winter
Return to Discussionsis pretty much anti nude weather time for my location. While it spends more time above freezing than below, it's not generally warm enough to work nude outside except rarely in an exceptional warm spell. I can't help but look forward with pleasure to spring gardening time. As I want to work toward full time gardening. Growing my own diet and providing some for others to enjoy. Occupying myself with trying to finish the house this winter. Getting going on the siding, it's beginning to take on a more finished look. It's a handmade wood house made out of the woods with a sawmill. The siding I'm putting on is cedar lap siding I'm sawing from eastern red cedar. It won't be a naturist dwelling since it is to be occupied by my parents till they pass on and my brother who seems to not desire to be naturist inclined. I live in an old RV, but my eventual dwelling I plan on being a small cabin or yurt connected to a greenhouse and spend most of my indoor time in the greenhouse. Only need for a room off the greenhouse is to keep things in that are moisture sensitive. Books clothing and music instruments mainly.
If it weren't for the house project I'd be out cutting firewood and making biochar. I find that burning biochar in barrels is a nice way to work nude a bit when it's too cold to do so otherwise. Working on wood processing near a few hot burning barrels of wood can defeat cold air pretty well if the wind isn't blowing too much. And the biochar seems to be one of the best ingredients in a nutrient dense fertility plan. After adding plenty of natural minerals and a good charge of nitrogen it works better than compost, especially in more southern locations where soil temperature can rise too much in the summer and gradually oxidize non charred carbon.
is pretty much anti nude weather time for my location. While it spends more time above freezing than below, it's not generally warm enough to work nude outside except rarely in an exceptional warm spell. I can't help but look forward with pleasure to spring gardening time. As I want to work toward full time gardening. Growing my own diet and providing some for others to enjoy. Occupying myself with trying to finish the house this winter. Getting going on the siding, it's beginning to take on a more finished look. It's a handmade wood house made out of the woods with a sawmill. The siding I'm putting on is cedar lap siding I'm sawing from eastern red cedar. It won't be a naturist dwelling since it is to be occupied by my parents till they pass on and my brother who seems to not desire to be naturist inclined. I live in an old RV, but my eventual dwelling I plan on being a small cabin or yurt connected to a greenhouse and spend most of my indoor time in the greenhouse. Only need for a room off the greenhouse is to keep things in that are moisture sensitive. Books clothing and music instruments mainly.If it weren't for the house project I'd be out cutting firewood and making biochar. I find that burning biochar in barrels is a nice way to work nude a bit when it's too cold to do so otherwise. Working on wood processing near a few hot burning barrels of wood can defeat cold air pretty well if the wind isn't blowing too much. And the biochar seems to be one of the best ingredients in a nutrient dense fertility plan. After adding plenty of natural minerals and a good charge of nitrogen it works better than compost, especially in more southern locations where soil temperature can rise too much in the summer and gradually oxidize non charred carbon.
Just out or curiousity, what musical instruments do you own/play?
I am a brass player, so they are not very weather sensitive.
If it weren't for the house project I'd be out cutting firewood and making biochar. I find that burning biochar in barrels is a nice way to work nude a bit when it's too cold to do so otherwise. Working on wood processing near a few hot burning barrels of wood can defeat cold air pretty well if the wind isn't blowing too much. And the biochar seems to be one of the best ingredients in a nutrient dense fertility plan.
One thing I don't understand about biochar. We know that charcoal burning has historically been a very destructive practice, and is one of the reasons Haiti and some Sahelian countries have become barren. The Dominican Republic has been forced to implement draconian laws to protect its National Parks from illegal charcoal burning for export to Haiti. Wouldn't biochar burning be similar in its contribution to deforestation?
Charcoal making and then removing it is bad, sold for profit perhaps, but making it and adding it back into the soil is good practice, permanent soil building for improved growth performance of whatever grows there from then on forever. It would be a serious waste of good biochar to make it and sell it, short term money and it's gone. Put it back in the ground and earn interest off it for the rest of yer life would be smart, like putting a deposit in an interest bearing bank account rather than spending it on something perishable. Making biochar and putting it back in the soil is considered a very good earth friendly and environment saving practice of carbon sequestering.
I play accordion, just learned it on my own, gospel music mostly. Otherwise piano for church services. In time I'd enjoy upgrading accordion and doing more with it. I really enjoy several kinds of music and would enjoy learning to play more of it.
Charcoal burning was used for hundreds of years lasting from the iron age to the industrial revolution in Kent and Sussex to smelt Wealden Ironstone. It was totally sustainable using the practice of coppicing whereby areas of woodland were harvested at intervals of several years and then left to re-grow.
I have just have to put up with been dressed when in the garden at this time of year as it is too cold and the greenhouse is also unheated and too small to be nude in it when the sun is out as it most likely take longer to undress and redress than it will take to do the jobs in the greenhouse.