http://www.twobarnfarm.com Commited to everlasting energy and life in Iowa. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:16:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hibernate!  Not really, but you sure hole up a little bit.  I don't know how it started, but when the temp starts dropping I usually start baking bread.  Something about a warm over just makes the day better.  We also had experimented with several pies.  Many were good, but there ... http://www.twobarnfarm.com/2010/02/17/what-do-you-do-when-its-cold/ A few things around here got a little slack during the first half of the winter.  Finally, all these little projects are getting out of the way.  In celebration of the photo gallery getting fixed, I noticed that we never posted our last few pictures of progress from the fall.  ... http://www.twobarnfarm.com/2010/01/30/a-little-wrap-up/ Wow what? First, the counter.....9966.  I bet by the time people tune in for this update, it might roll over.  Thanks for reading! Picture gallery has been fixed. Iowa Winter:  Snow, Blizzard, Blizzard, COLD, Blizzard, ICE, Warm, Blizzard.  Spring, please come. http://www.twobarnfarm.com/2010/01/25/wow/ Mason and I found a new activity.  Drifting.  No, not the dumb, car-sliding around corners kind.  Snow drifts, we got some big ones. In a recent house project, I realized I had just the part we needed.  However, it was at the farm.  It was a calm Sunday afternoon, with a ... http://www.twobarnfarm.com/2010/01/11/out-driftin/ If you have seen the news, the entire Mid-West is in another large cold front.  Apparently, this one is big enough to make frozen iguanas fall out of trees in Florida.  Around here, we don't have the risk of falling lizards, but we've been seeing temperatures between -10 and -20, ... http://www.twobarnfarm.com/2010/01/08/brrr/ Well, it was a white Christmas for sure. In the past month, there was a statewide blizzard warning.  It left drifts from waist deep to neck deep all over town.  Luckily, just days before, I brought the tractor up from the farm and put the big snowblower on it it and ... http://www.twobarnfarm.com/2009/12/26/christmas-time/ Apparently our ISP changed our servers and broke our picture gallery.  We complained, and they helped fixed a server name reference.  It worked for a day or two, now it's completely broken. We're working on it.  In fact, I had just run to the farm to take pictures of all the ... http://www.twobarnfarm.com/2009/11/24/pictures-2/ Stairs!  This is excitement.  We have about half of the 2nd floor subfloor down, but we have been using a ladder to get up and down. It took a while, about 3 days of looking, thinking, and scratching to finally figure it out.  I knew how to cut each step into ... http://www.twobarnfarm.com/2009/11/16/stairway-to/ After a cold fall, it has warmed back up a bit out here.  We have been getting a few hours of work done nearly everyday at the crib.  The highlights include: The front bin has been removed. Fresh sub-floor covering the greenhouse sides, the front bin, and the opposite side up to ... http://www.twobarnfarm.com/2009/10/29/time-for-roller-skating/ Ok more melodramatic then it sounds.  Going back over our trip, you heard all the highlights, nothing bad besides a few lines.....well, here's the dirt. First off, the trip was designed to be as cheap as possible.  Knowing that you do not go to Disney for the hotel experience, we picked ... http://www.twobarnfarm.com/2009/10/26/dark-side-of-disney/