We broke ground August 10, 2010 on the shop! Pat and his helper worked at that while I fell some trees. A couple real crooked ones we were afraid that would go down in a wind storm on the RV area. Then there was one beetle killed one, and one that was very sick. All that will go to the saw mill at Pat Landers the guy below with the crawler and the transient. They will be turned into siding for the shop.
Then about the time they were ready to do the fine grading the heavens open up with lighting and then it rained - no make the poured. Pat and Randy had to shut down and take off. Pat had to load logs the following morning and had to work on his log truck with the self loader. This seemed to presented a very good opportunity.
They had to go to four wheel drive to get out. Pat has been going to do some road work there these past three years. It is not yet done; there just is never enough days in a year for him to get it all done. I complain to him about it when it rains. We do not sink but it is so slick on top you just spin and throw mud. It is not so bad where we have the fifth wheel but there and around by the orchard sometime you think you are going to have to walk out.
I too beat a hasty retreat to the fifth wheel and repaired the shower. Then the sun came out in about an hour and I finished 'bucking logs' so Pat can now skid them to go to the mill. Ellen and I carried the limbs and put them in a pile in the pasture to burn after the first snow or if we get enough rain in like Oct or Nov I might set them on fire then but I really like it when the snow is on the ground. I know we are not going to have any surprises then.
Tig has been named supervisor in charge over the whole project. This due to litigation she has threatened on me. Her brief brought to my attention she does not trust me with a chain saw at all anymore. She of course most of the time per her assignment and job description is to be very near me. However if I grab a chainsaw now she disappears due to mental anguish she cites when I almost dropped a tree on her. She claims I had no regard for her well being nor consideration fore her general welfare which indeed I will prove false herein. She therein her brief asks for a change in position due to extreme mental trauma that occurred last year when we were logging up in the Farlow Place. She claims I purposefully almost dropped a tree on her. Myself I feel I should counter claim she indeed was negligent. After all she was laying in the shade of a tree that the snow had over the years crushed down and they really start to grow side ways. I was falling it because it would never make a tree to harvest. I noticed it starting to go down. I stopped for a millisecond and hit the kill switch on the saw and yelled in a very panicked manor TIG!!!! Okay I girlie screamed TIG!!! She some how got out from under that falling tree sort of flew - sort of levitated as it was coming down on her. I did not see her again for hours. I put the tools up in the pick up and here she came. At the time she pretty much told me no more chainsaws. This current litigation was a total blind side yet in my good graces has caused me to offer a olive branch in the form of a title of Supervisor of Construction. This and a dog biscuit in hopes of bribing her to drop her current case.
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