(written on the 22nd and 23rd) Woke up at about 8:30 to my alarm. Set the countdown timer to give me a little bit of a snooze, but couldn't fall back asleep so I just got up. Headed over to get things going with our weekly Saturday morning Haven Hill projects, but I hadn't heard … Continue reading 2025-03-22 (Saturday) — Lots of Haven Hill Progress

(written on the 21st) It was a short night's sleep last night--not getting to bed I think until maybe around 3:00? and then getting up at like 6:30ish for the drive up to Kansas City for the Big 12 Tournament. I loaded some bedding into Jim's car on the off chance I might get some … Continue reading 2025-03-13 (Thursday) — Big 12 Tournament

(written on the 19th from notes taken previously) Zach got his wildland fires drip torch yesterday, and he was back from work today, so it was forest fire day round two. 😎 We started the burn on his property by the woodpile, planning to burn a strip from his yard, all the way through the … Continue reading 2025-03-12 (Wednesday) — Forest Fire, Round 2

(Written on the 18th) Was piddling around a little bit on the hill, and I just kept having my friend Miguel pop into my brain, like it would be good to go give him a visit, so after having that thought pop into my brain for probably the fifth time, I finally drove off. I … Continue reading 2025-03-11 (Tuesday) — Hello, Friend

(written on the 18th) Headed over to my mom's place today around noon. I had arranged to help her with some genealogy stuff yesterday, but with all the burn stuff going on, that... didn't happen, so we rescheduled for today. Unfortunately, there really wasn't much that I had. I thought I remembered taking notes of … Continue reading 2025-03-10 (Monday) — Good Neighbors

(written on the 10th, 11th, and 18th) I'm tired, and I don't want to write. 🙃 I was up late last night, and then I needed to be up early this morning to help Zach do a burn around our old house. Add to that the fact that it was daylight savings time, so we … Continue reading 2025-03-09 (Sunday) — Fire Men

(written on the 10th) It was a long, but very productive day on Haven Hill. Morning started out with me going to get the tractor out of the lower field, because Jim wanted to use it to pull the trailer with, so we could load up all the branches and whatnot that we had cut … Continue reading 2025-03-08 (Saturday) — Heavy-Duty Hill Days

(written on the 7th, 8th, and 9th 😅) So hard to remember the days... I'm standing in the dark right now (evening of the 7th) in the lower field on the backside of the property, the same field that I was burning in April last year when I put the ax into my leg. I … Continue reading 2025-03-07 (Friday) — Late Nights

Slept badly again. Unhappy dream as well. Exhausted when I finally got up, which I think was actually after 10. Unfortunately, all the ceiling efforts that I did to stop the water leak around my windshield failed. Ugh. Where is it coming in? I probably have to take off the whole trim piece that covers … Continue reading 2025-03-04 (Tuesday) — Discipline Zone

(written on the fourth) I don't really remember anything that happened in the morning for early afternoon. 😅 I haven't been sleeping well at all, for some reason. I've been waking up absolutely exhausted despite having been in bed for maybe 8-10 hours? Not sure what's going on. Spent a little while chatting with Jim … Continue reading 2025-03-03 (Monday) — Blackberry Trees