What is your busiest time of the year?
It‘s fall for me without a doubt. For me, fall starts the moment the leaves start to turn yellow and the blueberries ripen, and when the weather turns chilly and rainy. This starts early August and fall lasts until the snow comes in late September. The first killing frost typically comes early September, but it’s been a cold summer, and at 4:30 am this morning it was 36 degrees…
Always so much to do and time appears to go by too quickly in fall. There are all the projects that have to get done or be completed before the first snow. You hope to get them all done so you can put away your tools, unused lumber, etc or the snow will bury them and then you won’t find them again until spring if your didn’t get them put away. I have a bunch of these activities this summer.
Then you have your harvesting activities. We harvest a lot of berries each fall, and that takes time. Blueberries, crow berries, raspberries, cranberries, among others. About 40 gallons total as we eat them daily year round from the harvest. Then you need to make sure you have enough chaga harvested to get you through the winter. We need to stack the firewood deep, about 7 cords will be used during the winter. Each year we have to venture out further to collect the wood, which means building new trails to get to it. The gardens and potatoes have to be harvested. Then you need to prep your garden beds for the next year. Moose season is all to short, and this might take days if you don’t stumble on to one quickly. If you haven’t gotten your fish, then all you have left are the silver‘s and their runs are coming to an end.
Then you need to make sure all your winter gear is ready.
Always so much to do and time always appears to be in such short supply. I kind of like it, but the wife says I turn into a little dictator this time of year with lists of things to do each day.
It‘s fall for me without a doubt. For me, fall starts the moment the leaves start to turn yellow and the blueberries ripen, and when the weather turns chilly and rainy. This starts early August and fall lasts until the snow comes in late September. The first killing frost typically comes early September, but it’s been a cold summer, and at 4:30 am this morning it was 36 degrees…
Always so much to do and time appears to go by too quickly in fall. There are all the projects that have to get done or be completed before the first snow. You hope to get them all done so you can put away your tools, unused lumber, etc or the snow will bury them and then you won’t find them again until spring if your didn’t get them put away. I have a bunch of these activities this summer.
Then you have your harvesting activities. We harvest a lot of berries each fall, and that takes time. Blueberries, crow berries, raspberries, cranberries, among others. About 40 gallons total as we eat them daily year round from the harvest. Then you need to make sure you have enough chaga harvested to get you through the winter. We need to stack the firewood deep, about 7 cords will be used during the winter. Each year we have to venture out further to collect the wood, which means building new trails to get to it. The gardens and potatoes have to be harvested. Then you need to prep your garden beds for the next year. Moose season is all to short, and this might take days if you don’t stumble on to one quickly. If you haven’t gotten your fish, then all you have left are the silver‘s and their runs are coming to an end.
Then you need to make sure all your winter gear is ready.
Always so much to do and time always appears to be in such short supply. I kind of like it, but the wife says I turn into a little dictator this time of year with lists of things to do each day.