Whew!

50 F. hot outside at the moment. Might make 60 F. yet before the day is over.

One tree cut down and the lower 3 logs, 8 feet long, at the buck. There is the other half of the tree still in logs on the ground to bring in yet. Whew. Rather hot work out. Would rather have snow on the ground! If I can I will take down at least one more tree before calling it a day in the woods.

The upper swamp has about 6-8" of water in it. Used the left shoe method to check the depth of stinky water. Normally at this time of year the swamps are bone dry. Should have a good mosquito crop next year. It is really a tussle to bring the logs out through the low spots. Of course the tree roots aren't that easy either.

Margriet tested a recipe, Swedish Church Cake, from one of The little Grandma's cookbooks this morning. Of course I was obligated to test it to see if it was indeed good enough to take to church later this month. She only made half of the recipe, so my task was not too difficult. It made a fine desert after the last of the beef/vegetable soup for lunch. I gave her permission to make the full recipe for church. Sure is tough work a man has to do!

Margriet is busy washing the windows for winter. Only doing about one side of the house and her glass display case today. I will have to go outside later and wash the windows there. She is able to do about 3/4 of the glass area from inside, so guess I should not complain all that much. We will have to get after putting on the plastic inside of the windows soon too. Good thing winter is taking a while to come this year. At least the cold weather.

We managed to pay some of the monthly bills this morning. I chose the wrong time though for Margriet to write the checks. She had just put the pork sausage in the pan, then took too long spending the money and the links were a bit brown. Not burned, but a very dry dark brown muffins were good this morning, as usual, so made up for the dry links. Someday I will learn.

So my cup of coffee is about gone and I hear the woods calling me.

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