Do You have Winter Chores?

[digitS']

17 years? Practically yesterday .

I was prompted to post this after reading about @baymule 's new tile ... which will have to go in before her new Christmas woodstove ... @thistlebloom 's DH's profession ... & @Carol Dee 's floor.

Here was a reason for me to finally get myself in gear: the landing for the basement stairs was broken. I learned some things about this olde house replacing the tiny, little thing.

It took me about 8 hours to fit something under those steep and leaning stairs. I learned that the concrete floor down there was put in after that old landing was built because under it was ... dirt. And, I learned that even the basement walls aren't plumb, the corner isn't square, and those stairs that cant one way can have a level bottom ... and still cant!

This coming year will mark 60 since the flooring went on that landing that had to come out. How do I know? From the newspaper that was under it :



It didn't look like they had much respect for the up and coming generation, of which I was a small, elementary school part:



The house is almost twice the age of that decaying newspaper and that landing. I wonder what was in the basement between 1901 and 1957 ...

? digitS'

 

[buckabucka]

DH built our house, so it is not very old, but he made sure to stick newspapers in various hidden places throughout the house. He also likes to read the newspapers that come as packing material from various parts of the country.

 

[Beekissed]

Almost 70 degrees here today, balmy and breezy. Getting some winter chores done in THIS kind of weather indeed! Supposed to be 40-50s pretty much all week and next week, so we are pretty much in spring or fall in our weather right now, which gives much opportunity for choring outdoors.

Will go split a big ol' oak tree over at my uncle's house this week to add to our winter firewood storage, which has had slow use as of yet.

Carting wood chips and mulched leaves to all the flower beds and chips on all the muddy areas in which we walk all the time today. Also split and gutted a big ol' pumpkin that needs processed.

Also moving some well mulched leaves into rings around the apple saplings. Hope to get to sorting and organizing my lumber pile today and storing some winter squash and pumpkins in a hay bunker instead of in my shed. Pretty day for working!

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

My outside chores are rabbits. I hope the compost bins are shrinking under all the snow. I have a lot of rabbit manure to compost and I am thinking of starting to raise worms next year. I keep changing my mine on this. I have some trips to the dump to make, but not until some snow melts off a big pile of branches, flower stalks, weeds, etc.

 

[ducks4you]

ANIMAL chores, daily, 365! Also, winter is a great time for weeding and applying herbecide, since the weeds are already compromised.

 

[digitS']

I don't know what herbicide you are using but for
Glyphosate:

"For optimal results Roundup brand products are best applied at temperatures of 60 degrees F and above ..." Roundup, Just the Facts, It's a pdf file from Scotts.

Steve