Monday, May 16, 2016

Drumroll Please..............

..........we have TRUSSES.  That is right!  We have most of the great room covered and felted, and now we have the left wing of the house trussed.  We also have power poles up to the house.  No wires but the poles are in place and the water line repaired.  Apparently, the power company does check before they dig. ;-)
Trusses Over Left Wing of House
Really feels like great progress was made this week.  Which kind of helps out with the news we got this week.  Remember the little, single lane bridge that we had to work around to get stuff to job site-turns out DOT will be replacing it this summer.  Luckily, we have about thirty days notice before it closes. So we can get things to the job site before the easy way is closed.  Of course once it is closed a trip from town that used to take ten minutes will take at least 45 minutes.  You got to love rural America.

In other property news, we had a death.  The mother Eastern Bluebird from the machine barn nest was killed.  The dad has been doing a great job caring for his brood.  I offered them food to try and help him out, but they are about ready to fledge and have reached that stage where they will have nothing to do with humans.
Also, predator guards don't do anything to protect nest-boxes from bears.  The Eastern Bluebirds in one of the other nest-boxes fledged.  I cleaned the box out several days ago and someone was already starting to rebuild.  When I went to do my rounds today, I found the pole with the box on it bent flat to the ground.  No bird eggs or babies for the bear but it looked like he got a lot of ant larvae from a pile of deteriorating logs that he torn into that was nearby.
House Site 5/15/2016
Toad at Old Cattle Waterier

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