A challenge and a design change on our DIY Camera Arm design prompted this video. Self-filming your hunt is challenging. Why make it harder? Our DIY Camera Arm is as good as, and a heck of a lot cheaper than premium camera arms. Click here to download the instructions and materials list.
Nature doesn’t care that you’re cold. Nature doesn’t care that you can’t feel your toes. When it’s time for a tree to fall, it falls. When it’s time for three to fall, that happens too. And unless you want to try to work around them for the rest of the Winter, clearing them up can’t wait until Spring. Today we work in twenty degree temps to split the biggest rounds from the biggest tree. On the upside, we completely filled up not only all of our firewood bins, but stacked three pallets about four feet high. Gettin’ it done, even when we don’t want to do it. And walking the path.
We began the process of obtaining our property and the home building process in March. Our expectation was that we would be moved into our new homestead by August, September, maybe October at the latest. It’s now January, and we haven’t yet broken ground. What caused the delays? Was it financing? No, we had that in hand. Delays with the builder? Nope, they were pretty much good to go from day one. No, the issue was the huge number of hoops we had to jump through. We split a piece of existing, undeveloped property. This, for some inexplicable reason requires the approval of multiple government agencies. One of these, which shall remain nameless (let’s just call them the Department of
Thanks to Matt, Michael, and Patty! Michael Badger (https://www.facebook.com/myke1829/) Patricia (Pat) Foreman (https://www.facebook.com/patricia.foreman.165) Matt Wilkinson (https://www.facebook.com/Hard-Cider-Homestead-1424021647871076/)
In September we had an opportunity to attend a hands-on chicken processing workshop at the Mother Earth News Fair at Seven Springs, Pennsylvania. The workshop was presented by Patricia (Patty) Foreman, Michael Badger, and Matt Wilkinson. If you know anything about poultry, you’ll know that these folks are kind of the celebrities of the chicken world. And they did a fantastic job of leading our group from a live, clucking, flapping chickens to a ready-to-package set of chicken cuts. I’ve butchered plenty of deer, squirrels, and rabbits before. But I’ve never slaughtered and processed a chicken. It’s really a very different process. But it’s really pretty simple when you have experienced people showing you how, and giving you feedback in
Today’s the first day of Pennsylvania’s 2017 archery deer season. And as always, I’m out there trying to get it done.
Eventually we had a successful Spring Gobbler season this year. But we had one little technical bauble that almost cost us our season. See how YouTube of all things saved our 2017 season and helped us bag our bird.
There’s a lot to like about cast iron. It’s rust resistant. It heats evenly and holds heat a long time. It’s anti-stick. And generally speaking it just provides a better, more satisfying, cooking experience. But cast iron does take some work. Whether you’re looking to rehab some yard sale finds, or maintaining cast iron you’ve had for years, understanding the process is important to getting a good result. Check out this video on how we season our cast iron.
