Getting ready for the Fourth of July!

So Sarah and I are hoping that some folks might like to come to the McGraw area sometime the Fourth of July weekend, and though we know it's late to organize something we'd like to extend an invitation to all our family and friends, so please, let people who might be interested know. We live in a trailer so if you want to spend the night you can have our bed and we might be sleeping up by the pond anyhow, also there is plenty of room for tents and campers. So if you would like to come and you think something might work out, give us a call or an email or a comment and we'll set things up. And heck, it doesn't have to be the fourth of July, it can be practically any time! We do enjoy having company.

So Pa, I bought a chain with clevis grab hooks and began to clear away the brush and logs. I left two loads of pine in the trail that the kids have been using to get to the pond. Just another way of saying "you aren't welcome here" to trespassers. Even with the Kubota and chain, it was sweaty work! Sarah snapped this one in an unflattering moment:


But she also nabbed a video of the Kubota doing the hard work for me. For some reason Youtube destroyed the quality on this one.



With some more logs moved I should be able to dig the hole and start to set the flagpole sleeve. We should be ready to hoist the colors for the first time July 4, 2010.

Oh, and I forgot! We finally got one of our pests! She was sitting in the trail when we pulled up to the forest. They don't like to move unless they're quite sure you've made them, so she sat still while I braced myself against the car door with a Ruger MK I and put a .22 right beneath her left eye, and it exited forward of her right. A very clean kill, but it was probably at only 40 feet or so. Still, one pest gone, our shrubs, vegetables and trees are a little safer, a little flesh in the fridge, and Roscoe even ate the liver.



Hope to see you soon!