We had decided on the previous trip that one of our first projects would be to get a door onto the outhouse. Don't really know why except to keep the rain out, but anyway Nance the scavanger found an old solid wood door somewhere in Osceola. Rammed it into the car and brought it to Creston. The plan was to make it into a "Dutch" door. So, I cut the door in half and we hauled it back to Shag III. The door fit pretty good height wise but had to fill in the sides with a 2X4. Now we have an outhouse with a view.
Then it was time to get on with other projects. Nance worked inside the shack, hanging an old Cuppord, then painting it so we would have a place to put things.
While she was cleaning and arranging the shack, I went back to work clearing a few more trees, and cleaning up the piles we had already cut. The wind was blowing about 90 mph but everything was wet from 1 1/2 inches of rain, so started the brush piles downwind and everything burned pretty slowly. We finished clearing off the brush piled on the dam and a couple of other big brush piles, then it was time for me to mow for the first time. It was a challange as I could not take my eyes off of where I was mowing. The people who owned the land before us cleared trees but left stumps about the height of my mowing blades sticking up. Took about 2 hours, but got it done. So we got several small projects out of the way this weekend. This was April 15 and 16. We did not overnite this weekend as it was too cold, lows in the lower 30's. I would like to fire up the wood burning stove, but to many other projects to do first. Maybe next time.
Boi
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