This morning is one of those classic winter days filled with potential. The sunrise was worth sharing.

Looking across the snowy front field with the sun rising

I thought I’d share a view of our new high tech lawn mowers. This model has some highly desirable features:

• Autonomous & self propelled
• Run on renewable, green energy
• Low emissions
• Thorough
• Self renewable
• Fertilizes while it mows

Daffodils are Susan’s favourite flowers. We’ve planted quite a few about the farm in the past few years and need to put in more. I noticed this morning that they’re blooming.

Spring Daffodils

One thing I like about heating with wood at the farm is that I can fill the “oil” tank in half and hour out the back. My goal is to only burn dead wood. With this warm spell we haven’t had the wood stove going for a few days, but tonight that has to change. I went out this morning and brought back this load of dead elm (darn that Dutch Elm disease) and ash (ditto, Emerald Ash Borer I guess).

This morning's load of firewood. Dead Elm, Ash & Poplar

Before:

Dead Elm Tree

After:

Elm After

Stump:

Elm Stump

The result:

A warm glow

All the wall covering is off the south bay window wall. Was some nasty mold behind there that’s all gone. This will have new walls with proper insulation, wiring, lights, etc. Another big pile of scrap wood to turn into heat in the wood stove.

Bay Window wall stripped back to brick

Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving. Last night was our first real hard frost of the fall. Fitting perhaps that the wild turkeys were out in the field when I went to take a picture this morning.

Frosty Field & Wild Turkeys on Thanksgiving