Wooden bridge to more wood part 1

A stream prevents us from taking the motorized wheelbarrow to 90% of the land where good fire wood is. It’s a herculean task to carry it all back across the stream and I’m no Hercules. My landlord tells me that hemlocks take water pretty well and we just dropped 2 huge ones for a clearing. It’s time to make a bridge.

Using a come-along inch by inch; thankfully it was hauled by a car for half of the trip

Getting ready to cross the stream

The tipping point

We’ll want a vertical component on that sucker

Hurray! One more to go…

Hey guys…

guys…

 guys listen…

I know what this fair with children running around needs…

a FIRE!

guys, a fire… in a PIT!

 

I’m pretty sure that’s how the conversation went.

A website to make the meal math easier on the parents

https://yum.akrin.com

List of current features:

  1. It uses the USDA National Nutrient Database as the basis for all the foods you can search (your tax dollars at work).
  2. You can add your own recipes, ingredients whatever else is not in the base database. We find that we add all the foods we use even if it’s just bread because a bread with a label is always more accurate than the generic/average bread as defined in the USDA database. It’s also nice for adding your family specials once and for all and never have to do the math again.
  3. What you add is not shared amongst users and it only visible to you.
  4. It tries to learn which foods come back to help pick them later on.
  5. It remembers which amounts you last used
  6. Calculates insulin dose on the fly
  7. Very simple & streamlined navigation for the least work for the parents

This is still very much a work in progress but has made our meals a lot more agreeable already.