s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

As most of you know, for the last year or so I have been working full-time on the farm. I do hope to be “finished” one day, but that day always seems be be “four to six months away.”

Working on the farm has its ups and downs. Probably the biggest down is working alone, which can be a bummer some days. But I realized an up-side a few weeks ago while chatting with Bill on the phone. Most of my day to day problems can be solved with one of the following tools:
-fire
-poison
-a chainsaw
-a big hammer

I know many people who would love to solve some of their work-problems with one or more of those tools.

The last two days have been all about fire. Getting old piles of gorse burned off. This was a challenge, as the bottom layers were very water logged, so in stead of burning in a huge conflagration of doom, I had to feed the poile back over onto itself, producing lots of smoke and taking lots of time. But at least slow means controlled, so I have managed to burn off many piles with no run-away fires, and that is certainly a good thing.