Josh Huorn

HUGS! Warmth and well-wishes from mass, love you permie people! Now to start some early spring kale, cabbage and broccolli

A brief search for Ger yielded

Love it!

Sweet rehab of the shed! Thanks for documenting the tyrific progress, do we have a tally of how many times the sand has been added to and removed from the roof?
This could be the iteration that lasts for... maybe a decade? maybe 2 decades? The latest video shows some sturdy looking tarps gong on top, combined with the slick drip edge this sure looks like an effective way to keep it dry,  with all the drainage (which in hindsite, probably could have been graded before we put posts in) looking forward to seeing what you decide to seed on the roof that will grow in sand!

Jerry Sledge wrote:Other herbs to stop bleeding include cayenne pepper, turmeric, and black pepper.

Wow Jerry thank you! I very often keep a bag of dried yarrow in a pocket for "just in case," especially when around saws or anything that increases risk of bloodletting. But,but, but when cayenne gets in the eyeball it's a bit unpleasant, does it feel similar in a cut? You've inspired me to just now add a bag of black pepper to my first aid pocket, not sure when it'll be used but looking forward to trying it!

Laboratory Wheaton is a great place to learn chainsaw skills. With acres of free space one can practice techniques of getting the tree to fall where desired, without risking house crushage. Thanks to patient teachers i have improved from a skilless amateur to.. better. especially grateful for Mike and Rob helping to get my MS290 (now it has a 390 piston and cylinder) tuned and running, i use that saw all the time, thanks guys!
Rob, yeah you should've brought me! Maybe we ought to visit somewhere growing tasty food soon.

Back east now, been learning arborist skills working with some incredible guys who climb trees

right? how about that Yarrow? don't know what else exists able to restore feelings of ease to a bleeding person as quickly and comfortably as this humanity supporting soil builder

educational poster happened across while at a landscaping company, we need some new attributes attributed to these flora!

This morning was brisk! We can feel the wind blowing autumn air in and it's a reminder to get moving and get a house built.

Yes Tom those are definitely some little sunflowers there, the idea was that the beans planted all around then would trellis up and use the sunflowers for support, buuut the beans and peas are still kinda small, the swale filled up a bit during that big rain and soaked in for a couple days, definitely worthwhile earthworks.

The past weeks efforts to gather materials has been fruitful and I have a mix of Douglas Fir, western larch and ponderosa pine to build with, the larch will be used for posts in the ground as I've heard it lasts for a long while in the soil before rotting, it can last even longer if the end is burnt crispy before it goes in the ground. Ben helped me wrestle a bunch of posts around the fire pit this morning and we're just about ready to dig some holes and get em' in the ground. Thanks Ben!

Oops, meant to add a pic of these beans coming to life, and check out this blurry photo of an excavator bucket repurposed into a mailbox!

Hey Tyler lots of peas and beans have emerged and continue to grow through the summer heat, this squash just recently started putting out flowers! Hopefully there's enough warm weather left for them to ripen a fruit or two.

I've heard that the majority of effort going into a natural building project is gathering the building materials and this is where my focus is for the next week or so, felling trees for posts and beams and peeling the bark right away, it always seems like slow progress but every day I look around and see a few more logs ready to be assembled.
We just had a movie night and watched Ben Law's Timber Framing, wow the precision of his joinery is impressive, it got me thinking about how I might go about fitting all the pieces of this log cabin jigsaw puzzle together without using metal fasteners.. Maybe a lofty goal but it sure seems doable