391 logs, but who's counting?

Robin's nest on top of garden post behind shed.

Close-up of nest. No eggs yet.

Neatly stacked decking material from campground.

391 + pieces of firewood! You can just make out the nest

in the upper right hand corner of the photo.

Kathy went to the farm today. It was too muddy to do some things, but she did move all of the firewood and decking material from the front of the property behind and to the side of the shed at the back of the veggie garden. (We don't grow flowers.) She counted the firewood as she moved it and it totaled 391 pieces. There was already a stack of firewood from the campground behind the shed, so she estimates that we have about 500 pieces. She is hoping that Denny, who likes to build fires, will help himself to some wood.

Rex had done some work in the cottage since last weekend, running water lines and working on hooking up the water heater, water softener, whole-house filter, reverse osmosis filter, etc. He had also been working on getting the light under the glass cabinets up and wired, had hooked up the water line to the main bathroom toilet (though there is no water to it), and some other things Kathy can't remember.

The bird's nest in today's photos appeared in the last week. Kathy thought it was well built, using all local materials which were cemented together with some mud from the abundant supply we currently have on the property. The nest is deep but empty at the present time. The construction is as green as any we have seen, using only renewable resources!

Kathy was pleased to have a visit with Barbara and Denny. We have tentatively set the 25th as the date of our next meal. It will be lunch at a local spot in Huntington.

June from down the road (NOT LeeAnn's mother) and her daughter, Elizabeth, stopped by for a visit and got a tour of the cottage. Liz is an anthropologist and Kathy promised to call her if she finds any skulls on the property that might belong to an early, yet undiscovered tribe of homo sapiens. Kathy did find part of an arrowhead on the land today and took it over to show Denny and Barbara before leaving for home.

The weather at the farm was beautiful today and Kathy worked in short sleeves. It should be even nicer on Saturday when we return.