Unloading and stacking wood

Here are a few pictures from the work day on Sunday. It wasn't a particularly exciting effort, but we had to get the barn parts under cover and protected for the winter.

Five members, two volunteers, three who came with the truck and trailer, and one very small person were on site to help unload the trailer. The truck bed lifts, so it unloaded itself, though we had to stack all the beams that were on it and some from an earlier load more neatly.


A few critters showed up to watch us work. This praying mantis is the first I've seen on the site. It has already turned a bit brown and would have been invisible if it had stayed on the meadow grasses. It was actually larger than it appears here - about six inches long.

This box turtle is typical of many found at Raccoon Creek. It is probably the first that our youngest helper has ever seen. I'm amazed they can make headway through the tall meadow plants.

We still could benefit by consolidating some of our wood stacks and moving one or two a bit further from the center of the clearing. Maybe when it cools off a bit. It's not supposed to be in the high 80's in October.