This is our week for getting a big storm rolling through and yesterday was the prequel. I was watching the doppler all morning and and it took it till well after light before the flakes started to fly.
My mornings have developed now to once the boys are at school and my post here is done I work on 4 different things: Duolingo Spanish, Mimo Python, Autocad exercises, and writing on my story. I try to put a half hour to each before getting to work on the projects around the farm or house.
Right around 9am the first ones were falling and soon it was snowing quite heavy. The little storm moved past after dropping a couple inches over a couple of hours.
The end of the storm was near and I had to run up to Deer Park to return the key to the fire station and by the time I got home the snow had all stopped.
I was out with the shovel clearing paths and when I got up to the craft studio I saw the little buck nestled down at the base of the tree where he was the prior day. Dude did not even budge as we were on the other side of the fence.
He just sits there and stares at me and the dog. Am not exactly sure he is doing okay as I have never seen a deer this mellow and NOT skittish or bolting at our mere presence. If he is in the same spot today I may try to nudge him and see if he is able to move much. He did the other day so I presume he will still.
I finally got going on the wood and started splitting the remaining rounds in the yard.
These rounds were from a dead standing tree I took down so are drier and much better to burn now than the wet wood from the monster tree. I rolled the splitter to the rounds instead of the rounds to the splitter which made it a bit easier.
It took me an hour and half to get through them all except the 4 big ones but I will split those with the maul as it is just easier that way. I had just enough time to rest for a few minutes before going to pickup the boys.
Once home with them I got to stacking and after an hour had it all on the pile. I have a number of smaller rounds that I did not put through the splitter and the 4 big ones left to deal with but the vast majority is split. We have at least 3 cords so far and I have another couple of trees that are coming down at some point this winter but we are actively burning it in the fireplace.
I am hopefully going to be having a conex delivered today. I called and talked to them in the afternoon but will have to call again this morning and see if I can get it delivered today before the snows hit tonight. It will be going next to the coop hopefully as there is looking to be enough room for a truck to get it in there. Nicely it is coming from only 6 miles away so shouldn't be to tough to get set.
I have today before the beginning of the big storm hits tonight but the forecast has dropped from 19" max snow to 10" thru Wednesday or Thursday. The biggest thing will be getting the conex today and getting it set where I want it. Without a tractor it will be really difficult to move it once it is in place. Once it is here though the house will start getting cleared out and we will actually have a bit of space.
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I hope that little buck is ok....very odd for him to be in the same place for so long....
That's my thoughts too. He moves slow if he does so am hoping he is okay and not diseased or something.
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AutoCAD, you say? It's been a while since I used it, but my CorelCAD is very similar. Do you have a specific design goal in mind once you know the program?
I learned it 9 years ago during my electrician schooling at SCC but have forgotten a lot since so I am doing a run through an exercise book. I've got a few devices in my head I want to draw up and maybe an attempt at an accurate map of the farm.
If you can find the county plat maps in DXF or DWG format, you can cut your workload down a lot. Just be sure the drawing is set to decimal feet and the file is properly scaled. Don't ask how I know...
And a quick-and-dirty option is overlaying that on a Google Earth screenshot to ballpark features within your property, although this is not truly precise.
Ahh very nice, thank you. I got a pdf and was able to import into cad so I have the measurements shown now and it is to scale.