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PEP-ery flavored questions for our March visit

 
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We won a stay up there! Yay!
I wanna do PEP while I'm there. Yay!
I hope to not be a nuisance in my attempts to PEP (yay?)
I'd like to ascertain what of my wishlist BB's are possible/available.
I'd like to know what I can pitch in with, too, and maybe it's a BB?

Hopeful these are possible:
- Greywater, Hand-Crafted Information sheet: Is there a pooper up there in need of an information sheet? I'd feel silly making one if it had no place to go. (I'm planning to make the sheet before traveling)
- Greywater/Roundwood, Dry-peg coathooks: surely there's a bit of green wood and dry I can get my hands on up there?
- Rocket, 1-Week-Heat: Assuming it's chilly enough, is there a space I may manage all the heating for a week?

Surely these things need done?
- Tool Care, Clean the shop
- Tool Care, Chainsaw Sharpen
- Tool Care, Shovel
- Tool Care, Wedge Handle

Maybe these things need done, but maybe it's the wrong season?
- Woodland Care, Peel: Is there a 6" tree being felled that needs a'peeling? I somehow peeled ~1.74 trees last time
- Woodland Care, 6 Shakes
- Earthworks, Improve berm
- Earthworks, Add Trail to berm
- Earthworks, Eliminate puddle
- Earthworks, 3 excavator scoops
- Earthworks, Dry Stack wall
- Foraging

Probably nobody has time to babysit me for these, but I hope it doesn't hurt to ask:
- Metalworking, Kindling Cracker and another metal thingy

As always, if there's a better place for this post, I'm all ears. Thanks in advance for helping me figure out what's doable.
 
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hmmmm ...  late march ....  

In a normal year, we start planting stuff in late march.  The ground is less frozen, the crocuses are blooming and the rhubarb is budding.

Do you have some thoughts on what you might be trying to forage?

Lots of green wood and dry wood!

rocket heat:   hmmmm ....   cooper will take more work and more wood ...  allerton doesn't have a rocket mass heater - just a cooktop.  The dogstar is small and has the first experimental cob hat on top of a cottage rocket.


Surely these things need done?
- Tool Care, Clean the shop
- Tool Care, Chainsaw Sharpen
- Tool Care, Shovel
- Tool Care, Wedge Handle



should be fine!

Maybe these things need done, but maybe it's the wrong season?
- Woodland Care, Peel: Is there a 6" tree being felled that needs a'peeling? I somehow peeled ~1.74 trees last time
- Woodland Care, 6 Shakes
- Earthworks, Improve berm
- Earthworks, Add Trail to berm
- Earthworks, Eliminate puddle
- Earthworks, 3 excavator scoops
- Earthworks, Dry Stack wall



The only one that can be tricky is 3 scoops.  I don't think we have fired up rex for over a year.  So rex will need, at the very least, annual maintenance.  And maybe additional love.  We could look into ordering up the filters and stuff for maintenance.


- Metalworking, Kindling Cracker and another metal thingy



Everything is here.
 
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