Three times Tuesday afternoon, the snow fell so hard and fast that half an inch collected on the ground in just a few minutes.  And three times, the sun came out and melted the snow away in just as short a period.

Mark told me I was crazy to consider getting up on the coop roof to finish up that project, so we instead spent a bit of time clearing some of the brush and logs at the corner of the new pasture that we never quite got to last year.  Mark cut while I wheeled the bounty home to stack in the woodshed.

Clearing up that corner of the new pasture turned up two new spots for apple trees.  It seems that that fitting in a dozen more semi-standard apples won't be any trouble at all!

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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