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Capt Kirk's Blog
Dec. 7, 2005
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:16 pm Hasn't been a lot going on the past couple of weeks. Just been trying to stay warm. We do have our outside Christmas lights up, but not our tree. Will put it up around the 15th or so. They are saying we could get our first substantial snow tomorrow night and into Friday. If we get a good amount, I will try to get some pics of it. Today is Pearl Harbor Day here in the states, but nothing going on locally for it. I am sure that there are some activities to honor the dead in Hawaii though. This blog entry has been viewed 53 times
Nov. 23 First snow!
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 2:46 pm Here it is, the day before Thanksgiving and we are getting our first measurable snow. It's coming down real fine now, but is supposed to start snowing harder this afternoon. They say an inch by tonight and maybe another inch by morning. This is early for us compared to average years. Usually it is in Dec. that we get our first snow. It's about 30 deg F now and not supposed to get much warmer today. I have a fire going, the cat is stretched out in front of the stove, and I have a wood box full of wood. Nice and cozy here! It has stopped snowing now. Here is what it looks like after an inch of snow. This is the upper part of my lane. One of the reasons I have the snow removal gear I have. This blog entry has been viewed 49 times
Nov. 20, 2005 - I'm Ready!
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:28 pm I have about 5 cords of firewood under cover for this winter. And today I got the snow blower mounted on the tractor. I had to take the mower deck off, changed to a lighter grade of oil in the tractor for winter. Mounted the blower and all of it's brackets etc. Put chains on the rear tires and mounted the 50 pound wheel weights on the rear tires. The blower is 45 inches wide and will through the snow about 75 foot. My lane is 1/4 mile long and there is a cut in it where the snow always drifts in. The banks on the side of the cut are about 6 ft. high, so have to have something to get the snow out. With this rig, I make one trip to the end of the lane and one trip back and I am done! Here are a couple of pics of the rig. This blog entry has been viewed 108 times
November 16 - Anticipation!
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2005 3:03 pm Our first really cold day of the season. I started a fire in the wood burner. My son brought his shoes in to warm up before going to work. I couldn't resist getting this pic. 
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Nov. 14th
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:08 pm Saturday evening was the date of our American Legion Post's annual veterans dinner. We had a great turnout with about 125 people. It was free for post members and the Womens Auxiliary members. The menu was swiss steak, mashed potatos and gravy and green beans. With a salad and pumpkin pie. Things are really starting to slow down for winter here. Will remove the mower deck from the tractor on the weekend, put the scraper blade on. Will move some gravel around in the lane. Then will take that off and install the snow blower. I will try to get a picture of it once I get it on. This blog entry has been viewed 44 times
Nov. 11 Veterans Day
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 4:24 pm Today is Veterans Day here in the US and I went to a program at the local Middle School. This first pic is of the approximately 30 or so veterans that attended the program. This next pic is of some of the students that were honoring the vets. And this last pic is of the band that was really great with the patriotic music. This blog entry has been viewed 602 times
Nov. 6th - Craft Show
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 1:28 am The American Legion post that I belong to had a craft show on saturday and it went really well. We had all 48 booths rented and the people came ready to buy. Most of the crafts were Christmas oriented. The most popular booth was the one selling home made fudge. They had several different kinds and had platters of samples set out so you could taste the kind you wanted to buy. They said they sold over $400 worth of fudge! The doors opened at 9 am and let the shopping begin! We had two rooms of booths and there was a steady flow of people coming through both rooms. The vendors were happy and the Legion made about $1200 for our community projects. The customers were happy as they got some nice stuff for themselves or to give away as Christmas gifts. This blog entry has been viewed 89 times
Nov. 2, 2005
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 5:36 pm Was out in the yard doing some fall cleanup, putting away the last of the summer items. Took some pics from around the Ol Homstead. This pic is of the same Sugar Maple that was in the Oct 27 blog. I wanted to show how much the leaves are changing. This is my small woodshed. It's near the house and where I get my firewood when it's needed. I built it myself with some modifications from an article about an Irish garden house. Here is a view of the inside of it! See all of that glorious heat just waiting in there? The bags contain scraps of wood from my workshop. This is my big woodshed the rows of wood are 8 ft long and 5 ft high and I have 4 1/2 rows now. Will put another row and 1/2 in on Thurs. and Friday and then I will be done! This is my workhorse. It's 18 1/2 horse power. The trailer if a 17 cu. ft. capacity and does all the fire wood hauling and garden trash hauling for me. Once I am done mowing for the year, I will mount a snowblower on the front of it that is 45 inches wide. One trip out my lane and back and it's clear of snow. This blog entry has been viewed 479 times
Oct. 27,2005
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2005 3:50 pm Not much going on here. It finally stopped raining yesterday, after 4 days of drizzle. It was bright and sunny on Wed. so I was able to mow the grass and get most of the leves chopped up. Will have to do them again as only about half of them are down. This morning the temperature was at 31 deg. F when I got up, and I had some white patches of frost on the ground. This was the first time that we have gotten below freezing this season. Went out into the yard for a couple of snapshots: This is the sugar maple in the back yard. It is the type that the sap is collected in mid-Feburary and then boiled down into Maple Syrupe for on pancakes and waffles. This one is my Autumn Joy hedge. I split 4 plants into these about 4 years ago and they need to be split again. I will leave the bloom stalks up all winter as the birds will feed some off the seeds and they are pretty with little tufts of snow on them too. This is a view of the field behind my property. It is part of what was my mother and father's farm and where I grew up. The had 162 acres at one time. After my mothers death in 2002 at age 89, the farm came to me and my 2 brothers. We cash rented the tillable land for about 6 years and the sold it to the guy who had been farming it. The field was in soybeans and they have been harvested. The woods also belonged to us and I used to hunt for squirrels and deer as a kid. As you can see the leaves are just starting to change color, but will speed up now that we got the heavy frost this morning. This blog entry has been viewed 43 times
Oct. 22nd Legion Fish Fry
Category: Daily life. | Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 12:34 pm Four times a year we have a fish fry to raise funds to help in the community work that we do. This of course was our Fall Fish Fry and we had a good turnout. Here is a pic of some of the people enjoying the food. My bother and his wife were even there. This is one of the people that I went to school with, frying some of the fish. And one of our members pouring some liquid refreshment This blog entry has been viewed 115 times
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