Our Lifestyle Blog as We Create a Homestead in Northern Ontario
Yesterday was a pretty cold morning. Actually, this morning was rather cold too. The inside temperature when my bladder finally forced me from the covers was -8.9 degrees. I think Donna has said she’s awoke to -9, so she still has me beat in the hardiness department. Outdoors it is pushing thirty below, but then … Read more
Sorry I haven’t written in a little while. These first three weeks of February, I am working four days a week at Howie’s Saw. This means some fiscal resources are coming in, but I am not accomplishing too much at the homestead. As I described in a previous post, I managed to plug up the … Read more
This weather has definitely been hard on my various internal combustion engines here in the bush. The generators are virtually unstartable at twenty below, and difficult at ten below. The tractor is a total no go below ten below as well, but if I can get a generator going somehow first, I can plug in … Read more