Here, this may be my first “on topic” post in this thread 
Deck railing work ongoing near completion. Prep work for the purposes of selling an old truck I have, also near completion. I need to shingle one part of the roof on my house, I’m kicking that one out to next year. Finish up interior of addition I built on the house years ago, not a huge job, but haven’t started yet.
I want to clean up enough jobs around the house to work guilt free on woodgas stuff when the snow comes!
Just finished an appropriate technology seminar/class, day 1. Had students here from University of Alabama, Ag U of Honduras (UNA), Nigeria, Zambia, China, Congo, Bolivia, El Salvador, & Nicaragua.
Had a real good day. Covered pieces of several subjects: water purification/filtration, alternative pumping techniques, methane, wood-gas, charcoal, solar cooking, passive solar, improved latrine, root cellar-ing, food preservation, and some butchering stuff. Most of these students are public health majors. Some are agriculture development workers…
Right now ?
Saved two barrels of sawdust saved for the pooh bucket. And some bark to grind.
made a mechanical winch to the pole wood skidder.
I received this gift yesterday from a neighbor.
I can’t seem to find the manufacturer on the internet.
What is this Bill? Twenty characters
Appears to be a coffee roaster. Looks like it’s made for a gas stove.
Ha! Interasting! Need to make something similar for roasting barley malt for my brewery. Thanks for the idea!
I first thought of a grain toaster or popcorn popper. good neighbor? or a really bad one trying to make a mends?
Jeff, do you still have time to make pumpkins up there in the north country. ?
It will be a close call for sure ! ! Only time will tell.
we’re getting ready for cover crop already. We have a feww winter squash still making and peppers. We are growing Thai peppers commercially this year.
Finished two more days. this time teaching lecture & practicum on fuel efficient cook stoves. Centered around Dr Larry’s rocket stoves. Missed you here Larry.
Also, on another subject. I have a question. Is everyone else as busy as we are here. I mean business-wise.? Just curious if we’re in some kind of pocket or something or is everyone else as wrapped up as we are? Running as fast as we can and still scheduled out in March of next year.
Yes. It hasn’t been like this since 2004 up here in Michigan.
Well trying to get the old family farm back to the point it will pay some bills after 2 decades of being shutdown and longer being neglected I am crazy busy all the time. But then again I have 100 acres of fields and burn about 12 cords of wood a year plus keep a garden that feeds atleast 3 people so my uncle will help with the harvest and will bale hay for me. But I am not sure that counts as business busy just crazy enough to try to be a farmer…
Good morning Billy .
Real busy on my side of the mountain also. Working as hard as I can go and getting more and more behind.
I think the last day I took off was when we came down and visited you .
Same over the pond. Dayjob, wood preparation, hayharvest and potato/bean harvest mark my days, plus a hour a day digging for the greenhouse/callar. Man lm glad thats allmost done.
But winter is near, and winter is gasifier making season in my eyes! 
Yep. Yep.
Make hay (and firewood) while the sunshines.
Make produce and preserves while it grows.
Jam-in outside paintings, and post holes setting before the real rains set in.
Busy. Busy. Busy.
Metals weld up just fine here in the winter - under a bit’o cover. With no wild-fires hazard then. Warms you too. Woods seems to burn better then too.
“Everything, in it’s season.”
Regards
tree-farmer Steve unruh
