February 3-4, 2012

We spent the afternoon touring around Eureka, so did not arrive until after 5 (in a light drizzle). There was a good chance of rain all day, but the heavy stuff was forecast for 9pm - 2am. Sure enough, right at 9 there was lightening and heavy rain. It didn't last all that long, but later heard Eureka had recorded 1.25 inches (only 1 inch in Fayetteville).

Burn

With the ground good and wet I decided to burn the ice storm cedars (plus a few others I had trimmed) in the two large groves down past the pond. It was a perfect day for it, cool and wet.

I found these funny looking insets over-wintering in the crack of this large cedar limb. No idea what they were.

I surprised myself by getting all the piles taken care of within 3.5 hours. I am so pleased to get these eye sores out of the way, though there are still some standing trees that are so broken that they should be cut. Many if the limbs had to be drug a ways -- all in all a very good workout. It was easy sleeping Saturday night.

There are scads of little cedars coming up in the groves. While waiting for the pile to burn down I sat and hand pulled about 150. I'll be back.

Water Everywhere

With the over night rain, the creeks were really runing and the pond was full.

Walnuts

Before heading out I cracked some more walnuts, to be picked during the week. Sally has me now leaving them in a jar on the counter for snacking.