The various weathermen and women in the area seem to agree that it is going to get cold and storm over the next few days. Consensus is rare among them, so we are hustling around today getting ready. The boss is feeding the cows up right now; all the heifers are down from the hill and hanging around pestering him while he tries to work. I suspect that he wishes they were back out.
I have been up in the old orchard gathering odds and ends of dry wood off the ground and from the old apple trees, which seem to shed dead branches like a dog sheds hair. A couple of wheelbarrows full of that stuff and the stove will really get cranking....and the kitchen will get nice and toasty. As soon as the cows are taken care of the boss is going out to get us some serious wood (as opposed to the frivolous little stuff I haul in with my trusty wheelbarrow). I am afraid we are going to need it.
It is a fine day for working outdoors, sunny...temps probably hitting the low forties. It doesn't really feel much like November, although there have been plenty of gloom and doom days to remind us of the season. Tomorrow however it is supposed to be much colder with northwest winds and snow...naturally, since, Liz is off on a school field trip to Ithaca tomorrow. Her class is going to tour the bull stud at Genex, which should be interesting. (In fact I am kind of jealous.) The boss and I went, or tried to go, to Sire Power down in Tunkhannock years ago, but we got lost, so it was closed by the time we got there. Oh, well, maybe some day.
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Sunny here, too, but my thermometer said it was 30. :-O Too cold to plant bareroot tress, IMO, but I had to do it anyway.
Your roasting wood fire (even with wimpy wood) sounds so cozy. Wish we had a stove or fireplace! Stay warm, dear friend!
Mrs. M, I enjoyed your post on planting trees and I am definitely going to try your method of protecting them. I had four little apple trees, about as tall as I am, and rabbits ate them last winter even though I had hardware wire on them! the snow was higher than they were so they could reach over it....darned bunnies! And thanks, you stay warm too...
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