Work & Play

Today was a little drizzly ... and the cold weather has been moving in & out this past week ... so it's time to get my little wood stove some food, and get ready for the snow. Wayne (Denise's upstairs lodger) had cut up a fallen tree by the pond, courtesy of Wally the beaver ... and I later split it up to dry out some. I use these opportunities to get some exercise and it's fun because it's all leading to my owning my own land and doing this stuff for myself ... I figure ... I'm basically just practicing :-)    

Nothing like old fashioned log splitting to get the blood moving. It sort of gives me a first hand account on how our predecessors forged their way on this land years ago. As I drive around the valleys here, I remind myself that the pastures and meadows I see, were once probably all forest, and were cleared with only axes, oxen and some serious hard work.  So with a faint drizzle, the cold rolling in, and the sweat pouring ... I'm getting my exercise in ... it was one of Rocky's training methods ... and look at him!

This was cool ... the cold coming in makes the fog roll in ... and within minutes, it has rolled in and 'covers' everything. This is the path that leads over to the pond. Denise, Henry & I did an evening stake out for Wally the other night, but with yet another no show, we decided to do a morning one, but that's another post.

This is a shot looking back towards the house ... you can see that in the time that it took me to walk over to this point, the fog has already rolled in and covered the whole meadow. Another mystical moment. The mist also creeps down the mountain sides around here ... it's eerily... cool to watch. I liken it to ancient Japanese dragons ... descending down ...  almost as if they have a life of their own ;-)

I sat here for a while, doing a mid day Wally watch ...  I'm just curious to see if he commutes home in the early afternoon, or if he's a dusker ... Some things I find, I've taken for granted ... like the pictures you see of beavers, they always show them in the daylight ... but where is the elusive Wally... and Denise the other night got a picture of a Doe 'squatting' to go pee ... who knew that deer squat to go pee ... I didn't.   What else don't I know?.....