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Did you bring in your tender plants tonight? Seems we're destined for a frost in some areas, like Joe's Pond or other "higher elevations." I brought into the garage the few plants I had outside, but I'm more concerned about the apple blossoms. Our trees are just getting to full bloom, and it could be a bad time for a frost to hit them.
Early this morning I thought Fred was a over doing it a bit when he had a small fire going in our wood stove. I had windows open thinking it was going to be a really warm day, but by mid morning I was closing windows and glad he had the stove warmed up. He also ordered our supply of wood for next year, well actually it will be for the winter of 2009-10. Next year's supply, 2008-9, is drying in the back yard and will be brought into the garage/shed this fall. By then, if the wood comes as promised the latter part of June, another year's supply will already be drying. Fred says he'd rather split and stack it this summer than take a chance on winter coming early and having to dig it out from under the snow. Been there, done that.
I was reading tonight about how some people are beginning to panic about their cost of living going so high. People are looking at homesteading as a way to better take care of themselves and hedge against the rise in the cost of fuel and food. It's not a bad idea to put in a garden if you can, I guess. Here at the pond we're fortunate that we have great gardeners nearby and farmers' markets so we don't have to actually raise the crops ourselves. Shirley Maynard on Cabot Plains Rd., just up from the where Brickett's Crossing Road starts always has a good garden, and Elaine Metcalf does, too. Elaine is on Deeper Ruts Road. Then there are farmers' markets in Hardwick, Danville, Cabot and St. Johnsbury.
The way the wind was blowing today I really wish we had a windmill to help out on our electricity, but actually we've had tests done near our house a couple of times and the folks who install these rigs say we don't have enough wind to make it cost effective for us. I'm convinced one of these days there will be something or some combination of either solar, wind or thermal energy that we'll be able to harness effectively. The higher oil prices go up, the more cost effective any of the alternatives becomes. And oil isn't the only fuel that's gone up - when Fred ordered his wood supply tonight we found out wood has gone up, too. That's logical. It's going to cost the supplier more than it did last year to cut it and to deliver it to us.
On WCAX tonight there was a story about people finding it too expensive to take vacations this year, so some people are taking "stay-cations" - parking their campers in nearby parks for the summer. A vacation home almost in their own back yard. I know a woman who lives directly across the road from a camping area and for years she has driven her camper over there, parked it for a week or a weekend just to get away from the usual routine at home. Maybe a little weird, but whatever works! It just makes those of us fortunate enough to have a place on Joe's Pond feel really thankful, right?
Early this morning I thought Fred was a over doing it a bit when he had a small fire going in our wood stove. I had windows open thinking it was going to be a really warm day, but by mid morning I was closing windows and glad he had the stove warmed up. He also ordered our supply of wood for next year, well actually it will be for the winter of 2009-10. Next year's supply, 2008-9, is drying in the back yard and will be brought into the garage/shed this fall. By then, if the wood comes as promised the latter part of June, another year's supply will already be drying. Fred says he'd rather split and stack it this summer than take a chance on winter coming early and having to dig it out from under the snow. Been there, done that.
I was reading tonight about how some people are beginning to panic about their cost of living going so high. People are looking at homesteading as a way to better take care of themselves and hedge against the rise in the cost of fuel and food. It's not a bad idea to put in a garden if you can, I guess. Here at the pond we're fortunate that we have great gardeners nearby and farmers' markets so we don't have to actually raise the crops ourselves. Shirley Maynard on Cabot Plains Rd., just up from the where Brickett's Crossing Road starts always has a good garden, and Elaine Metcalf does, too. Elaine is on Deeper Ruts Road. Then there are farmers' markets in Hardwick, Danville, Cabot and St. Johnsbury.
The way the wind was blowing today I really wish we had a windmill to help out on our electricity, but actually we've had tests done near our house a couple of times and the folks who install these rigs say we don't have enough wind to make it cost effective for us. I'm convinced one of these days there will be something or some combination of either solar, wind or thermal energy that we'll be able to harness effectively. The higher oil prices go up, the more cost effective any of the alternatives becomes. And oil isn't the only fuel that's gone up - when Fred ordered his wood supply tonight we found out wood has gone up, too. That's logical. It's going to cost the supplier more than it did last year to cut it and to deliver it to us.
On WCAX tonight there was a story about people finding it too expensive to take vacations this year, so some people are taking "stay-cations" - parking their campers in nearby parks for the summer. A vacation home almost in their own back yard. I know a woman who lives directly across the road from a camping area and for years she has driven her camper over there, parked it for a week or a weekend just to get away from the usual routine at home. Maybe a little weird, but whatever works! It just makes those of us fortunate enough to have a place on Joe's Pond feel really thankful, right?
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