An inside job.....

 8:07 am - Friday - March 3rd - TWW - 41° F, humidity 18%, cloud cover ZERO %, wind 14 mph out of the north by northeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 62° F.  On this date in 2015 TLE and I were visiting Monument Valley.....

....in Northern Arizona just south of the Utah border.  We did the sunset tour, which we highly recommend.  One of our 'Bucket List' items.  Does not seem like 11 years ago.  The view this morning....

....the sun has moved so far to the north now that is comes in my bedroom window first thing in the morning (drivers side window) even with the window awning deployed.

We had planned to caulk the metal roof on the barn Thursday, but it was extremely windy, and cold.  Caulking can be difficult when it is warm enough, but the cold just makes it more difficult, so we postponed that activity until another day when it is much warmer, and there is no wind.  We've had wind here at TWW since before we returned form our dental appointment trip, and it is getting a little old.  Nevertheless, it is the Spring, and it is typically more windy than not in the high desert this time of year, so it is what it is.

Charles and Phyllis left for Phoenix around 9 am, and shortly thereafter I got to work on a job which allowed me to be indoors.  Phyllis had delivered a number of shelves from a shelving unit they had dismantled down south to use on the Baker's Cart she brought up months ago, so I spent some time cutting them to 18" in length to fit the cart....

The pieces I cut off the shelves to reduce them to the required 18"

....TLE and Phyllis plan to use this to sprout seedlings next Winter, so the shelves are very close together.  While I was so engaged TLE was harvesting some more cauliflower and broccoli for dinner.  That was the third time we've harvested broccoli and cauliflower since the plants matured a couple of weeks ago.

Later, using the Ford F420 diesel tractor, I moved the large tree trunk we cut down a week, or so ago, and hauled it out to the barrier we have been adding to all Winter, and as I was putting the tractor away I decided to drag some dirt away from barn doors on the west side of the barn.  There is been a sort of 'lip', or dirt curb in front of those doors since we arrived last Winter which makes it difficult to open the doors, but I couldn't do anything about it until we moved Phyllis' Newell. Now that we have moved it to another location it was time to scrape away that dirt, and level the entrance to the barn....

Now it's smooth and level....time to paint that wood!!!

That's the mound of dirt we moved in the foreground.  We'll have to figure out where to move that dirt, but that is for another day.

....it only took around 15 minutes to scrape, and then smooth the area using both the Gannon and loader bucket.  Without the tractor that would have been a multi hour task!  And with that I called an end to the our work.  It was around 2 pm, and time for a snack, and maybe a nap.  The winds freshened all day to almost 30 mph, so I was happy I had an indoor job for part of the day.

We're hoping the new auxiliary turbo water pump arrives at our PO Box Friday, so we can retrieve it, and begin the process and removing and replacing the broken one.  It arrived at Post Office in Prescott Thursday morning, so it should be in Seligman by Friday afternoon, but you never know, do you?

Thanks for stopping by!