4 July 2013

Did some serious RV cleaning while Chree went into Brandon for supplies.  Alex and Katy (the latter carrying 8 months of unnamed male progeny) arrived at 10.  Alex was given the honor of striking the match that set the brush pile ablaze.  By 1:30 most of the brush had been turned into smoke, so Chree, Katy, and Alex went over to meet Lynne at the annual ice cream social in Salisbury.  While they were gone I finished backfilling the conduit trench.  Alex returned for his first backhoe lesson.  In literally a few minutes, it was like he had been using a backhoe his whole life.  So I set him to work digging out rocks for the waterfront retaining wall.  He succeeded in pulling out a behemoth that (by measurement and later calculation) tipped the scales at 1,875 pounds, well more than twice what the Kubota can lift.  Marty & Merry joined us for mutton cooked on the campfire and much hilarity.