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Thanksgiving Skid Steer Day

The first snow of the season is at Forked Meadow now.

The cabin is coming along.  It’s all closed in now and the sheet rock is up.

The meadows are so pretty in the snow.

The roof is slowly dumping the snow off as it warms up.

Time to put together this snow blower and get it setup on the skid steer.

All setup and ready to go.  This can do three feet of snow at a time.  My dad will be making good use of this over the winter.

My mom came down with a bad cold just before it was time to cook Thanksgiving dinner.  Heather jumped in an pitch hit for her.  I helped where I could.

Veggies ready to go.

Stuffing heading to the oven.

Pumpkin pie break.

 

 

Heather carving the turkey after letting it rest from the oven.

Green beans ready to go.

Gravy finishing up.

Time to eat!

Time to eat!

Just a little bit more skid steer work.  Now to change the tracks over to winter rubber.

These things are heavy!  Like 300-400lbs each.  And they’re pretty challenging to change.

 

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Progress on the Cabin

Construction of the cabin is moving ahead.  The walls and roof are up.  Wiring is going in.

The deck is going to be great in the summer.

The meadow is pretty at the end of summer.

The framing is all in and I’m working on pulling Ethernet wires, coaxial cable, and telephone wires.

A little storage shed in the woods.

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Meadow Restoration Progress at Forked Meadow

The work my parents have been doing at Forked Meadow to restore the meadows to their full glory has been going well.  Full meadow restoration will take decades but we’ve been making pretty good strides already.

These logs were installed last year to help retain soil and water and rebuild the center of the lower meadow.  A few of the logs actually floated in the middle of the winter from all of the snow and flooding it caused.

Some willow that was planted a year or two is growing well.  Maybe in a few years there will be enough to support some beavers.

A little pocket of water in the meadow.

Down the large meadow.

Some rock work down in one of the cuts through the meadow.

A new rock weir above a log that floated and rolled over the winter.

Some new rock work to prevent a newer cut from progressing further.

We’re going to have to watch this one more closely.

This cut hadn’t moved in a number of years but after last winter, it’s starting to move again.  We’ve worked at filling it in as best as we can.

This sand bar appeared after last winter.

The “grand canyon” cut has started to fill in with new sediment.

Up in one of the upper lush meadows.

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