Last of the Ninety Footers...

 Back in 2020, the local power company dropped a bunch of trees along the power line (All Spruced Up 5/22/20). Several were ninety footers. So in time, I bucked up and stacked all the wood. Now for the last few years I've been splitting the wood, first the smaller rounds and finally mega sized bottom ones. And now it's finished, splitting the last of the mega spruce.

Or is it? The line crew came thru late last summer and dropped another ninety footer on the far end of the property. Since most of it fell on the neighbors, I figured I'd just let him have it. But another neighbor saw it and wanted to use it for rough lumber, so told him to take it. I went by there the other day with the tractor and it's still there. Maybe I'll wind up with more mega spruce to split.

Almost three feet on the stump, it'll be lots o' work for whoever winds up taking it. I hope it's one of the neighbors, cause otherwise I'd probably salvage it for firewood and I'm still kinda sore from hefting the last bunch of mega spruce rounds!

Juneteenth?

 Well it is Juneteenth, but this is more about a moose being free in the driveway. I'd just started getting ready to split wood. After the last couple of days, the pile of stacked mega spruce rounds had finally started to disappear and I figured a few more days would get'er done.

But just as I was starting to split the first log, Andy came and called to me. "You need to come back to the house" or words to that effect. So I shut down the tractor and when I got back, this is what I saw...

A cow moose munching on fireweed shoots along the driveway. She ignored the barking dogs and the two of us yelling at her. Those must be some pretty tasty shoots. After watching her for a bit, I went back to splitting wood. Andy then got a stick and bucket and beat on it, so eventually the moose wandered off. Just another neighborhood moose enjoying a free snack!

Wacky Weather...

After the fourth coldest April on record, May seemed promising. It warmed up in mid month, the snow was gone from here by the 13th, and even set a record with 80° F on the 19th. We got the garden roto-tilled and Andy finished most of the planting. But nature can be fickle, it cooled off at the end of the month and started to rain. We've had almost an inch of rain, mixed with some snow in June, and overnight temps down into the thirties. Shades of the summer of 1992, when it was cool and rainy with snow coming late in the spring and early in the fall. Hope it doesn't repeat itself!

But I did get out for a few rides on the v65 before the rains hit and am looking forward to many more this summer.