A totally yucky day. (That’s another of those technical weather-speak terms that means rain, rain, and more rain.) Took the Kubota in the lower work road to haul out some brush and really didn’t like the side hill in the area where the Ranger slid off the other day. So spent an hour with the backhoe leveling that area out… probably something that should already have been done. The load of brush that I subsequently was hauling out decided to part company with the tow chain right at the fateful spot. Figured I’d done a good enough job making the “road” passable that the Ranger could manage, so brought it in to retrieve the stray brush… no problem! Somewhere along in here Shlomo managed to get tangled in the power cord for my computer and pulled the whole shootin’ works off the table, breaking off the power supply coaxial cable pin that goes into the computer. As Chree and I had had enough fun in the wet, we went down to Rutland (where it was nice and dry, of course) to get a new power supply. The cost will be coming out of Shlomo’s allowance! On the way back, we stopped for a tasting session at the recently established Otter Valley Winery in Brandon. Good company, fair wine. Started raining again as soon as we got back to Fern Lake. Feeling daring, backed the Ranger all the way to the end of the work road… with minimal difficulties. Chree and I piled on another truckload of brush for deposit on the ever burgeoning burn pile. Then I took the Kubota back in to move some very large rocks (just up-slope from the wooden walkway north of the half-way bench) that were in the way of where the waterfront power line conduit needs to run. Got all but one rock moved out of the way… and came very close to getting the Kubota well and truly stuck. After that hair-graying experience, decided to call it a day. Got permission from the Leicester Fire Warden to burn brush on Thursday… assuming the weather breaks as forecast.
