Two in one......

 7:56 am - Saturday - February 14th - TWW - 28° F, humidity 39%, cloud cover 10%, wind 3 mph out of the southeast....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 57° F.  The view this morning.....

Order is restored....we have SUN!

.....and on this date in 2018 we got a dusting of snow at Desert View.....

.....at the east entrance of the Grand Canyon.  Worked at the General Store there from November  2017 to April 2018.

First thing Friday morning, due to the weather forecast predicting rain all day long, TLE and I finished stowing the firewood we cut the other day for the house.  By the time we finished we had refilled the wood box on the wood deck....

.......we fully did not expect to do any other work outside Friday due to the aforementioned weather forecast, however, once again we were buffaloed by the weather guessers.  We did have heavy cloud cover one might expect with forecast rain all day long necessitating running the Predator 5000 for about 90 minutes first thing, but even with cloud cover we got back to 100% on the Bluetti battery bank.

By 11 am we realized it was not going to rain, so we got dressed and headed back out to the chicken coop to  begin dragging all the branches I cut off those juniper trees into burn piles, plus dragging out all the wood, roofing and plumbing junk the prior owners had discarded there.  Once that was done I realized I needed to cut some more limbs off the surrounding trees, so I took care of that.  By the time we finished dragging everything out we had created three burn piles....

The biggest

The smallest

Almost as big as the biggest

.....and several piles of junk....

We'll cut this up to burn in our portable firepit

Old roofing, and siding

.....now that all the trees have been 'limbed up' the area around the chicken coop looks great....

Those trees will provide shade in the summer for the chickens

I cut a couple of the larger limbs into smaller pieces for future splitting

.....at this point TLE headed into the house to cook a roast in the house oven, while I remained out at the chicken coop removing all of the old chicken wire fencing, and posts.  It didn't take me as long as I expected....

The chicken coop sans fencing

Old 4 x 4's and T-posts

The old gate, and some type of cage

.....by the time I finished it was 2 pm, and I had been working for around 3 hours.  Time to put stuff away, and relax.  As it turns out the lack of rain enabled us to get about 2 days of work done in one day.  I had figured it would take TLE and I at least 3 hours to create the burn piles, and remove all the discarded junk, but it took the two of us less than 2 hours enabling me to spend that third hour taking down the fencing which I thought would be a 2 hour Saturday project.  On top of that we have two days of sunshine (Saturday and Sunday) in which we can light the burn piles, and begin to clean out the chicken coop.  Snow/rain is forecast for Monday-Wednesday next week, but who knows, right?  The weather guessers could be wrong!

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