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Week starting 3 January 2010

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Barn Raising -- sort of

This week I connected with a neighbor, Gerry Hess. I'd hired his son, Conor, to work for me last fall. (Great kid, good work ethic. Asks questions, wants to know everything.) Anyway Gerry is building a new shop. I told him that if he needed a hand, to give me a call. I'll admit I've got an axe to grind. Having a neighbor owe me a favour will mean that when I'm trying to put gyprock on my garage ceiling, there is someone I can ask. Anyway, three days this week were spent at Gerry's putting up plastic, insulating his ceiling, and attaching gyprock.

I hate gyprock. It's like using spaghetti as a strucural material. The ends crumble. I miss the rafters with the screws. It's dusty to cut. Gyprock is a material designed by a government committee.

Gerry had another friend there too. Tim Perrault is a great guy. Knows welding, construction. He may be able to help me with a pond I've got in mind.

Website

I took a look at the website stats. Fascinating. October edged out May as my busiest month, with September not far behind. Overall 2009 had three times the traffic of 2008. This is

I've been remiss in doing this Almanac every week. I'm trying to go back and fill in some of the gaps.

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Otherwise it's been working on getting in firewood. I try to keep my firewood two years ahead. I'm a bit behind. In theory I want to fill up the empty half of the wood shed in April. This way it has two summers to dry out before I use it. Alas I didn't have my waterfowl in alignment, so only now am I getting to do what I should have done last April.

So I'm clearing some creek side trees. Want to create lightly forested area to plant firs. At the same time, I'm looking at trail making for the Christmas Tree trade. It gives me lots of time out in the snow.