Well, Tom, this is a little to early, probably some more snow to come, but it really makes me happy and living again after the grey winter.
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We are getting snow. It probably won’t accumulate much though.
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Me and the hired handyman finished getting the new birthday clothesline holes dug and the posts concreted in for my wife yesterday. Six; part-wheel barrows of sticky brown clay “dirt” dumped up against the house foundation sink hole.
Where the wife had me dump all of her wintered over raised beds removals.
She planted early pea seeds.
I told her that this huge monster THING she grew was going to give me nightmares flashbacks from the old 1950’s “The Thing” horror movie. With the blood craving turnip-man alien from space.
Yeah. Had to pull out a lawn mower for the first time this year.
Three days of mostly sunny warmish weather and I’ve been outside working, all tuckered out now. Winter-white and winter-weak.
Mow and make it rain and then I can get back to an early 2000’s alien invasion 418 page book I’ve been reading on.
Mow . . . or wash cars. Works every time here to make it rain.
Steve unruh
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That spring weather already got me one small sunburn! Sure wakes up the desire for projects when the blue sky and sunshine rolls around. But the rabbits are mowing my lawn this year 
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My Echo 590 chainsaw has been sitting inside the truck since the middle of November. 10 per cent ethanol gas treated with Ethanol Shield and Stabil. Fired up on the third pull and ran fine. Now I have to check the generators.
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Hi All,
Too many I’ve met in their rush to save the world with bio-mass energy had forgotten a basic . . .
Keep the lady in your life happy.
My wife loves her new clothes line:
Placed exactly where she directed . . .
One end in a rock pile after I cut down a would someday shade the garden; poor innocent displaced coastal scrub pine tree.
A tree-kiiler are I . . . or just a loving pragmatic husband who likes to eat hot dinners.
S.U.
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My little greenworks started right up after charging the battery. 
I am making maple syrup right now, so I had to cut up some brush and accumulated over the winter.
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Another report on fuel storage. I bought my winter storage fuel the start of September. Ethanol-free here is 2 dollars a gallon more than E-10 and I never trusted what was getting pumped out of the same hose anyway so I trusted the youtube small engine mechanic, Chickanic who claimed that Ethanol Shield gas supplement would keep E-10 good for a year. So treated E-10 was what I went with. I reported that my chainsaw fired right up after sitting with the fuel in it for four months. The snow finally melted around my log splitter so I tried starting that. Four pulls on the starter and that fired up. Surprised about that because that thing is always finicky. Now I just have to check two generators with the old gas in them. I did test start them in December and they were fine then. I still have 25 gallons of it stored. I’ll probably drain the generators and dump the stored stuff into the car and wait until fall the replace it for storing.
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I was about to plow a few furrows today just before dark but just as l came to the feald, a shower hit. But it produced this scenery, as the sun went to bed and only thing it still shun upon was the church on top of the hill.
Waiting for Mr Don to find two details on the picture 
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Ah-ha! I spy. DonM. enlarge the picture.
S.U.
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don will discover nice fat donkeys, a tractor without gasifier and 2 churches probably…why they had two churches there?
your field is steep, good you have a protection arc on the tractor.
is the field for your wheat?
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Giorgio found it all.
2 churches, well, l do not know why exactly there are two in this case but usualy they originate from the time there was a “church craze” in our area. Every hill has a church on top, some got 2. It was almost a greedy competition wich in my eyes is not wery Christian…
The fact that there isnt a gasifier on the tractor, l wuld rather you not see 
it had a few cracks and l hadnt had time to fix it yet.
Its a pain to plow but the soil erodes downhill, pasture animals help too, so l think if l plow upwards every couple of years it shuld compensate for the soil movement.
I think lm done with grains on a larger scale, it seems we preffer a diet of meat(fish, eggs, milk) vegetables and legumes. This feald will become pasture for pigs. I plan to sew oats, wheat, barley, pea, turnip and chickory mix for pigs to graze in early summer then proceed wit planting a sumner mix of buckwheat, corn, sunflower, millet, mung bean mix and a nother cool crop in the fall.
Also l foud raising meat is actualy easyer and even cheaper. A win win
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Ha! Ha! And using the categories of, “Animal? Mineral? Or vegetable?” I’d thought you were just asking to find the TWO superimposed donkeys. (Too many legs versus just four, for one)
But with the asking for two details . . .
How about the upper picture of the rainbow and the overhead cable-line? The cable-line is electrical power? Telephone? Cable communications?
The rainbow of course being neither animal, mineral or vegetable; but wave energy, re-expressed.
Regards
Steve unruh
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Kristijan should have strapped a couple of barrels to the back of his tractor to avoid any harassment or bullying from this group. But then we would want to know more about the gasifier and why he had been holding out on us. You can’t win, can you.
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It realy does seem like the donkeys gave 6 legs hadnt noticed that.
Ha, hadnt noticed the electric cable either. Its a pain actualy, one relic of the past, relatively rare to see aeal cables here nowdays. Well, we still have them. And the electro company clears the land under it every so often. Our land. They cut one of our last good apple trees a while ago. I do not like strangers on my land.
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Kristijan, don’t forget about the king - potatoes.
Seafarers back in the days focused on potatoes and eggs. Onions were added later on to avois scurvy
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What I notice is the sky is lighter on the bottom of the rainbow than on the top of it and the rainbow is in front of the cloud by the church. The other cloud has a unusal shape to it also. Did any one notice a person is taking a picture of the woods, and everything else we are looking at in the picture?
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Many such cases. Power company flat sided one of my best looking cedar trees a few years ago. Not a fan of strangers on my land but for all intents and purposes we don’t have them here, high likelihood they wouldnt leave the property they set foot on in these woods… and nothing would be said of it by the locals, they think alike and don’t take kindly to trespassing either
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Congratulations to my northern friends with the beginning of Spring. For me it is Autumn. The sun is losing altitude the most quickly now. Today a tree was blocking the sun where I sat on my deck. Yesterday the sun was just above the top of the tree. It’s losing a diameter a day now. Equal days and nights for all today.
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After I was about 10 years old winter lost much of it’s appeal to me. I also have no tolerance for heat so I normally tolerate our northern winters without to much whining, but I’m very happy to see this one wind down. On a scale of one being good and ten being intolerable I’d have to rate the one ending now as about an eight on the sucko meter.
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