Or as finished as projects like get. This was the toughest section of entire trail (a loop with switchbacks) because it was so rocky and many of them had to be dug up.And the rocks larger than for other sections. Watch this space for news of next project.
Author Archives: Steve Mays
Jobs
“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest…. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist.”
–Buckminster Fuller, 1970
More on Jobs here…
Jessie discovers the fish fountain
Flames from chipper motor?
Probably just some dry leaves ignited by hot engine but I’ve been using the the chipper a lot in the ten months I’ve had it so time for service. Problem is, not many folks work on small engines these days. (I’m told most push lawn mowers are considered “throw away” because it’s difficult to find parts are anyone to work on them.) I think I found a guy but won’t know until he gets a look at the chipper engine.
Getting it up from the woods was easier than I expected but getting it into the back of the pickup would have been impossible (for me) without the winch. 
The hiking trail is nearly complete (more to follow) but still need the chipper for dead cedar limbs and such.
Chipmunk
There is nothing Riley loves more than chasing one of our chipmunks. I finally saw two at the same time, confirming there’s more than one.
Why you need two dogs
Dead trees felled
Barb finally gave up on the dead/dying maple tree in one of her flower beds. Used my new $25 come-along trying to make it fall without doing too much damage. Almost worked.
Used the pickup for a dead tree near the road. That worked.
Hiking trail signs
Wildlife: Local deer using hiking trail
1970 Ford 100
“Selling over 640,000 units in 2022 in the US, the Ford F-Series range of trucks has once again become the highest-selling truck in America – 46th time in a row.” Whenever I get behind the wheel of my ’77 F-150 I’m greeted with “thumbs up” and shouts of “Want to sell that truck?”
My friend Paul recently acquired this 1970 pickup which I believe is a fifth generation F-series although the markings (see inset below) read: FORD 100. No “F”
Looks like it had a camper shell for most of its life. Check out the bed below.
