Been reclaiming some more jungle. Discovered the hazelnut bush actually has a few hazelnuts, so I tried to clear better access to it.

Found another blackcurrant, big but so infested with Virginia creeper that we'll probably have to cut it down together. It's possible to pull the creepers out of an apple tree, but the blackcurrant bush just tears out with them.

The little blackcurrant we planted did ok initially but some ants chose to build their home in its roots, so now it's sad.

The ants are crazy this year. So many heaps everywhere. Eggs under every rock. Probably not just us, I see Norfa has a sale for 1kg packs of ant powder

And a little cherry tree that planted itself and is already pretty tall and bearing some cherries, yet to be sampled.

Scrap collection.

After sorting that sheetmetal, I drove around the farm and picked up some scrap metal that is definitely destined for the junkyard.

Piled it up behind the big barn for now. Should have a car trailer full soon.

Since both northern scrap dealers are being accused of cheating (not letting you see the scale when weighing in/out, wtf), I think we'll wait until the road to Vilnius is upgraded and haul it there. I hate cheaters :-P

Another full day of work complete. Gotta push hard when the weather is good, can rest on the rainy days.

Slowly sorting out the old beehives in the overgrown orchard, as I'm making progress clearing around them.

Some might still be usable, but many are just too rotten, like this one. Someone wrote 1988 5 (May) in the lid, probably when the first colony moved in. And June 2000.

These are cold climate hives, they're insulated on three sides with cushions stuffed below and above the frames (now gnawed to pieces by mice).

I saved the metal roof, some of the frames, wax and a separator in good shape.

The planks are full of nails and difficult to re-use.

Two old planes I found in the big barn cleanup.

The smaller one is pretty beat up, blade bent, rounded at the edge and a large chunk of the bottom torn out.

The larger jointer plane seems worth restoring. Some minor woodworm damage but the sole is flat and the blade looks like it's not been used much, just rusted.

No! Bad excavator!

Also cameraphone having a bit of an unfocused moment.

Inside this old doghouse I found a squeaky dog toy and someones favourite woolen jacket.

This one is downright horrible to disassemble, as someone nailed sheet metal to it as the wood started to decay.

Underneath, a couple chunks of asphalt and a lost garden hoe.

After the maintenance, I dug.

A steel pipe end peeked out. Regular readers will not be surprised that this led to half the Nordstream pipeline coming out.

Then I dug out the side of the big barn, because it's bottom log is rotting from being below soil level due to 90 years of soil accumulation. Good practice for digging near buildings. Only hit the roof once

Lots more junk came up, steel, chunks of cancer roofing, wire, wood, roots, rubber, plastic pipe, disintegrating plastic sheet, rocks and lots of bricks.

Then I made a ditch for the water from the roof to run off (there's no gutter) and leveled the area. Needs some more infill at the end, but already much better.

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Stubbed my toe on something this morning. Another piece of metal in the grass, lets pull it out?

Oof, it was anchored well. Had to make some legs for the farm jack, then it came up with a big mound of earth and concrete.

Probably the mooring post for the ginourmous Mastiff they used to have here (the old man showed us his photos), gone to the good boy place long ago.

I guess that dog could pull like a horse, so the post was in deep with a huge block of concrete cast around welded crossbars.

Mjölnir smashed the concrete off and I've filled the hole back in.

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Modern marriage....

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My god... hard to believe

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Defencestration.

Most of the fence posts pulled out easily, with a few exceptions. The fence itself however was ingrown like a bad toenail. I had to pull really hard and then clear a bunch of soil, roots and weeds off the bottom.

A young maple (those really like to self-seed around here) and some thorny monstrosity that had incorporated several fence links got extracted, too.

Now there's room to expand the garden with some no-dig beds :)

I seem to spend at least two thirds of my time just moving things from one place to another.

Today I wanted to remove a section of fence from the garden to start a no dig bed.

But that required a lot of other things, including moving this trailer from the front of the barn to the back of the barn.

Threw some stuff onto it on the way, like a dump truck side wall that was acting as a bridge to the old outhouse.

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