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[halo]

Logging? Cool! Take some before and after pictures.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, I have plenty of before pictures already. The after pictures won't be pretty at all, not immediately after they're done anyway. Below is a plat of the 4 lots we own. The house is on Lot 5, the highest elevation, but both Lot 5 and 9b are fenced, totaling 2.22 acres, which is the original land we bought with the house. Lots 9a and Lot 8 are the 3.15 acres we are logging, combined lots we bought later when they went up for sale, and they are starting at the bottom of lot 8 and working up to the fence, which is right on the line between 9b and 9a. We will have to remove the fence on that side in order for it to be out of the way, but deer have crashed into it so much, that steel posts are broken and bent anyway and need replacing.

 

[halo]

If they are starting down the hill and working their way up to your house, keep your eye out for little displaced critters. They will be moving them towards your house, so just keep an eye out.

 

[speckledhen]

We waited until most birds were through nesting. Even the phoebes were finished with their second brood of the year, but yeah, snakes and such will be coming up, I'm sure. There is almost a 100 ft difference in elevation between the bottom of the property and the highest point where the house sits. We can see Vance Mtn in NC from one side of the porch, too, but can't clear that view because that property belongs to someone else. We see the tiptop of it in winter. Used to see more when we bought this place 10 years ago.

 

[chickened]

Sounds as if your summer is planned lol Pulp is down a little here as well. Sounds as if you will make some money though which is better than costing you.

Out here I have taken over 150 mbf from 5 acres and where the owner made 50,000.00 and I have cleared 5 acres where I had to charge for my services so it really can vary here also, big trees big money little trees little money is the saying here.

Better get your back feeling better because cleaning up 3 acres by hand is a chore. You might get a price from the guy who pulls the stumps on cleaning up the limbs because he can do it in no time with an excavator.

I do views and daylight homes here a lot and everyone I have done the people wish they had done it sooner and always like the sunlight it lets in, winters here are pretty grey.

Oh, you didn't mention more coop space.

 

[speckledhen]

I have zero idea what pulling stumps would cost. May only have someone do a center strip down the part closest to that fence line so it can be tilled and evened out somehow. All that remains to be seen, though. There will be enough slash and small stuff for firewood left for us for years, I bet.

DH is already pulling downed smaller dead trees out with his own truck to use for firewood, stuff they don't want anyway.

No more coop space! I want to build a barn behind our garden on this side of the fence, but that costs more than we have right now, but it's for storage, not chickens. (I know, famous last words!)

Sitting in bed with an ice pack on my back and meds in my system that will make me type weird things (plus my DH's Gateway laptop that has a keyboard I am not used to and it erases entire paragraphs when I hit keys I didn't realize I hit)

 

[catdaddyfro]

Logging has begun on my extra 3 acre tract. Back is really hurting. One of Aimee's eggs is pipped on Day 19. She has two, Carly has one a day behind. Dusty has two of Aimee's, also a day behind.

And Tom has one of Penny's that was under Carly that he actually dropped when he picked up Carly and crackled near the aircell a few days ago--he put paraffin wax on the crackled area, wrapped it in a moist heating pad as an experiment rather than toss it out on Day 13. He's turned it and tended it and candled almost every day to be sure it hasn't expired.

Well, at Day 18, it is still alive and developing well, moving around and everything!!!!!! Cross your fingers that it hatches. A heating pad incubation, whodathunkit! If it hatches, it will be the coolest thing ever and we'll just put it under whichever broody we want since we have three of them due at the same time.

Yes My aunt June has done this before as she has a bad back from too many years nursing and lifting big people like they were rag-dolls now she is down with a "tore-up" back. She has hatched eggs in the bed with her using a heating pad in a shoebox of all things. The crazy things people do is amazing huh?

 

[speckledhen]

Yes My aunt June has done this before as she has a bad back from too many years nursing and lifting big people like they were rag-dolls now she is down with a "tore-up" back. She has hatched eggs in the bed with her using a heating pad in a shoebox of all things. The crazy things people do is amazing huh?

Cool!

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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I like Jan Krentz books.

I really love these!
Kathy, if you are selling the two Jan Krentz books, the Hunter star and the Lone star quilts and Beyond, I would like to buy them from you. Just let me know how much. Also the Stars a la carte. Thanks .

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Cyn, good luck with the heating pad baby and I hope your back will be feeling better soon.