Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010
Chris and I were in PA and NY from Friday-Monday. Yesterday she taught sewing classes at the Carrboro Art Center all day, while I began trying to restock our woodpile. I have permission to cut wood at a tree farm just a few miles away, and working by myself I managed to fill the truck with hardwood in about 3 hours.
Today Chris began planting – lots of little peat pots, and we have ordered plug trays to do many more. I started to send Christopher out to dig up the hydrant out by the stock tank, but in the process thought maybe it might be worth trying to change the head one more time. Amazingly, we got a good grip with my big pipe wrenches and using pipes for leverage, I managed to hold the hydrant rigid while Christopher got the handle loose. From there it was pretty much all downhill and we no longer have a leaking pasture hydrant. We may have other leaks, but that’s not one of them anymore. I also made progress on fabricating a new PTO shaft for the tiller – that should be finished in the next day or so and I can get to tilling.
Sometime in the last few days I mocked up a design for a chicken – rabbit coop. It will be a spring-summer project using the mobile home frame I bought last year.
