In case you’re merely tuning in, this is usually a recurring assortment throughout which I doc each month of our lives out proper right here on our 66-acre Vermont homestead. After leaving metropolis Cambridge, MA in May 2016 to chart this wholly utterly completely different life, we’re experiencing a seamless finding out curve of exploration (and a great deal of foolish novice moments). Attempt last month’s installment proper right here.
November scuttled in with brisk wind, misplaced leaves, and a semi-frozen pond. We talked about goodbye to fall and cozied in for the chilly. However, as we’re finding out, local weather is simply not linear and we had loads of sunny, warmth days pop up all by the month. And we now uncover ourselves inside the depths of…
Stick Season
So named on account of the timber all seem like… sticks! Aside from the softwoods in spite of everything, who shimmer with pleasure this time of yr, their effervescent needles poking by the in every other case dreary palette of browns and grays.
November moreover launched additional frequent snowfall and a gorgeously whit Thanksgiving. Curiously, as I write this, I’m staring out at a yard just about solely devoid of snow. I assumed we wouldn’t see the grass as soon as extra until spring, nonetheless how mistaken I was to presume to know what nature intends.
On a hike the other day by our snow-covered land, Mr. Frugalwoods and I remarked to at least one one other that definitely this need to be in all probability essentially the most beautiful season. It’s a gift to remain someplace that has a knack for year-round picturesque-ness. The riot of fall colors was beautiful, nonetheless the simplicity of these stark wintertime timber is an equally divine balm for my frenetic ideas.
Metropolis Meets Nation (and seems ridiculous)
In what can solely be described as a ridiculous occasion of city-meets-country, I started taking our hand-me-down Bugaboo stroller on our every day walks by the woods. I completely perceive how ludicrous it seems to wheel a supremely expensive stroller–designed for posh sidewalks–by wooded trails, however it actually works pretty successfully.
It might’t traverse our largest/rockiest hill, nonetheless for our flatter trails, it’s first price! I beforehand babywore (fancy method of claiming ‘carried in a supplier’) Babywoods, nonetheless at one yr earlier, she’s getting heaving on my once more. I gotta let you already know, I’ve carried this little one for a yr and I’m in a position to push a wheeled contraption.
Plus, she loves looking on the panorama from her stroller perch. The issue now’s discovering one factor that’ll skim by the snow with ease. Try as it will, this stroller does not do snow. I’ve my frugal eye on the used market for this very good stroller that converts from wheels to–look ahead to it–SKIS! Genius.
I’m hoping one will current up on Craigslist for a cheap value. Having enjoyable with our property is a chief intention of ours and I don’t want little one conveyance factors to face in our method of snowshoeing and winter mountaineering.
For only a few weeks, Mr. FW toted wood using this convenient wood tote (which seems to be like prefer it may double as a greyhound tote, merely saying). Then, a smart neighbor commented that one may merely affix wheels to 1’s wood discipline and–presto–wheel a full wood discipline into the house in a single fell swoop. Genius.
Mr. FW ordered these casters, screwed them onto our free discipline, and is now rolling wood with ease. The wood discipline dwells inside the nook subsequent to the wood vary and from there, the wood makes its closing growth into the vary (aided by Mr. FW’s palms, in spite of everything).
Huge due to our neighbors for all of their suggestion on retailer, stack, and transport our wood!
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Onward to December frugal comrades!
How was November by your self non-public homestead?