25 Acre Woods Digest (2021-05-15): Inaugural Issue

Where we left off. 

All dressed up but no wood to show.

Where we’ve reached.

2/3rds full. 

The shed holds ~2 cords of wood. So, each row is itself 2/3rds cords.

And look! A surprise appearance from Our Sponsor!

We discovered we have our own micro logging road!

So what happens when a gorilla (cart) and billy goat go into the woods ….

… and then drive OFF the road.

For no good reason, actually. This is at the end where there’s a turnaround with plenty of space.

The NTSB investigation is ongoing. Early indications are pilot error.

In the meantime, with a little road engineering, the Billy Goat roams the hills of Maine again.

No damage. This time.

It was the next time that popped off some car trim. Our Sponsor begins to wonder about investing in a used 4x4. 

In the meantime, the prior owners left us some logs at the end of the logging road. This should be enough to fill both Shed 1 and the-space-where-Shed-2-will-go. Which is what we’ll need for this winter.

In other projects, we’ve cleared out space behind the shed to process the firewood (cut to length if needed; split; stack).

That gave us enough brush to get ready for a nice bonfire down by the fire pit. 

But it turns out we have low humidity and are warned off of outside fires for now. This is odd b/c it’s drizzled a bit the last two days.

Still, marshmallows are ready and standing by.

Readers, can you help with a controversy?

Your Humble Correspondent sleeps on the left while Our Sponsor sleeps on the right.  (See Exhibit A. 6a last Weds morning. She is actually snoozing there comfortably in this picture. Your Humble Correspondent has awoken early.)

In this dim light, we see how Your Humble Correspondent found the comforters. Notice anything?

Exactly, both comforters are entirely on the right side. Confronted with this photo evidence, Our Sponsor claims: 

While Snopes has yet to report in, we're sure this fake news claim will earn five pinocchios.

How can we provide the journalistic quality you demand under such conditions?

We're through Mud Season here and well into Black Fly Season. 

Our Sponsor provides this description:

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We have met the enemy, and she is the blackfly. She is a mindless, merciless eating machine, and what she wants to eat is you. What she lacks in physical heft is more than offset by her numbers. 

Consider the blackfly’s mouth: It is equipped with a pair of serrated jaws that work like scissors to pierce and cut skin, a barbed structure called a syntrophium with which the blackfly anchors herself in the wound, and pump-like muscles to lap up the pooling blood.

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We have supporting evidence here too.

In other news, Our Sponsor has bravely appeased the local forest knights, putting in some shrubbery. Nice, not too expensive.

And we’re clearing up another micro-logging road that runs up behind the house.

Reader input wanted as opinions here at The 25 Acre Woods differ on our approach.

Would you:

1. Laboriously clear enough space step-by-step so that a 4x4 truck can get through in case such a truck ever materializes? (err, cough cough, choose this, choose this!)

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2. Just clear a nice open walking path through to the end first, then go back if you have the energy for it?

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