Work Done in 2018

[Jan Pijpelink]

I had to put a temporary base on Santa today and then start and finish the sanding on the cane. The rest of the pictures are from the sausage,peppers and onions I cooked yesterday.

Have a Merry Christmas.

Do you make the sausages yourself?

 

[thewoodlands]

I made cinnamon ice cream and nutella ice cream for tomorrow's X-mas brunch.

It sounds great @Jan Pijpelink, are you having any apple pie with that?

 

[thewoodlands]

Do you make the sausages yourself?

These were purchased at a grocery store, but we have made our own before. Do you make your own?

I'm making some stuffed mushrooms tomorrow that we'll have with our meal. I think the next thing I'll try cooking for the first time will be fennel soup.

 

[Jan Pijpelink]

It sounds great @Jan Pijpelink, are you having any apple pie with that?

If our neighbor has apple pie, yes, but I am not sure.

 

[Jan Pijpelink]

These were purchased at a grocery store, but we have made our own before. Do you make your own?

If I can find the casing, yes. I do make our own ground meat for burgers and soup, stews, etc.

 

[thewoodlands]

If I can find the casing, yes. I do make our own ground meat for burgers and soup, stews, etc.

The one thing we do in our sausage recipe is use crushed up fennel, I think it gives it more taste and you won't have to pick the seeds from your teeth.

 

[Jan Pijpelink]

The one thing we do in our sausage recipe is use crushed up fennel, I think it gives it more taste and you won't have to pick the seeds from your teeth.

I use fennel very often. And not only in sausages, but as a veggie side dish.

 

[thewoodlands]

I did get the Crimini mushrooms stuffed and cooked today, the wife liked them and I thought they came out real good for my first time cooking stuffed mushrooms.

 

[thewoodlands]

With rain coming in on Friday we decided to put in two loads of firewood, pictured is the first load. The second load was bigger but the old batteries didn't have anything left in them for the second picture.

The firewood we put in today will be burned in early January if things workout, tomorrow we'll put some nice Ironwood in for when it gets really cold.

 

[thewoodlands]

We put in two small loads of Ironwood this morning (only one pictured) and after that I did some roof raking.

We had a widowmaker over one of our trails so I took care of that late this afternoon. We also had a nice size Cherry uproot so I'll take care of that after this wet weather is gone.

The brook is open in most spots but in the shallow areas it was starting to freeze from the bottom up which can be a groan on the low side near the bridge..

 

[shortys7777]

Started tackling a bunch of free wood I got since I've been on vacation all week. Maple and cherry. Have it sloped a little hoping most of the rain will drain off. I have another 2 cords of oak and elm to go through. First year burning so I'm trying to get as much free stuff css.

 

[thewoodlands]

Started tackling a bunch of free wood I got since I've been on vacation all week. Maple and cherry. Have it sloped a little hoping most of the rain will drain off. I have another 2 cords of oak and elm to go through. First year burning so I'm trying to get as much free stuff css. View attachment 236981

Nice job @shortys7777 , it looks like it's in a good area for sun and wind.

 

[thewoodlands]

I finished the last stack which is mostly Ash with some Maple and Beech. Picture 2168 is what I started with, 2170 is the area I started stacking the Ash, 2171 is a picture after about three trailer loads were stacked before I went in for lunch, 2172 is after I finished after lunch and 2173 is what I have left which includes Ash,Beech and Maple.

If the weather permits, I'm hoping to fell five more Ash.

 

[thewoodlands]

Some weather sites are calling for just under half an inch of rain tonight for our area so we'll get a few loads of wood in today and then make sure everything is covered real good.

Have a Happy New Year.

 

[jatoxico]

Some weather sites are calling for just under half an inch of rain tonight for our area so we'll get a few loads of wood in today and then make sure everything is covered real good.

Have a Happy New Year.

Us too. Have not checked when it's supposed to start but heard it ends right around midnight. Rainy rainy year. Currently third rainiest year on record for my area. Happy New Year to you guys!

 

[thewoodlands]

Us too. Have not checked when it's supposed to start but heard it ends right around midnight. Rainy rainy year. Currently third rainiest year on record for my area. Happy New Year to you guys!

We had a very,very dry summer but a wet fall, hopefully we get a good amount of snow in 2019 because we'll need it. The rivers and reservoirs were really low in our area.

I hope you and your family have a safe and Happy New Year. We just came back from Potsdam, they had a temp of 43 today.

 

[thewoodlands]

This morning when I looked at the weather for our area, they're calling for 6-10 inches of snow starting on Tuesday. We decided that we would put more wood in so if we get the snow, I can plow and then get the sleds out and not worry about any wood.