Foggy in the morning but quite lovely around 3:30pm, I think the temperature must have gotten above 55 degrees F. It was positively warm
Enrique and his friend, Amelio, showed up today at 7am to begin work. I said hello and then took off for the Winter Small Farm Workshop at Centralia CC.
I learned something about septic systems, about raising chickens and beef for meat, and about creating and maintaining farm records. The course was free like last Saturday's offerings and lasted from 9am till 1pm. This set of three classes was well worth attending.
The guys cut down trees along the east fence and made quite a pile of branches in the south burn pile and in the pile closest to the house. Chas burned the pile nearest the house around 4pm.
We still have a lot of brush to clear out. I'd like the 1.5 foot stems sticking up out of the ground cut to ground level and the trees lying on their sides cut into firewood. I'm beginning to feel this project will never get done although it does look good in the area along the stream.
Chas also cooked dinner: curried cauliflower over rice. It was pretty good.
I spent quite a bit of time after dinner researching the best ways of farm record keeping documents on the Internet inspired by the course I took today. I found several documents that might help me. I'll have to look at them tomorrow. It may be that a ledger arrangement by month might be the best method. Then the records are already arranged by category. Actually, I might need several different kinds of spreadsheets.
They're a bummer to find.
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