Jo has the weekend off,  we have more logs to drill and the weather is cooperating.  What more can we ask for?  Well, breakfast at our favorite diner of course.  Jo had no complaints being woken up at 6:30 am and headed out to The Corner Diner Too.  I still haven’t been there for lunch, but I again highly recommend the breakfast.  The owner, John can identify his regulars by the orders that come across his grill.

By 8:30 we were fully fueled up, loaded up and heading out to THF.  The plan was to get done what we could.  Two vehicles again so Jo and I could leave Ron behind once we were done.  We brought the left over hot dogs and the usual candies for Ron to snack on.  He does like his sweets when he is working.

This Saturday, our setup was so easy.  Open up the tent, pull the grinder table outside and get the generator going again.   Jesse arrived which was a delightful sight.  Ron told me that he mentioned this weekend to both Don and Jesse, but we are the only 3 who are quite so committed to this project.   Well actually, only Ron who is wholly committed to this project.  Jo and I are being dragged along willy-nilly.

It was chillier out at THF than we expected it to be.  I need to stash a couple of watch caps in our going out to farm bags.   It was warmer in tent which helped.  Jesse and Ron got started with the drilling, Jo likes doing the inoculation and I was wax girl today.  We found our rhythm quickly and the logs started stacking up outside.

This is what the newly drilled holes look like.

And these are the holes after they have been filled with mushroom spawn and covered with wax.   Lots and lots of holes.  In fact the only thing we have more of on the farm is our rocks.

Ron gave Don a call to see if he was going to come out.  Don thought Ron had only planned a puttering day, didn’t know we were actually going to be doing serious work.

A bit later he came walking down the path.  With his full winter jacket on.  He was ready for the cooler temps.  With Don’s added help with we busted through 68 logs in short order.  The boys decided to haul the logs across the stream and I got the hotdogs going on the grill.  By the time they were done, the dogs were ready and I discovered that I had forgotten the rolls.  I even walked back to car to see if I had left them there.  No luck.  So we ate them with our fingers, Don with a stick.  It was fun and brought back memories of our childhood.  When that was the norm.

Once we finished our lunch Jo and I were ready to head home.  Final clean up and we headed out.  Ron was very pleased with the amount of work we got done.   We surprise him all the time.  He, Jesse and Don stuck around for a couple of hours, talking over future plans.   Ron will run them by me someday and I will do my best to reign him in.  We have a great partnership that way.

Ron and I have been married for 30 years and even though we  both have been “nature people” neither one of us saw THF in our future.   While we are not totally “green” out there, after all we do need the generator and 4 wheeler to get the work done.  But we are growing with organic methods and the plants we are putting out there are native to our area, so Happy Earth Day Everyone.