Dry season hauling
Perhaps
in other parts of the world, it's not considered abnormally dry when
you've had a steady one inch of rain per week for most of the
summer? Around here it sure feels dry, though, after a month with
abnormal highs in the nineties nearly every day. The floodplain has dried up, meaning that
even though there are puddles of water in the driveway, the ground
between is hard rather than mud. Perfect weather for hauling.
Last winter, when we
were trying to ferry in building supplies through endless muck, Titus
gently noted that she tries to do all of her hauling during the dry
season. So when we realized the driveway was firm enough to allow
Joey's truck to pass through, we dropped everything from the list and
instead focused on ferrying supplies into the farm. That's why
Mark went to town nearly every day last week, hauling in compost and mulch. It wasn't photogenic
enough to post about, but he also hauled out a year's
supply of household garbage --- a truckload and a half
full.
We hope to finish
bringing in the year's supply of biomass this week, and also cut up and
haul in firewood from deadfall trees along the driveway. Round it
all out with some lumber for the solar dehydrator and picnic table
projects, and we should be done hauling for a long, long time. I
just thought you all deserved an explanation so that you didn't think
we were on a crazy spending spree.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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