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I’m a little geeky. That may be obvious to most of you. For those who need a bit of convincing, I first made this confession on our Moosicorn blog in my I <3 Info-graphics post. And, as a geek, why wouldn’t I set it up so I can log egg production numbers into into a [...]
Over the winter I’ve been trying to finish up a lot of interior projects so that as spring comes around we can really focus all of our time on the garden and various outdoor construction projects we have planned. So far… We’ve finished building, painting and hanging all the custom interior chalkboard doors. We built [...]
Over the past few weeks we re-purposed every available horizontal shop surface, to stage our life’s detritus as we went about reorganizing the storage area. With the storage overhaul complete, the shop is back in action with more space than ever before. It’s so nice to be back – working in the shop is my meditation [...]
Living in the great northwest, one thing we have a lot of is trees. We’ve been contemplating how we could put this locally abundant resource to good use on several of our upcoming projects. We’ve got a garden shed, cottages, an outdoor kitchen and loads of other ideas we have yet to build. Obviously building [...]
Stained concrete floors are all the rage in modern design. You’ve seen them at your local Starbucks… or hopefully you shun the corporate coffee house in favor of a local roaster and manage to catch a glimpse of stained concrete floors there as well. They’re everywhere these days, and I think it’s a design technique [...]
With our first 5 egg day happening just 2 weeks after our very first egg we quickly realized we’re going to need a surplus egg strategy, like now. We’ve never farmed before or sold farm goods, so… WHAT THE HECK DO WE DO!? First off: How many eggs are we going to need to deal [...]
Turns out, it wasn’t a Kestrel… it’s a Merlin. Thanks John (a.k.a. Dendroica), for correcting me when Al wasn’t around to do so! :) I was lucky enough to be working from home today and caught Gordon making a new friend in a rarely seen visitor to Moosicorn Ranch, a Kestrel Merlin. They bonded over their mutual interest [...]
Alex had to leave me this weekend to drive her mom back from Utah. Fortunately I had a good buddy willing to babysit me with fine beers, good meals and a ton of help on several projects we had in the works. I helped our friends out several weeks back by working with them to [...]
