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Timothy Norton

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I love my weekends, I am definitely co-dependent and just want to have fun with my partner. This however can not be every weekend as she had a lunch time book club that required her attendance. She had made mention a while ago that she wanted a particular box elder tree fell and It has been in the back of my mind. While the women are away, chainsaws come into play!

I'm happy to say it fell and landed exactly where I wanted it to. The ground was wet and there are a few marks left but nothing that can't be cleaned up come spring. I limbed it up and separated it into four piles.

1. Woodchipper (Small green wood)
2. Project wood 1-4 foot long 1/2-3 inch wide
3. Project wood 4-10 foot long 1/2-3 inch wide
4. Trunk segments

Only took a few hours and now I have to ponder what to do with the trunk.

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Timothy Norton

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We are supposed to get 3-4" of wintry mess today but for the most part it has held off. I purchased my partner a large full body mirror to replace the flimsy walmart door mounted sliver of a mirror that we have had sense our door days of college. We mounted that today to the wall in our bedroom with great success! We decided to keep up the pace and went out and cleaned up more of the tree.

A bent section of the trunk we cut off the main trunk, it is all twisted and full of woodpecker holes. I'm kind of digging the vibe and might try to turn this into a stumpy rotting insect hotel. I just have to come up with a plan on boring more holes, trying to get it to stand upright, and then finding an ideal place to put it. It is HEAVY. I asked a lot from my saw again and it came through for me.

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It is my thirty first birthday today!

I have decided to take the day and just tinker. I have a piece of box elder that I am working into a mallet and I think that will consume a good part of my day. The plan is to get some coffee in my veins, clean up some snow outside that is just heavy and not going anywhere, and then putz around. I'm spoiled and the wife will be bringing home dinner for us after she gets out of work so I truly can just enjoy the day. Maybe I will crack open my organizer of seeds and start planning the spring garden...

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I am proud of where I am in my quest towards PEP1, but the realizations that I have accomplished mostly the "easy" ones and the rest of the BBs ahead of me require more skill is quite daunting! I appreciate the winter giving me time to focus on these BBs but I am itching to accomplish the growing ones this upcoming spring. I'm planning on knocking out the Gardening sand badge in PEM this year. It is almost time to start some seedlings for transplant in about another month. I also think I can build up some BBs through spring foraging. I just need to hunker down this last month or so and really try to knock out some textile badges. It is fun, I enjoy it. What can I say!

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It started at just a few logs... then some more... and then some more.

We had a 'wood' wall that was essentially large branch pieces leaning against a horizontal pole that was held between two growing trees. We also had a mismanaged and mishappened brush pile on the corner of the property. This all got moved and layered into a wood berm to slow water coming down the slope.

I'm not quite sure what I'm doing here, but the hope is to slowly build back up some soil with compost and time.

I have 400 mycelium plugs to be inserted along the length of the wall between a bunch of the logs and a bag of winecaps for some woody compost to chew that up as well.

Soon!

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Nestled in a bed of small twigs and yard debris laid a box elder trunk freshly cut from its stump. A perfect target for a bunch of mushroom plugs. 50 placed this session and many more to come. I really am enjoying the convenience of the plug bit/impact driver combo when trying to put in a lot of plugs. I have to keep in mind the warming of the bit when I use it for a while so I give it time to rest. Having the depth restricted to what a plug will fit instead of having to worry about plunging too deep or too shallow is nice as well.

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I can't help thinking Paul would be covering that wood wall with soil to build a hugel....

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The grey oyster plugs should do well for you.

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I have a fantastic announcement!

My eleven delinquent tenants have started to finally pay rent!

I'm glad nobody can see me because I feel like I'm on top of the world but i must look mad doing my little dances of success.

I love these little feathered demons. If someone could tell them to lay in their laying boxes instead of the coop floor, that'd be great.

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My body is tired.

We have been deconstructing parts of some poorly made brush piles from the path on the corner of the property. Large wood has been added to a wood wall/berm/future heugel while the small stuff had been trimmed up into mostly straight pieces. We had made two stacks almost seven foot high in anticipation of putting them through a wood chipper. I have had purchased this wood chipper last year but today would be its maiden voyage. The thing worked so great, I was inspired to tackle my overgrown forsythia hedge. If it wasn't for a sudden rain, I would have had the project finished yesterday! Today, I will finish up what remains.

Lots of work, but what a great chance to be out in the good weather. It is nice to have sunshine on the skin. All of this chip will be used towards restoring the hillside and creating a space for pollinators. I have about 20lbs of Winecap spawn sitting in my house ready to be distributed. Soon!

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Reclaimed almost 4 foot of lawn by trimming it back.

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