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A small disquisition on hoeing, boredom, and starvation
Many of these days lately I have spent much of my time hoeing among the corn hills in the field outside the fort. Not long ago, while I was bent to my task, I gradually grew aware that someone was wa… more →
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A small disquisition on hoeing, boredom, and starvation
bj omanson wrote 5 months ago: Many of these days lately I have spent much of my time hoeing among the corn hills in the field outs … more →
Fort attacked by Shawnee war party
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bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: I participated in my first re-enactment this past weekend during the Fall Festival here at the fort. … more →
Bringing in the corn . . .
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: I began bringing in the corn a few days ago. We had planned to leave it on the stalks to dry comple … more →
At last, an egg . . .
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: After waiting much of the summer, our little heirloom hens have finally begun to lay. The nesting b … more →
Honey bees on the frontier
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: A few days ago a new feature appeared in the herb garden in the fort, an 18th-century style stick be … more →
Frontier pest control
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bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: As mentioned in several previous posts, it has been a very bad year for beetles. Recently we noticed … more →
The harvest begins . . .
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: It is now mid-August, but these so-called dog-days have been the pleasantest I can remember: more li … more →
Garden update, late July
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: Everything is growing apace in the garden, despite heavy assault from a whole range of beetles, incl … more →
The newest fort residents
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: Recently a new structure appeared in the sheep pen: almost a kind of treehouse. Greg did the prelimi … more →
How does your garden grow
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: To all appearances, the fort garden is flourishing. Most of the Seneca Red Stalker corn, planted Ma … more →
nourishment from darkness . . .
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday, after moving about two-thirds of a mountain of mule manure to a section of the old herb g … more →
a frontier lesson in civics
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: As I stood in the field outside the fort yesterday, chipping away at a mountain of mule manure, fork … more →
After an extended absence . . .
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: Returning to the fort after a week spent travelling, I find major changes in the sheep pen. “ … more →
miserable, wet & cold
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: A cold wet miserable Saturday morning — just the sort of morning I especially enjoy at the for … more →
first plantings
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: Today, with the moon a waxing crescent in the first quarter, in the house of Cancer, conditions were … more →
siege at fort baah-borough
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: Nellie, the whiteface Shetland ewe, stalwart sentry at Ft Baah-borough, fails to see the skulking ap … more →
planting by the signs & phases of the moon
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: As nearly as I can figure (and I am a rank amateur at this) after one considers each day in respect … more →
fort farmer
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: I have been designated the fort farmer. In large measure this came about because I lacked any true … more →
poor put-upon ram
bj omanson wrote 1 year ago: A few days ago the ewes and their lambs were joined by a single ram, one Atticus, and a fine handsom … more →
