That's what this time of year feels like, we're squirrels storing up for the winter. Storing berries, rose hips, food from the garden, and my least favorite, wood hauling. I did all this this weekend, here are pictures of our day out wood hauling.
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| High Bush Cranberries were picked |
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| There were lowbush cranberries there too, but they need a frost to be ready, and it's not time to pick them yet |
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| Rose hips were picked |
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| Wood hauling involves a permit, driving miles out a dirt road and cutting up downed, dead trees. It's my least favorite, because it's HARD!!! We would hand carry it from where the tree was down to the trailer. |
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| This year we have an older 4 wheeler that we tried pulling cut logs out near the trailer, and it worked really well! |
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| So well that while the boys worked, this is what my daughter did and I read a book |
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| Once by the trailer we cut them to size |
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| And loaded them into the trailer. It really was easy! One load down, 6 more to go.... |
we {as in mountain man} has been gathering wood too...but i have a feeling y'all get a wee colder than we do here in oklahoma! ;)
ReplyDeleteLOL probably, and cold a lot sooner and later too!
ReplyDeleteMountain mama said what I was thinking. We have been a gathering as we have no furnace only a woodstove. Of course the desert of NM is far warmer than you all. We never got to far below zero last winter and it was our coldest winter in several decades.
ReplyDeleteCourse I suppose it is like when folks visit NM in January and they are from a snow state. They think it is a tropical paradise here and so warm!~