June 11-14, 2010 Visit – Start building walls on cabin
On Friday, June 11, at about 5:00 pm, Chris and I arrived. Although the radio weather service had just announced that there was only a 20% chance of rain, rain thundered down for about 30 minutes. Not a happy beginning.
After driving back to the camp site, we unloaded our food, clothes, and materials and drove into town to purchase framing lumber for the cabin walls.
On Saturday, drizzly rain occurred most of the day. We put up the north and west lower level walls. Then we tried to drive out to get more materials. We could not. The sod driveway was saturated and slick.
On Sunday, I assembled the steps up to the deck. This was pretty sloppy as the work site was very muddy.
On Monday, I decided the weather was not improving enough to dry out the driveway, so I used the come-a-long to pull the pickup to a higher, better drained, part of the driveway and was able to drive out.
There were some good moments ,though, on this visit. We saw a very handsome red fox while driving in on Friday.
The gosling is now about half the size of it’s parents. I am impressed how the parents are always near the gosling with the gosling protected between them. The geese don’t seem greatly bothered when I approach, but they do swim out into the pond.
I checked the seedlings planted earlier. The Swamp White Oaks look very good. The button bush looks good, as well. I was able to find the Red Maple seedlings, but I suspect the golden rod will shade out these seedlings.
