Well autumn is well and truly here. For my legions of oversees admirers autumn is the British word for what the Americans call Fall. Astronomical autumn falls 21st September to 21st December in line with the equinoxes. However those crazy meteorologists say 1st September to 1st December.
In the last few weeks I’ve been doing a few outdoors jobs like mowing and strimming the garden before winter. I’ve done some more work on the tree house. We collected some apples from the smaller 4 apple trees. I also got the chainsaw out and cut and split some wood for the wood store.
Whilst it’s very late in the year to be storing wood I’m going to claim I was too busy all summer. Even if it sounds lame in my own ears. All the wood I cut had been chopped down for a few years so hopefully had seasoned a bit. I used the chainsaw to get it down to useful lengths. Then used my Clarke wood splitter to break it down for storage. The kids were keen to help so I let them fill up the hand truck and pull the split wood over to the log store where EmmCee and the Monsters stacked it for winter. Hoperfully it will be dry enough when we need it.
In addition EmmCee went on a mission to collect the ripe apples and windfalls from around the garden. We have Lord Derby, Fiesta and Orange Pippin which we bought from Keepers Nursery years ago. There are also a few unkowns that we inherited with the property, old man apple tree being a cooking apple and it’s neighbour a golden delicious like dessert apple. We still have some sorting to do before we store them in the workshop for winter and we haven’t started on old man apple tree which may deliver more by itself than the others combined.
I’m now off to identify some mad seasonal activity to waste my time on this weekend.