Woolly Dragon Farm: A Steampunk Homestead

  • Crop Circle

    With fairly nice weather I couldn’t wait to get outside today and do some work. I wanted to finish the bed we’ve been working on. The work went pretty fast. I finished digging and raking the bed. The stones around the outside of the bed came from the bed. Those are only the biggest, most…

  • Digging It

    Given the nice weather lately I’ve been out digging up the compacted ground where the pool used to be to prepare it for planting. There’s a lot of rocks. Tons of rocks. Most are smallish but I’m pulling out the bigger rocks and will use them as a border. Ultimately I’ll probably divide this circular…

  • Gated

    Baby-proofing the house has been a challenge. I’m sure everyone deals with this in their own way. When we first moved in we put things where it made sense. Then Alexander started crawling, and sitting up, and suddenly books and DVDs needed to move. The television needed to move. We ended up pulling a lot…

  • Timber!!!

    The trees outside our gate were growing up into the power lines so we wanted to remove them. When Ryan’s parents visited for Xander’s 1st birthday they brought along their chain saw and that Saturday Ryan and his dad removed the trees. While Ricky cut down the trees with the chainsaw, Ryan chopped up all…

  • Winter Planning

    It’s winter time and that means I’m dreaming about Spring. I’m thinking about all of the various projects I want to do. It’s finally sinking in that we have our own house and property! After so many years living in an apartment there’s the possibility of doing all sorts of interesting things. Lack of money…

  • *Really* Cold Weather!

    It’s been down to 4°F lately. So cold that our pipes froze the other day, our car froze and it hasn’t been getting above freezing. We’re adapting. Got the pipes thawed and the car. Now the water is trickling at night and I’ve been getting up to start the car. Hate doing it, but it’s…

  • Our Homestead

    We lived in our last apartment for eleven years. Eleven years thinking about what we’d do when we got our own place with room for gardens, animals and everything else. Now we have the place and are slowly figuring out what to do first. I’ve posted a bunch of project posts as we’ve started working…

  • Plant Garlic

    Urgency: High Cost: $39 Status: In Progress Description: I ordered garlic from Big John’s Garden this year. I was a little late in ordering so many varieties had sold out but I still got the Inchelium Red Garlic I wanted and another variety (was going to be Spanish Roja Garlic, but that was gone by…

  • Build Compost Containers

    Urgency: High Cost: $0 Status: Completed, but the remains need to be removed. Description: We need to start compost piles. Kate already hauled down some wire fencing we can use to get them going. Tools Needed Screwdriver, metal shears Parts Needed

  • Remove Pool

    Urgency: High Cost: $??, unknown to haul away Status: In progress Description: There’s a large above-ground pool behind the house that the mortgage appraiser wanted removed before the house sold. We were told it had been removed only to discover that it hadn’t actually happened. The seller’s agent was going to still remove it, but…

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