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Stwood · « **Reply #25770 on:** March 02, 2019, 09:47:35 PM »

Quote from: Hootie on March 02, 2019, 09:18:31 PM

- planted some root crops
- added 50lbs of rice to LTS
- made some bone broth
- refreshed my skills at the gun range
- added storage to the garage
- worked on some automation (lights and motors)

Sounds great. Great post.

Stwood · « **Reply #25771 on:** March 09, 2019, 12:38:19 PM »

Bought some chub butter today. Should have bought more at 2.50#, but figured I might get knawed on for bringing home non stick's of butter.

Redman · « **Reply #25772 on:** March 09, 2019, 06:56:02 PM »

Quote from: Stwood on March 09, 2019, 12:38:19 PM

Bought some chub butter today. Should have bought more at 2.50#, but figured I might get knawed on for bringing home non stick's of butter.

CHICKEN!

Got my Amazon delivery today. 10 lbs. quinoa and about 5 lbs. farro. SWMBO just

Stwood · « **Reply #25773 on:** March 09, 2019, 10:30:41 PM »

Quote from: Redman on March 09, 2019, 06:56:02 PM

CHICKEN!

Got my Amazon delivery today. 10 lbs. quinoa and about 5 lbs. farro. SWMBO just

She just shrugged it off and said no problem.

Knecht · « **Reply #25774 on:** March 10, 2019, 02:27:55 PM »

Oreded some spare parts for my reloading press, plus couple other useful tools.
Got some aramide helmets from Polish army surplus recently.
Doing some blackpowder gunsmithing, finishing a pistol and making riflestock for one of my customers.

Stwood · « **Reply #25775 on:** March 10, 2019, 03:31:04 PM »

Quote from: Knecht on March 10, 2019, 02:27:55 PM

Oreded some spare parts for my reloading press, plus couple other useful tools.
Got some aramide helmets from Polish army surplus recently.
Doing some blackpowder gunsmithing, finishing a pistol and making riflestock for one of my customers.

Sounds like you are staying busy.

Today, I'm doing odds and ends in the storeroom, and checking out some 20 year old wheat.

Stwood · « **Reply #25776 on:** March 13, 2019, 08:21:50 AM »

Yesterday, ground some old wheat and doing a sprout test on it.
Ordered in some more Augason product.
Some cleaning and inventorying in the storeroom.

Stwood · « **Reply #25777 on:** March 20, 2019, 04:58:01 PM »

Bought some replacement for the storeroom today. Didn't add any though.
Been starting some seeds for the upcoming garden season.

Knecht · « **Reply #25778 on:** March 21, 2019, 05:18:33 AM »

Fixed the reloading press, installed a new, brighter fiber-optic front sight on my Saiga 12, somewhat improved my new workshop. Got in touch with local chimney-guy who should be able to help me turning one of my basement rooms into a handy little forge shop, which I'll use before I can fix the 19th century forge in one of the old farm buildings back on the property. Bought a bunch of old tools in a pawn shop, some files, shoemaker's hammer and a jointer plane (in excellent condition, which is not very common, most old planes are badly beaten). Continued working on the flintlock stock. Using just handtools and old techniques (smoking the parts over a candle to inlet them and such).

Stwood · « **Reply #25779 on:** March 26, 2019, 07:58:08 PM »

Cleaning up the weeds from the piggie pens, and seeding them (turnips, wheat, beets) for some future pork meat.

Doing some fence cleaning in and around the garden

Stwood · « **Reply #25780 on:** March 30, 2019, 07:58:56 AM »

Replaced a few items in the storeroom.
Picked up an extra 50# bag of Trumps all purpose flour. We use it to cut our whole wheat that we grind.
Continued garden prepping. Got a line on some pigling's, will pick up a couple next week.

Redman · « **Reply #25781 on:** March 30, 2019, 08:19:32 AM »

Stwood · « **Reply #25782 on:** April 04, 2019, 08:41:17 AM »

Added in some more trash bags, wipes, towels.
Also 3 more 24 packs of noodles.

Added a different flavor of coffee to the mix.
Been looking for coffee bricks, something for loooooong term. Price wise, I haven't found much yet.

Redman · « **Reply #25783 on:** April 04, 2019, 08:51:54 AM »

Community coffee is the only one I recall in a brick, maybe Seaport. It's been a loooonngg time ago.

