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By Dave, March 7, 2005 9:49 am

gone over the limit on using my hands the last few days. gonna have to take a day or so off from heavy doing.

friday i spent the day on the tractor clearing brush. bill and cat burned as much as would.

saturday went to mountaintop with a friend and took pix of his store up there which had burned down. took nearly 200 pix of the stuff he used to have in there. was a total loss.

sunday morn i got up and took the ford ranger to the hill top for a short walk and commune with nature. came back down about 9:40 and the fire had come back to life and was blazing away so came in, got a couple of protein bars and went to watch and feed the fire. after getting it compacted a bit got on the tractor and started clearing more undergrowth. ended up making a day of it. worked on the tractor till dark then fed and compacted the fire till it was out enough to cover with dirt at about 10 pm.

monday morn got up and out about 8. got the lawnmower and trailer and loaded the chainsaw, oil and fuel mix and went to where I was clearing yesterday. took the time to sharpen the chain. cut a old deadfall that I still haven't identified. reddish colored wood. burns ok. also cleared some of the lower limbs from the cedar. got to get bertha over there to get further up the trunk to trim the rest of the low hanging stuff. from there loaded the trailer and came back here to unload. then to the pile and recut some of the longer oak. got a load and called it a day chainsaw wise.

took a short break then went to the 14 wide and sorted shelving pieces and loaded the trailer with everything but the erector set stuff. took the rest of my energy. should have waited. dodged rain off and on while loading the shelving. bill came by, got the cans and got more fuel. cleaned up around the back of the barn a bit and burned more brush and crap. got almost enough cleaned up to start forming up for the pad. figure sometime this week we will try to support the shed roof with a cedar beam and take the end wall out. then level the area and form up for a pad.

bit by bit… i do think we are getting closer though. just need about 5 more of me.