Our biggest burn pile yet.....

 7:30 am - Wednesday - April 8th - TWW - 48° F, humidity 15%, cloud cover 5%, wind 7 mph out of the south by southeast.....crystal clear, blue, sunny skies today with a forecast high of 76° F.  On this date in 2022 TLE and I had just arrived in Bishop, CA....

The Eastern Sierras

.....at the Tri-County Fairgrounds.  We had spent the last week getting the big radiator removed, rodded, and reinstalled.  Within a few days we would arrive for our first season at Likely Place Golf & RV Resort.  The view this morning.....

....our second day in a row with now wind, and lots of sun.

Tuesday presented us with a perfectly windless day, and what better day to ignite one of our largest burn piles to date!  This pile has been sitting there for over a year, and, as you may recall, I recently used the Ford 420 diesel tractor to push it out in the open to we could finally burn it, and Tuesday was the day to do so.....

....within 30-40 minutes it had burned down to this.....

I went out this morning (Wednesday) to spread the ashes, and

 it was still VERY hot in the middle

....TLE has become pretty adept at the burn pile routine.  Just give her a lighter, and some paper she will soon have an inferno.  She is also in charge of our 'burn barrel' in which we burn all of our paper/cardboard trash.  We had to sit about 50 feet away from the blaze to escape most of the heat generated by that fire.  The slight breeze we had was blowing away from us and the trees, so it was the perfect time to burn that pile.  While TLE tended to her blaze I went over to that rascally juniper stump we've been trying to burn out for a few weeks now....

Burning that juniper stump again

....I first doused the hole in the middle of the tree stump with diesel, then piled logs around it, and on top of it then lit it.  It burned all day long, and into the early evening.  When I checked it this morning (Wednesday) it was still hot.  I'll probably repeat the process again Wednesday as we seem to be making some progress.

The rest of the day I moved from one tiny job to another, which included ascending to the CONEX roof once again to caulk the 6, or 7 screw holes in the barn roof we had discovered when we were tightening all the sheet metal screws a while back.  Now the barn roof is sealed, but only another rainfall will tell us how good a job we did.  I also hand watered the potato beds, blew the dirt and dust out of the garage with our Toro electric blower, fussed around in the trailer clearing my workbench for the umpteenth time, steamed cleaned one of our area rugs, put away tools that had been sitting outdoors for a few days, cleared the work bench in the CONEX again, and numerous other things which caught my attention around the property.  It was a good day for small jobs.

For our evening's entertainment we binge watched three more episodes of Survivor Season 50, and were in bed a little after 10 pm.  Our time here grows shorter by the hour, and soon we will begin to take down our site, and organize the trailer for VW insertion.

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