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Sending this out to my friend Jay Moore at Moose Country radio, where the tagline is: “If you’ve ever [insert goofy jackpine knuckleheaded behavior here] … yer one of us.”

Background, Part 1: For the past three years I busted up all of our firewood (and sometimes not enough of it) with a simple splitting maul.  I like splitting wood.  Good for my body, good for my head.  However, we burn a bunch of it and I was getting behind.  I saw a hydraulic splitter on sale.  I made the move.

Background, Part 2: My buddy Mills is forever helping me with projects and lending me things.  I rarely have anything he needs, and as far as helping him, I always seem to be on the road whenever he does a project.

So: When Mills asked if he could borrow my splitter, I was tickled that I finally had something he could use.  He towed it home behind his car.

But when he brought it back a week later…(photo after the jump) Continue reading this entry ⇒

Once upon a time I wrote a book about (among other things) building a chicken coop:

Now we have a new project in the works…

Remember a little while back I said I got to fight a wildfire with my old NAAFD crew (and the DNR rangers, and the Weyerhaeuser crew) when I was up north?  Just got some aerial photos of the fire, taken after we had the upper hand.  I was working up around the outer edge of the smaller lobe.  Foam, mostly, but also spent some time lugging a backcan (backbag, actually).

I’m taking a week to just hang out with my family.  We’re not going anywhere exotic, in fact most days we’re just knockin’ around the farm.  But posts for this week may or may not reflect reality or current events, as I’ve set them up to publish themselves so I can be off splitting firewood or toasting marshmallows or re-inventing myself as the Chicken Whisperer.

While we are very much enjoying our vacation right here on the farm (doing terrific things like picking up old bread bags stuck in the pine trees, cleaning the pole barn, and boiling down lard), some people (and some books) are going on real vacations:

Thank you MJ and Tim for the photo!

Here’s another album of photos from the recent Mabel Tainter show.  Two of my favorites:

Billy crushes me with his guitar.

Big finish with “After Waymore’s Blues.”