Recent activities

These photos show some of our recent activities. Temps and humidity haven't been too bad for this time of year.

Craft color planning

Wood cutting/moving

Berry picking

Microburst cleanup

That intense storm a week ago Thursday likely brought a microburst to the hill. Several paper birch became the victims. It was a strange site, with so much damage in an incredibly small area, with neighboring trees totally unaffected -- not even any branches down! 

We cleaned up the birch on a truly beautiful morning. The low was 55 degrees. Losing some nice young birches has a downside for sure, but several other trees, especially a really lovely young sugar maple, will now have more sun. And we'll have some more excellent firewood.

Big wind, falling pines

Another big wind storm dropped more pines, an unsurprising result.