Bill Tramel
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Bill Tramel
@btramel.bsky.social
Former software guy; current tree farmer (Sand Branch Farm), sawmiller, Woodmizer LT35HD, I try playing chess (badly) when I have time. Two garden areas; wife has chickens.

Sand Point, MS USA
Dad, are you going to move anytime soon?
December 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Cleo sleeping while I work in the shop. She’s good company and the noise does not seem to bother her.
August 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Cleo the barn cat doing her best to keep me sane and focused on what’s important.
#barncat #CatsofBlueSky
July 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Freshly milled pine lumber ready for the air drying stack.
#SmallFarmLife
July 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Cleo on alert making sure I don’t miss anything!
June 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
These Red Oak five quarter boards still looking fine on the air drying stack after about six weeks — currently still over 30% moisture content.
#Sawmill #SmallFarmLife
June 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Cleo said she wanted to help me pick blueberries early this morning.
June 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
So much sawdust. Wish I had a use for it. Other than as a big litter box for Cleo, the cat. When the trailer gets full I just go dump it on the Farm.
#sawmill #SmallFarmLife
June 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We both enjoy sitting on the deck, and taking in Mother Nature, especially on a beautiful day like today.
#sawmill #SmallFarmLife
June 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Cleo wanting attention while I take a break from the sawmill.
#sawmill #SmallFarmLife #Woodmizer
June 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The carrots were harvested and put up last week. Will be prepping the bed for the next crop.
#SmallFarmLife
May 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Melons were planted just last week. They should be ready in July. Can’t wait!
#SmallFarmLife
May 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Potatoes in the ‘kitchen garden’ are looking good.
#SmallFarmLife
May 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The corn is coming up nicely.
#SmallFarmLife
May 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This is the one that my wife has been using for several years. She said she likes it a lot and costs around $160US at Tractor Supply.
April 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I unstacked a stack of air drying lumber today; now my lumber shed is about full. #sawmill #SmallFarmLife
March 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
March 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Cleo keeps me more or less sane in these troubling times. Unfortunately, half the country has gone insane, with more being complicit. Yesterday, wife even had to put up with a gloating Trumpite tax payer in the volunteer tax work she does as a retired CPA; ie, FOR FREE — and she still gets grief!
March 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Received this from my Rep. Senator yesterday in response to my pleading (twice - first on Feb 1st, again in Feb 4) for him to do something about the Elon Musk government takeover. This shows that he thinks the constitution does not matter.

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@ashtonpittman.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
With all the bad stuff going on around me, Cleo does her best to calm me down.
February 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
…I’ve got other stuff I need to do first!

#SmallFarmLife
February 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Cleo says I need to get back to sawmilling. And she’s right! But

#sawmill
#SmallFarmLife
February 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Sometimes in the mornings I like to sit beside my pond and contemplate about world events and the seeming continual “man’s inhumanity to man”. If I’m lucky, a family of ducks will fly in. I always feel better afterward.
February 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
My father’s WWII medals. Now that we have a dictator and half the country are okay with that, it’s looking like what he and his buddies fought for went for naught.
February 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
A few of my wife’s chickens. We haven’t had to be concerned over the “price of eggs” in quite a few years.
#SmallFarmLife
January 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM