A Game of Horse and Mouse
As cat’s go, Horse is alright. She does a lot of the things that make cats jerks – scratches up the woodwork, alights on countertops and other surfaces where she knows she is not welcome, and bites my hand and…
First Sign of Spring
Its been a long winter, but the first bud on our Rhubarb came up and its starting to feel like spring.
Shaker Bench
We’ve been working on the kitchen, slowly perfecting it to match our every day habits. The first big change was a new fridge, a small SMEG fridge that is a foot and a half shorter than our old one and…
New Door Latches
Doing a little bit of home improvement this weekend, a really minor change but feels like a major improvement. Ever since we moved in we have had rubber bands holding the doors closed on the upstairs cabinets, they have been…
Guineas: The New Flock
After our rat issue precipitated by over-wintering the guinea hens we have decided to only keep them from spring till fall and butcher them for meat. So, we butchered the birds last fall and have been eating them slowly over…
Reclaimed Wood Boxes & Frames
Our driveway is long, so long it shows up as a road on Google maps. Along the length of the driveway is over 300′ of wood fence. It’s finally come to the point it where it is so rotten it…
Eating the Guineas
After the fox started picking off a guinea or so a day it was clear our flock wouldn’t last more than a few weeks into the fall, so we opted to butcher and freeze them instead of trying to get…
How to: Building a Cold Frame
It took a bit longer than I expected, but our cold frames are complete. I wrote about our idea for collapsable cold frames two months ago, with the overly optimistic notion that it would be a weekend project and I…
A tour of Green Chimneys
The Harlem Valley train line that runs to our town has a major terminus in Brewster, New York, about 30 minutes south of us. Trains run there more regularly that our Wingdale Station, so we find ourselves down there pretty…