Cabin update: still waiting on the cost estimate and materials price list from the builder, so there's no progress on the cabin.

The weeds were starting to come back in the excavated area that's not covered in rock, so I laid down loads of weed mat: https://youtube.com/shorts/7CXxj_mpAeE

Once the building is all done, and if I have any $ left, I'll bring in soil and mulch and put trees in.

In the meantime, there's plenty of other garden work to do...infinite weeding, vine removal, etc.

I have much greater visibility from the road now, so I plan to plant some bamboo as a privacy screen. (One morning after excavation , I was walking around the excavated area in my sleeping clothes, and there's a neighbor walking their dog, smiling and waving at me, giving me the thumbs up. For someone who's used to living behind a bunch of jungle scrub, the visibility from the road is a bit much!).

I'll keep the uluhe fern, 'ohi'a, and some large bushes that are right up against the road, and plant bamboo right behind it. However, that area is totally overgrown with wedelia vine right now, so I gotta clean all that first. I've learned that there really is no point to plant something in an area that's covered with weeds. The weeds will win.

On the plus side, the rainy season is over so we have a lot more rain-free hours in the day, but on the minus side, it's super hot and very difficult to work in the sun between 10am and 3:30pm. Anyway, the garden won't clean itself, so I better stop complaining and get to it.

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It's not something we use every day, but I have to say a weed wrench (aka "Extractigator") is impressively useful when needed.

Since I was surveying the fence for deer holes (yep, SW corner was open) I noted a few newly established, invasive scotch broom plants. So I got out the wrench to pull them. The hardest part is carrying the wrench out to the weed, haha

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Storm blew the barn door open out in the meadow.

I guess the inner latching bar system isn't that great and can shake itself off the hook when the storm rattles on the doors long enough.

These big doors are giant sails in a storm. Luckily doesn't appear to have damaged anything.

A scrapmetal bar was added for now. I'll have to make a better latch soon™.

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Stormy day, its blowing old tractor doors.

Bob is struggling to stay upright and his hat flew off, but he continues to guard the garlic bed, the only thing planted so far.

Rightly so, the temperature has dropped again and we've spotted a few snowflakes.

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Do any of my followers or fediverse fedizens OGL/Homestead or raise animals (non-cat/dog/fish/chicken)?

More focus towards pigs, sheep, goats, and/or asses?

Sheepies and piggies are what I'm looking towards, on top of chickens.

A lot of homesteaders and OGL peeps are on Youtubes (probably for monetisation reasons, sometimes sponsored, so they can make the cheese to get what they need).

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