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Up at the cabin for about 2 weeks and so far I've been really enjoying it. Looks like a long, rainy, winter's day today. A good day to hang out by the fire and catch up on some reading.

It looks like my feeder I put up last weekend already has some visitors. If I needed a little more venison, I guess I could harvest a nice young doe, but it would be like taking candy from a baby. I mainly put this up so Mrs. Irish could look out the kitchen door and see deer in her yard.



I was at one of our plants helping them out with some engineering and noticed that they were pulling up all their split rail fencing and replacing all of it. I asked them what they were going to do with all the old stuff, and they said, "Just throw it away." So I asked if they mind if I repurposed it. "Sure. Better for you to have it than us just toss it." So I made 2 trips on Friday. Repurposing stuff kind of fits in the the whole theme of this place because we have so much used stuff that we have scrounged in the build.

I'm going to make an old fashioned zig zag split rail fence out of these. There are posts, and I will probably go back and get them too, but most have rotted out on the bottom. What I don't use for fencing I will burn in the outdoor fire pit, so none of it will go to waste. These are about $10 each at Lowes, and I think I have about 120 of them so it was a pretty nice score for the cabin.





I spent the rest of the time splitting up some of the red oak I harvested from down the mountain. A lot of work, but good, satisfying work.

I'll close out this post with a little panoramic shot of the sunrise from the upper deck on the shortest day of the year...