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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein -
It's been an eventful week, and I suppose I'm not alone in having an opinion on the goings on. At first I thought about addressing an issue here, but I decided the better of it; most of us have probably had more than our fill. Still, I couldn't stay quiet, and I wrote a blog post on the issue most concerning to me, the role that the tech giants and their leadership are playing in this historic drama. The post is Democracy in Action, have a look if you choose.

Meanwhile, back to Primal Woods. Our hundredth Newsletter! The business and our lifestyle are to a significant extent, intertwined. Therefore my Newsletters address all facets, from the Pure Maple Syrup and Sawmill Services business, to Health, to all manner of Homesteading topics. I'm wondering which of those you would most enjoy reading more about, and so I'm including a brief survey; I hope you'll take the time to participate. Accordingly, the categories of posts are listed below:

1. Pure Maple Syrup
2. Sawmill Services
3. Health
4. Homesteading


Please answer a short survey question below; it must be answered from your email, not a browser window, to count. I'll publish the tally next week, without attribution of course.
Which one topic would you most like to see more about?
1 2 3 4
Our friend Dennis in ye ole' Sugar Shack, circa 2016. We've come a long way.

Primal Woods

Aside from the political distractions, this week again included a lot of work to close the books on 2020. My work is mostly done now; I've uploaded what I can to our CPA, and I'm patiently awaiting the completed books from our bookkeeper for our review. Together with the projects that were completed, which I documented in my 2020 Dec 04 Newsletter, and in spite of being shut down in April, we had our best year yet. That's gratifying to say the least, and we appreciate you, and your help in bringing us to this place.
Portable Sawmill Services One of my favorite pictures from 2020, sent by Adam, just two weeks after I had milled 4,800 board feet for Rocky, Rocky Jr., and Adam. Adam included the message, "This is how most people dry lumber, right?" Ha!

I still have lumber stacking to do, and if the weather holds has forecasted, it looks to be a bit colder, but relatively dry. Once that's done, the Sawmill Services business will be effectively shut down until April. I continue to receive calls to discuss future milling opportunities, so that bit of the business stays alive year round.
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Pure Maple Syrup I went into the Sugar House today, only to realize that we have no bottled Whiskey Barrel Aged Pure Maple Syrup on hand. Something like 150 bottles have left the building. We have a 5 gallon barrel left, and I decanted that to the pre-filtration tank this morning, for filtering and bottling over the weekend. That should yield 60 bottles or so, once that's gone we won't have Whiskey Barrel Aged available until this fall, say October or November. If you want some of what's still available, please place an order at the Shop.
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There was some miscommuncation last week; I anticipated that Jasmine and Juan would begin firewood deliveries last Saturday, instead it is intend for tomorrow. I have some work to do replace older broken pallets with newer pallets to keep the wood out of ground contact, other than that we are ready to receive.
I've asked Andrew to help me on Monday, with some work I've not been able to get done. With the addition of the Goat Pen to the barn, some reorganization of the barn is required to give us a little more room for the horses next month. To do that we'll be making use of the ole' Sugar Shack, which sits next to the Sugar House. We'll use the Sugar Shack for storage of the Wood Splitter, the Wood Chipper, and the Polaris; the first two of those three are currently taking up space in the barn. That shouldn't take too long, so we will also work in the Sugar House, organizing that a bit better with the season fast approaching.
Grasses, Sedges and Rushes native to the Southern Lower Peninsula of Michigan, MSU
Lifestyle The goats and chickens are doing well. The only problem to surface of any import was freezing of drinking water. The Coop is close enough to the Outdoor Wood Boiler to allow the use of extension cords to power a thermostatically controlled waterer in the Coop; that problem solved. In the barn a repurposed water cooler did the trick, preventing the water from freezing overnight.  
I received some recommendations Native Connections regarding native grasses to seed the pasture. We are exchanging emails to finalize the list, and bouncing it against a list from Michigan State University pictured above.  The winter is just flying by, and before I know it spring will be here; we need to be ready. That readiness for spring also includes preparations for Pigs. I've not been able to get in contact with my local resource, so if any of you have a lead I'd appreciate it. We're looking for someone who has experience running Pigs on pasture and forage.
In closing...  The computer replacement went well and I'm thankful for that. No major hiccups, and I was able to get all of our data transferred before the old boat anchor gave up the ghost.

All the best and warm regards,
John & Geri
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