November 9, 2005 - A Turn in the Weather
The season’s first pot of beef stew is simmering in the cast iron pot and the wind is howling from the northwest. The weather in the 70’s has ended.
Another afternoon of tucking summer items away for the winter. Martin and I started shoveling dirt out of a stock tank. Hmmmm. What is soil doing in a stock tank? It’s one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time. We were digging out the soil early this spring where the playground would be, so we thought it would be good to save the soil and put it in some raised beds we were planning on building. Why not put it in the stock tank - it will be contained, there already was a home-made lid for it, as it was previously used as a swimming pool.
Well, here it is November and the raised beds are but a memory - so the soil is getting thrown out into an existing garden so the tank can be rescued before winter.
Last year I replaced all the windows in the coop with the vinyl sash windows. One of the 4 panes of glass in one of the windows broke this summer in a storm and today I was impressed how easy it was to put a new pane in by just unscrewing three screws and sliding everything back together - much easier than the glazing points and window glazing of old.
