The sky to the north looked grim, and sure enough it started snowing at about 8:00am as we set off for work. Our spring cleanup continued this weekend. I had the chainsaw out again, and I cleared a tangle of blowdown and a large co-dominant stem that had cracked off a multi-stemmed maple in the Grove and bridged the North Drain. Perversely, as I sectioned it up, almost every log fell straight into the drain. The lawn tractor battery seems to have died, but we used the quad to haul away all the piles of debris Jo had raked up. I dragged 7 pails of gravel from the cellar as well; I used it to build up the near bank on the North Drain. Inside, the two new balusters are installed and painted; It's not the end of repairs to Ollie damage, but it's a start. Now I just have to prepare the Ashy barriers around the back stair and fit the gate. Baby-proofing a 19th century farmhouse is no joke!
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