25 Acre Woods Digest (2022-06-27): Those Cherished Moments Between ...

While heats waves have pummeled much of the country, it’s been a good stretch up here near Canada.

We’re in those cherished moments after the brown moth caterpillars stop shedding their poisonous hairs yet before the Audi Crowd from Massachusetts descends for the long holiday weekend.

Let’s dig in.

First, so many anniversaries!

Francie’s Birthday: We tip our baseball caps to Francie! Our correspondents understand she celebrated by sending Kevin to the UK, thereby getting a decent chance to sleep in.

Michelle & Chip’s 33rd Anniversary: The 25 Acres Team acknowledges that this is a bit of a made-up event (this coming weekend). We all know that the real deal is the 33 & 1/3rd Anniversary, to be celebrated in four months in Portugal.

The 25th Edition of the 25 Acres Digest: Yep, your eyeballs are scanning it at his very moment. Suitable for framing and conversion to NFTs.

Mazel Tov to all, including you, faithful reader, for keeping those clicks coming.

To you, this may look just like a little flat area around the garage.

But to us here at 25 Acres, this looks like ~15 hours with pickaxe and shovel flattening out the rough work done with the digger and creating water drainage.

Now open your mind for a moment. First, picture a lean-to roof coming out of the back of the garage stretching over that flat area. Not the little lean-to that’s there now but a big one going way back. Got it?

Ok, stretch your imagination. Just what would we need to fill the space under that lean-to? Have a picture in your mind?

Shazam, this was it, right?

Seems like magic, how we can read your mind, eh?

We proudly introduce our new side-by-side, complemented by its companion trailer suitable for following it through narrow trails into the deep woods.

This is a “Mule”, that being the general name Kawasaki gives to this model (well, ok, Mule MX Pro EPS). Just what should we call it?

Here’s what’s on offer:

BROWNIE (In honor of what John Muir called the trusty mule he rode)
FERRIS MUELLER (In honor of our Chicago roots)
DONKEY HOTAY (Just because. Yes, for the detail-oriented amongst our readership, we understand how mules are made).

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So, there’s not much action happening on wood right now. Instead, our main projects lately have been leveling the ground for the garage and setting up the garden. Ah, the garden.

See that lush green as all of our veggies burst from the ground?

Yeah, we don’t either.

But we’re making some progress.

The pole beans seem healthy, as do the beets and garlic. The jury is out on tomatoes and cucumbers. Alas, all six types of lettuce: not so happy; I would say “lessons were learned” except we really haven’t figured that one out.

Finally, we’ve had a big week of town participation.

Here’s my paycheck for my first six months with the fire department. Whoo-hee!

Also, I was personally invited to take on the role of transfer station attendant, where I could hobnob with people from 8a-12p every Saturday as they deposit their trash in dumpsters to be carted away. I was honored to be known enough to be considered, though given schedules, I had to respectfully decline.

Finally, Michelle & I joined maybe 60 or so of our neighbors for our very first New Vineyard Town Meeting. Direct democracy at it’s finest. 90 minutes of the people’s business being done. You may rest relieved, the fire department budget was passed untouched.

That’s a wrap for the first 25 issues of the 25 Acres Digest.

Stay tuned as the presses roll.