Tree removal

 This twin trunk locust tree had cracked and was pushing the Warner's fence. Heather and I went over this morning to take it down. Jim was also there to help. We pulled the tops over and got them cut off before I started on the trunks.

 Both sides of the trunk were right up against the fence, making it a bit more difficult, but we got them cut off. It might have been one side at a time, but still progress.

 Both sides removed and the fence stood up straight(er).

As expected, we had an audience for the whole procedure. They weren't too fond of all the noise the saw made, though.

Winter came early this year

 Last night's rain turned to snow before it all ended. We got about 2" by the time it quit.

It will probably be gone in a day or two because the ground isn't frozen yet, but the air temperatures won't be melting it. It didn't go above freezing today.

First frost of the season

 It's a bit early this year, but we got our first frost last night.

 It got the whole area here between the hills.

I think I will wait for it to melt off before I go anywhere today.

Lake time for the guys

 Allen and I headed for Greyson Lake this morning. We drove all the way there in the rain, but it stopped when we arrived at the launch. We did get drizzled on, but then it cleared out and was sunny.

 We both caught a few fish, but nothing big enough to bring home for dinner. We still had fun.

 We went a little farther down the lake and found this. It is hard to see, but the top half is an overhang over the lake. It goes back about 40-50 feet. Very cool looking.

We also found this cave along the banks. Allen got up to the mouth, but didn't go inside. We only had flip-flops on and there was a lot of rocks and brush to walk through to get to the back.

Burn pile gone

 I lit up the "new" burn pile this morning. This is all the limbs and debris from the maple branch that came down in the pasture a while back.

 I picked a spot in the pasture that the horses weren't eating from and stacked all the stuff there because I didn't feel like hauling everything over to the old burn pile.

 It burned down nicely. This is after about an hour or so, lots of coals to make sure it will keep going.

 By afternoon, there were only the big chunks left. I moved them all into a pile near the center so they could keep going.

Leaning on the fencepost is the remaining part of the branch with the trunk visible behind it. The last branch will get cut off when I finish with the big piece, leaving just an enormous stump.

Back to Greyson Lake

 Heather has been on her vacation all week. Today we went fishing, back to our good spot under the bridge. We usually have decent luck fishing here.

 The lake was much quieter than I expected it to be, with it being a holiday weekend and all.

 We floated down the lake fishing. We tossed dozens back because they were small, but brought a half dozen of the larger ones home for dinner.

We both caught a catfish and brought them home as well. We're having fish for dinner tonight!

Back to Cave Run

 I got a few hours of fishing in at Cave Run yesterday. The lake wasn't very crowded - school started earlier this week.

 It was a bright, sunny day and the fish weren't biting very well. This was all I caught. Needless to say, it got tossed back.

 I heard some splashing from shore and watched this doe wander along the shoreline. You have to enlarge the picture to see her behind the fallen tree in the middle.

She decided to swim across the cove. I knew deer were good swimmers, but I haven't seen this before. It was an interesting morning.