Homesteading is a mysteriously complex activity; beset with obscure and improbably strange challenges. There comes a time when your hands are half frozen and you’ve used your last match and you think to yourself that any activity involving a propane torch is something you’d rather not face. It’s about that time that you peer down a the ladder’s feet, which are sliding around on a sheet of ice…
…and you think, for just a minute, that you should have taken up bowling as a hobby instead.