Nubi News

Title: Forest and Trails Work DayLocation: Meet at pondStart Time: 09:00Date: 2009-04-04

Posted on March 29th, 2009 under Uncategorized. Comments: None

A couple evenings ago, Dori called to tell me she’d just heard an American Woodcock (aka “Timberdoodle”) in the neighborhood — she thought maybe it was in the direction of the hayfield. Then tonight as I walked back from dinner in the Common House and was approaching our house, I heard the woodcock’s distinctive nasal [...]

Posted on March 26th, 2009 under Life in general. Tags: birds. Comments: None

March brought some good days for tapping our trees. Dori scouted out appropriate sugar maples, a crew bought the equipment, drilled and set up the buckets.

Sap ran immediately, and soon there was 40 gallons in a brand new trash barrel.
Sunday dawned sunny and warm; a good fire outside and the boiling sap was on its [...]

Posted on March 23rd, 2009 under Life in general. Tags: maple syrup, sugaring. Comments: None

To prepare for talking with a reporter who was interested to know of any difference we may have seen in our heating and electricity costs after moving into a “green” home, I recently dug up bills from our last home and looked at our energy usage and costs there compared to here.
What I found was [...]

Posted on March 6th, 2009 under Life in general. Tags: energy, green. Comments: None