The wind finally calmed down, I suppose I could have a fire but I’ve been cold all day. The weather sure did change fast. I takes me a while to get accustomed to the cold and I ain’t there yet. I had almost as many clothes on as in late November as I relocated more of my woodpile and removed leaves and pine needles from the beach.
I do admit, the first thing I do this time of year when I get up I go to see how covered the beach and shore is with leaves. A couple days ago I awoke to this.
I do admit, the first thing I do this time of year when I get up I go to see how covered the beach and shore is with leaves. A couple days ago I awoke to this.
After several hours with the net I had removed most that were available.
Today I took a before picture but failed to take an after picture.
After 5 loads removed from this mess it really did not look any different than when I started.
Maybe tomorrow won’t be quite as windy. I have new waders that should arrive tomorrow, hopefully keeping me drier and able to get more of the leaves that sink and gather on the bottom. I have about had my fill already and they have hardly started arriving yet. I could stand in one place today and just keep scooping them up, filling the tractor bucket rather quickly. Ten loads for the season so far. Tomorrow I will look for a different shovel like tool to assist with the removal process.
I have almost re-stacked my woodpile up on the hill. I’m piling the nicer soft wood in the pile I stole from when I sold some last week. I’m finding a lot of moldy wood in the pile. So as I relocate I’m separating the hard wood out along with the real moldy wood. I don’t really know if it is actually moldy but it has some kind of fungus growing on it. I find if I throw those aside and let the sun attack the fungus it dries out pretty good. That is the wood that I am bringing down for me to burn. I just need to wait for the wind to die down so I can get rid of a bunch.
The flowers on the front retaining wall along with the last tomato plant will probably get killed with the cold tonight. This will give me something else to do tomorrow. Sounds like there is getting to be more on the list than I will get accomplished. Groceries is an important part of the list and probably the only thing on the list with any hope of completing. The plants will get taken care of but the beach and woodpile will be ongoing for a while as the weather permits and more leaves arrive.
In the studio I’m plugging away on #29 for 2025. There is still a long way to go. The premise of #29 was to get rid of ten or so 6” F nine patch blocks I keep running across in the orphan block bin. They were UGLY.
So as Bonnie Hunter says with fabric if it’s ugly, cut it smaller. This is what I did. I took them and cut them into quarters on the diagonal. I knew I needed to make more scrappy 6” nine patch blocks to cut down the same way, so I decided on using fabric from the seldom used 2-1/2”x5” rectangle bin. I sewed them together in groups of three to get strip sets big enough to get two strips or 2/3 of a nine patch block.
After making a slew of them I I made nine patches, cut diagonally, reassembled them and trimmed to my new 5” F block. I decided I liked the look by connecting four of them together to make this rather interesting 10” F block.
That is what #29 will be from. I only need thirty 10” blocks, so that means I need 120 nine patches to dissect and remake. I’m about half way there. There will be a 2-1/2” sashing with I’m sure something going on with the cornerstones.
Until next time. Stay safe and enjoy fall, we all know what’s next.
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