Pictures!

12/07/06 - 6th Day - After Breakfast. I haven't posted any recent pictures in awhile, and I was asked to post a current pic of the root cellar. So here goes a massive picture dump for ya'. For those of you who have heard me talking about this root cellar for almost two years, this is our root cellar #1. It was completely hand dug, and is supported by heavy oaks cut from the land. This first one is the root cellar as of today 12/07/2007 so you can compare it with the one from a year ago:


Here is another view of the root cellar from above ground with the door open:


Here is a picture from inside the root cellar looking up the entrance:


This one is from just outside the lower door at the bottom of the landing:


Here is one of the inset shelves loaded with green beans and tomatoes You can also see that we have a digital battery powered weather station. It monitors the inside temp, outside temp, and internal humidity. When taken the outside temp was 67, the inside temp was 58 (a bit high because I have had the door open) and the humidity is 88%:


Here is a view of some of the shelves and stacked items, like wheat (in buckets), pinto beans, dried soups, etc.:


Here is a view of our spice shelves. You can see the electrical cord which runs from our solar trailer down into the root cellar for lights and a fan:


Here is a great picture of a pig butt. One day, we will call this "ham", but for now it is just a pig butt. This is one of the six pigs we had born here on the land in early September:


Here is a picture of the pigs ranging around the home site. You can see the outhouse and the clothes line in the background. There is actually heavy grass, acorns, roots, etc. elsewhere, but they like to come up and check the homesite for food the children drop off of plates, or other things normally tossed to the chickens:


Here is the start of the first of the double-dug garden beds. This picture is really off color because it is so bright outside and my camera is so old... well, old:


Here is one from a couple of weeks ago when Liviu and I were helping Elder David dig out his root cellar. His is quite a bit bigger than mine. Liviu would fill the buckets and David would carry them up the ladder and hand them to me. I would dump them in the wheelbarrow and haul them to the dirt dump pile. This, folks, is hard work:


Here is Tracy doing laundry the way your grandmother probably did:


...and Jennifer too...

...and Robert doesn't get off easy...


Here are the children today. Robert, Jennifer, and Tracy are laughing at a joke that Sarah just didn't get:


Ok, that is about it for the picture tour. You'll have to let me know what else you want specific pictures of. As always, we love to read your comments.

I might have another post later today.

Michael