Greetings! I hope this note finds you healthy and happy.
We are making progress on the final steps of our building/homestead journey. We’re getting ready for Autumn! It’s a beautiful place here every season, but fall tends to show how gorgeous the change to winter can be.
We saw two baby bears (cubs) from our bedroom window the other night (at 02:18). We have a motion light on the north side of our house and two big windows. The light came on and woke us up. We looked out and 20 meters away, two cubs walking along headed to the meadow. We assumed Momma Bear was ahead of them. The light came on and one of them stopped and stared right toward us for five or ten seconds. It was surreal, and at two in the morning it took a while to get back to sleep.
We own a shipping container (see photo above) we used for our household goods storage - as well as the studio/darkroom and the forging equipment. We finally got that emptied and moved onto our property. Not only moved, but leveled as well. We’ve started filling it again with our “long-term” storage items. Such an important thing to have. It sounds crazy, but at 2,700 cubic sq feet of storage, it saves time and money (not renting a storage unit).
So, what’s next?
1) Complete the deck - estimated completion date: 1 week!
2) Finish moving items from the house and studio/darkroom into long-term storage (shipping container) - 3 or 4 days
3) Start the darkroom build-out. - 2-3 weeks!
4) Split more firewood ;-) Ongoing!
Setting up to build my darkroom and studio.
All of my photographic and darkroom equipment in is the building! I’m ready to build! P.S. That’s a big silver nitrate stain on the floor already - I’m not even setup and I’m staining the floor with AgNO3! Good sign, yes? It was a broken bottle and the UV here “printed it out” before I could clean it up!
Our deck is progressing!
Should be finished next week!
Can almost imagine sitting out here drinking coffee and watching the deer go by.
And finally… See how our garden grows!
First fruits of the greenhouse - we’ve eaten all of this now ;-) Super delicious!
A small crop for the winter.
Beef steak tomatoes
15 days into flowering..
See all of those little “white balls”? Those are trichomes. That’s the medicine.