Tuesday, January 7, 2025

January 7 - The Campfire Trail - BOOM..... No Mud In The Basement

January 7, 2025

Day 1,194 of the Adventure


Just like that....... There's no more mud in our basement hole. Well, maybe technically there is, but it's frozen like concrete for the time being. We've been enduring cold weather for the past couple of days and even though we could walk on dry (or frozen) ground, it's still just as inhospitable as before when it was all just sloppy mud. We had hoped to be further along in the process before now, but life gets in the way of progress more often than is good for a project like this. For now, we will be content with spending our time on things that aren't so sensitive to freezing, like cement work. I'm almost certain that by now, there will be about a two month lull in the basement building. 

That's okay though. There's always the garden to clean up and prepare for Spring planting. We also need to get the greenhouse ready for early plant starts. Our yard, if you can call it that, looks like a salvage business with all of the construction activity from the past summer and fall. Then there's always firewood processing. That alone could keep us going for a couple months. I've heard it said that "If you don't have 100 projects going on at once, you're not doing homesteading right!" Maybe that's true. If so, I guess we would be considered a raging success. I'm not sure I can relate to those folks who retire, then get bored with life for nothing to do. Maybe I should start a "How to Never Become Bored in Retirement" school. Or...... Maybe I should find a "How to Retire and Enjoy the Boredom" school and sign up! 

Carry On

Adventure Quote: “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” ― Ă‰mile Zola

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Monday, January 6, 2025

January 6 - The Campfire Trail - Fireside Comfort Zone

January 6, 2025

Day 1,193 of the Adventure


There's nothing quite like waking up in the middle of a cold night when the fire has burned down too far to keep the cabin warm. It means crawling out of a warm bed, venturing outside to the wood box in bare feet and not much else. (Last night that was 14 degrees) Grabbing a chunk or two of firewood, retreating back inside the cabin and stoking the fire up. Likewise, there's nothing quite like slowly waking up in the pre-dawn morning darkness to a woodstove that's emitting enough heat to make crawling out of a warm bed a comforting and welcome experience. (This morning, that was 74 degrees) 

This time of year, comfort is largely predicated by the condition of the fire in the woodstove and that's okay. Many nights I will spend at least a small amount of time sitting in the darkness in front of it. Absorbing its warmth as the glow of dying embers builds back up into a flame. Once nursed back to life, I can make the few short steps back to the bed and it's warmth. It's all part of the cabin life during the cold grip of January.

Carry On

Adventure Quote: “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell

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