October 17-20 Visit – Planting trees
On this visit, Chris, Sophia, and I collected and planted walnuts, maple seeds, and black willow cuttings.
The willow cuttings are an experiment to see if fall planting works. If this is successful, I plan to plant about 2000 cuttings next fall.
The Fall color is at it’s peak this week. We hiked, poked about in the streams, and had great campfires each evening.
Sharp’s Fork is very low right now and we looked at the old train engine boiler and train track that is normally submerged and wondered about the history. We also found a great deal of coal pieces in the gravel bed of the stream. We added some of this to our campfires; it burned a long time.
Sunday night was cold; there was a light frost. I sure wish the cabin was insulated and had heat.
