Busy weekend on the Wanch

Friday afternoon saw our Boy Scout troop arrive and set-up camp across the stream in a small pasture up on our wooded hill side.  Both the rain and temperature began to fall before they got all the tents up. The cold weather was actually a blessing in disguise - it got rid of all the nasty ticks for the night. Temp got down to 37 degrees F by morning.

Thank goodness for my brother-in-law's tractor! After driving up and down my muddy track several times in the rain guiding various late arrivals, my truck got struck half-way up hill on last trip. Had to walk home and get tractor to pull it out. Didn't have good camera with me, so had to resort to the iPhone camera which is not my favorite

The camp-out was only part of the reason the Boy Scouts were on the Wanch. They were here to earn money for their summer camp by working all morning clearing brush along our fence lines. This was the last major job I wanted to accomplish on the north 20 acres.

The sun didn't show itself or warm up until after the scouts finished at 1:00, but the boys and their adult leaders sure did a great job.

I have cut-up logs to donate as firewood and several large brush piles that will be burned after a few weeks of drying-out.

It is still early spring, and we have many flowering white dogwood and eastern redbud trees in bloom along the road and on the hill side.