ROCKY HILL

Saturday morning we loaded the truck with stumps and roots and headed to the Raritan Recycling Center to dump it. Then we got back and loaded the truck with garbage that has been laying around outside and took that to the Hunterdon County transfer station. YAY! Two more truckloads of junk is gone. It stinks because it took up the entire morning because the line at the transfer station is ridiculously long even if you get there early but it is great that the yard has two less truck loads of garbage laying around.

When we got back Tommy got the rest of the stumps off the front yard and I planted the rest of the junipers on the hillside. Then Tommy brought me scoops of the river rocks we had plucked out of some loads of soil we got for free and but them at the bottom of the hillside for me to lay out under the junipers. I did just that while Tommy shredded and moved some of the "garbage" leftover from the sawmill. Anything small enough was shredded and the rest is on the large firewood pile in the backyard. Laying those rocks out is quite a bit of work on that hill. It might not seem very steep but it is a workout. It was great when Tommy was done with his work and we could pick out the size rock we needed from the pile, put it in the bucket of the kubotka, and then place them where we needed to directly out of the bucket. I think it is looking pretty good so far.

WOOD STACKING

Nothing too exciting the end of this week... We spent yesterday and today after work moving and stacking the wood in the back yard. It is actually quite a bit of wood, but we were surprised it took us two nights...

We finished stacking the wood on Friday just in time for the rain... but that didn't stop us from going to Home Depot... I had a buy one get one free tree coupon so we took a trip to the Bridgewater Home Depot and got two trees. A cherry tree and a funky evergreen... yay! But I have to admit it is quiet a sight to have two trees in the trunk of the Hyundai...

SAWYR

We took the day off of work today and had the guy come to saw the logs. It was a bit of a gamble having him come today because the forecasted weather called for rain, but although it drizzled a few times we were able to cut up a majority of the logs we had. I will call him SAWYR because that was on his license plate.

We had him cut a majority of cherry because we will use that for our kitchen cabinets. He also cut some walnut and maple. We hoped to use the maple for a butcher block top, but it turned out to be spalted so that did not work out, instead we will use cherry which I think I prefer anyway.

We had a regular and a visitor stop by and give us a hand. Tom's mom (the regular) came for the day and helped sweep off and stack the lumber as it was cut. The visitor, Lamar, was a really big help all day, he carried the lumber to the stack, helped Tommy get logs ready to be offloaded at the sawmill, but his defining moment of help was in the middle of the afternoon when Tommy accidentally flicked a log with the forks on the tractor and sent the log tumbling down the hill toward the sawmill, a dirty look from the SAWYR and a yell to Lamar and he ran over and stopped the log just in the nick of time. PHEW!!! This is especially funny because the SAWYR was OVERLY protective and VERY VERY anal about his sawmill so if that log hit his machine it would have been the end of the world.















We took some video, but every time we did the SAWYR screwed up, but you can check it out. The pictures of the log pile are from the middle of the day so imagine about double that amount of lumber.