Mead Glorious Mead!

So wonderful and scrumptious! About a month ago I told you all I made Mead. A drink of honey, water and yeast. Simple and easy to make. Very yummy and packs a punch. Well, today we are celebrating as we bottled out some of our 2.5 gallons of it @ 12 to 14% alcohol. Enjoy the day, as I celebrate in the rain.

I apologize...

...it's been a few days since I posted. I have been logging on my property, collecting food, and cobbing. All of which are tiring time consuming work. Beginning of the week I dropped 10 trees, removed the brush, cut the poles for beams and construction later on. All are stacked.

I also did multiple layers on the cob kitchen. The BBQ got a thermal layer while I experimented with putting bottle windows in the cob. It's turning out great and the BBQ cooks like a champ since it uses the rocket stove principles. However, I am very much into the research that the now deceased Vicktor Schauberger was into, as such, the thermal layer of cob was curved a bit in order to help make the fire vortex naturally and consume the wood even slightly more effectively then a normal rocket stove. In my opinion, it works very well, and is highly efficient. More studies need to be done on this approach to rocket stoves.

I also gathered, with the help of a friend or two at times a few GALLONS of Blackberries, as well as apples. Time to get canning, but instead I have to finish up the cobbing by around the first for when the fire bricks get here.

Buggah!

The previous caretakers of this land left me a tree well into the wires. Well, a few actually and those have been taken care of. This one has been a bit of a devil all day and I called it quits. I don't have the equipment to do this safely.

This needed to be handled ASAP, and still does IMO.

FCC Cries foul of internet speeds...

...they want to really sink their teeth into something. How about any kind of high-speed internet for rural communities since Satellite providers in the Coos County area block ports without telling customers thus not allowing them to surf the internet with FREEDOM.

Anyway, despite all that I certainly love the internet and think of it as a blessing. Just the other day I got in touch with an old friend from college, someone truly great for her people. However I will talk about that & this another day.

On top of all this, I had a great day yesterday. Between getting in touch with my friend, & the heavy work, it was a good long day.

Got up, did the orchard rounds. Went out, got a 1/2 ton of sand from Knife River Materials, and then unloaded it. Then went out, got large and medium sized rocks for the BBQ pit. Then I got back, made the pit, and BBQ'd with friends again. This was in addition to all the other work done around the property like the ever popular fence construction.

Today, I should be doing cobbing. We shall see, at the moment, I need coffee.