Todays tasks consisted of doing a load of laundry and then clearing some brush. I ran a tank of gas through my brush cutting weed eater and a tank of gas through the chain saw. My goal is to get a view of the hills south of us.
As you can see in the photos our recent 4.5-5" of snow has almost all melted, or evaporated. The highest temperature I saw today was 28. In the woods wasn't bad but standing out at the end of the driveway, in the wind, and visiting with Delmar Burgess, a neighbor, was quite brisk.
I took the photos looking through our picture window. It is difficult to even see any difference in the photos.
This is the before photo. You can see the hills in the background, the dark area. I'm not sure how far away they are. I need to get out a topographic map and check.
The photo below was taken about 5 PM. You can see some color from the sun going down, even though the photo is taken looking southwest. Note the arrow pointing down. The "aisle" I'm clearing is between these 2 trees. Sadly I ran out of gas when I think cutting down about 5 more trees would have made a world of difference. (All I'm cutting down is scrub. I think the largest non-pine tree that I cut down was maybe 2.5" in diameter. I did cut down some Virginia Pine that was larger. The Area Forester told me I needed to cut all of it down because it is a nuisance.) I was tired enough, and it was late enough, that walking back to the cabin, filling the saw with gas, then walking back and cutting the remaining trees wasn't going to happen. Depending on the weather I may get back down there tomorrow afternoon.
In the future I may also widen the aisle for a better view, but that won't happen for awhile.
It was a great day in the neighborhood. PTL.
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