Holiday Monday. The weather was not too good in the morning as winters icy grip has started to sink its claws into this region. It took a few minutes to scrape the ice off the car windshield early Monday morning:
The sun slowly warmed the temp to about 6oC and it was quite pleasant at the barn. With Bob back from visiting the in-laws and Acton, I took advantage of his presence to remove a few more stumps with the tractor, and to move the Prototype to its winter home. After leveling the ground, Bob and I nailed up some boards on which we will mount our shelters. These heavy creosote soaked timbers are ideal for weighing down the shelters.
After the boards were made up, we hauled the HUP Prototype to the new site. In the meanwhile, she was swaddled with tarps and the cover off of my Quebec garage. That should hold her for the rain coming on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday...
Bob spent some time playing "le Cowboy". He got good at stump wrangling:
Failing to pull any stumps with his rope, he headed off to the wood pile to do some more splitting. I ran out of time for the day, so we will move the shelter over the Prototype later this week.