Knecht · « **Reply #25784 on:** April 09, 2019, 07:32:03 AM »

My flintlock build by handtools is alsmost finished (just staining the wood now).
Working on my 15th century gambeson, I practiced handsewing more than I ever wished. Not like I need it much, I think that adfter over 20 years of reenactment, my stitching skills are good enough. Still about 2,5m of sewing left, all through 6 layers of thick linen fabric and a layer fo woolen felt.
Making several pairs of 18th century canadian shoes, so lots of leatherwork practice.
Had a chimney guy come over and approved my plan to turn one of the basemnt rooms into a forge shop, while the chuimney would still get the safety stamp for insurance. Will start working on iut next week and finally have a forge again.

Redman · « **Reply #25785 on:** April 09, 2019, 08:21:28 AM »

Stwood · « **Reply #25786 on:** April 09, 2019, 08:23:01 AM »

Knecht, you've been busy sounds like. How's the rest of the property and the house coming along?

Knecht · « **Reply #25787 on:** April 09, 2019, 08:40:38 AM »

I really quite busy and tired, as you can tell from my typos above. The house projects are coming together very slowly, but we'll get there. Right now I'm really happy that I can make the forge shop in the back house and don't have to fix the old building with the antique forge at once. Being sure about the forge shop also allows me to start equipping the other rooms as woodshop and such (till now I wasn't sure where does the forge shop end up, in case I had to add another chimney or so). By now I work in very improvised conditions, so I'm glad I'll have proper benches built and my tools somewhat organized. With proper workshops, I'll be able to make stuff for the house easier and faster, but also earn money for materials and works that I can't do by myself (though I hope to learn as much as possible).

Stwood · « **Reply #25788 on:** April 10, 2019, 10:34:19 PM »

Tilled and planted two 25' rows of turnips (piggie food)
Planted two 25' rows of red onions
Tilled and prepared a row for transplanting elderberry bushes into. Yes, moving them into the garden area. Cutting the produce area down, and will be adding elderberry sprouts as soon as they develop some roots.

Hootie · « **Reply #25789 on:** April 11, 2019, 09:42:50 PM »

turning compost 5ft x 5ft
got a 2kw generator (prep'd and tested)
added shelves in the attic
replaced some pull chain lights with light switches
more gardening

Stwood · « **Reply #25790 on:** April 12, 2019, 07:47:57 AM »

Got some of the elderberry's dug up by the compost pile and out of the garden fence, moved into the prepared garden area. About a 25' row, didn't measure it. If they take, I'll get some steel posts and a wire strung up to tie them to too keep them shipshape. (hopefully

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Still have lots more to move.

Redman · « **Reply #25791 on:** April 12, 2019, 08:05:26 AM »

Hmm, wonder if those will grow here

Checking

Probably not. Zone 9a or 9b. Plants hardy from zone 4 to 8. Might get a little too warm here.

Stwood · « **Reply #25792 on:** April 12, 2019, 08:39:24 AM »

Got a local nursery nearby?

Redman · « **Reply #25793 on:** April 12, 2019, 10:34:08 AM »

Well sort of close a really good place. Checking around I found that there is a variety native to most areas of TX and that I can get it from that nursery. They probably won't have it in stock but they will get most anything you ask for. I've ordered there before several times. Very knowledgeable folks.

I'll get another fig tree from them also. Found the current one at HD or L years ago. Much more suitable varieties from the nursery.

Stwood · « **Reply #25794 on:** April 12, 2019, 12:57:34 PM »

I could send a few roots/cuttings.

Redman · « **Reply #25795 on:** April 12, 2019, 04:50:44 PM »

Standby. Not sure where I would want to put them.

Stwood · « **Reply #25796 on:** April 12, 2019, 05:09:06 PM »

Redman · « **Reply #25797 on:** April 12, 2019, 06:03:00 PM »

Got a spot in mind but not sure how tall they get or can they be kept as bushes.

Stwood · « **Reply #25798 on:** April 12, 2019, 06:09:46 PM »

Some of ours are 8' but we're beginning to trim em down some. Some stems naturally die off. They pull over fairly easy, but are brittle some have to be careful.
They begin to produce at 2 years, and the third year they do better, continuing to bush out.

antsyaunt · « **Reply #25799 on:** April 12, 2019, 07:16:42 PM »

Quote from: Redman on April 12, 2019, 06:03:00 PM

Got a spot in mind but not sure how tall they get or can they be kept as bushes.

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Ours haven’t had a chance to get tall; the deer prune them in the winter.

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