Feeding and Digging and Caulking

As a follow-up to the last post, here is a video of feeding time for the birds, so you can see and hear a bit of the circus! This particular feeding time followed a very rainy afternoon, which is why the chickens are conspicuously absent (mostly) -- they had holed themselves up in the tractor. The rain doesn't faze the waterfowl at all though!

Mick snapped back from his sickbed and dug all three post holes for the second fence corner. I can't believe how deep he is able to dig these holes! The ground seems to have stages of "easy-to-dig" and "hard-to-dig", and once he works past a "hard-to-dig" part, he likes to keep going for a couple of inches. I believe this particular corner post hole he dug over 4' deep!

The picture doesn't even show you the bottom of the hole. Wouldn't want to fall into that! But it is neat to see all the different layers of soil and rock. This corner post was particularly tall -- 9.5' feet or so, I believe.

That's your before picture. Then Mickey drops the post into the hole...

And here's your after picture.

This will be quite a sturdy fence, don't you think?!

Mick has also been busy at the trailer. He cut out the rotting front of our tub (we'll never know why someone thought it was a good idea to put a non-waterproof material in front of a bathtub!) and replaced it with some actual backsplash that we found on clearance at Valu Home Center.

He recaulked the whole thing, and we even bought a new shower head!

So Martha, if you visit again, it won't feel quite as much like being at camp... :)