Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[Mini Horses]

Coffee over. No farm plans beyond feed chores & visual check. Off to work has started back.

 

[flowerbug]

Ironwood (Ostrya virginiana)​

it's strong, heavy and hard. The trunk is useful for a lot of things. But big branches are great for firewood. It throws off very good heat (high BTU rating). It's very difficult to split by hand with wedges and slege hammer. However a 40 ton splitter can split it with ease.

interesting, i thought it might be due to the age. always like learning something new about this beautiful planet and the life around.

 

[flowerbug]

i made prune tea last night. i wanted something warm and needed to eat some prunes too so i just put extra water on the prunes and got them stewed for a while and then mushed them all up good to extract as much of the flavor into the hot water as i could. it worked. got warmed up.

it was a funny conversation with Mom as she was still awake and i rambled on about how as a kid in the hot school lunches there were sometimes stewed prunes. most kids didn't eat them or like them, but i always did like them and still do. who knew we'd be talking about such things 50+ years later?