Started early - 4:30, got back up to Longview at 2:45 pm, got out of the yard and headed straight to the property. Got on the Bobcat and got busy for 2 hours.
I could have stayed out there longer, plenty of daylight, but this is a grueling schedule. I have to go straight back down to Brownsville in the early AM, 2 hours was all I could handle. And more hornets trying to get at me, stirred up yet another nest = somewhere. I see old, rotten wood and I get a bit - respectful of the idea that there may be yet another hornet's nest under there.
And believe me, I was upending a lot of old, rotten logs. They have to go. Put them in piles and get them ready to burn. I've got 5 huge piles in the back going now. I'll likely set them all on fire after the Bobcat is gone. My days with that Bobcat aren't over, I'll need it again, I just won't get it for a whole month. I really need my own machine. Just too much debt. For now anyway.
My focus right now is use the machine until they come get it. Chainsaw work can wait. If I can get others out there using the chainsaws, they can do that, but I still have ample Bobcat work. I got down in the rear of the property and started clearing out a path where there was once a drive.
That took quite a while, but it was worth it. I still have the rest of the rear to go. It was steep down that hill, I was afraid of tipping the thing over but it's pretty stable machine. There is hill to go in the rear of the property - and it's bad back there. Vince, thorn vines, thorn bushes everywhere. But, there is still plenty of Bobcat work at the rear of the RV park portion.
I can only do what I can do. But interestingly, I'm feeling more energetic. Figure that. More work equals more energy? Seems like it would be the other way around. Must be the almost 4 years of sitting in a driver's seat of a truck and now getting out and getting some real movement .
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Umm, that's all the time I have. It's bedtime and another long drive tomorrow.
g'nite
