Joshua just recently finished his second year of Journeyman’s carpentry.
One of the things Josh did was frame this roof together with another student.
During his course the SK Polytech got the carpentry students to build a house for Habitat for Humanity. Click here to see the picture in the PA Herald and here if you would like to read the article.
Here is a short video of carrot harvest 2015:
The long rows of carrots. This year we rented several acres of sandy land a couple of miles south of our house. The carrots were planted with a one row garden seeder. Weeding took place on hands and knees down all the long rows. Needless to say, it took a long time!
Through out the season the carrots were watered with a high-pressure sprinkler system from the nearby Arma slough.
Getting ready for a day of harvesting. The harvester pulls the carrots, takes the tops off, and then conveys them over to crates that we built to store the carrots in.
We had some big carrots, some were much larger than these average sized ones!
We built a carrot washer a few years ago but it was starting to need repairs on a regular basis plus getting small for our needs. Because of this, we built this new washer which is about 3 times as big as the old one.
The carrot washer in action.
Joshua and Jesse also built a pallet dumper to dump crates of carrots. The pallet dumper is attached to the skidsteer which we purchased, and allows us to rotate the crates. In this picture Andrew is dumping carrots into tote bags for storage. We were thankful to have finished carrot harvesting on October 26th.
Last week Tuesday we took over 3000 pounds of potatoes out of the ground.
We now dig the potatoes with a plow. It’s not as back-breaking as the fork is, and the potatoes don’t get wrecked as easily.
Only about 10 rows left to go! We dug for over 7 hours. The last while we had to use headlamps, because it was so dark.
Some of the potatoes in the shop. Now we are putting them in boxes and crates for storage!
“Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might;” Ecclesiastes 9: 10a
Here is a picture of some crafts I made for a few seniors in town.
I tried to make this look old by mixing together some strong coffee and tea. I let the papers soak for about five minutes then drained off the liquids and put them in the oven at 200 F until the edges curled up (about 7 min.)…and there you have it, old paper!
May God bless you this Thanksgiving!
“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath”
James 1:19
