Why do I keep finding corpses around here.
This guy has obviously been dead for some time, stuck inside the straw insulation of an old livestock shack I'm taking apart.
Probably one of the local pine martens. Looks like it wasn't a peaceful death.
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Woke up with a stiff wrist, looks like I overdid it with hauling heavy stuff yesterday.
So the woodchipping I had planned for today got postponed. Went for a family walk down the valley instead, where the last snow is just melting away. Less wind there too, quite pleasant.
Picked up some trash people have "lost" up by the road and then went home to put some ice on the wrist, which always helps.
I had a thought about growing 100% of my own food.
"Diet should be based on climate and land first, then optimized for labor, then adjusted for preference."
I know what my culture recommends I grow.
I know what my preferences are.
But neither of those things mean I can grow those things and meet all of my food needs from my specific land and climate.
I love wheat, but I might need to grow flour corn.
I love bush beans but I might need to grow fava beans.
#PalletFork also suitable for beehive relocation 😁
No bees in there, so nobody got bothered (them or me).
These two hives are somewhat intact, or at least one. Might be worth saving as I have a ton of frames for them in the beekeeping shed (and even more in the attic). Needs cleanout and some repairing though.
For now I just parked them by the fence so I can clear out the junk underneath.
Edit: Solved, it was an electric concrete mixer with wheels. The drum and motor are missing from mine. Picture of the whole unit in the thread.
Scrubbed the type label a bit when hauling this away today. Slightly more readable. Type 50-65, I think? But what was it?
Also looks like the year of manufacture is 1958, not '68. Not much on the internet from that era :)
Nobody knew what this thing was for, so I cut it up for parts. Then beat the parts I couldn't cut with Mjölnir until the welds broke. 🔨
It can go be something else now. More C-beams and a nice big L for the stock steel stash.
We took off for one (1) day so naturally everything happened. First lamb of the season, 35 gallons of maple sap on top of the 30 we already had.
But, lamb and mama are happy and healthy and we have a little cold snap to hopefully get caught up on sap.
We've done several iterations of chicken coops and runs over the years. The current coop and small run are permanently placed (not mobile) but we have 3 larger runs that we rotate the flock through. Their favorite day is the first one after changing runs, like today. This particular run is the favorite of the 3 as it is closer to the direction the humans come from to give treats.
Goat pen #2 defenced. This was a horrible mess. The fence was buried deep and dozens of thorny fuckers had integrated themselves with it.
After much trying to free things up, I just tore it up with the excavator and dragged out the pieces. Still had to cut a few of them.
Then dug out the thorny fucker roots so they don't come back and sifted through where the fence had been. Only a few chunks of steel by the gate, but glad I found them as they do make a mess of the mower when you hit them.
Same for the bricks that came out and the rotavator.
Some of the soil was still frozen, which didn't help at all.
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