Long time no update. I was out of town for most of December, and then had some commitments that kept me from getting back into land stuff until about 10 days ago.

My Kei truck stopped working while I was gone. I ended up getting it towed to Oh Kei in Buckley, then taking the Sounder Train and biking there when it was ready to pick up.

I picked up about 40 lbs worth of berry starts and tree seedlings from the Plant Materials Center and am figuring out how to keep them from freezing with minimal electric power while we have night-after-night frosts. Both the ride to Bow, WA and the best ideas on how to store them came from my friend Scotty.

I’ve coppiced about 1/2 an acre of salmonberry to create space for some of the plantings, and tallied up more hours of the cost-shared invasive removal.

I took my tree climbing gear on a trip to the Oregon coast and knocked some of the rust of my recent learnings tree-climbing learnings.

I had an electrician out to scope out getting an electric hookup for a trailer or something about 150 feet into the land. Would it be cool to do it and get the Labor and Industry permit pulled myself? Definitely. Do I have that kind of time and energy? Not really.

Speaking of, reaching out and getting help has been high on my list of intentions in the new year, and just today I had the great pleasure of getting some help from the son of a neighbor that I’ve been getting to know over the last year. We (mostly he) split some of the 10′ sections of trunk from the cedar I had taken down last year. I’m thinking I’ll use those for fence posts or something. We also got through a bunch of chipping holly slash after the video ended, but the battery died due to camera/power-bank operator error.