Ramping Up

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It's fall. Everything is ramping up. August and late July are a lull after spring garden and fence-building and pruning and building and generally getting to know the land again after snow; September and hopefully October are the race before snow.

I need to do a whole bunch of things:

Build a snowblower shed so I can get the snowblower out of the carport (which requires chiseling ice off to open) and also put wood in there

Clear out the carport, bring currently cut wood in, stack it, buy a chainsaw, and cut more wood

Figure out a storage solution for potatoes. Harvest potatoes.

Hang tomatoes in carport to ripen/stack in newspaper

Can beans and tomatoes and salsa

Figure out a grain drying/storage solution for this year's grains

Pigs into far field, which means making an A-frame shelter for them

Winterize the quail coop with lumber wrap

Get straw and hay

Pig straw/hay storage solution

Empty chicken coop and refill with straw

Pick up anything that could get caught in the snowblower and maybe predetermine snow paths

Process a bunch of birds etc

Pallets on the north side of the house to prevent bird digging

Clean out under the front porch & more straw there

Bird compost stuff onto the garden for the winter, or in the greenhouse

Build another greenhouse

Prep for coastal pilgrimage



I wish I could just take a month off and do this stuff. I'm also currently still exploring work options and whatnot, and in discussion with Tucker about where we'll live. The farm work is a nice anchor.