[Alas Babylon!]

By the way, I would be remiss if I hadn’t mentioned the BEAUTIFUL Spring we’re having here at Festung Babylonia in Alabama!

I’ve been planting broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, peas, potatoes and onions since the end of February and all are up and looking great.

I’ll see if I can’t post some pictures.

Lot’s of bird activity! I have several bluebirds nesting in my various bluebird houses, lots of juncos, robins, mockingbirds, mourning doves, red headed woodpeckers, cardinals, Carolina wrens, titmouse, nuthatchers, great horned owls (I hear them in the woods hooting in the afternoon) and I even saw a pileated woodpecker yesterday!

I bought a new Husqvarna 24” chainsaw and an Alaska mill and will soon begin milling my own wood. I plan on building a post barn with my wood and use timber framing to join it all together.

For Alabama, this is the best time to work outside. Not hot and humid yet—that will start in late May.

I also love late September thru November for the same reason.

[bray]

What kind of timber framing are you doing. Steel brackets or mortise and tenon?

[bert]

-—Alaska mill-—

I saw one on You Tube...... a miracle, a damn miracle, is what it is

[CDB]

Happy Spring, AB! Your Festung sounds like Nirvana .