May 27th to 29th - 100 Mile House

May 27th - Tues - 100 Mile House
We split another smaller pile of wood today and stacked it with the wood that we moved from the carport. We raked up the area where we were splitting and couldn’t see going to the burn pile with just a bit of junk in the trailer so we continued raking branches and cones until we had a full trailer load.
We dug through cans of stain until we found a color that was OK to paint the new fascia board on the sheep shed. And finally the picnic table was dry enough to get a second coat of stain. Luckily, the sun was warm enough to dry the stain before it started raining in the evening.

May 28th - Wed - 100 Mile House
Terry & I went to town this morning to check out the tourist bureau for information for our upcoming trip across Canada and to pick up the mail and a few groceries. We mowed the area around the deck & fire pit and then I worked a bit with Dad in the shop.
After lunch, we loaded some stakes on the ATV and wove them in a page-wire (squares of wire) fence along the road. Page-wire gets saggy after years of use so the stakes add support and help keep coyotes from digging underneath. While we were doing this, Terry noticed that a lot of little trees had started growing near the fence so we got out the brush cutter (weed eater with a metal blade) and Terry went to work clearing a swath along the fence.
Marg got home just as we were finishing dinner. She had a great time on her vacation to Vancouver & Saturna Islands.
The rain really came down this evening. We had streams & puddles to negotiate on our way to bed in the 5th wheel.

May 29th - Thurs - 100 Mile House
After breakfast & chores, Dad went to the shop, Terry resumed brush cutting and Marg & I worked in the greenhouse planting hanging pots. It was still on & off raining so I was also running back & forth on the ATV to see if Terry wanted to sit out a rain shower or just get wet. He ran out of gas for the second time just before lunch so he took a break and finished after lunch.
We hooked up the post pounder on the tractor, loaded posts on the trailer and went to put new posts in an old, falling down section of fence. The posts are on the outside so to replace posts without removing old posts and wire (which we were doing), we had to drive the tractor on the neighbor’s property. This property is not totally cleared so Marg had her work cut out to maneuver around trees, stumps and dirt bumps. Luckily for Terry (he worked hard all day!), we ran out of posts just before 5.
We had hoped to inaugurate the new picnic table tonight but the sun disappeared again just after we got into the house.