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Milk jugs used when milk production is up! (hopefully in February!)

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We are expecting rain this week so we filled the wood bin in preparation!

A Full Wood Bin

Project of the day! Ach the Toilet is leaking!

Our toilet in the front bath was leaking. So off to the hardware store to get seals. Once he removed the toilet he found that the bolts were broken. Fortunately, foresight had him pick up a couple new bolts at the hardware when he bought the seals! After removing the toilet, he put in the new seals and bolts and replaced the toilet.

Well, all was in place and there was water on the floor again! Dad began looking for more leaks and found that the water in-line was leaking so he tightened the fittings and TADA! That was it! Well, I guess the bolts and seals needed to be fixed, too, but it was a lot of work for a loose fitting!

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Barbed wire stored on the roof of an out building

Co-op order closing Sunday Jan 30 and Fruit...

Hi Everyone!
Our dry goods order from Harvest Time will close tomorrow, please get your orders to me ASAP.

Also, there is another group ordering oranges, grapefruits and limes... they are a bit short on the order so I thought I would see if any of you wanted to order some. Here are the prices before shipping (last year shipping was about $4/box). I need to know if you want some and how much by Sunday at 3:00pm. These are coming from a farm in TX. They are Organic.


Ruby red rio star grapefruit 40ct/40#  24.75
Naval oranges 40# 24.75
Persian limes 40# 47.75

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Shabbat Shalom!

Wood Pile

Well, we have to keep wood in our house and back porch ready for using in the stove at all times... Right now our wood is wet from the wet weather we have had this winter. Here is our wood pile (not all stacked neatly).

A lot of our wood is from a local pallet company. It is white oak cut into square or rectangle pieces. Athough this size would work great directly in a wood stove or fire place, it is too big for cooking with and needs to be split up into 2"X2" pieces. We do keep some larger pieces than 2" for overnight keeping the house warm, but for cooking we need specific sizes.

We haul the wood to the back porch where it is kept to dry for a few days.

We put the wood into a wood box (this was our whelping box, we decided to use it for a wood box since we will not have any more puppies, as you can see it works great!). 

We have the wood divided into wet and dry wood. The wood on the left is still wet (we just brought it in). You can tell by the darker color.

The wood on the right side is dry and ready to split down to a smaller size or burn as is.

Then we bring the wood into the house to dry a bit more.

The wood on the side of the stove is drying and waiting to be used. We also have baskets with wood ready to use.

Two baskets will get us through a day of cooking, one basket will last a day if we just want to keep the fire going. This system of moving the wood may not be as efficient as I would like, but it is the best we can do right now without a wood shed. I hope to build a lean-to off the back of the house for that at some future date.

Now I have all I need for the next two days! Ready for Sabbath!