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Mar. 30th, 2025 01:19 pmYesterday was busy. I asked my mom to spend a little time cleaning out my room so I could get my dresser in. First thing I did was take the big truck over and start unloading my stuff out of it. Turns out it was the fish run, where the state releases fish in to the creek, so there was five vehicles parked over by the church. So I had to chat with the neighbors. I was waiting on dad to help with the two big items in the truck, but the neighbors ended up coming over and helping which was really nice of them. I went and pruned blueberries after that.
Came back to the house and omg my mom got the room so cleaned! There's still two big shelves and some boxes, but I can fit a lot more stuff in there. I exchanged the mattress of the bed for mine and discovered why the old bed had a bunky board instead of a box spring with that bed frame. My bed is So Tall. I unloaded my truck into the house and sorted out the less important things that could be stored in the shed.
By mid afternoon, everyone had left the church (I guess fish aren't interesting in the afternoon?) and dad pulled the trailer over and I took my truck and unloaded almost everything by myself. The only thing I needed help with was the desk. Turns out I can lift a lot more stuff than I expected. Got it all neatly jammed into the shed, with a lot more space available, so I need to actually move my box stacks onto and below the table and move some things over to where they are.
I got my dresser into my room, yay! and just left everything in piles. Then went out to split wood. I love the skidsteer wood processor. It's so cool. Chugged through a bunch of that since dad said he had one more tote of sap to boil (he boiled all day), and I finished up my splitting, headed across the road and dad said omg why didn't you see my phone call, we're almost out of sap and you can't let the pans get too low. He needed the bobcat to lift the new sap tote up that high and I'd been using it. He ran off to get the bobcat and the new tote while I fed the boiler and watched the water level.
Turns out the sap was no good, smelled like vinegar and my phone had been trying to connect to the wifi and didn't allow me to get the calls. In the end, dad hooked up the water and made it in time. But that's the end of the maple syrup season, the buds are finally pushing here. It was 75F yesterday, very hot. The boiler was incredibly hot when it was time to load, so much that my bare arms were pinkish the rest of the night like a light sunburn.
I ate tamales and went to bed.
This morning, I spent time working on the farm website, which we switched to wordpress since it's easy enough. I also organized my room a bit, so I could actually find my sheets and I can sleep with my blankets tonight instead of my sleeping bag. Then I helped mom and dad carry all of the syrup over to the church for bottling. 13 gallons plus another 3 that still needed to be filtered which is pretty solid for one boiling.
Then dad and I went into the church belfry. This requires going up a 20 ft ladder placed against the wall of the church up into a trap door. I am scared of high ladders. Absolutely terrified. It took me two tries but I got up there and I'm glad I did. It was really neat! The stained glass is pretty and there's an actual bell up there that can be rung even if the bells that ring on a regular basis are electrical with speakers. We're going to try and date the bell and find out who made it, there's a mostly readable imprint that says "name" Bell Foundry Co. We also got some measurements for the louvers because currently the birds come in them were the screens are broken and have nests on the ones that aren't broken. I did successfully climb back down the ladder but I was so terrified that I was involuntarily whimpering the whole time and made my dad uncomfortable.
The bell still can be rung, there's a manual ringer in the bottom left of the corner and the rope still passes into the stairwell below it. The plywood ring behind the bell is a modification since the rope would apparently jump off the wheel when pulled.
After that, I went and pruned another two rows of blueberries, the last in the big block and scouted the farm fields to get a sense of what needs to be done in the next week or two.
Dad needed help with unloading the flooring into the house, so I helped with that after a brief break to hang out with my mom as she cleaned up from bottling and before my dad came over with the trailer of flooring. It took us a bit to figure out where to stack all the flooring because there's quite a bit of it but we did it with lots of breaks for dad's back.
My mom finished up her stuff and went to make dinner, which she threw some french fries in the oven for me (they got fishsticks) and I made cream dried beef which I poured over french fries and was absolutely stick to the ribs delicious. I'm off farm work tomorrow since Mondays will be my day off plus it's raining tomorrow. I have Plans. Risotto Plans.
Came back to the house and omg my mom got the room so cleaned! There's still two big shelves and some boxes, but I can fit a lot more stuff in there. I exchanged the mattress of the bed for mine and discovered why the old bed had a bunky board instead of a box spring with that bed frame. My bed is So Tall. I unloaded my truck into the house and sorted out the less important things that could be stored in the shed.
By mid afternoon, everyone had left the church (I guess fish aren't interesting in the afternoon?) and dad pulled the trailer over and I took my truck and unloaded almost everything by myself. The only thing I needed help with was the desk. Turns out I can lift a lot more stuff than I expected. Got it all neatly jammed into the shed, with a lot more space available, so I need to actually move my box stacks onto and below the table and move some things over to where they are.
I got my dresser into my room, yay! and just left everything in piles. Then went out to split wood. I love the skidsteer wood processor. It's so cool. Chugged through a bunch of that since dad said he had one more tote of sap to boil (he boiled all day), and I finished up my splitting, headed across the road and dad said omg why didn't you see my phone call, we're almost out of sap and you can't let the pans get too low. He needed the bobcat to lift the new sap tote up that high and I'd been using it. He ran off to get the bobcat and the new tote while I fed the boiler and watched the water level.
Turns out the sap was no good, smelled like vinegar and my phone had been trying to connect to the wifi and didn't allow me to get the calls. In the end, dad hooked up the water and made it in time. But that's the end of the maple syrup season, the buds are finally pushing here. It was 75F yesterday, very hot. The boiler was incredibly hot when it was time to load, so much that my bare arms were pinkish the rest of the night like a light sunburn.
I ate tamales and went to bed.
This morning, I spent time working on the farm website, which we switched to wordpress since it's easy enough. I also organized my room a bit, so I could actually find my sheets and I can sleep with my blankets tonight instead of my sleeping bag. Then I helped mom and dad carry all of the syrup over to the church for bottling. 13 gallons plus another 3 that still needed to be filtered which is pretty solid for one boiling.
Then dad and I went into the church belfry. This requires going up a 20 ft ladder placed against the wall of the church up into a trap door. I am scared of high ladders. Absolutely terrified. It took me two tries but I got up there and I'm glad I did. It was really neat! The stained glass is pretty and there's an actual bell up there that can be rung even if the bells that ring on a regular basis are electrical with speakers. We're going to try and date the bell and find out who made it, there's a mostly readable imprint that says "name" Bell Foundry Co. We also got some measurements for the louvers because currently the birds come in them were the screens are broken and have nests on the ones that aren't broken. I did successfully climb back down the ladder but I was so terrified that I was involuntarily whimpering the whole time and made my dad uncomfortable.
The bell still can be rung, there's a manual ringer in the bottom left of the corner and the rope still passes into the stairwell below it. The plywood ring behind the bell is a modification since the rope would apparently jump off the wheel when pulled.
After that, I went and pruned another two rows of blueberries, the last in the big block and scouted the farm fields to get a sense of what needs to be done in the next week or two.
Dad needed help with unloading the flooring into the house, so I helped with that after a brief break to hang out with my mom as she cleaned up from bottling and before my dad came over with the trailer of flooring. It took us a bit to figure out where to stack all the flooring because there's quite a bit of it but we did it with lots of breaks for dad's back.
My mom finished up her stuff and went to make dinner, which she threw some french fries in the oven for me (they got fishsticks) and I made cream dried beef which I poured over french fries and was absolutely stick to the ribs delicious. I'm off farm work tomorrow since Mondays will be my day off plus it's raining tomorrow. I have Plans. Risotto Plans.
