yurt update
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am at the farm. finally ordered a tent stove jack so I could put the stovepipe of my new woodstove out through the roof of my yurt safely. I’d dithered over how to attach it, did I want to cut a hole directly in the roof, or what, what was I gonna do, and I decided I’d attach it to a separate bit of canvas and at first fold the roof back, and then once I figured it out, I could cut the roof canvas and either stitch it, or not worry and figure the canvas underneath could catch any rain. But I was dithering over whether I had any suitable canvas, or how to waterproof it, and then I remembered that when I first bought the yurt, Scott had made a door out of a flap of canvas, and i used that for a while before I moved on. Now that I have a screen door with proper hinges and all, I don’t need that door anymore.
So I cut a hole in the fabric, and sewed the stove jack to it, and went out and rearranged the rafters slightly in the yurt so it’d fit, and got it all aligned and then bungee’d the door to the rafters so it’ll hold in place and serve as a brace for the stove pipe. Then I tried to get the stove pipe set up, but couldn’t manage to cram the crimped end of the pipe into the spark arrestor. So Mom and Dad came out to help. (Dad used to be a sheet metal worker, so he seemed like the likeliest person to ask.)
Eventually Dad and I got the stovepipe set up correctly enough, by omitting a segment. (The pipe needs to be long enough to go above the peak of the tent roof, and the stove came with one more section than I needed to achieve that.) We even managed to get the spark arrestor and rain shield top onto the thing, so.
Now I can finish setting up the yurt. I haven’t had the furniture in its final arrangement because I wanted to get the stove in place and figure it out.
I also think I will have to cut the roof somewhat to make it work, but I’m holding off just a bit until I can really get the furniture set up and figure out once and for all if that stove needs to move at all, which it could since the stove jack panel is just attached by bungees through the grommets in the former door panel. But I think I’m going to make it work where it is, and in that configuration, the roof can’t quite fold out of the way without exposing a little area where there should be roof to the sky. So…
Last night my sister, VegManager, and I made ourselves a pitcher of French 75s, walked the dog, and then came back and spent the entire evening putting strawberries by. There was a miscount somehow, when they put together that day’s share, and everyone took the number of pints they were supposed to take (3 pints per family! not bad!), but there were a lot leftover at the end somehow, along with two big totes full of seconds that had been harvested wet and were deemed too likely to go moldy to hand out to customers, and while the excess vegetables all get donated to the food pantry, the strawberries absolutely wouldn’t keep long enough to be distributed.
And the strawberry season is so short on a farm like this where we only grow one variety as a tiny component of a full CSA, and the rest of the year we yearn for them.
So. VM made a batch of jam, Sister made a batch of jam, we froze quarts of whole berries, and we froze quarts of crushed berries. And I set up the dehydrator and filled it with thin-sliced berries. This took me less time than you’d think, because– an egg slicer will absolutely slice a strawberry!! (If you don’t own an egg slicer, what are you doing with your life???) (I made a video and it’s the last video in my Instagram Farm Stories 2019 highlight section <https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17943760684276332/> , which means it won’t disappear. I thought it was cute.)
Dehydrating strawberries smell goddamn fantastic, by the way. The whole house has smelled amazing the whole time.
VM also made a batch of strawberry ice cream, and I made a batch of strawberry basil lemonade, and we all gorged ourselves the whole time. We’ve saved back a couple of pints for eating fresh once Farmkid gets back from her trip to Illinois (she and her dad are flying back tonight), and there’s a big container of them macerating in maple syrup to make strawberry shortcake with for dessert.
And then strawberry season will probably be over, here, and will fade into a memory, bolstered by all the preserved and put-by berries…
am at the farm. finally ordered a tent stove jack so I could put the stovepipe of my new woodstove out through the roof of my yurt safely. I’d dithered over how to attach it, did I want to cut a hole directly in the roof, or what, what was I gonna do, and I decided I’d attach it to a separate bit of canvas and at first fold the roof back, and then once I figured it out, I could cut the roof canvas and either stitch it, or not worry and figure the canvas underneath could catch any rain. But I was dithering over whether I had any suitable canvas, or how to waterproof it, and then I remembered that when I first bought the yurt, Scott had made a door out of a flap of canvas, and i used that for a while before I moved on. Now that I have a screen door with proper hinges and all, I don’t need that door anymore.
So I cut a hole in the fabric, and sewed the stove jack to it, and went out and rearranged the rafters slightly in the yurt so it’d fit, and got it all aligned and then bungee’d the door to the rafters so it’ll hold in place and serve as a brace for the stove pipe. Then I tried to get the stove pipe set up, but couldn’t manage to cram the crimped end of the pipe into the spark arrestor. So Mom and Dad came out to help. (Dad used to be a sheet metal worker, so he seemed like the likeliest person to ask.)
Eventually Dad and I got the stovepipe set up correctly enough, by omitting a segment. (The pipe needs to be long enough to go above the peak of the tent roof, and the stove came with one more section than I needed to achieve that.) We even managed to get the spark arrestor and rain shield top onto the thing, so.
Now I can finish setting up the yurt. I haven’t had the furniture in its final arrangement because I wanted to get the stove in place and figure it out.
I also think I will have to cut the roof somewhat to make it work, but I’m holding off just a bit until I can really get the furniture set up and figure out once and for all if that stove needs to move at all, which it could since the stove jack panel is just attached by bungees through the grommets in the former door panel. But I think I’m going to make it work where it is, and in that configuration, the roof can’t quite fold out of the way without exposing a little area where there should be roof to the sky. So…
Last night my sister, VegManager, and I made ourselves a pitcher of French 75s, walked the dog, and then came back and spent the entire evening putting strawberries by. There was a miscount somehow, when they put together that day’s share, and everyone took the number of pints they were supposed to take (3 pints per family! not bad!), but there were a lot leftover at the end somehow, along with two big totes full of seconds that had been harvested wet and were deemed too likely to go moldy to hand out to customers, and while the excess vegetables all get donated to the food pantry, the strawberries absolutely wouldn’t keep long enough to be distributed.
And the strawberry season is so short on a farm like this where we only grow one variety as a tiny component of a full CSA, and the rest of the year we yearn for them.
So. VM made a batch of jam, Sister made a batch of jam, we froze quarts of whole berries, and we froze quarts of crushed berries. And I set up the dehydrator and filled it with thin-sliced berries. This took me less time than you’d think, because– an egg slicer will absolutely slice a strawberry!! (If you don’t own an egg slicer, what are you doing with your life???) (I made a video and it’s the last video in my Instagram Farm Stories 2019 highlight section <https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17943760684276332/> , which means it won’t disappear. I thought it was cute.)
Dehydrating strawberries smell goddamn fantastic, by the way. The whole house has smelled amazing the whole time.
VM also made a batch of strawberry ice cream, and I made a batch of strawberry basil lemonade, and we all gorged ourselves the whole time. We’ve saved back a couple of pints for eating fresh once Farmkid gets back from her trip to Illinois (she and her dad are flying back tonight), and there’s a big container of them macerating in maple syrup to make strawberry shortcake with for dessert.
And then strawberry season will probably be over, here, and will fade into a memory, bolstered by all the preserved and put-by berries…
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