Nearly clean inside, and at least halfway organized.
Images
Canyon House
Panorama shot catches a bit of the garden on the right and the driveway on the left.
Ahhh! View from under the mulberry tree!
Looking out over Big Chico Creek Canyon
Arturo with path cleared in back ground.
Arturo cleared a path to the break in the small pipe. We repaired the break in the pipe and now have full water production. Down hill from this break there have been several (5) bear bites in the small pipe that for years have been spraying / loosing water. We fixed those too. Now we plan to install a 500 gallon storage tank inline with the small pipe to provide additional irrigation capacity. Then work on the delivery end.
Morning brush burning!
Preparing for 2013 Fire Season. Alden bringing Manzanita and other shrubs off the hillside to the burn pile. Cloe helping by chasing off the mice that might hiding tin the shrubs.
New Bat Box on Cottonwood by Ann & Bobs pond
Today I installed a brand spanking new bat box at the Canyon. I bought it last week at the Chico Farmers Market. There is already a small colony in the old bat box on the house. So we are trying to establish another one. Bats need water so I put this box up high on the old cottonwood tree that stands next to Ann & Bobs pond. More about the pond in another post.
Burning the grey pine branches
So the last of the large grey pine trees with in the fire safety zone of the home have been removed and almost entirely cleaned up. Winter is the best time to reduce the fire fuel with in the safety zone of the home & structures. There is still more to go but the big offenders have been taken care of.
Very aged black oak rounds waiting for splitting
We are cleaning the road-trail that goes to the approx 1/4 mile of creek that runs through the eastern most portion of the Canyon. There is lots of opportunity to collect fire wood.
We are cleaning the road-trail that goes to the approx 1/4 mile of creek that runs through the eastern most portion of the Canyon. There is lots of opportunity to collect fire wood.
Cutting up the Grey Pine to moveable size.
The road cut above the house has grown several pretty large Grey Pine trees. One of the largest of these died a few years ago and was leaning out over the road toward the house. It dawned on me that hey this was a significant fire hazard as well as crush a passing car hazard so we had GoodLiffe Tree Servicie take it down. I have been little by little taking down and hauling away from the homestead area the other Grey Pine within 100 yards of the house.
The road cut above the house has grown several pretty large Grey Pine trees. One of the largest of these died a few years ago and was leaning out over the road toward the house. It dawned on me that hey this was a significant fire hazard as well as crush a passing car hazard so we had GoodLiffe Tree Servicie take it down. I have been little by little taking down and hauling away from the homestead area the other Grey Pine within 100 yards of the house.
2012 Blue – Hopi Corn Harvest , Pretty Poor
OK so there must be a lot of things I could be better. We will continue with the drying and milling just for the learning.
OK so there must be a lot of things I could be better. We will continue with the drying and milling just for the learning.