It's just one more reason why you don't wander around in the dark here without a gun of some kind and a flashlight with you. It also shows why a dog is an asset on the homestead.
Now, about the rest of the week...
I dug some of the rocks up out of the yard. The ground seems to grow them naturally. Those that stick their heads above the surface get dug up.
But then you have to fill the holes in with more dirt so we go to our dirt pile and fill the wheel barrow with dirt to fill in the holes where the rocks used to live.
We (Susan) are repainting the camper. Here Susan is spraying the brown that goes on the cab and along the bottom of the box. We're using an airless paint gun which is having issues. There's a lot of "orange peel" in the finished product.
The final look after we're done!
Okay, Susan is finished. I still need to clean the paint gun up (with Scott's help).
Scott is helping change the memory card in the game camera. I went three days with no critters at this site so I moved it to another location the next day. At least I know where to not put a tree stand.
Scott and I went to the shack to get a few things and on the way back he wanted to play on the snowmobiles. I uncovered one of them and he spent a little time in the land of imagination where two-year-olds like to go.
Scott's dad and mom were up so his dad and I did a little shooting with 22's.
Susan, Scott and I took a break on the work one afternoon to play a game of horseshoes. I won but only by one point. Scott had a pair of plastic shoes he used.
We still wash dishes. One of the problems with doing a blog like this is that there's only so much "new" stuff you can put on it after awhile, so ... you get some re-runs! We had plenty of rain water so I used that for the wash water and "town" water for the rinse. We had the kettle heating on the wood stove so I had some hot water to mix with it.
The mornings and some evenings have been cold enough to need some heat so we've fired up the wood stove several times. The side benefit of this is having hot water. (We keep a kettle of water on the wood stove.) So ... I used hot water when I washed the dishes and laundry. It was nice to have hot water instead of the cold water we normally use.
We also got the sourdough out of the refrigerator and began using it again. These are sourdough pancakes and we love eating them.
Susan made cookies and we caught Scott in the act of helping himself to a few. He's like a bird and eats a bite out of each one. We caught him before he got too many though.
Scott has a new cousin. This little guy's name is Tommy. His mom had some complications so they induced labor. She was in labor almost two days before she had him. Mom and baby are both home again and doing well.
Of course Scott loved the hospital. Tommy was born in the same room as Scott used a couple of years ago. They moved mom and baby to a recovery room while we were visiting and Scott discovered the running water in the bathroom. We stripped him down to his diaper and let him have some fun. (With grandpa staying very close.)
Here Scott is helping grandma put the dried mint in jars for storage.
Susan has been harvesting garden crops this week beginning with the onions. Next will be the potatoes and carrots.
There were two large trees blown down that I was cutting up for firewood. This is the last of the second one. I couldn't get them all in two loads so I had to make another trip for this batch. It's green so it will go to the back of the wood shed to cure until spring.
The wood shed is almost half full now. I was getting too tired to throw the large rounds of green logs up on the top tiers so I split some of them into quarters.
Scott got the idea to re-arrange his cabinets and decided that the oven would be a great place to store what had been in them. Unfortunately grandma needed that space for cooking dinner tonight so they all went back into their original home.
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