse
Making garden signs for my plants
Cruising past the dump a couple times getting some nice-looking bits of wood and wild sunflower seeds
Sleeping in late, till 8ish, most mornings


What this did not look like:

Talking about relationship stuff
Talking about sex stuff
Trying to do anything when I was less than 100% into it, which meant a lot less physical stuff
A ton of cooking, this time
Dispatching the roosters
Finishing splitting the wood, or coming close
Actually innoculating trees with mushrooms (I'll do that today)
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Cleaned the chimney yesterday and made the first fire.

The birch is damp and hard to light, but I expect after all that pine everything will be hard to light.

Today the downstairs is up to 24C after the 16-18C that I've been holding it at with electricity. It's lovely. My muscles ache less.

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