I was tired from being up late for two nights and then up early, so I went to sleep before eleven. This meant I woke by six and after trying to get more sleep, I got up and took advantage of the coolness of the morning, perhaps eight degrees, by going to the car and processing the pallets I left in the back.
I also limbed and somewhat peeled the tree that came down in the winter and I am thinking of using it for a bridge. It fell on a few white ash and that was my inspiration for working on it, but it was a bigger tree than I thought so I am now thinking of other uses.
Once I came back to the cabin for breakfast, I was tired. I ate, worked on some more cedar cladding and then took a nap. Once I was up again, I planted some more seeds, zucchini, beans, more peas, cucumber, and carrots. We’ll see how they do over the next while.
I also worked on the new outdoor stove, which I mean to make from the pieces of cookstove Darius and I found in the woods. I want to make a raised platform with a stovepipe and cooking platters. It will mean a bunch of rock work, so I began to work on that by loading my wheelbarrow with the rock from the pond. Then I pulled it up the hill but when I put a second one in the wheelbarrow I broke the axel. It is easy to overload. Maybe a stone boat is better for such heavy loads. A trolley would be nice too.
I worked on more cladding this evening before dinner. I am getting near finishing and now I am planning for some insulation in the floor and then covering it with the pallet materials I have been collecting.
